Stern: Streamline achieves a roughly 60% close rate on demos
Rachel Stern · How to build a $30m SaaS in 18 Months focusing on an unsexy niche · Nov 23, 2023 · at 12:40
Rachel Stern, Chief Strategy Officer at GovTech SaaS platform Streamline, discusses outbound sales conversion economics with Nathan Latka.
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“And then we have about a 60% close rate on demos.”
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