Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

However I've seen too many startups use the lean startup methodology as an excuse to fly by the seat of their pants and shun almost any structure to their approach to iterating, validating, and finding product/market fit. Here is what I typically capture when initially documenting a startup's product/market fit hypotheses: 1.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Like any playbook in sports, your marketing playbook is only as good as the coach who wrote it. That is why we asked some of the best SaaS marketing practitioners for their best plays with the highest win percentage. SaaS Marketing Playbook Table of Contents. SaaS Marketing Playbook Table of Contents. Content Marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. Short on time?

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 16, 2022

By Vanessa Bagnato, Director of Product Marketing, Alchemer. In December 2022, the Alchemer product team launched more improvements to Standard Reports, improved Project Folder management, and account webhook enhancements designed to give account administrators more control and improve organization.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

For this virtual panel, we’ve gathered the team that made it happen: Thomas Creighton de Farias – Senior Product Education Producer. Alex Potrivaev – Senior Product Designer. Nicole Garrison – Product Marketing Manager. Wal McConnell – Senior Product Analyst. Nicole: I’m Nicole.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2023

With outbound enterprise sales, you need to reach out to many people to get some calls. If you’re selling to developers, that’s a no-brainer, but also when you’re selling to designers, marketers, and others — they usually like to just try things out on their own, not getting on dozens of sales calls with software providers.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Whether you’re still validating your SaaS product idea or launching a new feature to an existing product line, thinking about your Go-To-Market Strategy is always relevant. In fact, iterating your strategy and improving each feature Go-To-Market plan as you grow and receive customer feedback is even more important.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The second stage is treating growth as top of funnel marketing and layering on sales to open up profitable yet harder to reach segments. Stripe hit the market with such force that they could rely on a high-velocity, bottom-up distribution engine to give them the kind of traction other startups could only dream of.

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The Product Bistro

MARCH 7, 2017

During the course of the evening, one topic we discussed was related to an article that he read that emphatically made the case that small (and some not so small) companies often look to a single leader for “Sales and Marketing.” This reminds me of the conundrum we frequently face in product management.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

While there’s merit to both product-centric and customer-centric business models, it’s impossible to fully capitalize on the customer-centric business model if you don’t have a well-defined customer value chain. Customer pain points. Decision-making. What are value chain management and mapping?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A framework for thinking about how to really engage your users and customers with your product. Takes the view that you need to build and test your traction channels in conjunction with building and testing your product fit. Product/market fit needs the product and market to fit. by Justin?—?Takes

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

As the discussion in the CPO Bootcamp continued, another participant gave the example of a product manager in his team who is really good at some parts of the job but isn’t willing to take on additional responsibilities or dwell in new types of activities?—?although My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As the team at the Saas Commerce Platform Paddle has learned, real growth is about entering new markets – and that takes thoughtful attention to pricing, making inroads into new geographic regions, deciding whether to move upmarket (or downmarket), and offering new standalone products instead of bloated features tacked onto old ones.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

And the transition is already happening, as 88% of marketers think first-party data is more important now than a couple of years ago. But since most online advice is either generic or meant for ecommerce businesses, where can you begin as a product marketer working at a SaaS? It’s evident that businesses will start using it.

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Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. CAC spectrum and how your product and product tiers need to align on this spectrum. Marketo Their market is the enterprise. I went through the ARPU ?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2024

Ben Williams’s approach to scaling product growth Ben Williams’s approach to scaling product growth is deeply rooted in product-led growth (PLG) and product-led sales (PLS). Usually, he works with B2B companies that have already achieved product-market fit and are looking to scale their operations.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

As a product manager , you must understand strategy and business, but your responsibilities as well as your day-to-day activities are focused more on execution. If it isn’t, you should recalibrate your expectations — for yourself first, and then for everyone else in the company, starting with leadership.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Product-led growth (PLG) flywheels are a framework for improving the product-led user experience by enhancing product usage instead of spending a fortune on marketing teams and sales-led growth. What is a product-led growth (PLG) funnel? What is a product-led growth (PLG) flywheel?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 20, 2018

As the co-founder of WebProfits , he’s led marketing strategy for the likes of Intuit, LinkedIn and Salesforce. You may remember him from his previous appearance on Inside Intercom, where he spoke about growth marketing for startups. Sujan: Mailshake is an outbound sales tool. For the most part, people use it for PR.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Having sharp business acumen and interest in technology-driven framing has allowed him to envision the concept of growing premium organic foods on his 100-acre farmland and create a niche market for some of the premium organic grains across India and overseas. Keep social media strategy separately from overall branding strategy.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 8, 2021

