October, 2010

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SaaS market consolidation; Blame Wimpy

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

There’s been a lot of consolidation in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market lately, and I think I know who’s to blame: Wimpy. You may remember that he’s the character in the Popeye cartoons famous for promising “I’ll gladly pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today.” Stay with me and I’ll explain. It’s easy for new SaaS firms to get rolling The SaaS model makes it much easier and less expensive for companies to build new solutions.

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Customer Service: Timing is Everything

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

In an ideal world, you'd all be delivering software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions so simple to learn and easy to use that customers would require no help. And you'd be so flawlessly reliable that users would never experience any service downtime or performance flaws. The fact is, though, most of us live in the real world, not the ideal world. And in the real world, bad stuff sometimes happens: Customers get confused, a feature doesn't work, service goes down.