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A Founder’s Guide to Building and Scaling Marketing Channels: Lessons from Datadog’s CMO and First Marketing Hire

SaaStr

Marketing leaders face crushing expectations from all sides: Management wants leads Sales needs collateral Product needs launches The team wants career growth The instinct is to spread your resources across everything: blogging, analyst relations, PR, events, SEO, paid search, content marketing, and more.

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Thanks to Multiplier, Pepper, Tin Men Capital, and To the New’s CloudKeeper for Sponsoring SaaStr APAC 2023!

SaaStr

CloudKeeper from TO THE NEW, is a cloud spend optimization solution that guarantees to cut down your AWS bills by 5-15%. With CloudKeeper, we have helped 200+ of our customers optimize their AWS spend with a guaranteed reduction in their AWS bills. Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr!

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7 Marketing Hot Takes with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin on the Exit Five Podcast 

SaaStr

One of Jason’s superpowers is writing content in his head automatically. Many folks who generate content aren’t writers. They may be copywriters or content marketers, but they’re not writers. Passions are the way to go in content marketing. #5: What does a VP of Marketing do? The latter has.

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10 Things That Always Work in SaaS Marketing

SaaStr

Amazing blog content — that truly adds value in the industry. Add 2 amazing pieces of value a month. “Content marketing” is overrated for the most part. But third-party events like AWS, Dreamforce, SaaStr, Shoptalk? Field marketers that are >good< at it get 40% of their pipe from it.

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8 Tips For Creating a More Effective Case Study – With Examples

Neil Patel

AWS provides case studies right on their homepage. Be sure that your case studies are organized and easy to find. Here’s a few examples of good case studies that are easy to find — and therefore, much more powerful. Amazon Web Services.

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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. They pioneered things like content marketing, thought leadership. Challenges, mistakes, problems, surprises, every step of the way. And it’s the reaction to those problems.

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SaaStr Podcast #344 with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin: “16 Tips To Increase The Odds You Get Funded”

SaaStr

Why is the content marketing industry changing? I didn’t say their technology is terrible, the audio is awful. Think about two slides and two lines and two sentences is enough. If a VC has never done an investment even remotely similar, they probably won’t again, but summarize the industry in two sentences.