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Don't hate your website

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

But it’s really just one part of a comprehensive customer acquisition strategy. Email, webinars, and white papers might be part of these efforts that nudge people forward with their evaluation. SaaS companies need to get people to actually use the solution, renew their subscription, and upgrade. Don’t blame the website.

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The Defining Characteristics of Successful SMB SaaS Startups

Tom Tunguz

Shifting from Customer Acquisition from Field Sales to Customer Support. No White Papers; Just Mass Media Marketing Typically, this sales process leads with a product that excites users and triggers word of mouth sharing, and blog posts, and news articles. It’s all subscription. Take it or leave it.

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Understanding the B2B Customer Journey and How It Differs from B2C

Totango

A full journey map covers all stages from lead acquisition through subscription renewals, upsells, and referrals, although some maps abbreviate this to focus on the post-sales part of the process. Renewal: customers decide whether or not to renew their subscription based on their perception of the value they’ve been receiving.

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Smart SaaS PPC Tactics: Lead Nurturing vs. Direct Signups

Unbounce

For example, we can spin up landing pages with forms that provide access to an ebook, guide, or white paper. Ultimately, we want this prospect to register for a trial or buy a subscription. For the paid trial, you want to extend this to a full, long-term subscription. EDITOR’S NOTE.

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Don't put your SaaS marketing plan on auto-pilot

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

More recently, marketers have come to rely on webinars, white papers, blogs, and other content to attract leads. SaaS primers” that included a glossary of terms like “ subscription pricing,” “multi-tenancy,” and “SSAE 16” were a necessary part of the marketing collateral library. I haven’t seen that kind of promotion for awhile.

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Slack’s Rachel Hepworth on bringing growth marketing to a high growth company

Intercom, Inc.

That company, of course, is Slack, and Rachel’s growth marketing team now owns Slack’s full acquisition funnel, from demand generation and team creation to activation and monetization. Our goal is to get those healthy work teams created, because the sales team prospects from the existing Slack user database.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). She was recognized as one of the Top 99 Limit Breaking Female Founders by Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global and her technical white papers have been published by various industry magazines.

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