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Adamic: SAP Concur Operated With Under 1x Pipeline Coverage
“Everyone talks about like, you need that five X pipeline, you need that seven X pipeline in order to make your goals. Not necessarily. When I left Concur and where I'm trying to drive Brexit, we had less than one X pipeline going into a quarter because we knew…”
Doug Adamic Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 10:40 Doug Adamic: Why Discounting is BS; How to Reduce Sales Cycles and Create Urgency | E1058 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Adamic: B2B Buyer Conversion Now Requires 16 to 20 Touchpoints
“Maybe five, seven years ago, you used to touch an individual four times or five times, but, or they would convert into wanting to learn more about your business. Now we're up to like, 16 or 20 times to be able to do that.”
Doug Adamic Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 15:07 Doug Adamic: Why Discounting is BS; How to Reduce Sales Cycles and Create Urgency | E1058 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Adamic: Sales Playbook Changes Should Never Be Introduced Mid-Quarter
“I don't introduce anything in the middle of a quarter. I'll only introduce something at the beginning of a quarter. There are certain things that are too disruptive to introduce in a quarterly basis, so we'll take those half year or full year.”
Doug Adamic Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 35:48 Doug Adamic: Why Discounting is BS; How to Reduce Sales Cycles and Create Urgency | E1058 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Brex created a department specifically to catalog sales playbook feedback
“One of the departments that we built actually catalogs those things, and then when they build up to a specific level of residue, we figure out when is the right time to be able to augment the playbook and then be able to re-enable the teams and introduce that …”
Doug Adamic Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 35:22 Doug Adamic: Why Discounting is BS; How to Reduce Sales Cycles and Create Urgency | E1058 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Adamic Scaled Concur From $50M to $1B Revenue Before SAP Acquisition
“I joined when we were about 500 people, and about 50 or sixty million dollars in sales and we grew back to almost a billion dollars before we were bought by SAP.”
Doug Adamic Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 2:14 Doug Adamic: Why Discounting is BS; How to Reduce Sales Cycles and Create Urgency | E1058 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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