SaaStr

AUGUST 1, 2022

The developed world revolves around e-commerce. In a crowded field, how can SaaS companies prove themselves and shift from being completely irrelevant to their markets to delivering services their market and buyer personas value? Becoming market leaders. Embed innovation into your team’s DNA. Global approach.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? The Benefits of Working With a Digital Marketing Agency. The Benefits of Working With a Digital Marketing Agency.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2022

Have you ever had a sudden realization that you’re spending more on sales and marketing than research and development? If so, you aren’t alone –– the median enterprise SaaS company spends twice as much on sales and marketing than R&D. So how can a CEO manage their marketing effectively? CEOs love models.

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User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Looking for the best way to do market research? From framing your initial question to extracting valuable customer insights, we’ll walk you through the lean market research process step-by-step. Get ready to empower your decisions with real-world market intelligence. Why should you do market research? The outcome?

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Unbounce

JULY 21, 2020

Let’s face it: brand marketers get a bad rap. In the last decade, the conversation has focused on technical marketing: growth hacking, conversion rate optimization, SEO, the merging of product and marketing, and data, data, data. At the same time, brand became less exciting—and sometimes an afterthought.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having a functioning product team will make that balance just a tad easier. . Sometimes as business owners and teams we make assumptions. A huge problem most teams face is homogeny. You want to use your internal network to create products that work for each market. . It’s easy to forget that you aren’t the customer.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

According to Smart Insights , 45 percent of companies don’t have a clearly defined digital marketing strategy; 17 percent of companies have a digital marketing strategy in place, but it’s separate from their marketing plan. They don’t have the strategy, tactics, or tools they need to market their business well.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

That’s because luxury marketing strategies don’t follow the same rules as mass-market brands. SEO, PPC, even some social media sites can drive online sales for your luxury brand. Today, I’m going to show you exactly how to take your luxury brand online with the best luxury marketing strategies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2018

To do that, it’s not enough to replicate textbook marketing strategies. Product positioning, knowledge and brand awareness are your first ports of call in the early days. Staging events might be a lot harder than some other tactics, but nobody said marketing was easy. When resources are low, impact is key.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 8, 2020

Betty wasn’t a brand mascot or advertising gimmick, she was the embodiment of a brand’s voice. The success of Betty Crocker as a marketing mouthpiece was evident through those stacks of letters. If you’re sending a marketing personality a letter, even if you think she’s real, you’re one engaged customer.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2023

Related: The Ins & Outs of Variable Pay Compensation Structure for Sales Teams 2. Company B doesn’t overly penalize you if you perform poorly — they will continue to pay you some level of variable despite poor performance. Spoiler: All of these are bad signs.) Scenario 1: You underperform by 20%.

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Unbounce

JANUARY 28, 2020

Not only is it a pillar of their service, it’s also instilled in their marketing with oodles of customized landing pages. Are you an ecommerce marketer? No matter which ecommerce niche you’re in, keeping up often requires working fast to get new promotions to market. Oodles of effort? Oodles of conversions?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The results of account-based marketing (ABM) , content marketing, in- or outbound marketing, on- and offline marketing, and branding, have to be monitored and presented more than in the past. Many claim “Half of my marketing budget is wasted, but I don’t know which half!”

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SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2023

Sometimes it’s VP Sales (OK, often, this is the most common mishire — another post here on what a really great VPS can do for you, and how a poor one can wreck your company, coming). Sometimes it’s VP Marketing. The #1 reason to do a start-up is Career Development. Third, There are Gems At These Top Brands.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. 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. 

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Neil Patel

APRIL 7, 2021

Regardless of how seasoned a marketer you are, you can always benefit from the wisdom of those who have walked similar professional routes. A good way to learn from seasoned professionals is to check out some of the books they’ve written about different facets of marketing. It is also available in audio format. Hacking Growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 12, 2021

Think about this: you can reach thousands, if not millions, of viewers using popular restaurant marketing hashtags like #foodporn and #foodphotography. Platforms like Instagram and Facebook let you upload attractive images with location tags, making them ideal for restaurant marketing. Create a Cohesive Brand Voice.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong. Marketing is more than just demand gen!

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” We started talking about, what is the ethos of the brand?

