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Business of Software Podcast

Ep 115 Autobooks Connecting Sales with Marketing (with Derik Sutton and Kyle Bazzy)

Aug 9, 2023
Explore Autobooks' journey in restructuring its operations, transitioning into new roles, aligning sales incentives with customer success, controversial scaling strategies, early stages of implementing sales and marketing, and their excitement for an upcoming session at BoS USA conference.
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Quick takeaways

  • AutoBooks implemented a customer-centric approach, focusing on customer progress and needs, which led to improved sales outcomes.
  • By integrating their marketing with their sales processes and adopting a jobs-to-be-done framework, AutoBooks achieved better alignment, improved conversations, and increased customer success.

Deep dives

Transitioning and Rethinking Operations at AutoBooks

The podcast episode explores how AutoBooks underwent a major transformation by rethinking and retooling their entire business operations. The company recognized the need to scale and grow, and to make the business work more efficiently and effectively. This involved transitioning away from founder-led sales and rebuilding their sales and marketing processes. The key turning point was when they adopted the concept of demand side sales, focusing on the progress and needs of their customers rather than internal metrics. Through this approach, they redefined their pipeline stages, aligned marketing and sales, and built a common language and methodology for the organization. The podcast highlights the challenges, insights, and successes they experienced throughout this process.

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