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Stacy Chapman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
113 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

The cost to acquire customers... If I was going to give you a real answer, I would have to capitalize what the whole history of those years of us having done

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

the wrong thing with the product were.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

So that sort of depends whether I count the life of the company and the life of what few customers we have in that time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

I would say we should have paid back the cost of the customer in three months at the maximum.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

But

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

With the weight that we're growing now, we're actually adding new integrators and new connectors all the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

So we should be able to bring that down further as we get a more stable set of sort of plug and play system connectors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

I would agree with that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

I've really struggled to find the right salespeople because...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

We're tiny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

The customers are very large and it's a complex consultative sale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

So finding people who feel comfortable in that fit has been a real problem for me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

Your typical feature function selling doesn't work when you're talking about data as a service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

So I've found the right guy now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

And I would say that, yes, we should be vastly more aggressive this year than we have been.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

Sounds good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

The last business book I read, it's one of those ones about outbound sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

How do you like that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

I can't even remember the name of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1111 How She Cut Customer Base in Half, But Still Grew 100% YoY

I've read about 10 in the past six months.