This episode is a recording of the talk Ryan recently gave at the 2023 SaaS open. Ryan talks through hitting $30mil in ARR and how you can apply it to your business in 2023, Ryan also gives tips on using podcasting as a pipeline and the internal use cases for AI.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Look at your 5 biggest wins, 5 fastest wins and 5 biggest losses and you can learn quickly.
- After getting an initial large customer, Ryan and his team focused on expansion.
- The comp plan was planned purposely differently from its competitors, building in a residual payment and finding this meant clients wouldn’t then want to leave.
- Fast implementation where their customers barely had to do anything helped Ryan and his team disrupt the space.
- If you can find the patterns and outliers in your business you can then use a strategy to repeat success.
- Focus on building strong relationships with your sales reps, so much so that you can align their personal goals and mission with the company mission.
- People go too broad with events, you need to think of specifics and niche down
- You can utilise a podcast as a pipeline by interviewing those in your space including potential clients and customers.
- People love promoting themselves and their brand and if you give them a vehicle for it, such as podcasting, they love you for it. You are proving value before asking anything of them.
BEST MOMENTS
“This journey started for me out of failure”
“Think about how lazy people are and how resistant to change is”
“We still go the deals but we got ridiculous margins”
“You can literally interview those perfect customers I talked about in a podcast format”
“I created value for them before asking anything”
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