When looking at your Marketing Dashboard, you know the various lead sources are not easy to compare like apples to ...
07 Sep, 2019
Marketing to your existing Customer Base is critical. It’s probably the most important Marketing Campaign you should ...
28 Aug, 2019
While the popular “unlimited PTO” policy that’s often employed in startups has many benefits to the employer, the ...
20 Aug, 2019
When should opportunities and leads go back into the nurture pool and get a new owner? How long do you think someone ...
13 Aug, 2019
Anytime. Yes that’s right. Because it never hurts to ask. In my experience, most B2B SaaS Companies are far to ...
11 Aug, 2019
The following exercise involves four simple steps, and uses a Trello board to help your team and you figure out your ...
10 Aug, 2019
Here is a list of sites that offer rich, creative, completely copyright-free photos that can be used in blog posts, ...
09 Aug, 2019
A basic B2B SaaS go-to-market approach For B2B SaaS companies that are ready to scale and jumpstart their growth, ...
08 Aug, 2019
Your Testimonial and Quote “one-liner” Database. Start building one now if you don’t have one yet. Ideally this is ...
08 Aug, 2019
After you’ve completed your first Customer Testimonial Interviews, and surveyed your internal team to get their take on ...
07 Aug, 2019
When I work with a B2B SaaS Company, we always need to build a team of contributing writers. I like to start with the ...
06 Aug, 2019
To start a planning session to optimize pricing, drive ARPU expansion, or do product roadmap planning, one of the best ...
05 Aug, 2019
Getting meaningful compensation data for the Chief Marketing Officer for a SaaS Company is hard. Executive pay is ...
04 Aug, 2019
A marketing campaign can be an email newsletter, an event invitation, or a product launch. A complete “campaign” really ...
03 Aug, 2019
Offering your prospects a Trial/Buy option does not have to conflict with a Freemium/Premium model. It can get ...
02 Aug, 2019
Are you a daisy or an orchid? Both are great. But you can’t be both. When assessing the competitive playing field of ...
01 Aug, 2019
Company values are critical to build a sustainable brand. Company brand values need to be clear, constantly repeated ...
31 Jul, 2019
This is an example of a great tool that you can find in the "Growth Gears" book by Art Saxby and Pete Hayes. It's a ...
30 Jul, 2019
A common question that pops up for B2B SaaS Marketing VPs is what are "good conversion rates" for the various stages of ...
29 Jul, 2019
This is a survey example that I often use when I start work with a new B2B SaaS Marketing team. It quickly helps get ...
28 Jul, 2019
Prices for SaaS CRM Solutions are all over the place. I'm not attempting to compare these solutions by quality or fit, ...
27 Jul, 2019
How do you create great Facebook ad campaigns? How do you reach your Ideal Customer Profile and generate the best leads ...
26 Jul, 2019
What percentage of net new opportunities should come from marketing activities? And how much should come from sales? ...
24 Jul, 2019
A great supplement to any inbound or outbound marketing campaign is a good product demo. This piece of content is not ...
24 Jul, 2019
When I worked with Olin Hyde and his team at LeadCrunch, we went deep into the questions: What's it for? Who's it for? ...
23 Jul, 2019
Here are eight boxes to check when planning a PR event for a SaaS Product. Make sure you check them all to have maximum ...
22 Jul, 2019
Marketing is the new Sales, Sales is the new Customer Service team, and the Support team is where brands are built (or ...
21 Jul, 2019
Microsoft is doing some (literally) cool work testing data centers on the ocean floor. While this might be adding to ...
20 Jul, 2019
Annual price increases Most companies I work with are uncomfortable raising prices. When they do, they’re often ...
19 Jul, 2019
Reach - Get more partners to be actively selling your service Build a "to-partner" marketing program with a value ...
18 Jul, 2019
When creating your content calendar, three types of content are key: Wow - Content changes the conversation. It opens a ...
17 Jul, 2019
The key first steps to improve demand generation are all about funnel quality. Walk your way back with the end in mind, ...
