Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This is where a sales rep physically meets a potential customer to discuss needs, budgets, volumes, prices, requirements, timelines, and other contract details. Airfare, meal bills, and other travel expenses can drive customer acquisition costs (CAC) into the tens of thousands of dollars. Talvista: $199k ACV and $996k ARR.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He is the chief revenue officer of a company called ADARA, a data cooperative focused on the travel and discretionary spending space, so we’ll dig into that. Obviously COVID has really caused some constraints in travel, and so that requires us to kind of expand the addressable market that we’re approaching.

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Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. Anita Nielsen. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. The marketplace was doing well. Back in those days, I was really inspired by the eBay model of a marketplace where it was a bidding auction approach. We looked at the numbers. It was healthy.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Also, there is focus on changing terms to try and close and accelerate deals, reducing time commitment requirements for contracts, pricing minimums to get to a yes more quickly, and then also focusing on cash and cash collections by building more efficiency in that process. Identify what you can and try and close those deals.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 So now I’m flying all over the place where I used to have traveled twice a year. Want to see more content like this?

Payment Services 135

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 135

SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2019

The biggest companies on earth spend billions of dollars on this service no one’s ever heard of called freight forwarding and they all hate their vendors. So we never should have even been a, we’re in multi sided marketplace. And the reality is we’re in a service business. So we have this enormous market.

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