Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Walmart Marketplace is among the fastest-growing e-commerce stores out there, so if you’re looking for an Amazon alternative, it’s a serious contender. But how do you make the most of Walmart Marketplace ? What is Walmart Marketplace? Why Should I Sell on Walmart Marketplace? It’s all about moving with the times.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

No matter the specifics of how your company adapts and grows, it’s crucial to be aware of how your pricing strategy relates to other aspects of your business. It’s all too easy to make the mistake of adopting a pricing model that is ill-suited to other aspects of your company, such as the go-to-market strategy or sales strategy.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 13, 2021

Influencer marketplaces can help you do just that, so let me show you how they work. Why You Should Use Influencers in Your Marketing Strategy. Let’s explore the mysteries of the influencer marketplace. Influencer marketplaces: These marketplaces help you match with various influencers in your niche.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

That’s why integration needs to be a key part of your automation strategy. Integration platform as a service ( iPaaS ) standardizes how integrations are built and managed across your organization. Data becomes siloed in disparate SaaS apps, fragmenting the business processes that run your organization. Integration Roadmap.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Now more than ever, an independent software vendor’s (ISV’s) path to profitability depends upon the strength of their go-to-market strategy. In turn, charting a course to channel proficiency depends upon optimizing your channel partner engagement strategy at every stage. A delicate balance for the Modern ISV.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

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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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s not the biggest one but we’re very proud of our investment in BuildingConnected, a SaaS plus marketplace company that sold to Autodesk. We were very early in developing a thesis around SaaS-enabled marketplaces and BC was a construction tech investment that came in via cold inbound and was started by first time founders.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2023

Should you purchase through a third-party marketplace? Do you need extra services that a Value-Added Reseller can provide? Now, they’re service providers bringing SaaS into their portfolio of products and services to serve their customers better. The VARs of old are no longer — the ones who just implement software.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 5, 2021

For fitness service providers, this means one thing: you need an effective marketing strategy to stand out in this fast-growing, high-stakes marketplace. Before we look at specific advertising strategies for the fitness industry, let’s break down the main challenges you’ll face in this niche. There’s a Ton of Competition.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

This week, I invited Michael to come on the show and tell us about their growth strategy. You have that every day, and if you’re a financial services company (particularly a lending company like where I came from), you crave something that allows you to be in front of your customer every day. Is that part of the strategy as well?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The main driver behind this success is that from day one, Atlassian took a product-led self-service approach to enterprise software. Marketplace partners. Solution partners usually help with strategy, tactical implementation, and hands-on operations. Making a robust ecosystem. Strategic technology partners .

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2022

How do you enter a highly competitive marketplace, carve a niche for yourself, and then scale the business to $100 million+ ARR? Entering a hyper-competitive marketplace . Entering a crowded marketplace as a new business can be intimidating, especially when established players with a solid customer base surround you.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

They identified 3 go-to-market strategies that have really helped propel companies to defy gravity. Cloud Marketplaces. First, on product-led growth strategies: we’ve seen companies like PagerDuty, Productboard, and Intercom do that really well. It’s not a new idea, but a renewed strategy in the new normal.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

A great customer success team will help you to better understand your customer’s needs, identify what “success” means to them, and in turn, help your customers realize the value of your services, creating a more successful outcome for both their team and yours. How is that going and what part of your strategy are you most excited about?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Before I joined Intercom, I led all of Intuit’s small-business products and services, including QuickBooks accounting, payroll and payments. Makes sense, right?

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Neil Patel

JUNE 3, 2021

This is called influencer marketing, and it can be a very successful strategy if you execute your campaign correctly. Let’s find out if you should try this strategy yourself. According to Tap Influence, there are four main ways to find influencers: searching manually, using databases, tapping networks, or exploring marketplaces.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

They’ll take you through their own personal experiences, from creating a scalable product strategy to building an enduring company that puts people and purpose before profit. Scaling a Product-Led Growth Model with 1Password, Apollo.io, Sentry, and Lightspeed : Many companies want to know how you operate a PLG business at scale.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 21, 2020

However, the many opportunities available with print on demand services are almost limitless. Print on demand is a popular revenue stream or marketing strategy for many businesses, and for good reason. This can be an issue when it comes to customer service and general follow up. Who Uses Print on Demand Services?

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2022

Only go-getters survive in the SaaS marketplace. From increasing competition to new products in the marketplace, there are too many variables for a salesperson to control. Once you do that, they see you as a strategic partner rather than just a service provider. Mistake 4: The lack of enablement . Here’s how you can do that.

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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. I didn’t want to pay for this service.” And what are the different pricing strategies? This wasn’t the case. I mean, this is quite new.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s even harder if you don’t know all of the armies on the field, their strategies and weapons, or even who’s a friend and who’s a foe. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. The same is true in software. Innovative startups.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It used to really bug me because I am a firm believer in the strategy of Zero Voluntary Attrition and trying to hire fewer, more committed resources over a higher volume of mercenaries that turn over more often. Sales Strategy. How do you deal with FUD in the marketplace? . What markets should we expand into? That’s stressful.

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Groove HQ

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In an overcrowded marketplace full of options, you might be worried about how to set your business apart. How can you leverage the services you offer, rather than the product itself, to define yourself in such a marketplace?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Spotlighting the success of an ICP-focused strategy . Anchor tenant strategy in action at Payrix.

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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. What is SAAS marketing?

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Neil Patel

JULY 1, 2021

However, not all marketers understand how to implement a content strategy correctly. We’re going to cover the basics, including how to create and manage your editorial calendar, and how it can help your content strategy grow. Your editorial calendar is part of your content strategy. Develop Your Content Strategy.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 16, 2021

I’m going to share a list of all the free tools and strategies that can help you compete with major conglomerates through content marketing. It’s a great marketing strategy for building trust. Freelance platforms like Fiverr are underrated resources for marketing your business services. Host Your Video Content on YouTube.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Whether you’re a product or service-based business, it’s never too early to start planning your holiday promotions. Do you really need a seasonal promotion if you sell services, though? In fact, the run-up to the holidays is a perfect time for any service-based business to find customers and start the new year on a profitable note.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

what the product strategy should actually be. Building a consumer marketplace to drive incremental ticket sales to event creators. Julia, our CEO, had told me she wanted me to focus on growing the self-service business faster. In other words, the product strategy lacked focus. Consumer Marketplace.

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User Pilot

JULY 31, 2024

In today’s ultra-competitive landscape, your product development strategy is a roadmap that helps you navigate the journey from product idea to market success. In this article, we present a product manager’s guide to creating and successfully executing a product development strategy. Not sure where to begin?

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Steep fees from platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play can understandably cause game developers and app creators to look beyond the convenience and ubiquity of traditional app marketplaces, but restrictions from the platform providers have made it difficult. App stores also make it easy for app developers to distribute their apps.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I had spent the previous 15 years running my own local lawn care company, and I knew from experience both how difficult it was for a homeowner to get a reliable lawn mowing service and how challenging it was to make a living mowing yards. I felt a technology platform could solve this problem for both sides of the marketplace.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model. Aaron Ross is a name many would be familiar with.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things. And the other thing I learned is it’s very, very hard to build a two-sided marketplace, Sam. Show Introduction [00:10].

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with their tech stack and 50% waste time jumping between tools. Strategy first, technology second. Let’s dive in.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To start the series, Ian and his guest Andy Meadows, Head of Partner Success Management for Payrix, dive into the topic of resourcing and what you need to consider when it comes to selling payments, boarding and underwriting, service and support, and development and tech. Now, we’ve not hit on the backend service and support piece.

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