SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Here are some of their top takeaways and techniques they shared with us for creating an impactful live event strategy. Live events are a forcing function for your entire team, not just sales, and marketing. And how do I make sure that that memory lasts?”

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2023

— Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  (@jasonlk) July 28, 2023 So there’s a strategy I really only see a handful of vendors using, but it really, really works IMHO. That’s Interesting image from here ) The post An Underused Strategy: Truly High Value Drip Marketing to Prospects appeared first on SaaStr. Truly valuable.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 23, 2023

A properly-crafted growth marketing framework brings clarity and direction to your SaaS business. It identifies and stirs you towards the most important things you need to achieve sustainable product growth. This article discusses the best growth marketing strategies within the AAARRR funnel.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Marketing your SaaS is a complex task involving many roles, one being a growth marketer. But you may be thinking, what exactly is the role of a growth marketer, and how do they help grow your product ? The structure of a growth marketing team depends on the size and needs of your company.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2021

And one of the most important considerations, how are we helping marketing leaders accelerate growth in their ABM pipeline? . Focus your sales and marketing effort to make the most of limited resources. The post 9 Proven Ways to Intensify your 2021 ABM Strategy from Bombara appeared first on SaaStr. Let’s dive in.

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User Pilot

MAY 24, 2021

Growth marketing involves experimentation and optimization across the marketing funnels. Marketers today are moving from the traditional “set and forget” approach to a continually evolving growth-focused approach. Analytics Tools for Growth Marketers. Email Automation Growth Marketing Tools for SaaS.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Wondering what a marketing growth strategy is? From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Diversification introduces new products to new markets. Let’s get to it.

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Brian Balfour

OCTOBER 12, 2016

As we emphasize continuously in Reforge , becoming an elite growth marketer has nothing to do with the specific hammer in your toolkit and everything to do with mastering the emerging skills, frameworks, and thought processes that enable you to solve new problems, repeatedly.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

Rachel Hepworth, Head of Growth Marketing, Slack. The post 5 customer acquisition strategies for winning new customers appeared first on Inside Intercom. The friction is so low to starting a Slack team that you could really drive a lot of really poor quality teams if you didn’t pay attention to it.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

LinkedIn is also a powerful platform for employee advocacy , which has become an important part of our own marketing strategy.  “I’ve found sharing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how we do marketing at Buffer has resonated with LinkedIn users,” says Director of Growth Marketing Simon Heaton.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

On September 20 at 8 am PST, I’m hosting a free webinar that exposes my team’s strategies to create successful email campaigns that entice people to click “add to cart.” Whether you have yet to send out your first email blast, or you’ve been trying to perfect your strategy for years, this is the webinar for you.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 29, 2019

Meghan goes in great detail on the year-long traffic plateau HubSpot’s blog went through in 2017 and how after the initial heart palpitations, the team upended the editorial strategy and are stronger than ever today. Find out more about SaaStock East Coast and buy tickets.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For each example, we’ll explore why it works and lessons that can help improve your marketing strategy. TL;DR Customer-led marketing is a strategy that puts the customer at the center of all marketing efforts, making their pain points , behaviors, and feedback the driving force behind decisions.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2024

In a B2B space, you can get strong overlap, so you want your product strategy to play into that so you aren’t throwing away demand. Rupa’s Search Strategy Rupa’s catalog was great, but it was blocked off behind a login system, which isn’t good for search. Don’t just separate marketing and sales from product.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 18, 2019

While the terminology is new to many of us, this go-to-market strategy has been gaining popularity across the software ecosystem for years. Check out our PLG Index to see how public companies employing this strategy are outperforming their peers. More than 250 companies are featured in our Market Map.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

You will also learn how to choose the right growth strategy for your SaaS and how to leverage marketing-led growth to achieve your business goals. TL;DR Marketing-led growth is a strategy that relies on marketing efforts to drive product growth and retain users.

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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? What is PLG strategy?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 12, 2022

In this episode, we’ve got Auseh Britt , a seasoned B2B marketer with 20 years of marketing experience across a wide range of industries and companies spanning global hospitality to startups, who currently serves as the VP of Growth Marketing at Terminus. The keys to being a successful growth marketer.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2021

With that strategy, they’ve built huge businesses. And this GTM strategy means tacking the mid-market first, because not many large enterprises will trust their infrastructure to a fledgling service. Building an on-prem company means hiring field sales teams, solutions architects, field marketers.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2023

