Author: Dev Basu
Dev Basu Last updated: October 3, 2019 Hiring great marketers is almost always one of the top challenges our prospects and clients bring up in conversations with us. Over the last decade talking to SaaS companies about hiring marketers, we’ve noticed some themes that continually come up: They’d love to hire all-star talent. But people who are on that level have already started …
Dev Basu Last updated: September 20, 2019 Since the inception of Powered by Search, there is a scenario that has played out numerous times that depicts how our agency came to be horizontally focused, serving a variety of different verticals from real estate, to the financial services industry, to the SaaS and technology industry. Here’s an example of the scenario: we’d be …
Dev Basu Last updated: September 13, 2019 Google Display Network (GDN) reaches around 90% of internet users, and yet we continue to find that many SaaS companies choose not to leverage it. This is just one of several opportunities being missed that’s leading companies to hit a ceiling with their Google Ads spending. This issue has been coming up in a lot …
Dev Basu Last updated: October 3, 2019 The process of designing a SaaS website usually goes a little like this: Collect random inspiration from other SaaS websites for a mood board Ask product, engineering, customer service, and sales teams what they need Design the website by committee This lack of cohesion causes the website to become a jumbled mess — visually identical …
Dev Basu Last updated: September 13, 2019 B2B SaaS companies often approach business with the assumption that if they have an excellent product, the right audience—their ideal customers—will find them. It’s what we’ve come to think of as the Field of Dreams philosophy: If You Build It, They Will Come. Unfortunately, in marketing, as in life, things rarely pan out the way …
Dev Basu Last updated: September 13, 2019 Founders of B2B SaaS companies are uniformly concerned with optimizing what’s known as product-market fit: the ability and position of a company to serve a large market with a service that satisfies an urgently felt need or desire. Given that having a large, enthusiastic customer base, and products or services to satisfy and delight them, …
Dev Basu Last updated: September 2, 2019 Too often, B2B SaaS marketers think in terms that make it easy to forget that at the end of the day, every sale depends upon effectively addressing the specific needs of a specific person at a specific time and place. Bounce rates, page views, visits, channels—these are all well and good, worthy of careful analysis—but …
Dev Basu Last updated: September 3, 2019 At least until they reach a certain scale, B2B SaaS companies tend to be unsure of how to approach their paid marketing budget. By now, many of them are familiar with the 3:1 “Golden Ratio” for customer lifetime value (LTV) and customer acquisition cost (CAC). It’s a metric—widely attributed to Trello founder Joel Spolsky—to which …
Dev Basu Last updated: May 8, 2019 I’ve learned a lot over the last 15 years of running a consulting business. As a company, we learned many disciplines in marketing, advertising, data, and scaling, but personally, what I’ve learned the most about is how to work with people. We’ve been fortunate to work with many great people internally on our team, externally …
Dev Basu Last updated: February 25, 2013 Recently we’ve been approached by prospects who haven’t had much success with getting their first Google Reconsideration request being accepted, including one brand who had 5 consecutive requests being turned down with the following Google Webmaster Tools message: Dear site owner or webmaster of http://www.REDACTED.com/, We received a request from a site owner to reconsider …
