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

SaaStr

Q: When Should A Slow Growth Company Hire a Head of Sales? Typically, you have to have some kind of sales team or sales engine to run before you can hire someone to run it. Whether you’re a slow-growth company or a rocketship, a great VP of Sales will make everything a little bit better quickly. Is that a good approach?

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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Biggest Problems You Face as a Startup Founder?

SaaStr

Why do I need 50 engineers to do what 3 engineers use to do? Why does my marketing team need 15 people? You can raise ever more venture capital to fund it, or you can try to stay more capital efficient but often trade off some growth just when it’s getting going. But — The Cavalry is Coming. What do they even do?

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How to target highly competitive organic keywords: An advanced approach

Search Engine Land

Let’s say you’re working for a young, innovative CRM trying to eat into the market share of Salesforce, HubSpot, and the like. I met with the product engineers on the client’s team. Be ready to build momentum using longer-tail keywords and addressing more niche audiences that can establish a base for growth.

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Is Your SaaS Go-to-Market Strategy Tsunami-Proof?

ConversionXL

What is a sales-led go-to-market strategy? A sales-led go-to-market strategy is a growth engine that leverages a sales team to reach their target customers. Perfect for hyper-niche solutions. To put yourself on higher ground, the next best SaaS GtM is a marketing-led GtM. The marketing-led GtM strategy.

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This day in search marketing history: January 20

Search Engine Land

Former Google search chief Amit Singhal joins Uber 2017: Singhal became a senior vice president of engineering, overseeing Uber’s Maps & Marketplace departments. Report: 2014 Was A Bad Year For Lyrics Sites In Google 2015: And 2015 was looking to be even worse for this niche. billion, 26% year-on-year growth.

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3 Things We Learned Bootstrapping ClickUp to $20M ARR in the World’s Most Competitive Industry

SaaStr

We didn’t hire engineers from Google or Facebook; we hired for work ethic and growth potential. Natural Product-Market Fit creates faster and more sustainable growth than artificial. Everyone talks about Product-Market Fit; it’s the holy grail of SaaS. 5x engineers. But it worked.

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Tracking 20 years of search

Search Engine Land

I am sure you have guessed it by now, but I’m talking about Barry Schwartz and his website, Search Engine Roundtable. Search engine coverage through the years Since we had data from 2003 and a prolific poster, we thought it would be interesting to look at the topic coverage that mentioned various engines in the titles of posts ( Figure 2 ).