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Patrick Shaw

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
464 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

You know, I was scratching my own itch, if you will.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

I had a large independent insurance group, and I was always looking for ways to get them more involved in telling the company's story, sharing the story, making it easy, making it effective.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

And so we built a bunch of tools and lots of iterations later.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

But ultimately, what we do is we gamify prospecting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

So we create incentives around individuals of any company, whether it's a franchise, direct sales, businesses, around individuals telling that company story more easily.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

They have an app that they download.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

There are different what we call group codes, so different divisions may have different resources in the app, and they may even have different contests and rewards built around that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

But the idea is if a company could take 25% of their advertising budget

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

and they could redirect it into their own people, one is that's a win-win.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

Those dollars come back to the company, and who better to tell the story than zealot employees that believe in what the company already does?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

So they just bump into somebody, and I say, hey, Nathan, listen, you know, I โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

You got this car over here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

You need your brakes done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

I got an employee group code I could send or an employee coupon code I could send to you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

It's actually my employee discount.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

You know, if I send it over to you and you end up using it, you walk in, you get your discount.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

I get recognized by the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

It's a win-win.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1250 Incentive Every Employee to Sell Using This Tool, $80k in MRR

No, it's probably the first, but obviously it's highly leveraged by sales teams.