601 - Why Most Salesforce Partners Miscalculate Customer Acquisition Costs with Paul Wnek
Why you should listen
- Discover how ExpandAP fills a critical gap in Salesforce by providing spend intelligence that ties your marketing investments directly to sales opportunities, campaigns, and customer lifetime value.
- Learn about a native Salesforce solution that can finally help marketing and sales leaders prove ROI on campaigns and customer acquisition costs—a persistent challenge for tech consultants.
- Paul Wnek shares valuable insights from 12 months of bringing this solution to market.
Are you struggling to track the true costs of acquiring and maintaining your clients within Salesforce? In this episode, I talk with Paul Wnek from ExpandAP about their native Salesforce solution that bridges the gap between your sales data and spending intelligence. Whether you're running campaigns, traveling to meet prospects, or managing client projects, ExpandAP provides visibility into what you're actually spending to win and maintain business. Paul explains how this solution evolved from his experience implementing ERP systems and seeing the consistent challenge of expense tracking and attribution across organizations. If you've ever wondered about the real ROI of your marketing efforts or the true profitability of specific clients, this conversation reveals how bringing spend data directly into Salesforce can transform your business decision-making.
Key Highlights
- Complete Customer Acquisition Visibility: Learn how ExpandAP brings together your spending data with Salesforce opportunities and campaigns to track the full cost of acquiring and serving customers across their lifecycle.
- Native Salesforce Integration: Understand the advantages of having this solution built natively on the Salesforce platform while still offering integrations with major expense systems, HRISs, and ERPs like NetSuite and SAP.
- Implementation Approach: Paul explains the relatively simple setup process (typically under 50 hours) and how the ExpandAP team handles most of the implementation work directly for clients.
- Target Audience Pivot: Discover why the company shifted their focus from selling to finance departments to targeting sales, marketing and operations leaders who have a more urgent need to prove ROI.
- Time-Saving Automation: See how the solution automatically extracts data from invoices and receipts, eliminating manual data entry and creating significant time savings, especially for smaller organizations without dedicated expense systems.
About Paul Wnek
Paul Wnek is the founder and CEO of ExpandAP and a 15x certified Salesforce B2B solutions architect. Paul is an expert in complex business systems management, integration and implementation and is well versed in CRM, ERP, PSA, payment systems, subscription billing and CPQ and how to connect workflows for a holistic view of business outcomes.
Resources and Links
- Expandap.com
- Paul's LinkedIn profile
- Book a demo here!
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