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Michael Burns

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
311 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

It's not a discrete deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

I'm selling a workflow solution that has massive cost avoidance and revenue generation opportunities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

So then I'm leading into those objectives and goals.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

And close rate is the other area, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

When we're upskilling the team and selling to objectives, we're not just increasing deal size, we're actually driving higher close rates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

Rep roadmaps I talked about, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

That was the other, you know, optimization piece, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

So you're taking that sensitivity analysis that you built, and you're coupling that with a qualitative diagnostic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

You can't just say, hey, here's how many calls you've got to make.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

The promise was, here's how many calls you've got to make until we have optimized messaging.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

And now we have good deal stress testing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

We have the right description of our sales process, so we're able to really understand

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

what the rep roadmap is, and then repeatability, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

So what we're doing from a repeatability standpoint is building onboarding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

So where do we wind up?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

That's us there on G2's event management platform, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

We took over the grid, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

That was over the past three months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

We weren't on the grid three months ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter

We have so far increased ACV by 60%.