Replace PPC with platform partnerships — here's how Ship.com stopped burning budget on Google Ads and built a repeatable acquisition engine instead.

Becky Wood breaks down the exact pivot Ship.com made when PPC stopped delivering predictable results. Google kept changing advertiser reward structures, turning paid acquisition into what Becky calls "a money grab with no repeatable or expected result." The shift to organic search created consistent weekly signups, but organic alone can't scale a SaaS business. That's where platform partnerships changed everything.

The real scaling lever was embedding directly into the platforms their customers already use — Shopify and Walmart integrations that bring pre-qualified buyers through the door without a cost-per-click. This episode covers how B2B SaaS founders can replace PPC with platform partnerships as the primary growth channel, what made organic search finally work as a foundation, and a hard lesson on chatbot implementation that wrecked their HubSpot setup and had to be pulled entirely.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Becky Wood is a senior leader at Ship.com, a B2B SaaS company serving the e-commerce and direct sales market. She brings cross-functional authority across product, marketing, and growth strategy. Her background includes Webistics, an order fulfillment services and software company that was acquired by Rakuten and subsequently Network.

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#B2BSaaS #PlatformPartnerships #SaaSGrowth #EcommerceIntegrations #PaidAcquisition

Most B2B SaaS founders burning budget on paid ads never fix the underlying revenue problem — they just accelerate it.

This episode breaks down how to scale B2B revenue without ads by building repeatable systems that compound over time. You'll learn the core frameworks for identifying your highest-value customers, tightening your go-to-market motion, and converting pipeline without relying on paid channels.

Whether you're stuck at $2M ARR or pushing toward $10M, the strategies covered here apply directly to founders and GTM leaders who need predictable growth from organic and outbound — not ad spend.

ABOUT THE GUEST

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AI sales tools for B2B are only as good as how fast your reps can actually use them. If your sales team still takes 6-8 weeks to ramp, you're already behind.

In this episode, Varun Puri breaks down how enterprise sales teams at companies like Google, Databricks, Salesforce, and Snowflake are using AI to compress ramp time from weeks to days — without sacrificing conversation quality. You'll learn why conceptual training alone fails, and why the best enablement programs pair knowledge transfer with guided roleplay practice before reps ever touch a real deal.

Varun also makes the case for best-in-breed AI sales tools over bundled platforms — and gives a concrete benchmark: a verticalized solution has to be at least 80% better to earn the switch. For go-to-market and sales enablement leaders, he explains why vibe-coded competitors can't match enterprise requirements like multi-language support, SLA adherence, and solutions engineering depth.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Varun Puri is the Founder & CEO of Yoodli, an AI-powered sales enablement platform built for enterprise go-to-market teams. Yoodli is trusted by sales organizations at Google, Databricks, Salesforce, and Snowflake to accelerate rep readiness and improve performance in complex customer conversations.

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Most founders building SaaS without VC funding waste months solving problems that don't exist. Here's how Jason Fox did it differently.

In this episode, Jason Fox, co-founder of KPI Tracker.ai, breaks down exactly how he bootstrapped a SaaS product from his consulting background — without a single dollar of venture capital. You'll learn why 99% of AI-powered tools fail before launch, how opinionated product design beats infinite customization, and why most revenue misses come down to three variables: right actions, right order, right volume.

Jason shares the product-led growth principles behind KPI Tracker.ai, including how targeting a hyper-specific ICP from day one creates stronger positioning than building for everyone. He also makes the case for content marketing as a distribution engine when you don't have a paid acquisition budget — and walks through the SaaS pricing logic that fits bootstrapped economics at the $10K–$66K/month ARR stage.

If you're a founder who wants to validate faster, price smarter, and grow revenue without burning VC cash, this episode delivers the tactical framework you need.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Jason Fox is the co-founder of KPI Tracker.ai and brings 8+ years of coaching and consulting experience to SaaS product development. He transitioned from running an agency to building a fully bootstrapped SaaS product, giving him a ground-level perspective on sustainable revenue growth without outside funding.

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How to reduce SaaS churn starts with a problem most founders never see coming: your customers aren't failing because of your product — they're failing because of people.

In this episode, Karen breaks down why SaaS implementations collapse at the human layer, not the technology layer. You'll learn the 26/52/19 framework — a change adoption distribution that shows exactly where to focus your customer success resources to move the middle 52% of steady performers before churn becomes inevitable. Karen also covers how misaligned internal culture bleeds directly into client-facing experiences, and why a missing user enablement strategy kills retention even when your product roadmap is solid.

If you're building a customer success or sales enablement motion, the insight on feature validation is critical: shipping features that don't solve documented human problems guarantees low adoption, regardless of how well your onboarding is structured. Churn isn't a pricing problem or a product problem — it's an organizational change problem that shows up on your revenue dashboard six months too late.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Karen is an Executive at PointClickCare with an extensive career spanning organizational change, enablement strategy, and SaaS implementation across enterprise organizations. She has worked with C-suite leaders and GTM teams to build adoption frameworks that reduce friction between product delivery and real-world usage.

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Edward Kerr, founder of Practis AI, shows how AI-powered sales roleplay cuts ramp time and lifts conversion rates.

He turned a $60K custom project into a $25.5M exit with 90% market share. Here's how.

Featuring Kevin Price, Founder of Acucode — who built a B2B SaaS company from his basement in 1995 to the Inc 5,000 list.

