ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

Imagine a world in which your customers sell your product for you. You just have to achieve stellar product-market fit. Marc Andreessen, cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, put it this way, “product-market fit is when people sell for you.” What is product-market fit? Ideal, right?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 18, 2023

With so many product marketing strategies floating around the SaaS world, it can be hard to identify the right one. In this guide, we’re going to go over what PLG marketing is and why it just might be the perfect approach for your business. What does PLG stand for in marketing?

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 12, 2024

If we rewind the clock back to 2021, the venture funding market went crazy. Many companies raised rounds in 2021 who thought they had product market fit. Or who thought their market was 10x bigger than it actually was. Raising a big round before finding product market fit can really limit your financial upside!

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Baremetrics

JULY 30, 2021

Chargebee is a company that offers a wide range of features and toutes itself as the leader in subscription billing management. Within their platform, users can manage various aspects of their online customers such as subscription, recurring billing, invoicing, payments, accounting, taxes, and more.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. Short on time?

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SaaStr

APRIL 20, 2020

The last thing anyone needs is another CRM, another invoicing app, another quoting tool, another recruiting app, etc. And they are actually happy and love your product? But 8 times out of 10, it shows the earliest stages of real product-market fit, i.e., potentially having something. That’s real.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2023

How do you calculate marketing automation ROI? More importantly, how can marketing teams maximize it? On top of that, our article: Defines what marketing automation is. Identifies the areas of marketing that you can automate. Identifies the areas of marketing that you can automate. What is marketing automation?

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 24, 2021

While some companies might want to stick with the rates that work right now, there may come the point where you can’t rely on growing your market share at the same rate as your company’s early days. For subscription apps like Headspace , a global audience is part of their growth ambition. 2 types of pricing localization.

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User Pilot

JUNE 12, 2023

Marketing surveys let you understand brand perception, analyze customer sentiment , and identify improvement areas. TL;DR A marketing survey uses well-crafted questionnaires to gather information about your target audience and their sentiment on your company and competitors. Typeform – best for long-form market research surveys.

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User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? You’ve done the hard work of building a product or a specific feature that people want. In this blog post, you’ll learn everything about go-to-market strategies. SaaS go-to-market plans can be used in several use cases.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2023

Whereas G used to build out a complex martech stack that was just focused on personalized emails with several different tools (with different subscriptions and costs), now he has his teams use only 1 or 2 AI-backed tools to help their personalized outbound at scale. The role of marketing teams is to succeed, ideally 100% of the time.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. Experience is the keyword here. Justin explained.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 9, 2023

Every good product marketer knows; the only thing better than acquiring new customers is retaining existing customers. Can personalized retention marketing grow your customer’s lifetime value and customer retention rate? This article considers all you need to know about retention marketing. Let’s begin!

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 9, 2019

From the rise of SaaS to the sudden glut of subscription boxes, the subscription business model has never been more popular. So much so that Gartner research predicts that in 2020, all new entrants to the software market and 80% of existing companies will offer some sort of subscription package.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

What should you look for in an Enterprise rep vs. a Mid-Market rep? Solving High Volume, Low Conversion at Lattice Dini Mehta joined Lattice at $3M in revenue when it had just 10 people in seat for Go-To-Market and 7 salespeople. Many founders try to sell a product to everyone in their total addressable market right out of the gate.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Contextual email marketing isn’t just about sending emails—it’s about delivering the right message at the right time and relevant to the user’s behaviors. But how can you implement the right email marketing strategy to drive product engagement in SaaS businesses?

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In this article, the founder of Product Marketing Alliance (and Baremetrics customer) Richard King, shared how he turned a network of product marketers into a thriving paid community with over 20,000 members, using some simple but powerful content marketing tactics. Read his story below! Try Baremetrics Free.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Rocket Mortgage has 30 years of data around mortgages in different markets. For both of you, subscription is a smaller-to-no piece of the story. BILL started much heavier on subscription, but has really leaned into payments over the last several years. What do you think the role of subscriptions are in B2B fintech?

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

The true test of marketers. Marketing leaders must focus their teams on the areas that will drive revenue while they cut costs – the biggest impact for the business. We’re going through layoffs and furloughs, recession planning and for me as the CMO, facing really massive cuts to marketing budgets and headcount.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 16, 2022

In this webinar recap, you’ll see the most significant trends in SaaS pricing, subscription management, metrics/analytics, and what they could mean for your business in 2022. Trends in Subscription Management . There are several factors involved in monitoring the health of your subscription business.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Product-Market Fit . Hitting $1M ARR is the benchmark to figure out if you have a product-market fit.” – Veronika Riederle, CEO @Demodesk. Once your product is refined and ready to go to market, inform your users they will now need to pay to continue using your services. Users > customers.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Or maybe you are curious whether Christmas marketing works at all? We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. And people simply want to treat themselves by getting products and services that they didn’t consider buying during the rest of the year.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 1, 2021

The productized services model allows agency owners, freelancers, and consultants to break out of billing by the hour or per project and instead invoice by sets of services rendered. What Are Productized Services For? Productized services are standardized services sold like products, with clearly defined parameters and pricing.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? Does one have to expand the product line to retain customers? Their product has become complex and that requires [inaudible 00:07:10], and suddenly you are able to identify an underserved segment [inaudible 00:07:13] category. Does one have to move to enterprise?

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We typically classify SaaS companies in terms of three customer segments, enabling us to better evaluate their needs: Small/Mid-Market (SMM). In this article, one in a series of three covering each of these SaaS customer categories, we will focus exclusively on Small/Mid-Market SaaS companies. SMM SaaS Go-To-Market Strategy.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

When building a product, organizations are solving a specific need. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. Many customers in SE Asia are budget-based versus subscription-based. It just means it isn’t as big of a market yet.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 24, 2021

While some companies might want to stick with the rates that work right now, there may come the point where you can’t rely on growing your market share at the same rate as your company’s early days. For subscription apps like Headspace , a global audience is part of their growth ambition. 2 types of pricing localization.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Remember, setting your price is about knowing your worth and understanding what the market can bear. You can charge more if your content is unique or offers significant benefits that stand out in the market.   Begin by defining your ideal collaboration partners and the type of offerings you want to bring to the market.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 17, 2019

How can this NBC original teach us a ton about content marketing? Your top subscription news. Apparently, 27% of people now pay more than $100 per month in subscriptions, as much as the average person would spend on cable—although I can’t say I’m surprised by this number. Content marketers, welcome to the Good Place.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. Consider the overnight success of a celebrity-owned product.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

Whether it was our interview with Podium’s Eric Rea on how he scaled with a team outside the Bay Area before it was really considered an option, or TripAction’s Megan Eisenberg on how to prioritize trade-offs in marketing without sacrificing pipeline, we’ve covered the gambit of relevant topics throughout the year. .

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 6, 2019

As one of the most popular and longest-running streaming services in the market, Netflix took a DVD rental service and transformed it into a cultural icon. We’ll show you how their relentless focus on quality content positioned the platform for impressive growth and how that has to change as the market evolves and expands.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 28, 2024

So, what’s the best time to trigger market research surveys? While the obvious answer is during product development , you can also do it at regular intervals to keep track of customer preferences. What is the problem that the product/service helped to solve for you? How do you search for the products you want to buy?

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 20, 2018

Subscriptions are reaching never-seen-before levels of scale. This week, we learned that Amazon Prime has over 100 million subscribers and that Apple may be planning to launch a news subscription service soon. Is this the end of the subscription era? Category creation and the importance of product marketing.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Loving our podcast content?

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User Pilot

MAY 8, 2023

As the number of software tools and subscriptions increase, so too do the expectations of SaaS customers. Most challenges that a software company will face fall into one of three categories: product, sales, and business/operations. Why do SaaS companies face challenges?

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