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Sharing experience, insights and best practices for building SaaS businesses. Clients rely on us to realize the future visions of their organizations. Posts here are based on real-world outcomes and lessons learned from putting marketing to work – marketing that grows software companies like yours.  Let’s build something bigger, together.

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The SaaS Founder as Product Manager

When Is It Time to Professionalize This Function? And What Does It Mean for a CMO Job Seeker?

SaaS CMO candidates should ask about product management for insight into the management style at a potential employer and to gauge its future prospects.As...

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B2B Marketing: What’s the Mission as We Recover from the Pandemic?

Webinar recap: Cutting your external comms budget is tempting for the CFO, but what's the impact longer term?

During the uncertain times of COVID-19, it is natural for B2B companies to want to tighten their marketing and advertising spend to weather...

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Advice to a Friend Who is a SaaS Startup Founder

A real-life email with some of our best SaaS resources and recommendations.

While we generally don’t work with self-funded startups, many of the resources we rely upon for early stage SaaS are relevant to firms that are just getting going. In fact,...

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What to Do with Budgets for B2B Trade Shows and Conferences?

Thoughts for SaaS marketers on digital events and content development as we push through the pandemic.

While some live event organizers are hoping to hold events again beginning in the fourth quarter, there’s a lot of time and marketing to be done...

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WorkCast CEO on the Pandemic, Webinars and Impact on his Company and Customers

Stewart Kibby on how his team is responding to unprecedented challenges and opportunities.

Recently, I asked Stewart Kibby, CEO of WorkCast, to be interviewed for this blog as I felt he’d be in a unique position to comment on the impact of the...

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SaaS Pricing and Packaging: Powerful Marketing Levers for the Pandemic

With pipelines drying up how can you motivate buying behavior?

Classically trained marketers think different. They zoom out and consider the landscape before attempting to even describe a problem. Like a good doctor, they see the symptoms but dig...

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Freemium Pricing Is More Important in SaaS Marketing Post-Pandemic

Facilitate Product Evaluation, Put Competition on Defense, Build Brand Loyalty, Expand Market Share 

The last time something like 15 percent of the workforce was unemployed was in 1940. We were still digging out of the Great Depression, during which...

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SaaS Marketing Strategies for the Recession of 2020

It’s a social good to preserve and if possible, grow your business.

None of us have experience trying to run a business during a pandemic. But having been in the workforce through three recessions, and counseling clients through two of them, I have...

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Seven Ways to Capture the ROI of Thought Leadership Marketing

Revenue isn’t the only measure of ROI (but we do start there)

Careful readers of our blog over the years know that we often pound the table for measurement of results from all content marketing initiatives including thought leadership. In fact, I’ve...

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Seven Tips for the New SaaS CMO’s Survival

SaaS CMOs need to align with CEOs, own the customer, prove ROI

CMO tenure is going down in SaaS firms generally, and some SaaS firms are shedding the CMO and the role entirely. Why is this, and what can the newly-minted CMO do about it?

I know a...

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