Kevin breaks down how he landed 60 enterprise airline customers with one salesperson, why metric-based pricing beats per-seat models for SaaS adoption, and how his operational software scaled a warehouse from one shift to three in four weeks with zero errors — using temp workers with no technical experience.

🎯 Pick compliance problems where buyers must spend money 💰 Price per unit of value, not per seat — watch adoption soar 🤝 Channel partners already have your buyer's trust 🔧 Build on open source stacks that scale without downtime 📸 Real-time visibility kills the need for expert-only labor

⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 Quitting on Friday, first order by Monday 02:00 From barcode scanners to SaaS in 2003 03:45 How a $60K project became Velocity Mail 07:00 Landing enterprise accounts with one sales rep 09:30 How to pick problems worth solving at scale 12:30 Why ERPs fail at operational visibility 15:00 Selling services through software, not software alone 18:00 Managing quality with 10,000 field sites per year 21:00 Scaling from 1 shift to 3 shifts in four weeks 24:00 Pricing, channels, and tech stack advice for SaaS founders

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#SaaS #B2BSales #SaaSGrowth #TechFounders #RapidProductGrowth

Buyers do 85% of their research before talking to sales. Your sequence order might be costing you pipeline.

Featuring Heath Barnett, VP of Revenue at Mixmax — previously at Uber, Notch, AirWallet, and Wallet X.

Heath breaks down why sales engagement is ripe for disruption, how AI should augment reps instead of replacing them, and the specific GTM strategies that drove 5.7x pipeline growth year over year. If you're running a B2B SaaS revenue team and rethinking your sales engagement stack, this conversation gets tactical fast.

🎯 Sequence priority should follow buyer signals, not task order 🤖 AI as co-pilot, not spam cannon — the Mixmax approach 🎯 Know your ICP beyond firmographics or nothing else works 📊 Retention and expansion will outweigh new business in 2025 🏗️ Culture separates good revenue orgs from great ones

⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 Why Heath joined Mixmax as VP of Revenue 01:00 The gap between prospecting tools and deal management 02:45 The Jimmy Neutron of GTM — first principles in sales leadership 03:45 How signal-based sequencing drove 5.7x pipeline growth 05:00 AI meeting assistant built for reps, not just managers 06:45 Turning your inbox into a sales cockpit 07:45 Science plus art: data-driven GTM with a human edge 09:00 Sales is no longer linear — the buyer journey is a maze 14:00 Why ICP depth matters more than TAM breadth 17:00 High-performing revenue orgs vs. average ones 19:30 AI-first companies hitting $3M ARR 12 months faster 20:30 The future of Mixmax and sales engagement in 2025

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#SaaS #B2BSales #SalesEngagement #PodcastOutbound #RapidProductGrowth

Your B2B company is losing 20-40% of top-line revenue to chaos. Most leaders don't even see it.

Featuring Rick Partlin, CEO of The Revenue Game.

Rick breaks down why most B2B SaaS companies bleed profit through cross-silo conflict, undefined selling processes, and a fundamental misalignment of purpose — and what to do instead. You'll hear why salespeople in major enterprises sell less than one hour per week, why you should ban the word "demo" from your org, and how to replace funnel-stuffing with a precision pipeline built on the diffusion of innovation curve.

🎯 Ask: do you make money WITH or FROM your customer? 💸 Cross-silo KPI battles destroy corporate profit 🚫 Stop filling funnels with people you plan to throw away 🔄 Replace "demos" with buyer-focused previews 🧭 Define your purpose before the demand bubble bursts

⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 What is the revenue game and how do you win it? 01:00 Big purpose companies vs. mercenaries 02:45 When hiring mercenaries actually makes sense 04:00 Entrepreneurs who don't realize they're in a bubble 06:00 Making money WITH vs. FROM your customer 07:00 How Rick's auto industry roots shaped his approach 08:00 Cross-silo conflict and undefined selling rules 09:30 Why enterprise reps sell less than one hour per week 10:30 Why funnels and demos are costing you deals 12:00 Fighting complexity and chaos in 2025 13:45 Buyers need partners, not vendors 15:00 Using diffusion of innovation to build precision pipeline

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#B2BSales #SaaS #RevenueGrowth #SalesPipeline #RapidProductGrowth

Your business skills got you here. They won't get you through a leadership transition.

Featuring Josh Shapiro, executive coach and partner at Fortune Management.

Jean-Michel and Josh break down why small business owners — especially those inheriting or handing off family businesses — hit the same leadership walls over and over. Josh shares what 30 years in corporate leadership taught him about coaching vs. consulting, why founders can't let go, and the exact benchmarks both sides of a generational transition need to hit before handing over the keys.

🧠 Why "I must have all the answers" kills growth 👨‍👦 How family business transitions destroy relationships 🎯 Hire for culture and coachability, not just résumés 🛑 The ego trap waiting for both founders and successors 🗣️ Ask for help before the car crash, not after

⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 Josh's path from corporate leader to executive coach 01:00 Why leadership is coaching, not commanding 02:00 The biggest gap holding small business owners back 04:00 Coaching vs. consulting — and why the difference matters 06:30 The "I need all the answers" trap 08:00 Ego and fear in corporate and small business leadership 10:00 How to hire smart when cash flow is tight 11:45 Legacy transitions and family business friction 15:00 What founders must do before handing over the reins 16:30 Advice for the next generation taking over

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