Growth Everywhere is one of my favorite podcasts where Eric interviews successful entrepreneurs, founders, CEO, marketing leaders and venture capitalists. There is a lot of valuable information and insights on how those companies achieved customer and revenue growth and what marketing strategies and tactics they used to get there. I often hear that founders emphasize the importance of content marketing and SEO and how those channels played the main role in company success and growth. In one of the interviews, Eric Siu chatted with Ian Blair who is the CEO of BuildFire. BuildFire is the mobile app......
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Lead generation is the most important, and also often the most challenging aspect of any SaaS business. If you don’t generate leads, you won’t get new customers, and thus, your SaaS business won’t grow. SaaS lead generation is also quite unique due to the nature of the business: in SaaS, you are not selling any physical product, and so your audience has more time to compare your product with other alternatives online. Also, the length of the SaaS life cycle can vary a lot, some can be very short, and some can......
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Is SEO for software companies dead? On the contrary, SEO is alive and well, and more important than ever with all the changes that happened on Google and other search engines. It’s true, however, that SEO strategy for many software companies has changed dramatically since the early days of the internet and Google. With that being said, the strategy you’ve done in 2016 might not work in 2023 and onwards. Here, we will show you an effective SEO strategy for your software company in 2023, after considering all the recent changes in......
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SEO for SaaS businesses is fairly unique compared to other businesses: the sales cycle is surprisingly fast, with an average of just 40 days for SaaS products priced below $5,000. Meaning you don’t have a lot of room to nurture your prospects. The biggest challenge in SaaS marketing, however, is arguably about SaaS lead generation. SaaS SEO remains one of the most effective ways to generate more SaaS prospects, and in this guide, we will learn how. First, we will discuss the right mindset in implementing SEO for SaaS. Building 7-Figure Companies With SEO......
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What Actually is B2B SEO? Most people know that SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and most also understood the basic concept that SEO is about optimizing your website to rank higher on Google’s—and other search engines’ — SERP. However, there are still many misconceptions surrounding B2B SEO, especially regarding the technicalities and purpose. First, B2B SEO is not a secret method to cheat the search engine’s algorithm so you can rank quickly. Instead, it’s a series of optimizations so your site—and your content— aligns better with Google’s goal, which in their......
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Your startup simply won’t grow if you can’t generate new customers, period. So, without a proper customer acquisition strategy for your startup, you are going to run into various problems along the way, and it’s going to be very difficult if not downright impossible to grow your business both B2B and B2C. On the other hand, figuring out which channel is the most effective and sustainable to use in generating new customers is often the biggest challenge for any business. In this guide, we will discuss all you need to know about how......
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It’s likely that you’ve already learned how challenging it is to create a minimal viable product (MVP) for your software. You almost certainly made some errors along the way. But it’s important to keep in mind that creating an MVP is a difficult process that requires making difficult decisions and working within time and financial restrictions. Here are seven typical MVP development mistakes and steps you can take to avoid them. 1. Lack of Market Research One of the most significant mistakes that MVP developers can make is not conducting enough market......
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Building a startup company is both fun and challenging activity. There are definitely a lot of things to focus on when building a startup, from developing your products to planning a killer marketing strategy to kickstart your sales. Yet, more often than not, startups don’t recognize SEO as an important part of their early marketing strategy. There are many reasons for this: SEO is a long-term game, SEO is difficult to apply or simply not believe that SEO is a valid strategy in 2023. SEO can be a really effective way to......
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Is ranking on the first page of Google and SEO all that important for SaaS and technology companies? Wouldn’t it be easier if I just pay for ads? What’s the value, is it worth the investment and will it help increase the revenue? Those are the questions I’ve been always asked by marketing leaders, company executives, founders and investors all the time. Like it or not, the search engines and especially Google are now very important in so many aspects of our lives and when we are looking for products and services......
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Why SEO For IT and Technology Companies Is Unique? Let’s carefully consider three factors: The number of people using search engines is increasing at a rapid rate, each and every year. There are over 3.5 billion searches being made daily. The search engine results page (SERP) has significantly improved since the early days of the internet. In the past, we only get website results, but now we can get various “rich” and interactive results from featured snippets to embedded results from Google Maps, The search engines—and especially Google—is now a very important......
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