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A QUICK INTRODUCTION ABOUT WHAT YOUR COMPANY DOES/YOUR VALUES/MISSION.
Showell is on a mission to change how customer-facing teams around the world engage and win customers. Showell is a sales enablement platform that simplifies managing, finding, presenting, sharing, tracking, and analyzing sales your content.
TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF?
I’ve been an entrepreneur for over 20 years. Together with my brother, CTO at Showell, we founded a web development agency back in 2000. We served hundreds of customers by building web sites for them. Bit by bit we got into larger customers, and finally had tens of publicly listed companies as our customers. In 2011 I went to a customer meeting and the customer had a problem. The client asked how could they get sales and marketing collateral into the hands of their salespeople. After that meeting, it was like a lamp was lid or a lightning had struck me, because I realized that we could combine our expertise in building content management systems with a sales presentation app. Term sales enablement didn’t even exist back then. All the major players were actually founded around the same time. So I guess the time was simply right for a better solution to deliver, present and share digital materials. Our tool was first a combination of a content management and iPad app, but has since evolved into comprehensive sales enablement platform that works on all devices.
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME A YEAR OR TWO, WHAT PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF?
Listen your heart. Don’t try to grow at all costs, but seek for sustainability in growth. When you work in a fast growing SaaS startup ecosystem, everything around you is telling you to grow and grow fast. Invest in things that help you to grow so that your product, people and clients grow with you. Don’t look sustainability simply by looking at your financial data. It is a much larger concept and something that will help you to go over hard times. We’ve all seen how much unpredictability there is in the world today.
WHAT PROBLEM DOES YOUR BUSINESS SOLVE?
– Time spent on managing and distributing sales content
– Scattered, dislocated sales content
– Off-brand, outdated presentations
– Inability to impact customers, sell value over features
– In-effective sales process (finding, presenting, sharing, analyzing content)
– No understanding of what content is performing, how content is consumed by prospects
Sales typically spend around 20% of their time looking for or making sales content. It’s not uncommon that presentations and brochures are outdated and off-brand. Having content scattered across multiple locations simply makes every day work harder and more time-consuming. This leads to off-brand, outdated sales materials.
WHAT IS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND YOUR BUSINESS?
Our inspiration is to help our customers to succeed better. We understand that in a modern world, B2B sales is often underperforming due to prospect’s high expectations, fierce competition and sellers inability to demonstrate and sell value over features. We believe that good content itself is not enough, you also need the right tools to activate it.
Showell provides a single source of truth of sales content, helping both sales and marketing spend less time on back office tasks such as managing and finding content, and more time on prospects and customers.
Marketing is able to centralize sales content management and improve marketing impact by delivering on-brand content, messaging, and training materials.
Sellers can find, tailor, present, and share sales content that leads to more sales.
For business leaders, Showell’s value is that it accelerates sales by equipping sales teams with relevant resources while maintaining alignment, consistency and, scalability.
According to Gartner, having relevant content at hand makes buying easier and increases purchase probability by 2.8X.
WHAT IS YOUR MAGIC SAUCE?
Our magic sauce is a combination of following ingredients:
1) Simplicity: people value simplicity over heavy enterprise features. We give them a simple, but powerful enough tool.
2) Flexible and affordable enough pricing: our target are mid-market enteprises who already have wide variety of different tools in place so another tool has to fit into their existing sales/marketing tech stack and budget.
3) Freemium: we believe that giving our future customers a chance to use Showell for free and get to know the tool themselves without having to go through a heavy sales journey just to see the product is a must in today’s world.
We have amazing customers who have rated us highly. Recently Showell got recognized as the leader in sales enablement software category.
WHAT IS THE PLAN FOR THE NEXT 5 YEARS? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE?
We want to grow globally, but grow sustainably. This means that everything is aligned well with the growth: our people, our product, but most importantly our customers. Of course we have certain financial goals, but for me most important thing is that I enjoy what I do and that I see others thrive and learn new things. I also wish that we make enough money and profit that will give us more & better opportunities to leave even bigger positive footprint. By that I mean is we want to make this world a better place for everyone to live. The most sustainable sales enablement leader in its class.
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE YOU’VE FACED SO FAR?
There have been multiple challenges over the last years. Covid’19 for sure, then economical issues. Finding the right talent. Scaling sales so that we don’t ruin our profitability at the same time. All this has made me think that is it worth trying to force yourself to the hyper growth. Would a fast growth be enough. Something that you can enjoy?
HOW DO PEOPLE GET INVOLVED/BUY INTO YOUR VISION?
We would like to help every business that has a sales team no matter what size they are or from what industry they come from and need a solution to better equip them with the relevant sales content. Go to our website, get Showell free or book a demo.
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