SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Common Errors for the Team Slide No titles Not clear who writes the code Telling long stories vs. listing facts Missing specific accomplishments The first two errors are pretty obvious. Telling long stories vs. listing facts The team slide isn’t the opportunity to tell your life story. That’s impressive.

Payment Methods 226

Payment Methods Startup Payment Solutions Sales Hiring 226

Predictable Revenue

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

If you’re not telling a compelling story, then you’re losing your audience before you’ve even started. Numbers and other data will make your audience believe but stories will make them engaged listeners. Learn how to create the perfect sales pitch deck!

Engagement 312

Engagement Revenue Sales Data 312

SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2022

You want to be able to tell a story and connect your business to trends that are happening in the industry.”. Instead, break down your message into simple terms to bring your brand story to life. Additionally, VCs will often share reports with you or go to their blogs and Twitter to share insightful insights about the industry.

Marketing 191

Marketing Social Media Forecasting Branding 191

SaaStr

DECEMBER 22, 2023

All across social media, we see stories of telling folks to quit these days. The good news now, is many folks will tell you that was the right call. Very talented folks quitting when the going got tough — and they felt fine about it. To take care of yourself, to focus on work-life balance, to just push on if things aren’t easy.

Social Media 253

Social Media Startup Revenue 253

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Creating it can be a different story. You always read their newest blogs and click through on their social posts or in their newsletters. Content covers everything from blog posts to product descriptions to case studies. Tell Engaging Stories: charity: water. We humans love stories. Tell the story.

Social Media 136

Social Media Content Marketing Entertainment Branding 136

SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2024

I can’t tell you how many emails a week a month that go something like this: “It’s been a challenging year with 30%-50% growth, but with some funding, we can grow much faster next year! Here’s How “Reserves” Work Yes, you’ll hear a ton of stories from founders that had to meet 150 VCs to get 1 term sheet.

Startup 321

Startup Investment Business 321

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Numbers don’t lie, but sometimes the stories we tell around them do. It’s a sleight-of-hand story about numbers, and it’s hiding the issue of needing to work on Net New Logo ARR. #3: There’s no trust — the story being told doesn’t match the data. Instead of a good quarter, it was a semi-catastrophic quarter.

Metrics 301

Metrics Sales Hiring Benchmarks SaaS 301

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

I’ll tell you the four findings of it. They listened and made decisions based on what people were telling them. Review sites are all about users telling us what is it like to use it? There’s all that posts that you want to put up, the blogs you want to make so that SEO takes hold and really takes off.

B2C 283

B2C Scale Consulting Software Review 283

Totango

APRIL 9, 2024

Kevin highlighted a common issue in many organizations: Although teams may appear to have strong relationships, their working dynamics, including incentive alignment, may tell a different story. He suggested expanding variable compensation beyond just CS and sales teams to include product teams as well.

Scale 106

Scale Sales Compensation Customer Success 106

SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2022

There are just too many horror stories about VPs of Sales that did an incredible job and still were pushed out. If it’s true, tell them they have a management job for life. If they are so integral to the team, you want them forever — tell them. Tell then why that will be important and help work with them to get there.

Sales Hiring 248

Sales Hiring Sales Management SaaS 248

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

People love watching stories unfold. That’s why tappable story experiences are so popular. Many platforms exist to create these tappable stories and now Google has their own version, called Google Web Stories. Google Web Stories: Explained. Google Web Stories are powered by AMP technology and are owned by Google.

AI Search 140

AI Search Social Media Travel AI 140

Trint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Repurposing your videos into social media posts, blogs, emails, customer stories and sales decks makes your content more accessible to consumers across multiple platforms and all stages of the buying journey. They want to be involved, they want to be part of the user community and they want to tell your story too.

Social Media 130

Social Media Scale Branding Investment 130

Buffer Resources

APRIL 22, 2024

For example, if you create a blog post, flip the same content into a 10-tweet thread covering the biggest takeaways from the article. Link to the post Link to the post Instagram Solopreneurs can use Instagram to tell their stories visually—whether through images, videos, or Stories.

