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What Are the Most Lucrative Ecommerce Niches in 2020?

Hubspot

In this article, we’ll look at the recent changes to the ecommerce landscape and what they mean for you as you start your online business journey or pivot into a new niche. In other words, you need to define your niche. Top Ecommerce Niches. A niche is simply a smaller and more specific subsection of a larger market.

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SaaStr on 20VC This Week: Why 40% Cloud Adoption Marks the End of Easy Growth. And Why the AI Budget War is Just Getting Started

SaaStr

. $15B software market, actual expansion is only 2-3x, not the theoretical 10x. Consolidation Wave Incoming : Mature markets consolidate. If you’re not top 2-3 in your category, prepare for acquisition, find a defensible niche, or pivot to less mature markets. The market is saturated.

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Making Marketing Training Work: Closing Skills Gaps, Proving Value

ConversionXL

In recent years, most of that money has tried to close a single marketing skills gap: digital. A Skills Gap Marketers Don’t Know They Have. The Digital Marketing Institute’s 2016 report “ Missing the Mark: The Digital Marketing Skills Gap in the USA, UK & Ireland ” lays bare marketers’ shortcomings.

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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

SaaStr

market cap – up from $2.4B at IPO 1,432+ customers paying average of $1.75M annually 7,291 employees – from 650 at IPO 20%+ growth at massive scale, highly profitable Dominant market position : 80%+ market share in life sciences CRM This represents a 29.8% Peter’s top tips and learnings: 1. ” 10.

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Should Your Free Edition … Be Even Free-er?

SaaStr

It also can create a ton of leads that sales can’t close. The marketing team often wants to limit free. If marketing has a revenue goal from self-service (and hopefully they do), they’ll often want to increase the “choke” I.e., limit how much the free product can be used, or how long.

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How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

With two caveats… They have to close a significant amount of revenue themselves. 80% of VPs of Sales today should close when they start, ideally for just a quarter or two, and then assist and join deals with the team. Venture capital is a niche niche niche asset class only designed for outliers. Sometimes, yes.

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

WebPT achieved 30% market share and transformed an entire vertical with a purpose-built solution in a tech-averse industry. Learn what it takes to create your own category, achieve scale in a niche SaaS vertical and how it requires more than just discovering an unmet need. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month.

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