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Mark Organ

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
372 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

So if I were to hire her to double my Salesforce, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

We have 125 people and we have eight that are in sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

It's pretty small.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

Eight that are closers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

Then we have a bunch of SDRs, BDRs, open deals, but eight closers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

Pretty modest sales team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

My philosophy is I want all the sales guys to make money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

It's interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

I was just reading a stat today from Jim Dickey that

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

Um, quota attainment rates have never been this low ever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

Really?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

So yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

What are they at?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

The average, the average quota attainment rate from his, uh, and Jim, Jim, um, I'm trying to remember the name of his group, but he basically, Jim, Jim studies sales forces and their effectiveness.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

um and it's about 52 percent in 2017 so versus you know being 75 percent a decade ago so what's happening is i think what's happening is there's um there's inflation there's salary inflation in the market uh companies are responding by increasing quotas um and it's just not possible it's not possible for sales reps to hit their hit those numbers and i think that sets up

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

I think that sets up, you know, um, some, you know, some bad juju in companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers

You then you've got, you know, your best reps that may not be hitting numbers.