Parker: Our outbound sales rep nearly covered his annual salary in six weeks
Amanda Parker · EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker · Jul 9, 2016 · at 7:01
Amanda Parker, CEO of Simply Insight, breaks down the company's customer acquisition strategy and sales representative economics.
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“We're, so right now everything is outbound sales, so that's my sales guy's salary is essentially what we're paying, so he, he's pretty, almost close to have paid for himself for the year, and he's been around about six, six weeks now.”
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