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Sam Caucci

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
275 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

But, you know, again, the biggest shift and the hardest shift, I think, for a founder in my position is going from being bootstrapped and driving through sales to now having some cash in the bank to deploy and being smart about how you deploy it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

Favorite business book?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

It's not a business book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

I like Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

I think every CEO should read it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

I'm spending a lot of time diving through Jason Lemkin's stuff with Saster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

It's something I've tried to stay tunnel vision, staying away from certain material, and I'm starting to try to dive into understanding the SaaS metrics a little better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

Yeah, so favorite online tool right now for us has got to be Growbots.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

We're using Growbots for cold outreach.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

Again, we said we spend nothing on paid acquisition, but our first big spend was on an outbound sales platform to help us start to bring some stuff into our pipeline.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

Growbots has been an awesome tool for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

Just, uh, well, except for my sales guys, but yeah, I'm that one that, uh, one that wakes me up in the middle of the night.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

I'm 32.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

Uh, 20 year old self.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

I wish I knew that, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

Always been a big believer in you have to over-network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

I think that I would network even more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

I would think every single conversation, you have no idea who you're going to see in the future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

I would put gasoline on that fire.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year

And I think that sometimes we don't realize how every single conversation with a person, you might see that person in the future.