SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

What started as a simple WordPress blog in 2012 has now become the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs. SaaStr began in 2012 as a simple WordPress blog and a few answers on Quora sharing Jason Lemkin’s learnings of going from $0 to $100m ARR at EchoSign. Here’s to the Next 10!

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Three Valuation Lows in SaaS: 2013, 2016, and 2022 5 Interesting Learnings from Doximity at $450,000,000 in ARR Is Cold Calling Dead? SaaStr 643: What’s Holding Up Buyers?: What’s Holding Up Buyers?:

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SaaStr

MAY 26, 2021

How do you leverage a corporate blog to actually generate leads? There are 100,000,000+ blogs. And “worse” — there are 100,000,000+ new blog posts posted each month! Second, realize that almost no one will read your blog. Yes, it’s a real problem that is also what RevenueCat solves.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2021

It’s just whatever’s left in your budget for each new dollar of ACV you bring in. Now to figure out how much you can really spend on marketing, there’s a quantitative aspect … and then a more qualitative one, an almost counterintuitive one, that I want to share with you. But that’s OK.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 29, 2021

We’ve discussed how you can build authority in your industry through blogging. Today, we are going to look at exactly how you can get guest blogging opportunities and make the most out of them. Determine Your Guest Blogging Goals. Before we begin, your first task is to decide what your goal for guest blogging is.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is why as you scale, it’s super important to track your ratio of bookings from new vs existing customers. 70%+ of Salesforce’s new bookings come from its installed base. Your existing customers will wait 12-18 months for you to catch-up, if you tell them it’s coming, and you deliver. At scale, it may.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 22, 2021

Blogging has changed over the years. When I first started blogging, it wasn’t that competitive. Just take a look at one of my first blog posts that I wrote on August 31, 2005. Just take a look at one of my first blog posts that I wrote on August 31, 2005. But back then there weren’t many blogs. Of course not.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Are you hoping to take your blog to the next level? Well, there are several strategies that make the top marketing blogs in the industry successful. In this post, we’re going to dig into the finer details of these top marketing blogs. With each one, we’ll inspect a particular aspect you can emulate that makes the blog thrive.

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The Moz Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Explore the journey of a small travel blog's rise to topical authority in this case study.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 9, 2021

Is it actually possible to make a living out of blogging? Here’s the good news: You CAN make money from blogging. Take my blog as an example. Blogging played a crucial role in my success. Now, that’s a LOT of money, especially for a blog. But you also need to know how to make money from your blog.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Even if your company has a strong mission , a learning culture with smart people to learn from and lots of growth opportunities, it’s very difficult to know what it’s like to work there by reading your job listing and looking at your marketing website. There’s also a more inward looking benefit for writing.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

When you’re starting a blog, it can be tough to know where to begin. You might have ideas for what you want to write about, but you’re worried about how saturated those blog niches may be. That’s where Ubersuggest comes in! Using Ubersuggest, I’ll show you the steps to find the best blog niches to make money.

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Sparktoro

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I just had a great idea for a blog post… or wait. maybe it’s short enough to be a Twitter thread. Twitter’s easier. Re-loading the post every 5 minutes to see if there’s a new… Y’know what? I’ll just post it there. The instant dopamine hit of likes and retweets.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 18, 2021

In other words, you’re struggling to come up with enough engaging blog post ideas. Now, if you’re a regular visitor to my blog, you’ll know I write a lot of content (also, thanks for reading!). But I still sometimes struggle to come up with new blog post ideas. Wouldn’t it make more sense just to look at other blogs?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s also hard. However, blog posts are still the top asset to engage with your audience and generate leads for your business. So what’s the one tool that can allow you to pack more power into each blog post so that generating leads isn’t like climbing a mountain? Here’s how to come up with them. Persuasion.

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User Pilot

JULY 13, 2022

Do you follow any product manager blogs? In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience. Product manager blogs offer practical advice and help you expand your product management knowledge. Our favorite product management blogs.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 12, 2021

Running a blog is a lot of work. On top of all that, there’s promoting and monetizing your blog, which is even more work. It’s hard for anyone to manage, and the larger your blog grows, the worse the situation becomes. ” If so, there’s a few ways to do this. It depends.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Private Blog Networks (PBNs) claim to work because they generate backlinks – and that much is true. What Is a Private Blog Network? What Is a Private Blog Network? Luckily, private blog networks are actually quite simple to understand. At that moment, private blog networks were born. How do they even work?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Bessemer’s latest Cloud 100 answers the question. Now that’s still pretty darn impressive at $100m+ ARR. Here’s to an uptick in 2024!! Almost everyone: The post The Cloud 100’s 2023 Growth Rate Has Plummeted From 100% in 2022 to 55% Today. So how are the top SaaS and Cloud companies doing in 2023?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The use of blog images in posts is a no-brainer. With the growth of written content online, it’s harder to have your content be unique from others. Blog Image Trends: Why Stock Photos Are Dead. While finding ways to put a unique spin on your blog post topics is critical, there are only so many angles on one subject.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The use of images in your blog posts is a no-brainer. With the growth of written content online, it’s harder to have your content be unique from others. Blog Image Trends: Why Stock Photos Are Dead. While finding ways to put a unique spin on your blog post topics is critical, there are only so many angles on one subject.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 7, 2021

