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SaaStr 2018: Wildly profitable events (with pictures)

Man speaking at SaaStr 2018 conference panel with two seated panelists and city skyline backdrop

Splash CEO Ben Hindman: "There are some panels that are fluff. This is not fluff.” I arrived early to Studio D to get a decent seat for Wildly Profitable Events. I do think SaaStr Annual needs to have more seats in each room. Splash CEO Ben Hindman was fired up for the panel, which in turn got me fired up. Enthusiasm is contagious!

The panel was made up of:

  • Ben Hindman, Co-Founder & CEO - Splash
  • Myles Kleeger, President & CRO - Braze (formerly Appboy)
  • Vivek Sharma, Founder & CEO - Movable Ink
Here are my takeaways from Wildly Profitable Events:
  • What is the “Opportunity in the Room?”
  • Events accelerate the sales cycle.
  • Timing is everything in Events.
  • Vivek: ABM (Account Based Marketing) approach works well in enterprise sales.
  • Vivek: They took their show on the road. Doing 26 events this year.
  • Myles: Be fast on the follow up after the event. After 30 days, likelihood of a close plummets.
  • Make the event experience memorable.
  • Vivek: Events are #1 component of their marketing program.

 

29X ROI from a Road Show to 14 cities. Email Transformation Tour road show metrics showing 14 events, $110K cost, and 29X ROI


70X return from an exclusive client dinner. VIP Dinner London event metrics showing 56,500 cost, 70X ROI, and sales pipeline impact
19X return from an Annual Summit. Think Summit 2017 event metrics showing $3.8M pipeline value, 19x ROI, and 43% conversion rate
The Braze formula for measuring Event success. Braze event success measurement formula: Pipeline source (5x) + Influence (10x) + Matched Leads
I ran into Shippo CEO Laura Behrens Wu beforehand. She was on an earlier panel. She's a rockstar.

About SaaStr Annual

Conference panel display showing Party Scientist Ben Hindman from Splash, CMO Maria Pergolino from Anaplan, CRO Myles Kleeger from Braze, and CEO Vivek Sharma from Movable Ink

SaaStr Annual is the largest non-vendor confab in the world, uniting the global B2B SaaS community both online and off. SaaStr Annual aims to help everyone scale faster and with less stress. In 2018, over 10,000 Founders, Senior Executives, and VCs will come together over three action-packed days of high-quality networking, learning from those who’ve done it, and of course, great food, generously-poured drinks, and plenty of fun.

SEE ALSO: July Social Mixer at Hawthorne in San Francisco

 

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