#12 - Write your SaaS Growth 📈
Growth Tip of the Week!
Ads
Starting a new SaaS? Run some ads and do market validation before you build your product. It’s a great way to save time by leveraging some funds to run your ads. Build a landing page, have a well-written copy and push it through to your target audience.
Related: How to grow your SaaS with Paid Ads? Guide (2022)
Cold Email
Cold email subject lines that are successful have close to 40% open rate and close to 20% response rate. To have a great subject line or a cold email, understand the problem of your target customer, identify your USP/value, and help them save money, make money, or save time. This is a win-win!
Content Marketing
Content marketing is technical. It's much different than writing. There are tons of metrics that can help you drive the ROI of your content marketing efforts. Monthly visits, conversions and lifetime value are some important metrics to know and track.
Related: How to do Customer Research for your SaaS Content Marketing
Community
Building a community for your SaaS has many benefits. Not just for you as a SaaS community creator with direct feedback, market awareness and problem deep-dive, but also for your community members with multiple incentives.
Related: 30 Steps to build a SaaS community from scratch
Copywriting
Looking for some more conversions for your SaaS product? While ad copy is to build awareness and content is to educate, conversion copy helps your user take action from your SaaS website/page. A pretty straightforward approach to building more conversions is to apply the rule of one.
Related: 113+ SaaS Copywriting Tips from Experts (2022)
Email Marketing
The biggest benefit of having a free trial is to capture emails from interested users. You can then schedule your email marketing efforts to convert your free users to paid users.
Related: How to grow your SaaS with email marketing (2022)?
Growth Marketing
Take a hypothetical scenario - you have 100 visitors on your SaaS website with a conversion rate of 2%. That's 2 customers. Instead of looking to grow from 100 to 200 visitors, grow your conversion rate from 2% to 4%. Once you have those 4 customers, increasing your traffic to 200 would result in 8 customers (or even more).
Related: What is growth marketing for your SaaS?
Sales
As a SaaS product, when you neglect your onboarding flow, you leave money on the table. Don't assume users will click around and figure it out. Use empty states as conversational bumpers to guide users to value. Onboarding checklists are also simple but really effective.
Related: 68+ Sales Tips for SaaS Founders to nail their initial sales
SEO
SEO falls into three main categories: OnPage SEO, Technical SEO & OffPage SEO. In the grand scheme of things, all three are equally important. However, new businesses should focus on OnPage SEO first before tackling the other two SEO methods. Keyword Research is the most important aspect is on-page SEO.
Related: What is Content Strategy in SEO for SaaS
Social Media Marketing
Target your content and communications according to where your prospect is hanging out! Most B2B folks are on LinkedIn. Inspirational and adventure SaaS products can post content on Insta. Know what works best for you, but most importantly for your customers.
Related: How does building an audience help your SaaS?
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See you next Saturday.
Ricky,