These numbers are possible, and plenty of websites achieve it (I’ve grown my site to x visitors per day using these techniques), but if you’re going to reach these numbers, then you’re going to have to rank your blog in Google’s top 10 search results. Tips on How to Get Your Blog to Rank in Google’s Top 10. Optimize for Technical SEO.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2021

According to G2’s survey, 81% of respondents believe it’s crucial to receive ROI within six months of purchasing software. The post The State of Software Buying: From SMB to Enterprise with G2’s CMO appeared first on SaaStr. Takeaway #3: More Than Ever, Retention is Your Foundation For Growth. Focus on your NRR > ARR.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 18, 2021

Can you really make money from blogging? If your blog gets over 10,000 monthly unique visitors, then yes – you can monetize your blog and create a nice revenue stream with it. The real challenge is making money from a blog that generates fewer than 1,000 visitors per day. There’s no shortcut to getting blog traffic.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2024

Year Avg American Attention Span (sec) CAGR 2004 150 - 2012 75 -6% 2023 47 -5% How does this compare to these blog posts? Today, it’s 33 seconds, a 3.6% Metric Annual CAGR Attention Span Change -5% Blog Dwell Time Change -4% Word Count Change -4% So the deflation is consistent. decline - which is a bit better !

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Chart Mogul

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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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

In other words, if you fixed the specific issue(s) that made customers in that bracket leave, would their collective LTV justify the additional costs in development and overhead? The post The Seven ‘’R’’s of Customer Retention appeared first on Baremetrics. If they were unsatisfied with the product, what could bring them back?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Have you ever wondered how to make money blogging about the things you love? What if I told you it’s possible to write about your passions and make money with a blog? Let’s talk about how you can make money blogging. Blogging is not dead , and it’s not too late for you to start one. Why Do Some Blogs Fail to Make Money?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Excited to lead this deep dive for and with our good friends at G2’s Reach event on Dec 1 with 3 of the top investors in SaaS and Cloud: Doug Pepper, GP at Iconiq. It’s FREE and sign up here. Alex Kayyal, Head of Salesforce Ventures. Arun Matthew, Accel. The four of us will do a deep dive on Dec 1.

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Groove HQ

APRIL 11, 2022

The post 2022’s Best Ecommerce Marketing Strategies appeared first on Groove Blog. In so many ways, it’s never been a better time to be in ecommerce. This is the era of the online store. Here's a guide to help you market better!

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

But G2’s Software Buyer Behavior Survey doesn’t just give us a glimpse of the market situation or the next high-growth company to look out for. In today’s episode, we chat with Amanda Malko about her love of software, the trends she’s seeing in the industry, and how they’re affecting the way businesses operate.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2024

Lemkin emphasizes the need to hire “Pirates and Romantics,” passionate and quirky individuals who are dedicated to the company’s mission, in contrast to the majority of job workers in the tech industry. It’s important to take a vacation and try to find joy in one’s job before moving on.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I never posted my talk from last year, so I’m adapting it into a blog post here, and will do the same for this year’s talk in the following weeks and as well as some follow up questions from the Summit I’ve had a chance to ruminate on. We think of this as sequencing different S-curves of growth. Also, I publish on Substack now!

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 21, 2022

2022’s impact on the SaaS industry was significant, deeply impactful, and turbulent. We’ve compiled our top 5 most-read customer success blog posts of the year that reflect the key priorities for the industry in 2022 and give us a glimpse into the trends that will be shaping the domain in 2023. Read Article. Read Article.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 7, 2023

years into my time at Buffer, I realized I was about to hit 100 articles written for the Buffer blog. It’s an awesome milestone, and I wanted to share the feeling of accomplishment. Thankfully, Buffer’s the kind of place where that effort feels like it’s worth it and is always rewarded.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 18, 2022

Searching for blogs in the arena is getting accessible slowly and it’s time you leverage the essential knowledge these blogs have to offer, to flourish! Here is the list of 10 Customer Success blogs to follow and save in your digital library in 2022! Suggested blog : Account Expansion: If You Want To Grow Fast, Do This….

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. As well as their actionable customer success platform they provide a widely respected blog. For Entrepreneurs is rated #2 on Forbes’s list of 100 best websites for entrepreneurs. Intercom Blog. Intercom has an amazing blog that is dedicated to customer success.

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