Low CAC, scalable growth strategies Growth engineers (this is super important!) MarTech stack and budget (always be on the lookout for cutting-edge platforms) A growth mindset Scalable, Low CAC Growth Strategies “One example that works well for sales-led SaaS businesses is outbound,” says Cabane.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 21, 2024

Social media marketing is more complicated than ever. You need a proper strategy , content creation skills, copywriting formulas in your back pocket, and a knack for tying it all together.  Here are the top 12 courses to improve your social media marketing skills. Unignorable also has an unignorable cost.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With over a decade of data from qualitative learnings and insights amassed through a network of leaders, ICONIQ deep dives into what it takes to succeed at GTM throughout the four stages of growth. But to develop a GTM strategy, you must have Product Market Fit. Without it, you don’t have a business.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 2, 2024

Let’s dive into the practical steps to take and start reaping the benefits of product-led growth. TL;DR A go-to-market (GTM) strategy is a comprehensive plan that outlines how a company will launch a new product or service into the market and drive customer success. Shorter sales cycle.

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User Pilot

MAY 3, 2022

How is enterprise SaaS marketing different compared from acquiring and retaining users for an SMB? Pair that with in-app communication and you’ve got a pretty good marketing strategy. Enterprise SaaS marketing, however, is a different story entirely. How to create an enterprise SaaS marketing strategy?

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2022

SaaS Secret Sauce: How the CEO –> CRO Dynamic Drives Growth with Marketo’s Co-Founder. 7 Secrets to a Successful SMB GTM Strategy with PayFit and Accel. How to Build a Performance Marketing Operation: What Roles, What Scope, and How to Start with Meta (Facebook)’s Head of B2B SaaS EMEA.

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Agile Payments

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

9 Effective Growth Hacking Strategies to Skyrocket Your Startup Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash Although the term growth has been thrown around a lot, especially in the start-up community, many entrepreneurs still need to be made aware of what growth hacking is and how it works.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Dear SaaStr: Is Underpricing a Good Strategy to Gain Traction? But it’s not a marketing strategy. Yes, to some extent — once a category is well established and there is a subset of functionality that is commoditized. It’s more a tactic to win deals vs. an establish. brand, once you have the prospect in your funnel.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

How do you build a best-in-class go-to-market model to get to 100mn ARR and beyond? Iconic PLG companies share how they integrated GTM into their growth strategy to go from single digits to over a billion in ARR. Strategy: To get started, identify playbooks that yield the highest revenue.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 9, 2023

Testing is at the heart of growth marketing. Experiment with every marketing element to see what works and doesn’t. Anything lower should prompt you to rethink your business strategy. Tactic #5: Uplevel your social strategy. With every experiment we run, the goal is to be right 20% of the time.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 26, 2024

  To pinpoint what works best for you, I'd encourage you to start with a social media content strategy and, from there, experiment with different types of content in your social media content calendar. The latter is a particularly great strategy on Threads, where niche communities are often ready to lend a hand.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

You create barriers to entry by reducing the cost of customer acquisition and inhibit newer competitors who might disrupt using this acquisition strategy. To summarize, running both strategies is better, but it’s more work. There are also costs. Unassisted free trial accounts are likely to be smaller.

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User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

PLG and SLG differ in focus: PLG centers on product appeal for growth, while SLG relies on sales strategies and personal interactions. Product-led growth business suits products that meet unique market needs, have a quick value realization for users, and fit a freemium model.

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SaaStr

MAY 30, 2024

It’s a growth model and GTM strategy. A freemium version can work well if you want to gain market share quickly. If you’re on a limited trial, customers have to purchase eventually, so this strategy is more about monetizing customers as Zapier does. Why is it end user-focused? They get value, make a decision, and buy.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Product Marketing vs Growth Marketing discussion isn't just about specific tasks and to-do lists, but about how they cultivate product growth to achieve business objectives. Analyzing data to understand user behavior and optimize their marketing material to bring the most conversions across the funnel.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As the CMO, you need to understand the company’s founding story and principles to shape the story you put into the market. To do that requires a deep understanding and appreciation of the company’s mission, vision, product strategy, financial plan, and more—all of which you get from communicating with the CEO.

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GetUplift

JULY 4, 2024

Michela Fossati-Bellani VP of Growth Marketing , Strata Identity Optimizing your website, campaigns and marketing strategy for conversion — regardless if it’s to a free trial, a paid plan, a demo, a sales call or a sign up for the company newsletter — is never easy. They’re a great partner.

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

What’s your pulse check on the venture markets right now, today? Venture growth markets have been challenging in the past two years, but we are starting to see some real deal and investment velocity among pretty impressive businesses. That, and give your investors more homework. #4.

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