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15 SEO Hacks for SaaS Startups

Baremetrics

Growing your SaaS company can be difficult in the early stages. Despite this, you’re sitting in a pretty unique situation compared to other business models when it comes to lead generation. When it comes to growing organically through channels like SEO, SaaS businesses are primed for organic search. “ SaaS or subscription businesses are based on a product that is neither tangible or limited in its use.

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SaaS Operating Plans, What Changed?

OPEXEngine

Comparing current benchmarks to pre-COVID-19 benchmarks. Remember this time, a year ago? We were all on our 5th, or 20th version of a 2020 operating budget/plan, working 100% remotely, and trying to forecast the rest of the year. Most companies hunkered down, shifted to fully remote sales and marketing, transferred unnecessary travel budgets into other buckets, and conservatively managed expenses.

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How to Measure the Effectiveness of Customer Health Scores

ChurnZero

Customer health scores give Customer Success teams a deep understanding of a customer’s health and are a leading indicator that there may be an issue with an account or customer. By customizing and weighing factors that are relevant for each part of the customer lifecycle, your ability to predict the likelihood of a customer leaving increases tenfold.

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The Figures that Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 5 Years

Tom Tunguz

This weekend, Janet Yellen said the US economy would benefit from an increase in interest rates. The Fed has been struggling to combat historically low inflation. The combination of both the 25% increase in the money supply from last year’s stimulus plus the proposed infrastructure spending should trigger inflationary pressures. What does it mean for venture capital and Startupland?

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Best Virtual Phone Number Companies

The Daily Egg

There are several players in the virtual phone number space, and it takes some digging to determine which is suitable for your needs. We spent many hours researching the best in the business, so you don’t have to. We found the best option for most people is Nextiva because of its dedication to exceptional service, […]. The post Best Virtual Phone Number Companies appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Common Email Writing Mistakes that Kill Your Sales

Predictable Revenue

Email marketing has enormous potential when it comes to promoting your products and services and increasing sales. When done properly, email marketing can turn leads into customers and boost your sales rates significantly. But, not everyone knows how to write professional and effective emails. Businesses and even marketing professionals tend to make some basic email writing mistakes that are killing their sales.

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The Productivity Implications of Working from Home Across 150,000 Employees

Tom Tunguz

Are we more productive at the office or at home? Researchers from the University of Chicago published data on the productivity trends across 150,000 employees of a large IT services company to answer that question. It’s the first time I’ve seen analysis on the same business through the period. The business had deployed software to monitor employee behavior before COVID and used it throughout.

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Shopify Review

The Daily Egg

Shopify knows ecommerce. The platform has been helping online business owners sell products since 2006. It has five different plans and a barrage of helpful ecommerce features. However, where Shopify really shines is with its customer support team. If you place a high value on extra support, Shopify could be a great platform for your […]. The post Shopify Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

As we gear up for SaaStr Annual 2021 in the SF Bay Area , we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. Today, Veeva is at $45B Cloud juggernaut dominating pharma and life science Cloud applications. But back in 2017, CEO and co-founder Peter Gassner joined us after Veeva had recently IPO’d with a market cap less than a tenth of that size.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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How we approach remote employee onboarding at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

We want to give our employees the best possible start to their Intercom careers. That used to mean welcoming them to the company in person but, like everyone, we’ve had to adapt to a new way of onboarding over the past year. The COVID-19 pandemic has completely disrupted the way we work and forced us to reinvent how we onboard new colleagues. At the start of March last year, as the scale of the threat became more apparent, we realized we had to transition our in-person employee onboarding experi

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How to Price your SaaS Product

Predictable Revenue

Ajit is the author of Price To Scale and is a SaaS Product Marketing veteran who has helped firms such as Narvar, Medallia, Helpshift, and Feedzai differentiate their products, grow revenue, and win. The post How to Price your SaaS Product appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Squarespace Vs. Wix

The Daily Egg

Website builders provide non-designers with a straightforward solution to building a website. With its affordable pricing and easy-to-use interface, Wix is a tough one to beat. Still, Squarespace comes in a close second with its drag-and-drop blocks that allow you to put together a professional-looking website in a matter of minutes. Our comparison guide outlines […].

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In The Early Days, What You Think is a “Sales” Problem is More Likely a Marketing Problem

SaaStr

The other day I met with a great founder doing about $40k in MRR that wanted to raise some extra money to “make sales more repeatable.” Sounds good. I started to dig in a bit to understand what this founder really meant though. At this rough stage ($20k-$80k or so MRR), usually most SaaS startups finally have a regular stream of leads — just not that many. 10 a month, 20, 100, whatever it is.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Conversational support isn’t just a nice-to-have – it’s make or break

Intercom, Inc.

Not too long ago, customer support was viewed as a cost center, not a value driver. It was seen as a necessary part of a business, but not something that drove revenue or influenced customers’ buying decisions. That time is over. Study after study shows how important a great customer experience is to today’s consumers. According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to

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The 10 Ingredients of Great Content Writing

Neil Patel

Content writing can be difficult. Just consider these numbers. An astonishing 98 percent of all marketing teams say written content is their most-used content type, yet one in three marketers admit their content writing is only “somewhat” or “not so” effective. In other words, there’s a whole lot of content out there that isn’t doing what it should be.