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Unbounce

JUNE 18, 2019

When we started Unbounce almost a decade ago, we were motivated by a clear vision: to help the world experience better marketing. Many marketers didn’t have the resources to build awesome campaigns on their own, so we set out to make it easy. There was also just so much bad marketing out there —spammy, inauthentic, half-baked.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 28, 2018

Working as Sales Development Representatives at Intercom, we deal with a huge volume of conversations with potential leads that come in through live chat. Above all, it was a poor experience for our existing customers. Enter our chatbot to help lead qualification. And then our chatbot stepped in to the rescue.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 4, 2021

There’s no doubt about it: a successful video marketing campaign will absolutely transform how your business operates. If you’ve been dreaming about an increase in brand awareness, organic lead generation, and personal connections with your customers – creating video content could be the solution you are looking for.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Neil Patel Digital — Best For Content Marketing & Digital Strategy. I’ve created millions of words and I’ve used content marketing to build three companies of my own. I used content marketing to generate 195,013 visitors a month and I’ve done the same things for my fortune 500 clients. Projects start at $50,000.

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BetterCloud

APRIL 8, 2024

We hosted our first hackathon in our brand new office in beautiful Mexico City, MX! Fostering customer relationships through innovation Over the course of 2 exhilarating days, our team of engineers, product managers, and designers collaborated closely with our customers. But this was no ordinary Hackathon. The result?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Data labeling turns raw data into useful information that can then be utilized for optimized marketing. That’s why this article will delve into the many uses of data labeling for marketing and some platforms you should consider using to get the most out of your data. 5 Uses for Data Labeling in Marketing. What Is Data Labeling?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Join us for a candid conversation about leveraging feedback to understand your internal brand. What your internal brand is. Building your internal brand [20:19]. I’ve seen a lot of SaaS market growth from the days when Larry Ellison said the cloud was like fiction. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

How do you build out a Sales Development (SDR) function at your SaaS company? Establishing a baseline for successfully doing outbound with the existing sales team you have is critical before investing in a dedicated SDR function. The first hire after six AEs was a senior hire, Ashley Kelly, as Senior Director of Sales Development.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. A career marketer’s advantage in growing holistic revenue [17:54]. The role of branding in marketing [19:27]. The role of branding in marketing [19:27]. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 3, 2019

Or maybe you run a B2B brand and can’t for the life of you figure out why you inherited a website that is so poorly designed and structured for SEO. Bad web design is a trend among B2B brands. But you might be wondering, Why are these sites SO bad? Get your priorities straight by creating a customer-centric team.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

As you read on, you will learn: The power of search engines, content marketing, and existing user testimonials and how to leverage them to win new users. Leverage search engine optimization (SEO) in your marketing strategy Identify relevant keywords related to your product or service and optimize your website content accordingly.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 24, 2021

The key to unlocking a stronger opportunity pipeline and an increase in qualified leads is a unified, cohesive marketing and sales team. Alignment between sales and marketing is how you’ll build a system rooted in strategy, data and targeted initiatives to better reach prospective clients. Define each team’s expertise.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Now that’s where the best email marketing companies come in. These companies will help you to strategize, collect relevant email addresses, create, and manage email marketing campaigns that drive business growth. The 5 Top Email Marketing Companies in The World. Email marketing is effective, no doubt. Bad content!

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Inbound marketing is the process of getting potential clients to find your company. Both of these tasks can rely on content marketing , for example events, podcasts, blogs, and social media posts. Whatever marketing strategy you choose, use Baremetrics to monitor your sales data. Table of Contents.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In emotional marketing, we talk a lot about using psychological triggers to get customers to click, convert, engage, etc. “By This is supported by data from Gerard Zaltman, author of “How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market.”. Why is Emotion Marketing so Effective?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. The 4-stage AIDA model involves the following: Awareness: Potential customers discover your brand and products. For your team, this step is about making your prospects realize they need your products or service.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Over the last three of four months, I have been using a few of the features in MobileMonkey (you can do it with a free account) to automate my Instagram marketing and the results have been great. Here’s what it produced: 223 story mentions — more eyes on my brand 431 page views — more followers 1068 DMs — more leads for my ad agency.

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