By turning your product itself into a viral sales engine, these platforms take the pressure off traditional sales and marketing departments — and, of course, their associated budgets. Unlike traditional sales or marketing, product-led growth makes your app itself into the center of your marketing activities.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

A study by HBR found that the 13 companies in the Fortune 100 that were instrumental in creating their categories accounted for 53% of incremental revenue growth and 74% of incremental market cap growth. No, 42% of startups fail because they didn’t solve a market need. Once you’ve figured that out, the software will naturally follow.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

it’s much trickier in the world of products. The roles of Product Manager, Product Marketer and Product Owner (if they all exist in your company) will all vary depending on what senior management have seen before, what other roles exist, the types of product and the size (or maturity) of the company.

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Userpilot

JULY 4, 2023

Growing your product requires tackling one of the biggest challenges, which is to cross the chasm. However, if done successfully, you’ll become the early market leader in a specific niche market before going on to dominate the mainstream market. Components of product-led growth. Book a demo now. What is the chasm?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Suddenly you could sell and market to millions of people, anywhere in the world. And with that explosion in addressable market came an explosion in customer service requests. And even when it wasn’t face-to-face, it was still personal: mostly phone calls, or letters with hand-written signatures on them.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

You can spend months working on a great idea, pour tons of time and energy into crafting the perfect marketing, but without customers your business will cease to exist. If you don’t have a product that can fit that channel, then I would recommend not leveraging that. Naturally, I went to town as a marketer. I built an audience.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 26, 2024

TL;DR Product-led growth (PLG) is a go-to-market strategy where the product is the main driver of customer acquisition , adoption, and account expansion. Our product-led growth playbook includes 11 strategies: Leverage product virality and network effects to drive organic growth. Product-led growth anatomy.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Within each product team there is a product manager, up to eight developers, quality assurance, and – where appropriate – a team-dedicated product designer. The product managers drive the team roadmaps according to set objectives aligned to company objectives, as well as the product strategy overall.

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Pragmatic Marketing

MAY 1, 2018

A majority of SaaS companies that I have built products for have brought their products to market with a sales-led, go-to-market motion. The sales reps would source new customers through outbound efforts and engaging their professional network. We invested more in marketing and reduced the size of the sales team.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Companies in the foreign exchange markets make a lot of money. Most of us have seen Pirate Metrics , Qualified Marketing Traffic, or Net Promoter Score. This makes sense when most outbound spending is through Marketing (not field sales) and we can isolate campaigns or messages or channels with enough volume to accurately compute CAC.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

How to Drive Product-Led Growth By KATHRYN SHEPHERD-KING If you’ve been in the product management world for any length of time, you’ll have probably heard about product-led growth. Product-led growth is a go-to-market strategy that relies on using your product as the primary vehicle to acquire, activate, and retain customers.

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Brian Balfour

JULY 18, 2017

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. Because they have higher ARPUs they can take advantage of higher CAC channel like Paid Marketing. Here they use mostly Content Marketing and Inside Sales.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Strategic Product Management Activities and Tips. Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. Goals are important aspects of the product strategy. Conduct market research.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The SaaS sales cycle takes 84 days on average but can be shorter (around the 40-day mark) if your product is priced below $5,000. Creating a user persona will help you target the right prospects and later use the same data to segment your in-app marketing. Let’s take a closer at each model’s unique sales process.

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Brian Balfour

JULY 12, 2017

This is part 3 in a series about the growth frameworks companies need to grow to $100M+ Part One: Introduction & Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. The Road to a $100M Company Doesn’t Start with Product. Which brings us to part three: Product Channel Fit. Network Makes Product Better. Paid Marketing.

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Aptrinsic

MARCH 19, 2018

A majority of SaaS companies that I have built products for have brought their products to market with a sales led G2M motion. The sales reps would source new customers through outbound efforts and engaging their professional network. Marketings goals were to get more customers speaking with sales reps.

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Blitzscaling: An execution framework that prioritizes speed over efficiency and allows a company to go from “Startup” to “Scaleup” at a furious pace that captures the market. Product-Market Fit: PMF is achieved when your users love your product so much they spontaneously tell other people to use it.

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