SaaStr

JANUARY 16, 2023

To convert an idea into a successful venture, startups need to be equipped to scale. Mike Wiacek, CEO at Stairwell, Mo Jebrini, CTO at Mashvisor, and Michael Ermolenko, CTO at Inworld.ai, discuss with Helene Ambiana, Global SMB and Startups Marketing Director at Google Cloud, how they overcame the hurdles of scaling and reached their goals.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

By doing so effectively, you can unlock a path to scaling profits. However, misunderstanding and mismanaging this journey can expose an organization to the potential pitfalls of selling through the channel, including: Losing control over sales processes or branding. Diminishing profit margins. Three distinct stages of channel maturity.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Marketing It’s hard to evolve your brand and your story to customers. You have to do product marketing and enable the sales force because if you’ve got a mini or full brand, customers will think of you as your first product. When you can segment that out on the service side, you can get incredible results.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It won’t feel like it, but you’ll look back at this stage (~$10m ARR) and see it’s where everything came together from a brand, community, retention, etc. A good overview of the learnings of scaling from $1m to $250m in ARR with Aaron Levie of Box here: View original question on quora. (an perspective. Be paranoid here.

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Trint

AUGUST 21, 2020

Audiences expect brands to share content instantly on all of the channels they use and in formats that resonate. Video consumption is massively increasing with captioning and subtitles becoming an expectation. Make your content stand out in an overstimulated world by making captioning and subtitles standard practice for all your video comms.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Question @jasonlk @saastr to @ericsyuan @zoom_us why the #ads and billboards & the effect of brand on #sales cycle? The best advice I can give you is, understand that once you have a Mini-Brand, it will get better. A Mini-Brand isn’t a real brand in the sense everyone has heard of it, like Salesforce or Google.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Scale-ups are exciting. Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. On top of considerable dedication, creating a scale-up requires a functional edge—a unique and unreplicable capability compared to the players in the industry.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2021

The freemium ones really have no acquisition costs at this point (the main lead source is mini-brand). But at least, once you’re at Initial Scale, make sure you maintain 50% of your ARR on the balance sheet. The post To Really Scale, You Need $1M on Your Balance Sheet for Every $2M in ARR appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In today’s SaaStr podcast episode, Harry Stebbings sits down with Ryan Bonnici, Chief Marketing Officer at Whereby to chat about how to market at scale. ” # 3 How to market at scale . I really like to measure brand, and I think you can do it in a really objective way, by looking at the direct search to your side.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Rav Dhaliwal, Investor and Venture Partner at Crane Ventures , Lindsey Serafin, VP of Customer Success at Snyk.io , and Caitlin Sullivan, Director of Customer Success at Vanta, discuss what customer success is, who owns it, what customer metrics you should look at, and what you need to focus on if you want to scale digital customer success.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2022

Weimer organizes her team at Podium by the seven pillars of revenue marketing: Marketing Operations: Marketing operations cover scaling of the campaign execution process, marketing tools, forecasting, attribution and reporting, and driving improvements to campaign quality metrics and infrastructure. . Here’s how: .

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Nimble - Sales

AUGUST 26, 2019

The post How Ian Cleary Used Networking to Build a Globally Scaling Brand appeared first on Nimble Blog. He shares his knowledge through an award-winning blog, at marketing conferences around the world, and through working with customers. Ian strives to bridge the gap between […].

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

She reveals how customer centricity, operational rigor, and data-driven strategies drove Airtable to scale and serve over 300,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100. In the digital age, customers have a multitude of touchpoints with brands. Invest in your tech stack so that you keep growing while you scale.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2022

What you want in SaaS are big accounts that grow over time and remain loyal to your product and your brand—companies that see your value in their continued success. The post Reaccelerating Growth at Scale with Box’s CRO Mark Wayland (Podcast 514 + Video) appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So we’ve got all the amazing sessions from 2022 SaaStr Scale up on YouTube here ! “3 Lessons from Building a Marketing Engine to Grow Pipeline from Millions to Billions with Samsara’s CMO” A great session on marketing at scale, across multiple products — with ton of great Q&A at the end. #2.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2022

Solve for that moment and niche, and then iterate for scale once you’ve validated. . For example, Canva Pro was developed when Huffington Post reached out with an interest in creating branded assets with Canva. Build your MVP, test your theory – then iterate and scale on the fly. Your product is the main driver of growth.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Here’s the advice they had to offer on scaling your SaaS company. Do things like create team brands to allow employees to feel a part of something larger than themselves. It’s hard to re-engineer your business at scale. Instead, understand the strong foundation and then scale from there. Linds #13: Have fun! Be scrappy .

