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Luke Swanick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
235 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

And basically we automate the onboarding, the asset management, the tracking and attribution, the engagement and the partner payouts and compliance.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

So everything that's associated with working with what is basically a global distributed sales force, we take care of out of the box.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

And the value for that is astronomically high given just how expensive it is to hire and manage salespeople internally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

Why not hire one or two people?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

Evernote literally has two people managing 10,000 external sales agents.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

That's astronomical.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

Today, so I don't have a hard number, but I would say just a little north or south of 200.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

Yeah, so let's take Intuit as an example customer, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

So QuickBooks Online, huge enterprise account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

Now there are 500 apps more that integrate with QuickBooks Online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

So for every single QB app, they want their partners to not only sell their product, but they want their partners to sell their integration with QuickBooks Online as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

So when we go after large enterprise, every single customer that integrates with them is interested because they can basically create a shared partner network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

So because a QuickBooks or an Intuit partner can sell the QuickBooks integrated apps as well from the same dashboard on GrowSumo, we kind of hit both at the same time, which has created unique challenges in scaling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

But in terms of building sort of a network effect business, it's huge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

It's been a bit of both.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

Yeah, so our churn is quite low, like very low.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

I would say lower than 2%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

And so the reason why it's low is on our invoices, because for the most part, we charge the performance fee.