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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers. Subscriber or not, anyone who wants to increase their SaaS knowledge will benefit by reading the … For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2024

But it’s real. But over time. Meet as many of your customers in person as you can, not just on Zoom Talk to as many as you can, and Make them Happy. My #2 suggestion is Commit to Doing the Time. And commit to doing the time. Let’s step back. If you have gotten to $25k in MRR ($300k in ARR) … you have something.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You’ll spend a ton of time researching, making a lot of assumptions that are usually wrong, and slowing things down. You put the product in the hands of users and use real data from real users to measure success and determine how the features are being used. What does shipping at 60% mean?

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

And I know HubSpot’s a very iconic company, and we’ll learn about the presentation, it changed in flight several times, but I want to hear from Dharmesh and Katie how they focus on culture for real. Jason Lemkin : Yeah, let’s give it up one more time. This is the best time I’ve ever experienced.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 18, 2022

Personalization… Personalization… Personalization…. Considering this, businesses are personalizing everything possible to entice their customers – from product personalization to personalizing their communication. Now, going a step ahead, businesses have started real-time personalization!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2023

You want blog posts that are interactive and valuable to people. Users are searching for solutions to their problems, so they have high intent and often become engaged users for a long time when they find content that helps them solve their problems. Someone liking your blog post doesn’t count. Someone writing one does.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2024

And what should all founders know about the process if the time comes? The person who makes the decision is ultimately the product person. When one person is interested, and you have some sort of bite with a potential acquirer, start conversations with others, too. Build relationships with product.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2021

Just make sure at least 50% of their energy goes into promoting the company, and not just their personal brand. Both their company, and many times, themselves. I’ve just observed one thing: CMOs that spend too much time marketing themselves generally fail. The real job. The best CMOs are very good at promotions.

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Incredo

JANUARY 21, 2020

Just like texting but for businesses.” or “ Conversational marketing is the process of having real-time on-on-one conversations in order to capture, qualify, and connect your best lead. ”. But chatbots at many other companies ask real-time questions and enter into a dialogue in real time.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

With personal experience from EchoSign and other high-growth companies, he was spoiled when it came to those companies raising money from exceptional VCs. We might have several years of whiplash from that time, and it’s still confusing where the bar is now. Sam just finished 18 months at Founders Fund after joining in mid-to-late 2022.

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

We had a great one last time with Lucy Deland, Co-founder & General Partner at Inspired Capital. We are a deeply research-driven firm and invest in what we call ‘automation for the real economy.’ I spend a lot of time researching software trends in vertical software, compliance, and AI. Check that out here.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2024

But let’s be real – with the myriad of options out there, finding and adopting the right prospecting toolkit can feel like valuable time spent away from the act of prospecting itself. Ability to export up to 10,000 leads at a time as well as send contact information directly to CRMs like HubSpot, Salesforce, Outreach, and more.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2022

My rough rule is do this by the time you have 100 customers. Every week, at the same time. You gotta commit to 52 of these a year, at the same time. Amazing blog content — that truly adds value in the industry. And over time, SEO will work its magic. It takes time, but it always works. More here. #2.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Having struggled a lot myself in the early days several times … just a few thoughts to summarize my learnings: 1. In my toughest times, it was always adding one great leader that turned things around in the end. Buffer for even more time. Running out of time becomes the enemy. Get help & upgrade the team.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

At the same time – there are only 1,000 Fortune1k companies, right? The real conflict is around trying to serve both sets of messaging and marketing at the same time since how you market to SMBs is very different than Enterprise customers. ’ If I can do that without a person.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In this interview, David Sacks talks about how 70-80% of investor time is spent looking at AI. But the truth is you have to run the whole marketing playbook for real for it to work. But only if you do it every week at the same time and never stop. It always works if you’re consistent in providing real value.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 31, 2024

You’ll need those data slices at different times. Fundamentally, you need to know how much pipeline you have at every point in time, in what stages, and from what sources. No one person or sales rep owns a piece of the pipeline. Over time, quality becomes a priority with a more mature business.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Together they share the high-velocity techniques they use to maximize sales, including: Sell to SMBs Use round-robin to assign accounts, but you’re not sure if it’s optimal Are stuck in a world of geographic territories Spend a lot of time manually building territories Gusto thinks of the rev ops capability as the brain center and engine builder.

