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Plank: Rippling account executives have zero outbound prospecting targets
“Outbound SDRs own the quota. Like they schedule the demos. If you're a rep at Ripley and you have zero, like actual prospecting targets.”
Matt Plank Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 44:18 Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Rippling ties account manager compensation 70% to new business, 30% to retention
“I think, like, 70% of it is tied to selling new business, and 30% roughly is tied to retention, specifically, like, dollar retention, and it completely changed everything in our, you know, like, have just, like, out, completely outlier, like, off the charts, l…”
Matt Plank Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 24:09 Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Rippling schedules 1,000 outbound demos monthly, half over the phone
“50% of our outbound demos we book over the phone. So we schedule like a thousand outbound demos a month in our SDR org, and literally half of them are booked over the phone.”
Matt Plank Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 8:28 Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Rippling goals its marketing team on pipeline generated, not activity metrics
“Our marketing team has a pipeline plan that they sign up for. They don't have like a, you know, how many, you know, webinars did you do and how many content downloads did you get? Like those things are important, but like their goals are how much pipeline do y…”
Matt Plank Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 12:01 Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Plank: Rippling locks in original pricing for early customers permanently
“And we don't do this by the way on existing customers. Like as we inch price up over time, like our existing customers that bought early on, like we locked them in pretty much forever.”
Matt Plank Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 30:29 Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Plank: Rippling had zero outbound sales generation until 2022
“Up until two years ago, Like the sales org myself and like everyone that reported to me literally never once thought about generating an outbound demo or like even like it was 100% like demos pop up on your calendar.”
Matt Plank Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 43:24 Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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