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A visual guide to selling Software as a Service

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Re: A visual guide to selling Software as a Service

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Doesn't the funnel metaphor imply that all people come to the end, just not at the same time? What they are talking about seems more like a sieve to me.

The sales funnel has been commons sales parlance for decades, its not new.

Most of the stuff he talked about is not new(most established companies do it), he just put it all together on a simple guide.

Re: A visual guide to selling Software as a Service

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post #11
post #4

Doesn't the funnel metaphor imply that all people come to the end, just not at the same time? What they are talking about seems more like a sieve to me.

The sales funnel has been commons sales parlance for decades, its not new. Most of the stuff he talked about is not new(most established companies do it), he just put it all together on a simple guide.

I see, thank you.

Re: A visual guide to selling Software as a Service

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Hi Emarthinsen,

We use incoming/outgoing hooks that communicate with a very simple slack PHP service/class. For CapsuleCRM the command 'elvis leads' dispatches a call to the capsuleCRM API, parses the results and outputs does in the channel (with an incoming web hook). I would be happy to tell you more about this and share snippets

For quick and dirty integrations or integrations that are less time critical we use Zapier and IFTTT

Re: A visual guide to selling Software as a Service

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I clicked on the linked out of curiosity. I must say, I am glad I did. By far the best presentation I have seen on this subject. It is a bit pro slack, but I can forgive that for the content.

On slide 25, could anyone give context? Are they saying that they engage 60% of their users, of this they get 2% paying? That even seems a little high to me.

Re: A visual guide to selling Software as a Service

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Since this is a long (but very well done) presentation, I found that I wanted to share a specific page with a colleague. Fun Slideshare tip that I just learned, you can link to a specific slide by adding "/13" to the url. Replace 13 with your desired page.

Cool, didn't know this. Thx for sharing :)

Re: A visual guide to selling Software as a Service

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Since this is a long (but very well done) presentation, I found that I wanted to share a specific page with a colleague. Fun Slideshare tip that I just learned, you can link to a specific slide by adding "/13" to the url. Replace 13 with your desired page.

Cool, thats just what I was after.

Re: A visual guide to selling Software as a Service

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post #11
post #4

Doesn't the funnel metaphor imply that all people come to the end, just not at the same time? What they are talking about seems more like a sieve to me.

The sales funnel has been commons sales parlance for decades, its not new. Most of the stuff he talked about is not new(most established companies do it), he just put it all together on a simple guide.

Just out of curiousity, what is the ideal format for this type of "simple guide" ?

Re: A visual guide to selling Software as a Service

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I clicked on the linked out of curiosity. I must say, I am glad I did. By far the best presentation I have seen on this subject. It is a bit pro slack, but I can forgive that for the content. On slide 25, could anyone give context? Are they saying that they engage 60% of their users, of this they get 2% paying? That even seems a little high to me.

It aren't our actual numbers. They are a lot lower, unfortunately.

I took these numbers from the initial presentation on pirate metrics by Dave McClure. http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pir...

Re: A visual guide to selling Software as a Service

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This is really well done. How are you integrating Slack with, for example, CapsuleCRM? Did you write some custom integration code or are you using something like Zapier?

Hi Emarthinsen, We use incoming/outgoing hooks that communicate with a very simple slack PHP service/class. For CapsuleCRM the command 'elvis leads' dispatches a call to the capsuleCRM API, parses the results and outputs does in the channel (with an incoming web hook). I would be happy to tell you more about this and share snippets For quick and dirty integrations or integrations that are less time critical we use Zapier and IFTTT
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