Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. In this post, I outline how SaaS founders should modify their approach and implement a simple sales methodology to increase their odds of success. The sooner you adopt these steps, the faster you’ll see growth.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

That is why we asked some of the best SaaS marketing practitioners for their best plays with the highest win percentage. In this SaaS marketing playbook, we have compiled the hottest trends in growth marketing as told by real people on the field. SaaS Marketing Playbook Table of Contents. SEO for SaaS Marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Old communication tools, like email and forms, simply don’t match the ways modern customers want to talk, connect, and receive help. At the time, the advent of modern technology, like caller ID, spam protection software, and ad blockers, offered a way to finally dodge brands’ non-relenting bids for attention.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 10, 2022

Customer Success is a core growth driver for any SaaS business. In 2022, when the SaaS market is crowded with tons of similar products, the best ones are those who delight their customers regularly. We have created an ultimate guide that will serve as a blueprint for SaaS owners to maximize SaaS customer success in 2022.

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Userpilot

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. Paid advertising, like PPC or display ads, is another common marketing strategy used by SaaS companies. Second, marketing is about market and customer research as much as product promotion.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Whether you’re still validating your SaaS product idea or launching a new feature to an existing product line, thinking about your Go-To-Market Strategy is always relevant. What Is a Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy For SaaS? A go-to-market strategy is your blueprint for successfully launching a new product in the SaaS market.

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Userpilot

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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

I have traditionally been a believer that any form of marketing other than what is classified as, “Inbound” is typically a waste of money and time. As I think about it however, I actually think that this idea of, “Inbound marketing” is actually a bit ridiculous. You write blogs and PUBLISH them, you create forms and PUBLISH them.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Think about how Slack targets senior operations staff or how HubSpot advertises its CRM software to upper management. Start by defining the brand positioning for yourself so you can then communicate it to your website visitors through inbound marketing tactics, paid search, and other methods like referral programs (more on that later).

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2022

Selling software isn’t the same as selling any other product/service, that’s why a SaaS marketing plan can be a valuable asset. Unlike the traditional marketing plans that focus on only attracting prospects, SaaS product marketing helps you stand out in the market and looks at every stage of the customer funnel.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

There are several reasons why a SaaS business will choose a micromarketing campaign over traditional marketing strategies to engage existing users and attract new ones. In this blog post, you’ll learn: What micromarketing is. How to use micromarketing in-app: Use signup flows to collect data on your user persona.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2022

Joanna founded and ran the Kolko PR agency from 2010 to 2016 where she noticed there was a need to automate the PR processes and there was no tool on the market to make that possible. During that time, she noticed there was a huge need to automate the PR processes and there was no tool on the market to make that possible.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2022

Engineering as marketing is an inbound marketing strategy that involves creating free useful tools for your target audience. These tools are complimentary to your product or service meant to draw in potential customers. While it can be expensive and difficult to build these free tools, it pays back in many ways.

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Userpilot

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. SaaS go-to-market plans can be used in several use cases.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This article will examine negative personas, what makes them essential for SaaS businesses, and how you can build one. Userpilot helps you collect user data in-app and collect direct feedback from users via microsurveys. It is your ideal user, curated using quantitative and qualitative research. Book a demo to learn more.

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Userpilot

JUNE 22, 2022

The aim of the hook model is to make the user see your product as the obvious solution to their problem; this happens through repeated exposure until using your product becomes a routine behavior. In SaaS, the model gives the product teams the tools they need to develop products with high customer engagement rates.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

From customer research to monitoring and iteration, good copywriting is rooted in data. Start with customer research. You wouldn’t build a product without doing customer research and validating your idea. To get it right, you’ve got to run research to figure out what needs to be said. Keyword research.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Unlike Jira Software, which is adept at tracking and managing development tasks, JPD fosters stakeholder alignment and strategic planning. For those new to the platform, we want to offer our real example of using Jira Product Discovery over the past quarters as guidance on maximizing the benefits of this powerful tool.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. Market research, differentiation, and positioning are necessary to prepare for the product launch. Conduct market research. What is product strategy?