16 Jul, 2019
You can find multiple articles on this blog about the different aspects of creating, optimizing and evolving your ...
15 Jul, 2019
Market Segmentation for Software Companies SaaS Chief Marketing Officers and VPs of Marketing have to use the correct ...
14 Jul, 2019
In this quick video with one of my colleagues, Ed Valdez, I walk through the template B2B Marketing plan for SaaS that ...
13 Jul, 2019
3 SaaS KPIs The three SaaS KPIs Churn, ARPU, and CAC are relatively straightforward to optimize by themselves. Doing ...
12 Jul, 2019
In working with tens of B2B SaaS companies the past years, I've found a pattern in how the B2B SaaS Marketing function ...
11 Jul, 2019
After I hit 10,000 LinkedIn connections, I felt I should do some major work “pruning” this vary valuable tree of ...
10 Jul, 2019
Gaining clarity around company vision, while driving the execution of business and marketing initiatives with precision ...
09 Jul, 2019
While the pace can differ, the sequence of major milestones in the SaaS Growth Journey is always going to be same. ...
08 Jul, 2019
The approach to each email subject line, a page title or ad headline, there are good excuses to use a growth hack. If ...
07 Jul, 2019
Most teams we work with use a Quarterly Based priority system. If they don't we will recommend they start using one. We ...
06 Jul, 2019
Self-Service (zero-touch) Can customers determine what they need by themselves, supported by the right content? If you ...
06 Jul, 2019
With the 4th of July behind us, it should start clearing up soon. We are ready for the underappreciated, fantastic ...
05 Jul, 2019
Most unsolicited emails, calls or knocks on your front door are intrusive, bad for your brand, and just not effective. ...
05 Jul, 2019
How do you get an advisor to really work hard to help you get funded? What's fair compensation for that effort? What if ...
04 Jul, 2019
Marketing is expected to drive measurable outcomes. Your team should try to keep the amount of time spend on ...
03 Jul, 2019
Here is an email you can send to candidates that you have selected based on their profile (resume), work portfolio and ...
02 Jul, 2019
For many B2B SaaS companies with revenues below $20M ARR, HubSpot provides a great, complete toolset for Marketing, but ...
01 Jul, 2019
You can outsource many day-to-day marketing tasks to a Virtual Assistant, or better, a human-powered by AI (see an ...
30 Jun, 2019
When you don't complete step 2 of the sequential process laid out in the Billy Bookcase instructions from IKEA, or if ...
29 Jun, 2019
When you want to get your Marketing Dashboard out of spreadsheets, it helps to adhere to a few simple rules. Here is my ...
28 Jun, 2019
Before you can succeed in creating your positioning, messaging, branding and marketing execution, you need to establish ...
27 Jun, 2019
If you spend your hard earned marketing $ on paid clicks, make sure to drive these three outcomes: A conversion - ...
26 Jun, 2019
Building your own Content Marketing team to rely on is strategic for any Marketing function to scale. You need people ...
25 Jun, 2019
B2B SaaS Companies go through some significant changes as they evolve from an Idea and MVP through Product-Market Fit ...
20 Jun, 2019
Get a Seed Keyword that is NOT generated by a tool. Step in the shoes of your customer and really think about what the ...
20 Jun, 2019
Check out my article on the Chief Outsiders page re the tenure of CMOs in SaaS technology companies. It's an ...
18 Jun, 2019
When you have resorted to paying for leads, clicks, ads or other ways to buy the first stage of your marketing funnel, ...
17 Jun, 2019
Eric Hoffer (25 July 1902 – 21 May 1983) had a great talent for writing short books, with a higher “density” of new ...
14 Jun, 2019
What happened to the 4-5 P's of marketing? Looking at many examples of modern T-Shaped marketing job descriptions, ...
13 Jun, 2019
Don't start by using a tool. Not yet. Most tools are based on Google data. Google is not always going to give you the ...
