Articles by Marc Thomas
The 3×10 Method: How to Improve Marketing ROI 89% Without Spending More
Updated: May 3rd, 2023
Most B2B SaaS marketers are dealing with companies where the economic outlook is uncertain and they are being asked to achieve the same pipeline goals or improve marketing ROI but…
Self-reported attribution doesn’t work. You need an attribution narrative instead.
Updated: September 9th, 2022
Many SaaS companies struggle with attributing the results they get to the marketing investments they make. A common scenario is that they’re paying a lot for qualified leads on a…
Boring, unsexy, incredibly effective: How to improve your SaaS landing page conversion rate
Updated: August 6th, 2024
When we start working with SaaS companies, it’s not uncommon for us to find that their landing pages have extremely poor landing page conversion rates. Sometimes, these are as low…
SaaS Research: ‘Talk to customers’ is good advice but it’s not enough
Updated: October 3rd, 2023
SaaS research is one of the most neglected opportunities for marketers. Most SaaS companies can appreciate that understanding their customers helps them provide a better product and service. But actually…
How we run PPC for developer focused SaaS products
Updated: May 30th, 2022
Marketing to the developer community is a notoriously difficult task for B2B SaaS companies. Some of the biggest challenges include choosing the right channels to reach them, since they aren’t as active in common social media platforms such as Facebook or LinkedIn (opting to spend more of their time on platforms such as StackOverflow and Reddit).
The Lead Waterfall: How to measure your pace to goals (and what to do when it’s going wrong)
Updated: January 19th, 2024
Planning and forecasting are a big part of SaaS marketing, and it’s vital to look ahead and build a strategy that gives you the best chance of achieving your growth…
B2B SaaS Marketing in a recession: How to make investments when the economy is rough
Updated: October 27th, 2023
Over the past few years valuations have been rising, investment rounds have been raised hastily and B2B SaaS companies have mostly been in hypergrowth mode. Many companies have already started…
How enterprise SaaS can pivot from a sales-led go-to-market to product-led GTM
Updated: April 4th, 2022
Enterprise level SaaS companies with sales-led go-to-market functions sometimes ask us how they can change their go-to-market strategy to be product-led. They’ve heard of enterprise businesses like Adobe and Heroku…
How to make the migration to Google Analytics 4 a competitive advantage for your SaaS
Updated: July 10th, 2023
Google Analytics is changing: universal analytics (UA) is going away and is being replaced by Google Analytics 4 (GA4). GA4 represents a totally new way of thinking about analytics for…
Updated: December 20th, 2021
It’s extremely difficult to speak to everyone at once — but that’s what a lot of B2B SaaS companies try to do when they have multiple customer profiles. As a…
How to Diagnose a Sudden Drop in Leads in B2B SaaS
Updated: September 1st, 2021
July 2021 was one of the worst months in recent memory for B2B SaaS marketers. Almost everyone in my network was sharing horror stories about sudden drops in leads. It…
How Rand Fishkin is changing the way he builds companies
Updated: August 25th, 2021
Most people in marketing know the name Rand Fishkin, but like all people in the public eye. There’s a lot more to Rand the person than they think. Rand was…