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Sequencing Business Models: Can That SAAS Business Turn Into a Marketplace?

Casey Accidental

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. So goes the story.

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How to Build a Conversion Path: Step-by-Step Process

User Pilot

Here’s an example of a Userpilot user persona: Role in the company ( Product Marketing Manager ). Prioritize middle- and bottom-of-the-funnel content, presenting your product as a solution to specific problems relevant to a particular user persona. 1, so I click on the link to get to the marketplace.

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Driving Success for Small to Middle-Market SaaS Companies

OPEXEngine

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. These lower price points influence the GTM strategy, which requires lower labor costs and a greater reliance on “one-to-many” marketing.

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Losing Sleep? Hiring Has Officially Replaced Cash as a Key Reason Startup Founders Are Up at Night

OpenView Labs

Competitive pressures and changing customer needs can be captured by a great marketing or product marketing lead. And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive. Fundraising and burning too much cash can be alleviated by an experienced CFO.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Total Addressable Market Total addressable market (TAM) is an economic framework to understand the potential revenue available for a product or service.

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Should you disrupt or create a category? 5 lessons from Gainsight’s CMO Anthony Kennada

Intercom, Inc.

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. When Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta asked Anthony to run marketing, Anthony he was jumping in at the deep end. So how can we do more of that?

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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You guys have been through three days of presentations. The challenge, however, is that because of the limited disposable income that both consumers and businesses have, you can’t charge a lot of money for services there. ” At this point we were offering the service for free. Product/market fit.

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