12 Jun, 2019
AI-driven Marketing Steam Electricity Computing Intelligence The innovation of how we get things done in the world has ...
11 Jun, 2019
Pivot When I arrived in 2014 the company sold a traditional Windows Server-based contact center solution (and ...
10 Jun, 2019
When you’re building a fast growing software company, you need to ship two things to fuel everything else. Code that ...
08 Jun, 2019
What should be on your marketing dashboard? Here are the easy to track, and most important metrics that should form ...
07 Jun, 2019
In my constant journey to scale the marketing teams I work with, tools like AI and Automation, and the ability to ...
06 Jun, 2019
Marketing Intern Your first Marketing Intern is a critical hire. While the work they will end up doing does not require ...
05 Jun, 2019
These are some "proven" Interview Questions to use for Case Study/Testimonial interview. This approach will help ...
04 Jun, 2019
How do you strike the balance between the short-term marketing tactics that have a very quick return – but are also ...
03 Jun, 2019
Many companies I work with struggle creating content that get’s clicked on, or converts. A great simple exercise to get ...
01 Jun, 2019
In the past 20 years I’ve worked as a sales manager leading a $100M+ sales team at Microsoft in the Netherlands, and in ...
31 May, 2019
What would you change about our website? (this gets to positioning, messaging, audience engagement, demand gen and PR) ...
30 May, 2019
The marketing and sales funnel often can look very complex. If you just focus on answering these 6 questions when you ...
29 May, 2019
This is a quote by Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer that I often use when working with new B2B SaaS Marketing teams. Sell ...
28 May, 2019
When you invest in Pay-Per-Click Advertising, on Google (Adwords), Bing or Social media like Facebook, Twitter, and ...
27 May, 2019
It’s tempting to aspire to being a “Platform” solution when you are a software company. A platform comes with many ...
24 May, 2019
What are the essential readings for a SaaS CMO? There are multiple marketing disciplines that will cross the path of a ...
23 May, 2019
This role owns the 5p's of Marketing on the team (Positioning, Price, Place, Promotion, People). With the rise of the ...
22 May, 2019
5 rules to share a price increase Provide your clients a choice. Always. For example to lock in their current price ...
21 May, 2019
In the early days, software industry used to be an easy business; build something that solves customer problems, and ...
20 May, 2019
How you treat your first few customers is often the difference between success and failure for new technology ...
20 May, 2019
Shipping. Every Day. Delivering constant value for your customers. Especially since they pay you every month again and ...
17 May, 2019
Clients often ask me what a typical day (or better, week) looks like when I manage their marketing team as a "Shared" ...
16 May, 2019
While a focus on getting more Facebook friends, retweets or LinkedIn followers is not bad per se, it does not really ...
15 May, 2019
Most Marketing Leaders I work with outsource (part of) their digital advertising execution. Here are a few questions to ...
14 May, 2019
If you read this, you maybe are subscribed to my weekly SaaS CMO newsletter, and are aware that I write a small SaaS ...
13 May, 2019
Be extremely clear about what you think is most valuable when you sell your company. It can’t be everything. You have ...
10 May, 2019
Content needs to support every stage of your funnel. It helps educate your prospects, and help them make decisions. ...
09 May, 2019
A few days ago I was cleaning out my car and I found a Costco Cash Reward certificate for $1.68. It had been in my car ...
07 May, 2019
This study identifies seven blind spots evident among private equity firms seeking portfolio company growth. Conducted ...
06 May, 2019
When Don Peppers and Martha Rogers published their revolutionary book in 1994, The One to One Future, they probably ...
03 May, 2019
As a B2B Marketer, you're still marketing to individuals. Key to great B2B Marketing messaging is to understand that ...
02 May, 2019
SaaS Companies are under pressure to employ go-to-market tactics that drive quick results – but after the smoke clears, ...
01 May, 2019
A lead magnet is basically content that is so timely and relevant to where your audience is in their buyer's journey, ...
