15 episodes

'The SaaS Growth Show ' is your weekly dose of inspiration from the movers & shakers in the SaaS eco-system be it entrepreneurs, founders, business leaders, marketers, product & tech innovators, mentors or investors who share their path breaking stories, strategies, insights, growth hacks, smart pivots and out-of-the-box ideas that have shaped the industry. So, keep listening, keep learning and keep getting inspired.

The SaaS Growth Show Raj Swaminathan

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'The SaaS Growth Show ' is your weekly dose of inspiration from the movers & shakers in the SaaS eco-system be it entrepreneurs, founders, business leaders, marketers, product & tech innovators, mentors or investors who share their path breaking stories, strategies, insights, growth hacks, smart pivots and out-of-the-box ideas that have shaped the industry. So, keep listening, keep learning and keep getting inspired.

    Personalise or Perish - How SaaS Marketers Can Leverage Hyper-Personalisation As A Growth Engine

    Personalise or Perish - How SaaS Marketers Can Leverage Hyper-Personalisation As A Growth Engine

    Personalise or Perish - How SaaS Marketers Can Leverage Hyper-Personalisation As A Growth Engine

    Guest: Ashwin K - Co-Founder & CEO, CustomFit.ai

    What You Can Expect From The Episode:

    1. Hyper-personalisation & how to overcome the challenge to convert traffic into quality leads 

    2. Experiments (vs) Experience - How Not To Confuse A/B Testing with Personalisation

    3. Personalisation is not a "Stage" - Its a "Cycle" with feedback loop - Understanding Pre, During & Post Personalisation

    4. Importance of Personalisation During Leads "Nurturing" - Why & How?

    5. Goal Based Personalisation - Not Necessarily Just "Conversions" It Could Be "Engagement" or Any Other Too - Know More!

    6. Personalisation is "Customisation Of User Journeys @ Scale" - How To Simulate & Orchestrate?

    7. Personalisation Can Best Happen 2 Scenarios - Pages With Best Traffic (or) Pages With High Dropouts - How To Identify & Take Action? 

    8. Personalisation is Not Just About Landing Pages (LPs) - Its The Overall Experience At All Web Touch Points

    9. Behavioural Analytics & How Real-time Personalisation Can Be Done

    10. Readiness For The Cookieless World - 1st Party (vs) 3rd Party Data - Impact & Preparation

    11. Personalisation For "Buyer" (vs) "User" Personas - How To Nail It ?

    12. How AI & ML Adds To The Magic ? 

    13. Global Trends - Content Personalisation, Sentiment & Tonality Analysis and About Open AI, GB53/54, IBM Watson.

    14. CustomFIT USPs, Playbooks & Use Cases To Learn From 

    • 49 min
    Playbook Series: Branding (vs) Performance Marketing - Siddharth Sharma, Head Marketing, Verloop.io

    Playbook Series: Branding (vs) Performance Marketing - Siddharth Sharma, Head Marketing, Verloop.io

    Playbook Series: Branding (vs) Performance Marketing - The Fine Balancing Act!

    Guest: Siddharth Sharma, Head Marketing, Verloop.io

    Key Takeaways From This Episode:

    1. Importance & Balance Between - Branding (vs) Performance Marketing - A Perspective In The B2B / SaaS Context

    2. With Performance At The Core, Is Branding Gettting Its Due? Should & Are Leaders Investing Time, Money & Efforts To Build a Brand Rightly?

    3. How Does The Mix Change With Stage Of The Business? Distribution Of Weightage At Various Stages?

    4. Alignment Of The Branding & Performance Objectives With The Goals & KPIs For Organic & Inorganic Spends?

    5. The Choice Of Channels & Mix For Both Aspects And How Each Can Be Leveraged. Campaign (Vs) Channel Objectives.

    6. The Difference As Far As Branding & Performance Marketing When Compared With B2C? What Can Be Learnt From B2C (Non-SaaS) & B2C (SaaS

    7. SaaS Is Service Marketing EOD. Is That Getting Lost In Between All Other Debates?

    8. Retention Is The New Acquisition - Role Of Branding In Retention.

    9. Macro-Metrics To Track Branding & Performance Goals

    • 38 min
    How Collaboration SaaS Platform STACKBY Is Helping Teams & Organisations Manage Projects, Products & Processes Through Their "Super Spreadsheets"

    How Collaboration SaaS Platform STACKBY Is Helping Teams & Organisations Manage Projects, Products & Processes Through Their "Super Spreadsheets"

    How STACKBY's Super Spreadsheets Are Taking Over The Sweet Spot Between Google Sheets & Full Fledged CRM Platforms Helping Team Leaders & StartUp Founders Manage Tasks & Teams Efficiently & Affordably.  

    Guest: Rachit Khator, Founder & Chief Stacker, StackBy 

    For More Info, Visit: www.stackby.com  

    Key Takeaways From This Episode:  

    1. How Can Startups & Teams Collaborate Without Having To Buy a CRM?  

    2. How Can Spreadsheets Be Automated For Projects, Product and Process Management?  

    3. How Can Sales Leaders Manage & Monitor Their Sales Teams, Pipeline, Deals & Revenues Easily Without Any CRM?  

    4. How Can Marketing & Digital Marketing Heads Manage Multiple Media Channels - Search, Social, Content, Video, Email Marketing & Same Time Monitor Various 3rd Party Analytics Over The Same Spreadsheet?  

