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Customer Acquisition Strategy for SaaS Companies: A Complete Guide

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For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. Metrics: What’s your target win rate for sales opportunities? . Use SaaS metrics to reiterate, test, and improve. Plain and simple.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

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You had a BlackBerry in 2002. Stewart, totally disabuse me if I get it wrong, but notwithstanding all the blue chip logos you have, you’ve got a very core software development, project management core. I don’t think that Yammer had that same software developer core that could get accelerated.

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