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Randy Wootton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
185 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

um just to be clear sorry you putting yourself in market or enterprise no we're enterprise yeah yeah we're enterprise so the mid-market space what you struggle with is if you're selling a complicated enterprise solution with uh what requires a lot of implementation is people they like the idea they get into it but then they can't fully commit to changing the way they're doing marketing um or they can't support the ongoing change management required to enable it so i think

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

When you're Google and you're live in five with a search solution, they probably have small, medium-sized business and mid-markets that use them all the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

When you're doing an enterprise software sale trying to sell in the mid-market, it's just mismatched with what the mid-market buyer wants.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

Yeah, we look below six months on CAC.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

I would describe it as one of the areas where we're investing, coming in and pivoting and focusing on B2B marketing more specifically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

Let me put it this way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

There's a different way of running an enterprise software sales motion from a mid-market play.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

It's inbound leads.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

It's qualification.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

It's sales funnel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

What I tell my team is enterprise sales is about focus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

It's sales cylinder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

So, you identify the set of verticals you're going to go after.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

You build the set of playbooks and you execute those very specifically against a target account list.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

You use tactics such as account-based marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

You use events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

We do a lot of events and people are welcome to come to our website and check it out to learn more because we're creating a category and educating people, helping to educate people about the challenge and what's possible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

That's a different deployment of capital under CAC than if you're doing mid-market, trying to drive leads and do the demand gen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

So, I think it's more around, again, all of your systems investments need to be aligned with your go-to-market strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine

We're going after enterprise customers.