The executive team should actually all have a stake in retention. CS is in charge of retention because that's who customer success is. Marketing can fall on marketing, right? So your marketing message actually caused churn in the very beginning of your funnel. And I've seen that happen.
Justin Welsh joins us on the podcast, and he has a number of fantastic Insights to learn from his experience In sales roles at a number of B2B SaaS organizations. Justin coaches SMB SaaS founders and sales leaders to accelerate recurring revenue toward $50M.
In our discussion we cover:
- We need to consider how we can listen better to our customers
- His concept of One Continuous Conversation
- Compensation could be shifting among the disciplines In a SaaS business
- Justin doesn't like subjectivity In his ICP
- Businesses need to find ways to run tests and have hypothesis In order to thrive
- Each discipline needs to be thinking "What Information can I capture that will be useful for the next person?"
- Leaders need to understand they're on the 'Executive' team first
- If your sales people aren't selling the right things, then they don't know how a SaaS business becomes healthy
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Check out more on Justin's website: https://www.theofficialjustin.com/
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This podcast is brought to you by Jay Nathan and Jeff Breunsbach of Customer Imperative, where we help B2B SaaS organizations build growth & retention strategies. Learn more at https://customerimperative.com/
Jay Nathan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaynathan/
Jeff Breunsbach: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreybreunsbach