The Angel VC

JANUARY 15, 2015

Yesterday I shot off a Tweetstorm about some important developments that I'm observing in the SaaS world as we're entering 2015. The point that I made was that most of the tactics which smart SaaS entrepreneurs developed around 2007-2009 – inbound marketing, conversion optimization, lifecycle marketing, etc. –

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

With more than 15,000 SaaS companies operating worldwide, the global SaaS market is constantly growing as new products continue to enter the market. Whether you're a startup or an established company, launching a new SaaS product isn't as easy as it was 15 years ago. Table of Contents.

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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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FastSpring

APRIL 22, 2020

SaaS, or shortly, software as a service, experienced rapid growth in the last decade. In 2008, the whole market share was about $5.5 billion, while in 2019 a SaaS market enjoyed a whopping $141 billion in a market share. Key Benefits of Investing in SaaS Marketing Strategies.

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Incredo

JANUARY 7, 2020

What does SaaS lead nurturing exactly mean to your SaaS company? By the way, we have plenty of free resources on SaaS lead generation. Your automated flows should be carefully created by professional copywriters who know what content needs to be sent to that particular group.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . better understand Inbound, and learn about major tactics that you can implement, master your SaaS pricing page and increase your conversions.

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Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

I’ve been fortunate to work in a number of SaaS businesses in my career. Sure adding sales & marketing help fuel the growth, but these business were growing pretty rapidly before they injected the sales & marketing rocket fuel. What is a Go To Market model? Target Market. Factors to consider.

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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. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

MARCH 4, 2017

More recently, marketers have come to rely on webinars, white papers, blogs, and other content to attract leads. Even if the concept of content marketing still works, the particulars usually need to be tweaked over time. It’s often worth allocating a portion of the marketing budget just to try some new tactics.

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Unbounce

AUGUST 13, 2019

Taylor Loren knows it better than anyone: SaaS is a tough almond to milk. The nature of the software as a service (SaaS) model is that your customers need to resubscribe every month (or year, depending). For SaaS marketers, volume is the name of the game. SaaS Brands Grow with Unbounce. Just ask Taylor.

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Unbounce

JULY 2, 2019

The Software as a Service (SaaS) industry is growing at a rapid rate. SaaS companies need to keep up if they want to stand out, and one of the best ways to stay ahead is to tap into marketing practices that are sometimes overlooked by your competition. Use Interactive Content to Offer Personalized Solutions.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

But what if instead of pointing to SaaS companies as the vanguards of this movement, I lauded The Atlantic, The New York Times and the Financial Times? In fact, SaaS companies can learn quite a lot from the marketing efforts of content companies. Marketing plays an essential role.

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Incredo

MAY 22, 2019

Simply having a SaaS product that is useful, easy to use, customizable and affordable is not enough in order to ensure a steady stream of users. To attract customers and show how beneficial their product is, nearly every single SaaS company offers users a free trial. Post Informative Content. Sad, but true.

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Totango

AUGUST 25, 2022

Six Customer Engagement SaaS Strategies That Work. For software service providers, customer engagement SaaS strategies play a central role in a successful business model. In this article, we’ll offer some tips for a winning customer engagement SaaS strategy. Next, we’ll share six keys to effective SaaS customer engagement.

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How SaaS Works

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The How SaaS Works series simplifies the complex world of software-as-a-service (SaaS) into the practical fundamentals for anyone involved in SaaS. Introduction Content marketing combined with search engine optimization (SEO) sits at the top of the list of effective ways to generate leads for today’s best SaaS companies.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Before joining Zapier, Giancarlo was at Atlassian as a technical sales lead before moving to DropBox as a Senior Director of Growth and Monetization, and was CMO at Confluent – so he has a wealth of knowledge from Zapier’s Go-To-Market history as well as these successful SaaS companies to pull from. At the same time?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

But maybe in SaaS and B2B things are pretty good. This morning, a pretty slow growing player, Ping Identity, slow to move to SaaS, slow to move to the cloud, struggled in some ways to compete with Okta and others, was acquired for 2.3 Michiel Rauws (@michielrauws2): So, my question is, we’ve been scaling our SaaS business.

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Baremetrics

MAY 18, 2021

Working to acquire, qualify, and convert leads is a critical part of SaaS business success, whether you’re a startup or an established enterprise. Trying to balance multiple efforts for marketing, sales, and retention can be extremely challenging. Your SaaS funnel is a model that visualizes important stages along the customer journey.

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User Pilot

MAY 3, 2022

How is enterprise SaaS marketing different compared from acquiring and retaining users for an SMB? Inbound works really well for smaller SaaS businesses, whether B2B or B2C. Pair that with in-app communication and you’ve got a pretty good marketing strategy. What is enterprise SaaS marketing?

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2021

. “The 5 Metrics You Should Track to Maximize Your Company’s Valuation with Thomas Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures” This fun, informal session with Thomas (and pinch-hitting from Jason Lemkin during an IT glitch) was a great deep dive into where SaaS is, right now. #2. It’s very good. #7.

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User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? In this blog post, you’ll learn everything about go-to-market strategies. We will cover what they are, why you need them, and how to create one for your SaaS business using real examples. Product-led go-to-market strategy.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Read on to find the best acquisition channels for your SaaS and how to create winning customer acquisition strategies that drive growth. The customer acquisition funnel stages in SaaS are awareness, consideration, evaluation, and decision. That’s where retention marketing comes in.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

The subscription business model has seen an immense rise in popularity in recent years, and with good reason. The subscription-based economy grew 350% between 2012 and 2019, and subscription businesses grew revenues about five times faster than S&P 500 company revenues during that time. What is subscription marketing?

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Incredo

MAY 14, 2019

Inbound marketing is a strategy most SaaS companies have heard of by now, if they are not already using the world’s most revolutionary digital marketing strategy. mantra; outbound marketing still may have a place in your company’s marketing strategy depending on what you are looking for.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

An in-depth study on everything you need to know about subscription marketing, and how Baremetrics features are designed to help you navigate the subscription economy. For marketing a subscription business, it’s critical to find loyal new customers and reduce churn. Table of Contents. Dollar Shave Club 2.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

An Iterative Approach to Localized Marketing. Pricing Strategies to Combat Stagflation 2022 Emerging SaaS Customer Markets How FastSpring Can Help FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies sell around the world. And I’m EJ Brown, co-host of the Growth Stage podcast and senior content strategist at Fast Spring.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 10, 2018

This week: An analysis of Slack's landing page copywriting, why SaaS content marketing sucks and is it time to rethink freemium? In SaaS Roundup, we comb through the noise to find you only the best SaaS-flavored reads of the week — just our top three. Intercom launched custom chat bots ! Matt Tharp, Blissfully.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

So how feasible do you think that works for a typical B2B SaaS business that probably our user-base is not too knowledgeable about [inaudible] on the internet for something specific in their day-to-day use case? ” So those are two very opposite ends of content marketing working from brute forcing outbound.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? Customer acquisition marketing refers to the subset of strategies and activities within customer acquisition that focus on marketing techniques to attract and convert potential customers. This article answers that and more.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Latin America is undergoing a digital transformation, and the SaaS community is exploding as a result. The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. Our agenda is a reflection of the ecosystem.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If you ask any sales rep, they’ll all tell you the same thing: the SaaS sales process is absolutely grueling! Today, we’re going to walk you through the top techniques you should implement into your SaaS sales strategy. SaaS sales can be broken down into three models: self-service, transactional, and enterprise.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way.

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Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

But sales and marketing are the backbone of every successful go-to-market (GTM) strategy, and getting them right can be the difference between thriving and barely surviving, especially in the early days of your SaaS company. Source: The SaaS Growth Report. A great product alone isnt enough.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Do you know what role your SaaS product reviews can play in your business success? The truth is – product reviews can help you in a number of ways and even be crucial in your sales process. We will also provide you with a bonus checklist and introduce you to 7 SaaS founders & managers who know how to work with reviews.

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Outseta

JANUARY 9, 2021

On the marketing front, we’ve focused almost exclusively on “free” marketing tactics to date—partnerships, content marketing, and email marketing. We get remarkably few low quality leads—I’d say at least 85% of our account sign-ups are founders of SaaS products or membership sites that are a great fit for Outseta.

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