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Steve Richard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
169 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

So after they're done with the call, after they log their call, they say, coach me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

So now all of a sudden what we went, what we did is we went back and put that into our, our sales force and watch what our people did in our services business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

We've got 35 people on the phone in a separate services business that funds this technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

And what we observed was fascinating.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

Every month, the percentage of calls where the reps asked for coaching and feedback went up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

It was almost magical.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

And I've got the data to prove it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

And we see the same exact thing happen in other organizations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

So it's a question of how do you make it be the right flow so that, A, it's easy for managers to do something with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

They can action it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

That's exactly right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

All the calls are transcribed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

All the calls are keyword searchable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

All the calls are indexed based on data from CRM like Salesforce and other CRMs as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

So that rather than going in and saying, hmm, what should I listen to?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

And there's this big pile.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

Instead, you can go, all right, I only want to hear late stage opportunities where the salesperson use the word value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

I want to hear what that part of the conversation is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

You find out what the best people are doing differently and you clone them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

You finally have a way to clone.