29 Apr, 2019
Most companies start with a pricing strategy that is a combination of Cost-Based Pricing and Market-Based Pricing. ...
26 Apr, 2019
Do you get emails from Content Marketing agencies that want to help you with their superpowers? While I recommend you ...
25 Apr, 2019
When you sell your SaaS Offering in a Try/Buy model, picking the right length of the trial period is key. The goal of a ...
24 Apr, 2019
Here's a template to let your team (or your bot) do your first competitive market research. Capture all answers below ...
22 Apr, 2019
When you hire your first Marketing Intern or Junior Employee, here is a list of tools and training to help them get ...
21 Apr, 2019
As most of you know, Google decides early in the lifecycle of content whether it’s worth ranking it higher. After it ...
19 Apr, 2019
If an unknown author writes their first great book, chances are their book lands in the back of the bookstore, unless ...
17 Apr, 2019
Many SaaS Startups are pretty good at getting their first website up, register domain names and picking a logo. They ...
15 Apr, 2019
Creating and maintaining an up-to-date SaaS KPI Dashboard is not the favorite task for most team members. If you do it, ...
12 Apr, 2019
The best way to address churn is to focus on creating what some of us call "Engaged Advocates". Here are some metrics ...
10 Apr, 2019
Olin Hyde, the CEO of Leadcrunch, sat down with our team and told the great story of how his company ran from seed to ...
08 Apr, 2019
You're getting some traffic to your site. Your emails are getting opened. Now you have to make sure you convert people ...
05 Apr, 2019
When a small software company starts to get their story straight, the foundation is going to make all the different. ...
04 Apr, 2019
Consultative Selling has become a bit outdated. Younger generations of buyers expect a seller to add more value earlier ...
03 Apr, 2019
Articulate the use case that defines the ideal prospect who values our solution? What changes do prospects communicate ...
01 Apr, 2019
CRM became mainstream in the late nineties. Siebel was the go-to tool for most big companies. I still have my expensive ...
30 Mar, 2019
You can price based on cost (of service), value delivered or what the market bears. Here is an easy model that I ...
29 Mar, 2019
Most SaaS Marketing Leaders understand the concept of having multiple price levels, made up of heroes, anchors, and ...
27 Mar, 2019
Pricing SaaS Software Developing your pricing strategy for SaaS is one of the most strategic activities of the SaaS ...
25 Mar, 2019
When I work with a B2B SaaS Company, we always need to build a team of contributing writers. I like to start with the ...
22 Mar, 2019
When you write a blog, an email or ad copy, some rules are not hard to follow and can make a difference. As a terrible ...
20 Mar, 2019
Content Marketer Is a copywriter at her core. Understands her audience. Values content quality over quantity. Supports ...
18 Mar, 2019
Many SaaS CMO (SaaS Chief Marketing Officers) I meet ask me to share the various templates I use to build B2B SaaS ...
15 Mar, 2019
What's today's definition of Product Market Fit (PMF)? Here's my take using 10 simple milestones to measure progress ...
13 Mar, 2019
Great question. It’s actually amazing how cheap things can be in the first month when you do things right. ...
11 Mar, 2019
The Paradox of Life My son once told me the story about an interesting paradox we all run into as go through the three ...
08 Mar, 2019
When you have gotten people’s attention, and they landed on your blog or landing page, it’s critical to engage them to ...
06 Mar, 2019
Tools, data, analytics, dashboards, planning, web developer. Marketing automation. A/B tester. A competitive edge is a ...
04 Mar, 2019
Pricing a SaaS Service is not very different from anything other Software Pricing Strategy. While you want to keep ...
01 Mar, 2019
You need customers who PAY and STAY. Getting to MVP (Minimal Viable Product") is an important milestone. But you’re not ...
27 Feb, 2019
One of the key roles to hire early for your B2B SaaS Company is the person to drive Product training- & content. You ...
25 Feb, 2019
A good Marketing Messaging Framework or B2B Audiences resonates at two levels. You need to connect with the business ...