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

There are some well-known names as well as new faces on the list, from all over the world – together with their LinkedIn profiles and medium blogs, so you can follow their journeys and insightful posts yourself. You can follow her insights from her professional career on her Medium blog. CEO of Product Labs.

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Sequent Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Let’s start out with a definition of product management : Product management is the systemic, holistic business management of products. To reinforce this, my research suggests that most corporate leaders have deep functional experience and less in product management. From my standpoint, this is unacceptable.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

A few members of our Marketing team recently attended HubSpot’s Inbound 2017 conference in Boston, one of the year’s largest events for marketing professionals. We have frequently detailed the value of selling our ideas and decisions with data on this blog. How can I encourage support for a new OS before management thinks it’s time?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2019

They’re not coming back and there are great companies like Buffer that have done a ton of research on this where they’re seeing social really fall off as a referral source, but engagement on social is not falling off, in fact it’s rising. Source: HubSpot Research, State of Inbound 2018.

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Usersnap

JULY 11, 2021

In this blog post, I’ll show you numerous steps for providing the best customer support available. Also startups and SaaS companies build their organizational culture and company vision around providing amazing customer support. And it will be a great inbound marketing channel for new prospects too. Don’t scale customer care.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For a SaaS company, he looks for things like “less than 2% monthly churn” (the flipside of retention), a “clear path to $100k MRR” (growth), and a “5% conversion rate from free to paid” (profitability). ” Startup Grind Jaclyn Allen, Partner Success Manager, and Daniel Reilly, Software Engineer, Startup Grind.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2019

The New Age of Product Marketing The evolution of Product Marketing is one of the newest and most important trends in software marketing today, so it’s important to understand it and know how to apply it for your career or company. Product Marketing isn’t actually a new role; it’s been around for many years.

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Indicative

MAY 25, 2018

The event featured leaders in tech, media, and government talking about how technology will impact our world. Becoming a data-driven company is about two things; technology and culture. Jewell’s talk was based on Pearson’s research project by the same name, which explored the skills that will be needed most by 2030.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Technology companies are producing more complex software, which can often overwhelm customers during the onboarding process. As a result, it’s common for these customers to quickly abandon new platforms. These are just the tools, however. They’re not just creating great users of their software.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

Whether you want to bring in more demand from marketing campaigns or retain customers through better in-app communication – the right marketing team is a must. An organizational structure for a B2B marketing team consists of the following: The product marketing team for focusing on new feature launches and in-app marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 3, 2018

For most sales teams, “personalizing” a cold email simply means referencing a person’s job title or company and sending them links to case studies or blog posts in the hope of generating a single click-through. We knew from our own research that leads are 82% more likely to convert to customers if they’ve chatted with you first.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems. If you think about subscription growth, probably 85% of blog posts and content have to do with sales and marketing.

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Brian Balfour

JUNE 20, 2017

Preface by Brian Balfour: I rarely accept guest posts on this blog, but this opportunity was too good to pass up. Patreon is a platform that allows people who make things -- everything from music to blog posts to journalism to comics -- to to run a membership business for their fans. My immediate response, holy f*ing YES!!!!

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Userpilot

JUNE 19, 2023

There’s no magic number when it comes to conversions, but knowing B2B SaaS funnel conversion benchmarks can benefit any SaaS product manager. In this article, we will discuss the most common B2B SaaS conversion rate metrics and their benchmarks. Education-related SaaS platforms come second with 7.5%

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2021

The B2B SaaS marketing space can feel a lot like an echo chamber. SaaS marketers need to move fast and break things, but rather than jumping from one ‘shiny new growth hack’ to another, stick to a few tried and tested tactics first. What do SaaS Companies spend on B2B Marketing? Creating A B2B SaaS Marketing Plan.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 19, 2019

Some social media platforms charge you only if they help you acquire a customer, while others may charge you based on the number of views or clicks your ads get. It’s sometimes called “inbound marketing” because it’s meant to bring people “inbound” to your website. Research backs this up. Email marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 21, 2020

There’s a lot of that: relying on Slack, relying on Intercom within the team communication technologies we have. . You recently wrote a blog post that talked about how automation helped save Intercom $400,000 , which is not nothing. We saw that research and wanted to test this out with some of our customers.

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