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Pete Lampson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
275 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

So their day-to-day activities are a little bit different, but with our direct team, it's entirely an inbound model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

So our marketing team is driving customers

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

to Jazz HR, where they can do a number of things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

They can download a web paper, they can participate in a webinar, they can watch videos.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

But ultimately, what we really hope they will migrate towards is getting a free trial or request a product demonstration.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

And that's when our sales team really leans in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

And we have found that with the addition of a sales team, the lift in conversion rate more than

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

covers the investment we're making in those sales staff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

And on top of it, our north star is customer lifetime value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

So if we look at the expense of a sales team, of a quota-carrying sales team, to bring in a customer who's going to stay with us for 10 years-ish on average,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

With that through that lens, it's more than worth the investment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

We don't look at it purely as the revenue we bring at the time of the initial sale because our retention metrics are such that people tend to stick with us for a long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

So the math works.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

Ash, actually, our net retention now is about 0.8% per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

We're sub 1% net churn per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

So for on a gross basis,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

Our gross churn right now is still at about that 12% number.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

And our net is 1% per month, a little over 1% per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

And, I mean, we're in the 1.2s generally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

And then our net is when we, because of expansion revenue, which we define as both add-on sales and upgrades, is where it drops down below 1%.