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I would love to have some insight around how to build out a sales process for software as a service business. >> here's two things to keep in mind when building a sales process around that. one is lead generation. if you're online and selling to software as a service, trust me, your customers will be online as well, which means you want to be driving ads, google ad words, facebook ads, onlines aer have tiesi i advertising is the best way to get leads. number two, have a good crm system in-house. customer management system. the best ones out there integrate to your website as leads come in. peo...

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Times mark up on your costs. >> if you wanted to be seen as high end you've got to charge more. if you want it to be more mass, you've got to charge less. >> exactly. does she understand who her customer is and what else are they buying in they're that range? it's the product itself but also the sales process. think about how you're actually going to get this product into the hand of the consumer and why it's so valuable for them to get it. >> there are some comps that she could look at. >> there are indeed. even if it's a newly innovative product, what else does it compare to. look further af...

Business like they were typically invested in. >> she was left with a dilemma. with no marketing budget, how would see find customers? how many cold e-mails? >> thousands. no, probably in the hundreds for sure. >> she came up with a plan. she needed to build trust. the best way to do that was to partner with brands moms already knew and loved. basically, get a stamp of approval that would shortcut the sales process. >> it was important to try and borrow brand credibility from established brands so that, you know, an unknown brand like clean bee baby will be able to get moms to listen and hopef...

Thinking of a co-founder and not someone who works below you. which might be more of his question. in that case, should you be hiring contractors? a real salesperson? >> i think the point is that normally the founder is the salesperson. one of the founders is doing a sales role and helping shape the product. i think that guy's question was more about, like, when do i hire the next guy? i think to guy's point, after -- you can never get too early in the sales process, developing the product. but once you get it, you need to expand on it. that's what i was saying about freeing up time for the fo...