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BSMS 38 - How to employ situational awareness as a go-to-market leader
How does your company and market maturity stage affect your go-to-market?
B2B SaaS Marketing Snacks
Strategy & Planning
BSMS 37 - What demand generation channels should you start with?
Why you should (almost) always start with inbound marketing. Taken from T2D3 Office Hours.
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BSMS 36 - When and how to use an agency (or agencies), or outsource your full marketing function
Why, how, and when to outsource some or all of your marketing function.
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BSMS 35 - Getting started with SEO
Discussing how to approach SEO when you’re an early stage B2B SaaS company.
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BSMS 34 - New verticals and your go-to-market
Discussing how and when to introduce new verticals into your website, landing pages, and other assets.
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BSMS 33 - Why you should narrow your positioning
Sharing stories and wisdom about positioning and niches.
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BSMS 32 - How to manage your team's OKRs
How should you use OKRs throughout your teams?
Strategy & Planning
BSMS 31 - T2D3: How some software startups scale, where many fail
Discussing Stijn’s new book, a playbook for driving exponential growth in B2B SaaS companies.
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BSMS 30 - Why should you invest in content early
Content is king. But why? And how do you approach it?
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BSMS 29 - How to manage discounts and special terms with an empowerment matrix
How do you enable team members to give special terms to customers?
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BSMS 28 - How to manage and grow your SDR/BDR team
How do you best manage BDRs and SDRs?
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BSMS 27 - Should you ban slides for marketing reviews?
How do you present the right data for your internal meetings? The key is data.
Strategy & Planning
BSMS 26 - How to define and create your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)
An in depth and tactical discussion on all things ICP.
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BSMS 25 - Pricing and packaging your SaaS offering (Part 2)
Differences between “freemium” and “try-buy”, how to set your price, and how to approach price increases.
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BSMS 24 - Pricing and packaging your SaaS offering (Part 1)
Find out the best practices for pricing and packaging saas offerings.
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BSMS 23 - Product led growth vs. sales led growth
Hunting vs. gathering. What kind of marketing or sales does your company partake in?
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BSMS 22 - How to get your most important piece of content
What’s the most important piece of content a B2B SaaS startup should have? Testimonials.
Strategy & Planning
BSMS 21 - How to report marketing to the board of directors
Today we get deep into the subtleties of board meetings, and offer a framework for how you should leverage them as a marketing leader, founder, or...
Strategy & Planning
BSMS 20 - How much should you invest in Marketing?
How much money should early-stage B2B SaaS companies spend on marketing? It depends on four things: your product & company maturity, your market...
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BSMS 19 - What to expect from a B2B SaaS Marketing Agency
What should you expect from a B2B SaaS agency? How much should you spend on a fully outsourced marketing function? How do you hold an agency...
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BSMS 18 - The biggest early-stage marketing mistakes to avoid (Part 2)
In a continuation of the discussion from Ep. 17, we address 2 more common marketing mistakes in early stage companies: making a mess of your CRM by...
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BSMS 17: The biggest early-stage marketing mistakes to avoid (Part 1)
Part 1 of a 2 part discussion. We often see early stage B2B SaaS Companies make 5 avoidable marketing mistakes when growing. These can be easily...
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BSMS 16: How do you verify your ICP and positioning?
Continuation of Ep. 15. With your niche figured out, it’s time to use ABM to test your ICP, personas, positioning, messaging, value propositions, and...
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BSMS 15: How do you position yourself within a niche?
Continuation of Ep. 14. How do you stake a claim to your niche once you've found it? Strong positioning sometimes requires you to make a promise or...
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BSMS 14: How big (or small) should your niche be?
How big or small should your niche be? What’s the smallest viable market? ...And how should you know which segment of the market to focus on?
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BSMS 13: What to look for in your CMO (or marketing leader)
What are the indicators that someone will perform well as a marketing leader? What core competencies and strengths should you be looking for when...
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BSMS 12: Who should your first marketing hire be?
Hiring your first marketing team is daunting, especially if you don’t know what your company needs on the marketing front. There are 5 immediate...
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BSMS 11: What OKRs should your marketing team use?
Objectives and Key Results are our favorite performance management tool. We discuss some examples of short-term and long-term objectives and what...
Marketing Snacks
BSMS 10: Brand recognition, brand awareness, and brand trust defined
Brand trust is the most important aspect of a B2B SaaS startup’s brand. How is it different from brand recognition, brand awareness, and brand recall?
Marketing Snacks
BSMS 9: How to forecast revenue with CAC, ARPU, and churn
What are the different ways to calculate customer acquisition cost? How are metrics different for revenue planning and more short-term management?
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BSMS 8: What should you put on your first marketing dashboard?
What should you put on your B2B Marketing dashboard? What’s the difference between one that “checks the boxes” and one that tracks and drives...
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BSMS 7: How to run quick go to market experiments
Before you get to product-market fit, you need to test your go to market hypotheses. Here's a 5-step framework to help you execute quick GTM tests
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BSMS 6: How do you start with B2B content marketing?
Our simple rules for getting started with B2B content. Don't overthink it – start by simply answering questions for your customers, then work your...
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BSMS 5: When's the time to invest in marketing? Hint: at PMF
When should we seriously invest in marketing? As soon as you have product-market fit. In this episode, we go over the frameworks we use to determine...
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BSMS 4: Why are CMOs fired more than any other executive?
Why do CMOs get fired faster than any other leadership role in the C-Suite? What leads to poor performance for marketing leaders?
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BSMS 3: What changes from SMB to Enterprise? How do you move upmarket?
How do I move my software product upmarket? You need to understand the differences between your current customer base and the one you want to have.
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BSMS 2: What are your marketing priorities?
How do you prioritize your B2B marketing initiatives? First, do a gut check – what's the status of your current marketing function? Then, ask how to...