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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Link building—the process of getting more high-quality backlinks— is still the most important aspect of SEO, with backlinks still being the most important ranking factor. So, link building should be a very important focus of any SEO strategy, including for startups. Link building by itself is already a very challenging process, but for startups and lesser-known websites, the challenge of getting high-quality backlinks can be multiplied: it’s obviously more difficult to outreach to authoritative sites and influencers when your brand isn’t (yet) well-known. Also, link building is a very demanding process that......
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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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There are generally three different types of how startups approached their content marketing: some thought of content marketing as secondary and so it’s not the focus of the early days of the startup. Some others, know that content marketing is important and implements it, but doesn’t really have a strategy and so it’s not fruitful. Only a select few startups properly plan their content marketing strategy, executes it well and so they can reap the long-term, sustainable benefits. In this guide, we will learn how we can become the third group. After......
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In 2020 as the start of the new decade, it is a great time for us to re-evaluate our marketing and lead generation strategies we’ve used in the past decade. As we all know, the market has rapidly changed especially in the past three years or so. Thus, it’s necessary to adapt our strategy to meet the new demands of the market. In this guide, we will discuss all you need to know about B2B lead generation in 2020. Let us begin by discussing the most important factors to consider when planning......
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Content marketing is a very important aspect of the SaaS business. In fact, in a SaaS space, probably your content is just as important as your product. So, how can we effectively implement content and inbound marketing for a SaaS business? In this guide, we will learn how. We will divide this guide into three big sections: keyword research, content development, and content promotion. All three are equally important for a successful SaaS content marketing campaign, and let us begin with the first one. Keyword Research for SaaS Business 1.......
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Marketing 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 generating leads. 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......
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With more and more people are actively using the internet nowadays (and how the number is still increasing), it’s fairly obvious that we should focus our marketing efforts online so we can effectively connect and engage with our target audience. The B2B environment has also evolved to be mostly online, and this is where B2B digital marketing comes in. Here, we will discuss all you need to know about B2B digital marketing: from its basic concept to inbound marketing to a discussion for all the different channels. By the end, you can......
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I’ve recently listed another great interview with Tim Matthews, who was a VP of marketing at Incapsula (now Imperva). Incapsula/Imperva is a cloud service that accelerates and secures websites of any kind and had $1.5 billion market capitalization at the time of the interview. Incapsula accelerates all the good content and block all the attack traffic and keep websites safe, so they can do what they’re meant to do. Tim emphasized the importance of SEO and content marketing in their customer acquisition strategy and shared some numbers they were able to achieve: Market Capitalization: $1.5 billion Protects: 5,000,000+ websites Number #1 customer acquisition channel: Content Marketing......
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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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