Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Target market focus Horizontal and vertical SaaS each target a very different customer base. What is Horizontal SaaS?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Amazon’s so big that it has become an entire marketing channel. How do you stand out in such a highly-competitive marketplace? Find an Amazon marketing consultant. 3 Ways an Amazon Marketing Consultant Can Help Grow Your Business. And they do this with poor store setup and product listings. Many entrepreneurs do.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

After all, this data allows you to create a winning marketing strategy and grow your business. Wouldn’t it be great if you could bring these data sources together and view, at a glance, exactly how your marketing strategies are performing? If you could visualize your data and share your findings with key team members?

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam’s Corner [33:50 ].

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Fadada is a SaaS-based provider of electronic signature services. Based in: Hong Kong.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. As with all marketing efforts , positioning should be driven by the customer and their needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

Or Mary from marketing? Our guess is that poor Polly from purchasing is gathering dust on a noticeboard in the canteen or buried somewhere deep in your internal network of folders. Perfectly position the product/service to their prospects. Speak empathetically to their prospects and develop stronger connections as a result.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 4, 2021

There’s no doubt about it: a successful video marketing campaign will absolutely transform how your business operates. It’s hardly something you can leap into blindly, and understanding the process behind successful video marketing campaigns will help you avoid costly mistakes in the future. Let’s take a look at the statistics.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2019

Last week, I got a marketing email announcing a major promotion (three months free) about a product I had just purchased and paid full price for. Needless to say, this made him look bad in my eyes. Secondly, when he did speak with Marketing, they informed him this promo was just for prospects not customers like me. The result?

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. Experience is the keyword here.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

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. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We conducted intensive market research with SaaS practitioners across LatAm to dig into the reasons behind the region’s hypergrowth, and worked with the progressive global VCs who are fuelling the SaaS boom to understand the key players and the scope of the opportunity. He served as National Director for Marketing in both places.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Most of the articles that I write on my blogs are catered towards intermediate to experienced marketers and those with a business website. Some of my readers are just preparing to take their first steps up the marketing mountain , some who only have their first domain name registrar confirmation. Hosting Factor #2: Customer Service.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

And that is also true when selling and marketing your product, particularly with the arrival of GDPR, which has brought the issue of data security and privacy to widespread public awareness. GDPR makes organizations accountable for data breaches caused by third-party service providers. Choose vendors/partners that you trust.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There’s a reason why our co-founder Neil Patel’s marketing content is ranked so high on google for any term you can think of. That’s all because of our ability to constantly optimize and improve our methods according to the current trends in the marketplace. You should check out the services of Neil Patel Digital. #2

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. But there is this other area of developer tools: the Twilios and the Stripes of the world.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Why you need a customer success team.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value. Embrace the cloud operating model.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The market need for SaaS products has exploded and investment in SaaS companies has accelerated, requiring more talent to grow and scale. Competitive pressures and changing customer needs can be captured by a great marketing or product marketing lead. Product and go-to-market continue to steal the most sleep.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. Eventbrite now caters toward more modern music creators that share the need for intuitive and self-service experiences.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The connection between your traffic and your landing page is called an accurate message to market fit. You want your message to perfectly fit your market so you can start with a winning funnel that’s only bound to go up from there. That can be a developer, a Funnel designer/builder, an Ad specialist, or a CRO consultant.

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Unbounce

JUNE 23, 2023

Here’s a question that pretty much every marketer is pondering (and maybe losing some sleep over): What does the future hold for marketing in a world of AI tools ? Will AI ever be able to replace marketers—or even an entire marketing team (gulp)? 00:00:00] Pete: Hey marketers. Episode 2: What If? [00:00:00]

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Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. Providing the right cold calling training can make or break the success of a new team member. Adding their name to your CRM or marketing automation program’s round-robin lead assignment mechanism.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Wrike also makes collaboration seamless with shared calendars, file sharing, and team reports time tracking. Their free version includes unlimited tasks per team, projects in the board or list view, unlimited file storage, an activity log, and more. You don’t need any SEO or developer experience to use it. per user per month.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Social media dominates the present-day marketing landscape. Plus, there are solid stats that highlight how useful incorporating Facebook can be for your marketing strategy: A total of 1.6 If you want to explore Facebook as a means to advertise your products and services for maximizing sales and generating leads, you need an expert.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

In an environment marked by a global pandemic and market volatility, advocating for SaaS forecasting seems like a lost cause. Was that the last wave of bad news?’ ‘I’m A post-truth marketplace is a hard place for nuanced data science, or as they used to call it, “lies, damn lies, and statistics.”. How bad will it get?

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 22, 2022

Comparison table Marketing Automation vs CRM. Marketing Automation vs CRM. Key differences between marketing automation vs crm. The major differences between Marketing Automation vs CRM are here, so, you’ll get a better understanding. What Do You Mean by Marketing Automation?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

If your competitors are doing well, it shows there’s a market, right? It also demonstrates effective marketing to your ideal customers and getting great returns. However, their insights can be so valuable that you might consider such tools an essential piece of the complex marketing pie. That’s where you’re wrong.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. 80/20 Sales and Marketing. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Selling to Big Companies. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. B2B Is Really P2P.

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SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

However, there are many product-led companies whose freemium offerings are just the tip of their go-to-market iceberg. Does this mean that sales, marketing, and customer success are forced to hang out on the sidelines? A freemium offering breaks down those walls and gives users a clear path to discover your product/service.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

These materials will take you from the basics SaaS Metrics — 101 to more advanced topics like Go-To-Market and Product-Led Growth (PLG). Benchmarks across the PLG user journey The hardest part of PLG might actually be… marketing?! We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams.

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