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In this audio from MicroConf Remote 5.0, Eran Galperin, founder of GymDesk, chats with Rob Walling about leveraging Capterra to find more customers for your SaaS app. Links from the Pod: Get your ticket for MicroConf Remote 6.0 Eran Galperin | Twitter GymDesk Get the slides from this talk GymDesk's Capterra Page

In this talk from MicroConf Remote 5.0, Gia Laudi of Forget the Funnel walks through using customer surveys and Jobs to Be Done interviews to discover how your product helps your best customers, so that you can find more of those ideal customers.  Links from the Pod: MicroConf Remote 6.0: March 21 + 22, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ET Gia Laudi | Twitter Forget the Funnel Get the slide deck

In this talk from MicroConf Growth US 2022, Rob Walling walks through 31 quick tactics for that get outsized results in your business. The tactics are broken up into the following categories: Growth Product Productivity Operations Get the slide deck here: Links from the Pod: MicroConf US 2023  Get the slide deck here  Watch this talk with slides on YouTube Rob Walling I Twitter

If Rob was starting over today, here's 3 steps he'd take to $1M+ revenue.   In this audio from a recent YouTube video, Rob breaks down his stair step approach to bootstrapping a SaaS business. Check out his original article here: The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping   Links from Pod: List of SaaS Marketplaces Episode 612 of Startups for the Rest of Us Start Small, Stay Small Watch the video version on YouTube Subscribe to our YouTube Channel

In under a month, you can validate your SaaS idea with this step-by-step SaaS idea validation process. This process is the perfect way to gather traffic and to see how many people are going to be interested in your product so you can decide if your idea is worth pursuing. In this audio pulled from a recent YouTube video, Rob Walling explains the process he would take to validate a new SaaS idea. Links from this episode The SaaS Playbook Watch the video version on YouTube Subscribe to our YouTube Channel

In this talk from MicroConf US 2022, Dr. Sherry Walling gives a keynote about the hard, less often talked about aspects of exiting a business. It's important to mentally prepare for an selling your business and she delivers a masterclass on going through the process with grace.  Want to attend the next MicroConf to see talks like this? Head to microconf.com/events  Links from this pod: Dr. Sherry Walling I Twitter MicroConf US 2023- Denver, CO April 16-18

Mastermind Matching applications are now open.    Whether you are in the process of validating your SaaS idea and looking for product-market fit to finding a scalable marketing channel, or maybe you are looking for an extra dose of accountability and support as you grow the company, joining a mastermind can help. With hundreds of successful matches under our belt, we have brought together founders from all walks of life, from over 50 countries across 20 time zones, with a collective $150M+ in ARR.   To do this, we focus on a number of key data points to get a feel for each entrepreneur’s experience level, expectations, work and personality styles, and other key criteria that allow us to make informed matches, including: Location Time zone Language Experience Level Current Revenue Level Goals Skill Set Industry served Whether or not this is your first business If you already have 1 or more established businesses (like an agency) and building a SaaS as a 2nd business, etc.   We’ve also made some big updates to the content in our mastermind program, including adding a series of 3 mentor sessions to tackle topics and challenges you are likely to experience based on where you are currently at with your business. These mentor sessions range from how to structure and get the most value out of your mastermind to mastering customer interviews, building a marketing flywheel, and hiring and onboarding your first few employees.   For those of you who sign up for a mastermind and are doing more than $500k in ARR, you’ll be invited to attend three virtual office hours with Rob Walling, Co-Founder of TinySeed + MicroConf & Einar Vollset, Co-Founder of TinySeed.   Links from the Show: MicroConf Masterminds  

Should you build a B2B or B2C business model? What are the main differences between B2B and B2C SaaS? In this audio pulled from a recent YouTube video, Rob explains how business-to-business and business-to-consumer SaaS models work and which will make you the most profit... Choose wisely.   Links from the pod: MicroConf Mastermind Matching Watch this video on YouTube Subscribe to the MicroConf YouTube Channel

In this talk from MicroConf US 2022, Patty Radford Henderson gives an attendee talk about how to integrate marketing into the different phases of building a business.   Want to attend the next MicroConf? Head to microconf.com/events   Links from this pod: MicroConf US 2023- Denver, CO April 16-18 MicroConf Mastermind Matching Watch this video on YouTube Subscribe to the MicroConf YouTube Channel  

Don't know what marketing tactics to use? Your competitors do and the are crushing you because of it. In this audio from a recent YouTube video, Rob walks through 7 ways for marketing SaaS to add to your arsenal if you're not using these yet. Links from the pod: Watch this video on YouTube Subscribe to the MicroConf YouTube Channel