Welcome to The 2020 Great Big List of SaaS Stats and Benchmarks! By 2021, the global SaaS workload is poised to reach 380 million. Source: Anderson Frank 89% For 89% of SaaS businesses, new customer acquisition is the top growth activity. Source: Invesp 20% According to the SaaS sales benchmarks, software development companies with an annual […]
SaaS Content Marketing Best Practices
Read, listen and watch SaaS content marketing best practices for founders and leaders of growing technology companies. Join SaaS co-founders and operators Justin and Anna Talerico for capital-efficient sales, marketing, customer success, culture and liquidity guidance.
The Power of SaaS Storytelling Versus Storymaking
A lot of SaaS marketing is made up. The best marketing is not. And the reasons for that may be way deeper than you think. Yes, this is another post espousing the value of authenticity in SaaS marketing. But it’s much more than that. Storytelling in tech marketing is critical because what we’re marketing is […]
The Art of SaaS Marketing
Last week I wrote about the science of SaaS marketing, with particular emphasis on funnel efficacy. Today, I’ll take you through my perspective on the art of SaaS marketing, with emphasis on the intersections with the science, as well as the management of creators. This is especially relevant to content marketing — which, in SaaS, […]
SaaS Marketing eBook
Ever since ion interactive was acquired I’ve been encouraged to write about how we acquired new customers. Last week, after more than a year of that prodding, I finally got my SaaS Marketing Guide eBook out. It’s basically my idea of SaaS marketing 101 — with the concepts, assets, and channels that drive capital-efficient reach […]
When SaaS Marketing Segmentation is a Bad Idea
Everybody knows SaaS marketing segmentation is good. And everyone thinks they need to do it. It makes messages more specific. It improves relevance, which in turn accelerates lead-to-revenue velocity. I personally love segmentation and have been using it extensively in SaaS marketing for over a decade. But it’s not always a good idea. And even […]
The Great Big List of SaaS Stats and Benchmarks
Summed up quite simply by the old adage “knowledge is power”, the value of information has been reinforced time and time again. with this in mind, let’s take a journey into the wonderful world of SaaS stats and benchmarks! The median cost for a SaaS company to acquire a dollar of new customer revenue is […]
SaaS Marketing Roadmap
SaaS Marketing Roadmap for SaaS Leaders In 11+ years as a SaaS CMO, I made plenty of mistakes en route to capital efficient customer acquisition. This collection of articles was chosen to help you avoid some of those missteps and cut a short path through SaaS marketing program design, execution, and measurement. Click any article […]
SaaS Content Marketing Trio: Message, Voice, and Cadence
If you’re a brand seeking to build and sustain demand using SaaS content marketing, there’s a holy trinity you need to define first. I’m working with a software company that finds itself doing just that in advance of demand-gen campaign investments. This answers the seminal questions: What do we say? How do we say it? […]
SaaS Growth Marketing Point of View
I’m on the board of a company whose CEO just reminded me how important point of view is in SaaS growth marketing. We were chatting about his POV which led to mine. Up until then, I had long since taken it for granted. ion’s marketing point of view was incredibly strong, resilient, and long-suffering. It […]
Video: Building a Capital Efficient Content Marketing Machine
Transcript: Capital efficiency in enterprise content marketing is the result of intentional and methodical content scaling. You have to have a plan and execute against it. Hi, I’m Justin Talerico with Married2Growth and here’s some context around my recent article: Building a Capital Efficient Content Marketing Machine. First of all, scaling is not reusing. Scaling […]