22 Feb, 2019
In the first week of most engagements I do with SaaS Company CEOs, the inevitable question comes up: What to budget for ...
21 Feb, 2019
Download this Google Template Editorial Calendar for your blog and other articles. It's easy to use this as a team to ...
20 Feb, 2019
The world looks to our business and what we have to offer through a digital filter. For the average SaaS Company, ...
18 Feb, 2019
Many dashboards are not very useful. They get outdated, have information that is misunderstood, lack good benchmarks or ...
15 Feb, 2019
When hiring your first Marketing team you need a certain set of basic capabilities to get going. Writing is always my ...
13 Feb, 2019
It does not really matter if you need to generate ideas for blog articles, product names or your next startup endeavor. ...
11 Feb, 2019
Many Marketers focus on Incentives first. Incentives are important. Friction reduction has far more impact though. And ...
08 Feb, 2019
Google Webmaster Tools - This allows you as the owner of your website to see the site the same way the google crawler ...
06 Feb, 2019
You are looking for a Marketing Automation System. Here you will find a price comparison of some of the options out ...
05 Feb, 2019
There are two ways to send automated emails to your suspects, prospects and customers. So called transactional emails ...
04 Feb, 2019
Do you have a product road-map for your SaaS Service? You should. And if you’re expecting your customers to pay you an ...
03 Feb, 2019
When starting your competitive research, the first order of business is creating a list of your competitors. Since this ...
01 Feb, 2019
Don't overthink your initial branding needs. Keep it simple. Simple colors, simple shapes. Why? Because it has to be ...
30 Jan, 2019
Every company can benefit from thorough Competitive Research. Ideally, you collect enough information to be able to ...
28 Jan, 2019
Getting high-quality demand generation from content and organic search optimization is no longer a volume game. It's ...
25 Jan, 2019
Creating the first batch of content to fuel your marketing programs is actually not that hard. The main challenge is to ...
23 Jan, 2019
Content Marketing is not easy to commit to, master, scale or even start with. To build a scalable demand gen engine, ...
21 Jan, 2019
How to best get ready for your first pitch? What content to put in your pitch deck? How to craft your story? These are ...
18 Jan, 2019
Are you a software company? Or are you (at risk of) becoming a professional services company? Is your Customer Success ...
16 Jan, 2019
Once your startup has passed Series A territory, you're expected to grow your ARR at 2-3x rate per year. The term T2D3 ...
14 Jan, 2019
Most marketing professionals know their 4 or 5 P’s: Product (Positioning, “What’s it for?”) Price (Pricing psychology, ...
13 Jan, 2019
We are a group of Marketing Professionals solely focused on small- and midsize B2B SaaS Companies. What’s your niche? ...
12 Jan, 2019
Before we start generating more demand we need to make sure we are ready to receive our clients and give them what they ...
09 Jan, 2019
You’re a startup or a software company. You want to sell your product or service through partners. You want resellers ...
07 Jan, 2019
A big decision early in the lifecycle of a B2B SaaS Company is the technology, domain and infrastructure to host your ...
05 Jan, 2019
The best way to scale your hiring in both volume and quality is to create a solid mini-project ("prompt") to allow ...
04 Jan, 2019
When you get your first large customer(s), or you are trying to get that first win in a certain market segment ...
30 Dec, 2018
Before targeting a vertical audience, a group of customers or prospects that have a need for the product and are pretty ...
24 Dec, 2018
Why should your SaaS business consider a Channel model? Access to a market? Complete your solution? Increase the ROI of ...
24 Dec, 2018
If you don't have the resources to do extensive competitive research, just ask your team three basic questions: What ...
21 Dec, 2018
When reviewing the health of a SaaS Company, you need to understand to learn two things: What is the quality of the ...
08 Dec, 2018
As SaaS companies grow from start-up to scale-up mode there’s substantial emphasis on sales and operational excellence, ...
05 Dec, 2018
Stop, Start, Continue is a method that's often used to prioritize. It helps reflect on what's working, and what to ...
