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Massimo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
263 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

Southern Europe is a great option.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

I would budget if I were you at least $2,000 a person, $2,000 to $2,500 a person for that one-time company retreat that you do every year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

Second, we give managers, each department manager, a budget to get their team together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So the development team went to Portugal this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

Sales went to southern Spain.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

The customer experience team went to Seattle, Washington, because most of them actually are in the United States.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

And they flew some people over from Europe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So that's another budget to give managers of each department.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

And when you put those two together, you're talking about at least $3,000 a person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So it becomes a big budget item.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

When people say, oh, we're gonna save a bunch of money by running a remote company, not necessarily.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

Running a remote company could be expensive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

It's a talent acquisition strategy, 100%, because now the total addressable market of people that you're hiring is the entire world, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

Am I gonna save money?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

I don't know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

This is a big budget item that you need to be very, very aware of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

The other way we get people together is events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So when you go to an event, it could be an event like this, or it could be that you're sponsoring a conference, right, with your sales and marketing team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

Bring extra people, people that you actually don't need.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

It could be two, three extra people.