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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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Centralization Vs. Decentralization in Marketplaces and Scaling Companies

Casey Accidental

They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces. When I enter a city or country, who is in charge of that market’s success?

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Product Market Fit: Finding Your Product’s Place in the Market

ProfitWell

Ari Wells is the VP of Product Marketing at cloud service mogul Akamai. He joined us on stage at Recur 2018 to talk about how their team takes a product from concept to launch. You hear about product market fit a lot these days, and with good reason. What is Product Market Fit?

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Product Differentiation: A Guide to Standing Out

OpenView Labs

Product differentiation is the work of defining your product’s strengths and unique value proposition in order to attract and retain new users and customers. A product’s competitive advantages can be the result of superior features, proprietary technology, standout performance, better design, and even stellar customer service. .

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What is Marketing Research? Examples and Best Practices

User Pilot

Effective market research combines both qualitative methods, which explore consumer motivations, and quantitative methods, which provide measurable statistics, to create comprehensive insights that guide business strategy and decision-making.

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Driving Success for Small to Middle-Market SaaS Companies

OPEXEngine

SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support. The other option is to outperform lower-cost competitors by gaining market share, usually by lowering their price point to achieve virality.

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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 ). This leads to a 2-question welcome survey that Surfer uses to help you choose the right pricing plan. Event registration path Userpilot also uses the product-led approach to content marketing. Amazon ranks in no.1,