    5. How 100s Carefully Curated Spreadsheet Templates & 40+ Third Party Platform Integrations Could Help Set Up Your Custom CRM in a jiffy?  

    6. How Digital Advertising Agencies Can Manage, Collaborate and Co-Ordinate Between Clients, Vendors & Own Teams Seamlessly Through Custom Built & Automated Spreadsheets Compatible With All Top Analytics Platforms?

    • 33 min
    SaaS Insider India 2020 Conference - Curtain Raiser

    SaaS Insider India 2020 Conference - Curtain Raiser

    The SaaS Growth Show Presents An Exclusive Curtain Raiser To The SaaS Insider - India 2020

    👉 40 Speakers
    👉 30 Sessions
    👉 20 Hours

    Of exciting content from the creme-de-la-creme of the Indian SaaS Eco-System. Know more about the event, and what it holds for you from none other than Chameli Kuduva, Founder of SaaS Insider !

    Join us for an all-day exclusive event, wherein we host India's biggest B2B Software Conference till date, on the 5th of November, 2020!

    • 12 min
    Freshworks For StartUps' Magic Mantras: 'Paying It Forward' & 'Growing With Your Customers'

    Freshworks For StartUps' Magic Mantras: 'Paying It Forward' & 'Growing With Your Customers'

    The SaaS Growth Show - Episode 009

    Freshworks For StartUps' Magic Mantras: 'Paying It Forward' & 'Growing With Your Customers'.

    Against All Odds StartUp Summit - A virtual event par excellence, setting new benchmarks for SaaS marketers

    Guest: Nivas Ravichandran, Head - Growth & StartUp Partnerships, Freshworks

    Key Takeaways To Expect From The Episode:

    1. No branding or marketing can ever beat the power of "paying it forward" & 'growing with your customers' - Know more!

    2. What Paying it forward truly means? - Knowledge sessions, sharing playbooks, mentorship, helping product adoption & grow customers, connect to VCs, product & marketplace integrations - in every way!

    3. Content Or Events It Must Be Ungated & Open - No conditions attached, no lead magnets, no lead generation, No product pushes, No sales pitches. Keep it all open & ungated. Intent is to help without any expectations.

    4. A Great Virtual Event Playbook - How to curate, plan & execute a large scale multi-geo virtual event totally in-house with a small team & lot of great technology:

    - Pre-Recorded (vs) Live ?
    - Beyond Content What ?
    - Curated (vs) Open To All ?
    - VC Connect, Networking Formats
    - Manage Scale, Geos, Timezones

    5. Magical Results

    • 36 min
    SaaS Playbook Series: ChallengeS Of Marketing Enterprise Grade SaaS Platforms - Strategy, Approach, Channels, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Branding & more (Episode 009)

    SaaS Playbook Series: ChallengeS Of Marketing Enterprise Grade SaaS Platforms - Strategy, Approach, Channels, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Branding & more (Episode 009)

    The SaaS Growth Show - Episode 009:  

    SaaS Playbook Series: Taking On The ChallengeS Of Marketing Enterprise Grade SaaS Platforms - Strategy, Approach, Channels, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Branding & more !  

    Guest: Ashwin Krishna, Head Of Growth Marketing, TACT.ai  

    10 Key Takeaways You Can Expect From This Episode:  

    1. The Difference In Approaches To Marketing For Small, Medium and Enterprise SaaS Businesses - Approach, Channels, Priorities, Marketing Mix  

    2. Importance Of Alignment With Overall Organisation Strategy, Objectives & Goals. They Key Alignment Areas & Clarity / Sync with Management & Teams   

    3. Things Marketing Leaders Should Keep Sorted Before Planning & Executing Your Marketing Plans & Overall Mandate. Things To Keep Sorted Within The Marketing Team.  

    4. Cross-Functional Collaboration - Sales, Customer Success, Support, HR. Marketing Never Succeeds in Silos. Roles & Responsibility Of Other Teams & Rallying Overall as an Organisation.  

    5. Choosing the Best Channels & How To Prioritize Them Basis The Budgets To Ensure The Marketing Plans Delivers The Desired Results - Both Strategic (Long Term) and Tactical / Topical (Short Term) Objectives   

    6. What Role Does "Emotion" Play In B2B Marketing? Buying Rationale (vs) Buying Psychology. What To Learn From B2C ? Not B2B / B2C - Marketing Should Focus on H2H - Human To Human  

    7. Measuring The Impact Of Marketing - Whats Changed - The New Metrics In Play & Beyond Metrics Impacting Shared Goals & Results   

    8. The Power Of Branding In Enterprise SaaS - The Power Of Being TOM - Top Of Mind ! Impacting Community, Knowledge Sharing & Contributing To The Eco-System  

    9. Trends - Whats New ? Whats Obsolete ? What Needs To Change ?  

    10. Ashwin's Mantra - Marketing Is Entrepreneurship In Itself & Marketing Leaders Therfore Need To Think Like Entrepreneurs.

    • 53 min

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