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Usage-Based Revenue Models: Successes and Pitfalls from Checkr COO Lindsey Scrase on CRO Confidential

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When Lindsey joined, she inherited an already built-out self-serve/PLG model for small businesses and a mid-market and enterprise sales, customer success, and post-sales team. The SMB sales team was incentivized purely on logo acquisition rather than revenue. With only 4% conversion by month two versus a 10% goal.

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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

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But, as a business grows, teams may find that this success hinges on overcoming one final hurdle: building a financial stack. These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. Platforms-as-a-service.

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A Framework For Your First SaaS Sales Comp Plan

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I’m not ashamed to admit that when I set up our first SaaS sales comp plan, I had no idea what I was doing. But I did all the sales myself, and stupidly, had no sales comp plan at all ??. Then, as we first scaled up a sales team, we ended up literally copying Salesforce’s comp plan.

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Reaccelerating Growth at Scale with Box’s CRO Mark Wayland (Podcast 514 + Video)

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Every customer-facing team is on the renewals team. There’s no denying that renewals are the most important motion in SaaS and subscription. At Box, there was a culture and mindset shift early on that customer-facing teams shouldn’t live in silos. Improvements for a sales team and process are a ‘no finish line’ business.

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How Revenue Leaders at Box, Calendly, and Lattice Scaled From $0 to $100M+ and Beyond

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Mark Roberge , SaaStr fan-favorite and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital brought together some of the top CROs in SaaS during the SaaStr Annual to share some of their greatest learnings and pivotal moments leading some of the Cloud 100 SaaS companies. From a GTM execution standpoint, they weren’t focused.

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The Secrets to Aligning GTM Teams & Finance to Scale by 10X with Subskribe Founder Prakash Raina and Okta VP Finance Leslie Hui (Video)

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These two departments are a SaaS company’s most important; without their alignment, there is no growth or scale. was pretty simplified, mostly made up of annual or monthly subscriptions. While annual/monthly subscriptions still exist, they are more complex than ever. Governance is a critical component of how you grow and scale.

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Dear SaaStr: In Consumption-Based Models, Should We Pay Out on Deals Closed or Usage?

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I’ll dig in, but a really great deep dive with MongoDB’s head of sales ops here: Four Sales Compensation Tactics for Consumption-Based GTM with MongoDB’s SVP of Sales MongoDB us a blended commission model for their consumption-based GTM. using 20 out of 25 features). 10k/month in usage).

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