James Kennedy, founder of Procurement Express, describes landing the company's first major enterprise deal to host Nathan Latka.
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“Big customer early on called Holloman Corporation based out in Texas. They cut us a check for 20 grand, which I didn't believe was even possible at the time.”
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Kennedy: All SaaS Economic Value Lies in Upsells and Cross-Sells
“Well, that was true for traditional products, but not for SaaS, because all of the value in SaaS is in the upsell and the cross-sell. So you've got to maintain that customer over time.”
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Procurement Express Pays Partners Up to 40% Lifetime Revenue Commission
“We have a quite extensive partner network, and we do pay up to 30, 40% kickback, depending on, but that's a kind of, we look at that differently.”
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Kennedy Would Reject a $3M Acquisition Offer for Procurement Express
“No, of course not, but I think Intuit are a great example of the type of, you know, they're a great example of types company that, like us, that serve SMBs, kind of look up to, you know, for sure, because of their partner strategy, you know, they've grown most…”
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Kennedy: Procurement Express doubled its revenue over the past year
“We've about doubled in the last year.”
James KennedyNov 6, 2018▶ 9:381200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ
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Kennedy: Procurement Express converts one in twenty product demos
“It's one in 20. That's what we do.”
James KennedyNov 6, 2018▶ 11:381200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ
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Kennedy: Procurement Express Monthly Gross Logo Churn Is 1% to 2%
“So what we're talking about is total number of customers to churn divided by our total number of customers is one to two percent.”
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