SaaS Talk with Varun Uday Varun Uday
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I discover different aspects of SaaS marketing and business with guests who have held various leadership positions in B2B SaaS firms.
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Winning as a Sales rep in 2023
This episode of SaaS Talk features Craig Davis, who's spent over a decade and a half selling software to enterprise Life Science companies worldwide.
Varun and Craig talk about what it takes to be a successful sales rep in today's market, the importance of networking, and building trust, Craig's stint in stand-up comedy, and how that has helped him become a better salesperson and more. Tune in to find out! -
ABM and Field Marketing with Nick Bennett
Varun Uday had a chat with Nick Bennett, the Director of Field and Account-Based Marketing at Alyce about the buzz surrounding ABM in SaaS.
The conversation touched upon aspects of ABM and Field Marketing such as - Targeting, Personalization, Collaborating with Sales, Events, Gifting and a whole lot more! -
Tales from a Marketer turned SaaS Founder
Swpely spent $0 on their marketing and in less than a month of their launch, have about 1000 users in their kitty!
Tech and Marketing people bring very different ideas to the table so when Jay Desai, a marketing genius launched Swpely, I just knew that I had to talk to him about it and he was kind enough to hop on to SaaS Talk!
What we spoke about:
How Jay’s audience building on LinkedIn helped him in launching Swpely
What’s Swpely and where did the idea stem from?
The research process and how he knew Swpely was it
About Swpely’s $0 marketing spend this year
How the Beta stage will affect Swpely’s product roadmap
About Swpely’s referral program that accounts for 20% of their signups. -
Everything Micro SaaS with Preetam Nath
We've all heard of SaaS. But Micro SaaS? What's that? Varun Uday uncovers the smaller world of Micro SaaS with the CEO of DelightChat, Preetam Nath.
What we spoke about:
- What is Micro SaaS and what is it not?
- How do you come up with Micro SaaS ideas?
- Is revenue generation not important here?
- What comes first? Minimum Viable Audience or Minimum Viable Product?
- How to get the first 10 customers and then moving on to 1000
- Does Micro SaaS have a glass ceiling?
- Cool Micro SaaS products out there that Preetam likes
Check out DelightChat
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Building an audience first
Audience first of product first? New age SaaS founders are finding themselves in a soup when it comes to this part. Although, after talking to many people, I’ve come to realise there’s no right way to do it. Each approach brings its own goods with it.
To find out more, I spoke to Stewart Hillhouse over the weekend about taking the audience-first approach and the merits of it.
We covered quite a lot. Let me break it down for you -
Stewart's views on building an audience first as opposed to a product
Areas to focus on while building an audience
Why do companies take this approach?
Why consistency is key
Metrics Stewart tracks as the Head of Audience Growth -
Podcasting for B2B brands
Emily Kingland, the Lead Content Writer at Sweet Fish Media talks to Varun Uday about podcasting in the B2B space and the intricacies of it.