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Mark Organ

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
372 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

But with assumptions on selling a lot less and the churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

Typically, what I'd say is that churn is going to go up by 10 points.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

So if you're used to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

20% churn, I might go up to 30% churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

And your new sales growth is going to be pretty anemic in terms of ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

The way that I've got my companies profitable for when I need to and how I'm coaching my clients is to cut way back on partners and focus on doing a lot more services in-house.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

So I think services is really a missed opportunity for a lot of SaaS companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

Exactly, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

And maybe that makes sense when you're growing 200% a year and whatever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

But right now, it's all about survival.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

And especially when your customers themselves are letting go of people, there's myriad opportunities to understand how you can add more value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

And so the way I'm approaching my clients is to spend more time with customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

Obviously, you can't go face-to-face anymore, which is unfortunate because there's a lot you can learn when you go face-to-face.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

But spend more time, especially with senior customers, and understand more in depth, well, how are they using your software?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

What other software are they using?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

What are they using spreadsheets for?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

What are they using CRM for?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

And figure out what else you can do because there's probably more that you can do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

They're already comfortable buying from you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

You're probably, as an enterprise SaaS company, you are a market expert.