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Disclosure
SalesFuel still grandfathers 15-year-old clients at their original pricing
“Typically how we do is like, we have somebody who was a client of ours, 15 years ago, and we have several of them. They're still paying the same rate that they were paying 15 years ago.”
Insight
Smith: Effective sales closers are rarely bad at customer discovery
“It's rare that you have somebody that's a good closer that, that, that really is not very good in the discovery process. That's really where you get all your leverage in the discovery process.”
Insight
Why SalesFuel avoids per-seat pricing for its SaaS product
“Our pricing model is a subscription base and it's based on the size of the sales team. And what we don't do is we don't do a per seat license because then we don't want people to cherry pick and say, okay, I want this sales person, but not that sales person. W…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
SalesFuel maintains an exceptional 98 percent annual client logo retention rate
“Our retention rate year over year is 98, is above 98%.
That's, that is client retention.”
Disclosure
SalesFuel generated between $6M and $10M in 2016 revenue
“Let's say it's between six and 10.”
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Smith: SalesFuel has 1,500 paying customers
“1500.”
Disclosure
Smith sent artisan ice cream on dry ice to win a deal
“I actually sent a bunch of ice cream packed in dry ice just to get a return phone call or like that. So I got the return phone call, which was a thank you, which led into a sales discussion. And that's probably the weirdest thing I've done lately to get a sale…”
Disclosure
SalesFuel reached $6M to $10M in revenue without outside capital
“Still bootstrapped a hundred percent.”
Disclosure
Smith: SalesFuel spends over $250k yearly on research and content marketing
“Probably see for just those three things, I would say in excess of a quarter of a million dollars a year.”