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Why Booths Work at Top Industry Events. But You Have to Put In The Effort.

SaaStr

At SaaStr Annual , if you are in SaaS and especially if you see to founders or revenue leaders. At AWS Reinvent, if your customers are there. At Dreamforce, if you are in the SFDC ecosystem. At Shoptalk, if you are in eCommerce. If a major event can draw in 10, 100, or even a 1,000 of your customers, you should be there.

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Why It’s Year 3 When You Lose Your Customers

SaaStr

Recently I was catching up with a good friend who used to be CEO of an enterprise-y SaaS social networking company — and the usage and engagement numbers of his business were just awful. It’s not like Zynga, where you see the latest XXXVille usage trail off in a few months after launch, and the revenue comes to a grinding halt.

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MQLs? Aligning Marketing Metrics with Revenue Goals

Sales Hacker

If revenue is the North Star metric, everything you do should drive towards that. There are still marketing teams that don’t own a revenue number, which is crazy. in order to keep a seat at the revenue table.” in order to keep a seat at the revenue table.” Meaning, revenue is a team sport. The post MQLs?

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OpenView’s Top Product Led Growth Content from 2019

OpenView Labs

Over 500 software companies participated, from pre-revenue to $150M+ ARR publicly traded SaaS companies. That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Product Led Growth Market Map.

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5 Major Product Marketing Trends to Watch In 2021

OpenView Labs

Content marketing will drive user acquisition. Content marketing may sound like old news but it will remain indispensable in acquiring new users even beyond 2021. According to Alex Birkett, Growth Marketing Manager at HubSpot: “Content marketing is clearly a powerful way to grow a business. That’s not in dispute.”

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. If you work in B2C or e-commerce, you optimize that Add to Cart flow like crazy because that is your revenue. You still have a revenue goal to hit this quarter, something like that. This is a framework I use.

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State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. This Amazon giant is telling the market what’s driving their growth and their future very directly, by their actions and by their words. Twice for retail. So, what does that mean? And so why is this important?

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