Social Media 98

Social Media Scale Growth Hacking Headcount 98

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Blogging timeout! TL;DR You’ll generate THREE TIMES more leads via blogs than through ads. Blogging is perfect for SEO. Blogging will make or break your 2018. Blogging is your brand’s voice and calling card. You can sleep while your blogs do your work for you. Your blogs are an opportunity for transparency.

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing Strategy Marketing Growth Hacking 40

Neil Patel

JULY 9, 2021

Google News is reserved for sites and blogs that publish timely, topical articles. You can tell that just from looking at the meta tags. So, you should be able and ready to investigate a story and authenticate it, before reporting it. First and foremost, you need to make sure that your stories are original.

Social Media 145

Social Media Engineering Forecasting Branding 145

The Angel VC

JANUARY 29, 2020

You’re looking for a new company or new product that makes for an interesting story for your audience. It needs to be an announcement that can be fact-checked within the few days that you have for the story. A good test is: Try to imagine if your story could be published almost as-is in the publications you’re targeting.

Technical Review 216

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Revenue 216

Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Most marketing advice you hear today revolves around online media: how to make short, quippy social media posts or write great emails and blog posts that attract clients, for example. Then, make sure you’re telling your story in a way that helps your audience pre-qualify themselves for the offer you’re focusing on.

Scale 86

Scale Sales Funnel Development Social Media 86

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I can’t tell you how many interviews I’ve done for a wide variety of roles, from SDR to COO, where the candidates literally were guessing what the company really did during the interview: Not too long ago, I did a final CRO interview to help a portfolio company. Hoping to grab that VP title next? Or CRO or CMO? For real.

Interviewing 229

Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Consulting 229

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2022

Twilio: The Inside Story with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co-Founder. Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time with Founder/CEO Peter Gassner. The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics. #21. Jyoti Bansal and The AppDynamics Story: From Idea to $3.7B. #26.

VP of Engineering 239

VP of Engineering Scale Outbound Sales Team SMB 239

Neil Patel

JANUARY 28, 2023

Focus on Stories Over Sales Pitches Storytelling is a human art form that predates language. So start with telling your brand story. From there, you can branch out to tell your product stories. Even further, you can tell your customer’s stories. Even further, you can tell your customer’s stories.

Strategy 88

Strategy Marketing Social Media Branding 88

Neil Patel

MARCH 13, 2023

And the stats do tell that story ( 2.5 Check this out … The chart above shows blog post topics on the Neil Patel blog and clicks from email marketing. This will tell you how beaten to death a topic is or isn’t. Most marketers believe it is because there is so much content for people to choose from.

Social Media 143

Social Media Engagement Engineering Marketing 143

SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2020

The whole team at SaaStr is blessed to work with Harry and I thought I’d share a few fun stories and learnings. I was more a blog/Quora kind of person back then. We did not tell them Harry wasn’t 21 ?? Harry originally had me on 20VC way back in 2015 here when I briefly worked at a Sand Hill venture capital firm.

Venture Capital 196

Venture Capital Interviewing SaaS Sales 196

Neil Patel

AUGUST 11, 2021

Be a Blog Commenter. One way of doing so is by commenting on blogs. Here’s how this works: Identify the top 5 blogs in your niche. Read and comment on the blogs on a regular basis. It’s a free service that reporters often use to find stories. If you have a story you can help a reporter out, and gain publicity.

Marketing 143

Marketing Social Media Growth Hacking Consulting 143

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2024

Yes, marketing has to do all those things, but I think if marketing is going to do its job well, it has to be involved in the company core, the story for why does this company or product exist? I was going to tell everybody that pipeline mattered.” I’m trying to generate pipeline. What do we value?”

Sales Hiring 251

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Leadership 251

SaaStr

MAY 3, 2021

It can be hard to tell from the media and Twitter just what’s happening in SaaS and Cloud startups these days. A decline in valuation for pre-seed startup, and barely any movement at seed: But for the hottest of startups, it’s a different story per Angelist. And what has Angelist seen?