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

At first, she was performance-focused, but over time she learned more and more about the value of brand and customer marketing, especially when you’re growing—and growing fast. She details her six steps to manage successful marketing at scale. That’s when I understood the power of brand and storytelling.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 24, 2021

If your business is preparing for a new phase of growth, you need to make sure that your support team is set up for success from the outset, and that you’re creating the right support infrastructure to deliver exceptional customer experiences at scale. Are the tools you’re using capable of scaling with you?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The hardest phase of SaaS, at least for the founders, is the phase from Initial Traction ($1-$2m in ARR + 80%-100% YoY growth) to the next phase — Initial Scale. Once you hit this point, you have a brand, you have a fully baked team, you have a robust product, and you have a self-generating stream of new leads and new business.

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Neil Patel

JULY 26, 2021

Are you struggling to scale up your paid ads? Well, today at 9am PST I am hosting a webinar that breaks down the ad secrets from the big brands that you can copy to sell more. But what’s interesting is these strategies also work well for smaller brands that have smaller budgets… but they just tend not to use them. Conclusion.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Check out the session here: Algolia also summarized their Top 5 take-aways here , and below: Most SaaS founders start out the same way— armed with ample expertise of the technical details that go into a product and with limited experience of other aspects of scaling, such as sales. On finding product-market fit in the early stages.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

However, continuing this way isn’t the path to huge scale. To have built a brand. As the business increases it scale, the management team needs to plan further and further out in time. Eventually the team hews the right product. The startup raises capital. There’s a critical step missing. New office space.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2022

You might feel confused about where to begin, how to scale up, which mistakes you should avoid, and things you should consider before expanding. Now, let’s look at ten learnings that Dorian gathered while scaling Grammarly from a Consumer to an Enterprise brand with B2B offerings. Redefine your guiding principles.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

With scaled data labeling, you can train your algorithm to analyze customer review sentiments. Is it really any surprise that consumers trust other consumers more than the brands they buy? That’s why 51 percent of consumers trust user images over brand creatives, according to a survey by Olapic and Cite Research.

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Unbounce

JULY 21, 2020

Let’s face it: brand marketers get a bad rap. At the same time, brand became less exciting—and sometimes an afterthought. Companies have found their edge by investing in incredible brands, and a company’s brand has become its differentiator. What Goes Into a Brand? It was too “fluffy.”

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2018

Product positioning, knowledge and brand awareness are your first ports of call in the early days. Meet them in a quality coffee or tea shop near the conference that’s on-brand for your company, has a generous amount of space and has good Wi-Fi. Your events will never grow or scale well if you do this. Don’t do this.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It’s no secret that the field of marketing is constantly evolving, and SaaS brands are not immune from the challenges that arise due to the fast-paced nature of the field. One great way SaaS companies can keep up is through brand advocacy. 2021 SaaS Trends that Affect Brand Advocacy. Overcome Content Overload.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Join Joaquim Lecha, CEO at Typeform, and Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine, as they delve into freemium at scale. The first one is brand exposure. The second one is customer feedback at scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Unarguably one of the biggest brands in the world today. On this week’s episode of Scale, Matt Rogers, Head of SaaS Initiative at Google, is here to enlighten us. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. And so the more proven you are, the better.

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User Pilot

MAY 31, 2023

Nominal scale questions The nominal scale questions categorize or identify objects without any inherent order or numerical value. Creating nominal scale questions in Userpilot. Ordinal scale questions The ordinal scale questions introduce a ranking or ordering of answer options to check if one thing ranks higher than others.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2019

However, that means there is a huge opportunity for businesses who are able to scale personal, effective support. The post Found in translation: How multilingual support helps you scale customer experiences appeared first on Inside Intercom. Benefits of multilingual customer support.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 23, 2024

Dear SaaStr: Does it get easier or harder to scale SaaS as your company grows? Generally, it gets easier to grow at a “good”/modest rate at you scale, but harder to grow at an outsize rate. Once you cross $5m-$10m in ARR, then usually: You have a brand. At least, you have a mini-brand in your niche. You have redundancy.

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Neil Patel

JULY 8, 2021

There’s a ton of advice about using Instagram as an effective online marketing tool, but it can be challenging to scale your e-commerce brand on Instagram if you are a new brand without many followers yet. 10 Ways to Grow an E-Commerce Brand on Instagram. Why Is Instagram a Powerful E-Commerce Tool?

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Totango

JUNE 8, 2021

The other thing you want to consider is the look and feel of the brand element. TC: To add to that, from a look and feel perspective, we make an intentional choice in customer marketing to decide which communications appear to be written by the CSM and which look like they’re marketing or brand communications.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

You’ve started a business, brand, or website, and it’s time for you to start distributing content. What you might not be thinking about is how to find a font that represents your brand. You want to search for fonts that are unique to your brand and easy for your subscribers to read and comprehend. Congratulations. Line length.

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