03 Dec, 2018
Transactional emails. Every time I meet for the first time with a SaaS Company, I ask a list of questions to see where ...
04 Jun, 2018
Great Content Marketing requires three things to succeed. Wow, How and Now. People have to know about it. They need to ...
25 May, 2018
Forget about stuffing a Power point presentation with everything your little startup has accomplished in the first few ...
07 Feb, 2015
We win and we want more. We lose and we want to win it back. That's how we lose it all. What’s driving your investment ...
29 Jan, 2015
The phrase “eat your own dog food” was popularized by Microsoft in the 80's, meaning that if you believe your product ...
27 Jan, 2015
When used in the business world, an “ecosystem” is a community of companies and their resources interacting as a ...
22 Jan, 2015
I’d like to share my thoughts on how this plays out for software startups. How do you address the “hire or 1099” ...
21 Jan, 2015
Let's talk assets. Truly, what greater asset does a growing company have than it's customers. Especially customers who ...
10 Jan, 2015
It's not easy to turn old-style outbound marketers that drive noisy campaigns into inbound digital marketers who ...
07 Jan, 2015
When looking back at 2014, many trends will have big impact on Software Marketing. For example the fact that People ...
31 Dec, 2014
A long, long time ago, in the land of Marketing, there were things every marketer did, and they worked great. Many ...
29 Dec, 2014
I don’t mean keeping your investors close like keeping your enemies close. No. What I mean is, keep your investors ...
21 Dec, 2014
We’ve all heard numerous guidelines on how to come up with successful blog headlines that will be crawled by Google ...
17 Dec, 2014
Many companies nowadays understand that great marketing is to create great content that is interesting to your ...
15 Dec, 2014
Do you like waking up to your neighbor leaning out of her kitchen window and banging pots and pans at 2 a.m. for no ...
09 Dec, 2014
There are tons of people out there who want to buy your product, if only you make it easy for them. It’s mind-boggling ...
06 Dec, 2014
Does your homepage get the most of your website traffic? Great. But did you know that it's not necessarily a good ...
02 Dec, 2014
As a small company just starting out you don’t have any brand equity yet. Nobody knows about you. How do you become ...
11 Nov, 2014
Content is everything. Without content you're nothing. Yes, you can still produce stuff and sell stuff, but companies ...
06 Nov, 2014
Everything you publish must be as actionable as possible. Write your content for the right persona and address either ...
31 Oct, 2014
It happens almost all the time. I’m interviewing someone for a marketing position. And within the first 10 minutes, he ...
29 Oct, 2014
You’re onboard a landing craft that is your lean startup. You have no time to get stuck on the beach or wait for ...
24 Oct, 2014
This post discusses the drawbacks of something that is very accepted amongst marketing professionals. Cheating. Using ...
15 Oct, 2014
What’s in a name?” Indeed, what is? Everything. There is nothing more important than naming your company right, and yet ...
10 Oct, 2014
Remember we talked about your company’s reputation and going to parties? In a way this post is a follow-up to that idea ...
26 Sep, 2014
Yes, you have read this right. Demand generation is dead. Shocking, isn't it? Welcome the need for customer empathy. ...
24 Sep, 2014
Imagine you're driving a car. How do you spend your time? You balance it between watching the street, glancing at the ...
22 Sep, 2014
Let’s say you’re invited to an important party, and let's say you don't know anyone there except the host. You will ...
21 Sep, 2014
Day in and day out you're inundated with routine tasks. And they're important tasks, don't get me wrong. You need to ...
20 Sep, 2014
In the beginning there was nothing, then you came along, as did all kinds of other startups, all fighting for a place ...
19 Sep, 2014
YOUNG PEOPLE ARE NOT LAZY. The Boomerang Generation is not afraid to add value, as long as they can learn. They prize ...
18 Sep, 2014
Let’s take a look at your customer. No matter what line of business you’re in, hand-knit six-toed socks for six-toed ...
16 Sep, 2014
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