Startup 343

Startup Cloud SaaS Data 343

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Timing is different for everyone, but you will need to take time to show the metrics and tell the story that VCs want to see. Best-case scenario is to create a strong story to sell your potential, network, meet some insiders, and push through to a meeting. 2 When to Raise a Seed Round?

Sales Funnel 204

Sales Funnel B2B Interviewing Investment 204

SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2020

5: “The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics” Definitely a fun one. #6: 8: “Guidewire: From $0 to $6B, The Biggest SaaS Success Story You’ve Never Heard Of” A quiet Cloud success story that many of you haven’t heard. . #7:

Scale 276

Scale Acquisition Cloud Scaling 276

Kraftblick

JUNE 28, 2018

But if what you want is great quality content that draws readers who are potential leads, we have a checklist that will help you make your company blog more popular. The checklist helps us ensure that all articles in the blog comply with company standards and helps us avoid typical mistakes. Well, there we can’t help you.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Education Strategy Marketing 40

Unbounce

AUGUST 4, 2021

Long story short, you can’t rely on flashy visuals alone to convert. This blog post will cover four methods for better landing page copywriting and five examples to spark your inspiration. Tell a compelling story. Every landing page tells a story. You gotta sell with your copy, too. No pressure, right ?

B2C 144

B2C AI B2B Benchmarks 144

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 19, 2020

LinkedIn Stories are here, and the first thing you might be thinking is, “How can I use them to grow my business”? We all see how powerful stories are for brands on platforms like Instagram. Over 500 million people use Stories each day, but how can you use this social strategy to boost your professional reputation on LinkedIn?

Sales Hiring 144

Sales Hiring Branding Outsourced Development Mobile 144

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 27, 2019

photo from mockupshots For the solopreneur: create and publish blogs with these blog workflow tips–so it won’t take for-freaking-ever to create content. Blogging regularly is important for businesses of all sizes, but is it always worth it for someone with limited time? You can not blog. Only you can answer that question.

Growth Hacking 40

Growth Hacking Social Media Point of Sale Marketing 40

Buffer Resources

JULY 12, 2023

Today, I review metrics monthly to see what content performed well (and what didn't work), then assign stories for the next month based on this analysis. Luckily, the data on how they interact with my content is telling me everything I need to know.

Social Media 83

Social Media AI Search Technical Review Entertainment 83

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

So many founders will tell you the same story. And push and make sure they have, Not just a small part of large project. Which is often all you learn at Big Tech Cos and even at Bigger, Later Stage Startups. That engineering mostly ignore.

Sales Hiring 263

Sales Hiring B2C B2B Engineering 263

Neil Patel

MAY 4, 2021

For my content strategy, I have strict goals I set for myself to create a set amount of social posts on each network while maintaining blog quality and working on side projects. I also made sure I use the same conversational tone and voice in my content (can you tell?). I’m not including my blogging and guest blogging efforts.

Social Media 145

Social Media Strategy Construction Branding 145

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As one might suspect, a successful company always has a success story. If the company focuses too much on telling that story, though, they soon find that they have forgotten something even more important: continuing to listen to the stories of their customers. Iterating the product: old versus new customers.

Underperforming Technical Team 243

Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture Customer Success Product Marketing 243

Blulogix

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Every click, every download, every API call tells a story about how your customers interact with your product. It’s like having a direct line into your customers’ wallets, showing you exactly how much value you’re delivering and how much they’re willing to pay for it.

Pricing 59

Pricing AI Search Subscription Payment Features 59

SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2019

If they tell you a start-up is doing incredibly well, and has one of the best teams she’s ever met … of course you want to take that meeting. More on the story (and how the first cold email didn’t work at all) here: How I Turned A Cold Email Into A $2.5M Seed Round – Noteworthy – The Journal Blog.

Investment 191

Investment Metrics Strategy SaaS 191