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SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2020

Get every blog, every publication, anyone with any on-point audience to write about you. Make the pitch amazing, take your time to make it great and unique. Write a really, really good blog. Yes, no one is reading your blog today. Yes, no one is reading your blog today. Instead, just write 2–3 amazing blog posts.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 17, 2024

By featuring real-world examples of your company's impact, you can build trust and credibility with potential customers. Go live on LinkedIn Live video is a powerful way to connect with your audience in real time and demonstrate your company's thought leadership.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

2020 was a real mixed bag of emotions. Top 10 Blog Posts from 2020. Learn how to spot the signs that it’s time to revamp your onboarding as well as the dos and don’ts of improving the most influential phase of your customer’s journey. Not to be that person, but you kind of had to be there.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2021

In this blog, we will be focusing on common demand generation mistakes and how different types of interactive content can help. You can create a comparison tool that compares the time and cost of their current sales processes and sales stack vs incorporating your solution and showing the benefit of the SaaS tool to the end customer.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

(@jasonlk) January 23, 2024 So I thought the toughest times for venture would be behind us now. It got real in 2023, and that realness got normalized. It got real in 2023, and that realness got normalized. Personally, I’ve got several investments for example that I marked down. So I thought.

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SaaStr

APRIL 21, 2023

If you aren’t spending money on marketing, it’s time to step it up. In 2023, highly personalized outbound to the right buyers always generates conversations, and mediocre outbound with trite cadences often gets you nowhere. As with webinars, blog posts, and everything else, this requires consistency. Every customer has a clone.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The real shift they’re noticing is with GenAI and the impact of that shift on the SaaS community. The real opportunity of GenAI is enabling industries that have been slow to adopt software — services like legal, accounting, and healthcare. You couldn’t personalize your story. It was only one form until typefaces were invented.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2024

Databricks had an incredible scale-up from $400M to $1.5B+ during former VP of Product Nadim Hossain’s time there. Now, he shares his top five learnings during his time at Databricks. One of the tradeoffs of this dive-deep approach is that it takes time, and it can be daunting for a product manager to do reviews with the CEO.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

95% of the time, your super-smart hacker co-founder is not that person. Once you have true product-market fit, for real (say 100+ happy, high-NPS customers) … it really is a formula in SaaS. She can be your CTO forever. But you won’t scale past $4m-$5m without a true, seasoned VP of Engineering.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2013

There are two schools of thought on blogging frequency: high frequency vs high quality. Today social media (twitter, hacker news) generates most of the traffic for a blog by bubbling up the best content. And I figure if I’m writing a blog post, I may as well publish it. Flights are also good times for blogging.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Modern brands, even the biggest in the world, need to think and act in real-time. Do they have more or less time to explore more possibilities? If they had more time for the surface areas of possibilities, they could present better solutions. Social media teams. They need the creative tools deployed in order to do so.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Having said all that, there’s one thing everyone that’s sold into the enterprise knows — the personal touch still matters. For the CSM team, it can seem like there are just way too many inbound requests every day to get out into the field 5 times a month. He said it wasn’t a good use of his time.

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SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2023

Record your sessions, post them to YouTube, create social posts, and write helpful blog posts on your website. It has to be every single week at the same time. If you’re here every week, someone you didn’t expect will show up, and sometimes that person is very important. The stakes are low at a steak dinner, and the ROI is real.

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Blulogix

MARCH 15, 2024

Improved Efficiency: By automating routine tasks, businesses can significantly reduce the time and resources required for subscription management, allowing teams to focus on strategic initiatives and customer service.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 22, 2024

A solopreneur is any business driven exclusively by one person. This guide takes into consideration these common questions faced by one-person businesses. Publishing tools can help save you both time and effort as you recycle content from one platform to the next. Which social platforms should you choose? What should you post?

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For example, if I record a Loom video for a teammate in another time zone, they can watch it when they’re online — this is async communication at its best. A few are even fully async with no live calls or in-person time at all. If it’s five sentences of more and/or it’s not timely, use Threads.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2021

This month marks 10 years since Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee launched Intercom and began their mission to make internet business personal. We came to the belief that, yes, it was, but that the tools that were available at the time were the things holding people back. Celebrating our teams.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

This article includes their advice for any B2B brand looking to get real results from content marketing , plus nine must-haves for B2B content to be considered good.  " Short thinks brands need to spend more time and resources understanding their audience. Interview them. Learn their language. Listen intently. ." 

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Blogging timeout! That means it’s the perfect time to get back to our storytelling roots?—?blogging. TL;DR You’ll generate THREE TIMES more leads via blogs than through ads. Blogging is perfect for SEO. You’ll have FOUR TIMES the likelihood of being found higher on organic search results.

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