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Best VoIP Headsets

The Daily Egg

VoIP headsets are essential elements of your VoIP system, so it’s important to choose the headset that supports your business’ specific needs. We carefully researched and reviewed the best VoIP headsets based on their performance and features. We found that the Poly Blackwire 720 is the best choice for most businesses, thanks to its wireless […].

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TOMORROW! Learn from the VPEs of Box, Datadog, Coda, Gusto, Atlassian and More!!

SaaStr

At SaaStr we’ve partnered with PlatoHQ since its inception and we love the parallel efforts it does for mentorship and community in engineering. Tomorrow they have an incredible and FREE event with truly some of the best engineering leaders in Cloud. T he line-up and topics are simply incredible. They have sessions and roundtables with the VPEs and CTOs of Atlassian, Datadog, Gusto, Box, Coda, Safegraph, Headspace, Flatiron, Lyft, Superhuman, Netflix, PayPal and so much more!

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Are we returning to the office? Or is the future remote?

Andreessen Horowitz

Join us June 8-10 on Clubhouse for a series of conversations on Remote Work and the Return to the Office. Follow the a16z club for the latest. — Work during COVID has underscored how distributed teams working remotely can be … The post Are we returning to the office? Or is the future remote? appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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How to Deal with the June Google Core Update

Neil Patel

On June 2 nd Google released a core update. And in July there will be another one. During the first few days, most of us marketers and SEOs saw little to no changes in our rankings or search traffic. But on Sunday June 6th, many of started noticing shake ups. Some of my friends saw declines and others saw gains. Remember, when someone drops in rankings, someone else takes their spot.

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The Complete Guide to WordPress Backups

The Daily Egg

Just like a car without spare tires, a WordPress site with no backups is a disaster waiting to happen. Backups are the safety net you need so your website can easily bounce back if a disaster completely wipes it out. In this guide, you’ll learn how to perform backups the easy way so your website […]. The post The Complete Guide to WordPress Backups appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Veeva at $2 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Veeva Systems is a quieter SaaS enterprise giant that if you sell bigger deals, and/or do vertical SaaS, it’s worth learning more about. CEO Peter Gassner is truly of the most impressive founders I’ve personally met and you can take a look at our deep dive from SaaStr Annual 2017 here not long after they’d IPO’d: One of many remarkable things about Veeva: it burned about $3m on the way to IPO.

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5 Ways to Improve Revenue from Integrated Payments

Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments

Most integrated payments providers share a percent of the payment revenue with their software partners. But, oftentimes, that revenue share is only a fraction of the true income potential software providers can realize. If you want to maximize income opportunities from your payments program, check out Wind River Payments’ webinar-on-demand.

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16 Minutes #64: Ransomware Attacks on the Rise; Hackers Target IoT

Andreessen Horowitz

Welcome to 16 Minutes, the a16z show where we talk about tech trends in the news, what’s hype and what’s real, and the long arc of innovation. … The post 16 Minutes #64: Ransomware Attacks on the Rise; Hackers Target IoT appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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How to Rank a Blog in Google’s Top 10 Search Results

Neil Patel

Are you dreaming of getting 1,000 organic clicks a day to your website? How about 10,000, or perhaps even more? 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.

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Your Step-by-Step Guide to A/B Testing with Google Optimize

The Daily Egg

A/B testing can be as simple as reciting the alphabet. You take your current web page, called the “control” (A), make a copy of it, and change one element so you have a slightly different design, called the “variant” (B), divide the traffic between the two, then direct all your traffic to the version that […]. The post Your Step-by-Step Guide to A/B Testing with Google Optimize appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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The 5 Simple Reasons So Many Companies Are Leaving the SF Bay Area

SaaStr

Q: Why are so many companies leaving Silicon Valley? It’s a combination of factors: We’ve all learned to work as distributed teams now. All of us. And what we’re learning is that not only do many employees want to work and live in cheaper parts of the U.S. (and the world), but a lot of them want to work somewhere warm. Many tech employees have moved somewhere warmer than the SF Bay Area.

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SaaS Essentials: Failed Payment Solution Guide

For SaaS businesses, improving retention is one of the easiest and most effective ways to drive revenue and profits. With a clear link between failed payments and customer churn, having a robust failed payment recovery solution isn’t optional—it’s essential. Achieving your retention goals starts with the right solution.

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Improve Your CPA to Make the Most of Your Marketing Budget

Unbounce

Marketers talk a lot about getting customers, but not so much about what it costs. Nowadays, achieving growth and gaining new audiences solely through organic search is tough, so most marketers supplement these with pay-per-click (PPC) ads. Paid ads are a smart move, but you’ve gotta invest in them the right way. Otherwise, you’re just throwing money right out the window.

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BrickSeek: The Hidden Tool Online Consumers Use to Find Hidden Inventory Sales

Neil Patel

Have you ever wanted a fast way to get the best deals in retail stores like Walmart, Home Depot, Target, and more? Whether you’re just looking to save some money or you’re into retail arbitrage, the ability to easily check product inventory from the comfort of your home is something many people only dreamed about. Until BrickSeek came along, that is.

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Best Cloud-Based Phone Systems

The Daily Egg

Cloud VoIP phone solutions help you move your business phone system to the cloud to streamline communications, leverage more advanced features, and operate at a higher level of security. But not all cloud-based systems are built equal, so we’ve gone through dozens of providers and their features to find the best in class. We found […]. The post Best Cloud-Based Phone Systems appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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