Building a Strong Foundation for SAAS Growth — Rob Freedman // Zuper

Rob Freedman, Head of Growth at Zuper, delves into navigating SaaS growth. To establish a solid foundation for SaaS growth, it all starts with a relentless focus on your customers. It's not about building something for yourself and hoping it sticks; it's about actively engaging with your market, identifying their needs, and crafting solutions that address these needs effectively. Today, Rob discusses building a strong foundation for SaaS growth.
About the speaker

Rob Freedman

Zuper

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Rob is the Head of Growth at Zuper

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Show Notes

  • 02:29
    How to build a strong foundation for SaaS growth
    To build a strong foundation for SaaS growth, its essential to understand who youre selling to and become customer obsessed. This process involves identifying the target audiences pain points, creating solutions, and effectively communicating them to the market.
  • 04:34
    Balancing customer input and industry expertise in SaaS development
    When building a SaaS business, it's essential to strike a balance. Start by listening to customers' input for a foundation, then use your industry expertise to consult and enhance their vision. This approach combines their insights with your expert guidance for success.
  • 06:53
    Unlocking unexpected value propositions through customer stories
    After achieving product-market fit, focus on understanding and expanding your value proposition. By listening to customer stories for different triggers, you can uncover unexpected value props which are valuable for marketing and further growth efforts.
  • 08:33
    Mining customer feedback for value propositions
    It's crucial to spend quality time with customers, leverage AI for call analysis, and engage with onboarding and customer success teams to gather insights. Early adopters can become powerful advocates for your business when their feedback is valued and acted upon.
  • 10:48
    Building a strong customer experience for SaaS growth
    By building a strong customer experience and positive product experience from prospecting to onboarding to ongoing relationships, customers become your greatest evangelists. This advocacy leads to referrals, and cannot be replicated through traditional marketing tactics.

Quotes

  • "Just taking what the customer wants and building that will get you nowhere, but it gives you a starting point. Then, as the expert, you get to help them reimagine and uncover things that they didn't realize can be done." - Rob Freedman

  • "Listening to customers, having them tell stories, and listening for different triggers has been a very good source of customer stories that we can then use in our marketing." - Rob Freedman

  • "Your early adopters can be your greatest champions and help propel your business to scaling and growing. But, if you're not paying attention to them, you'll find a very tough road to growth." - Rob Freedman

  • "At the recent HubSpot Inbound conference, some of the best prospects to come by our booth to speak with us were hand brought over by current customers. No email campaigns or cold LinkedIn messaging is going to replace that." - Rob Freedman

About the speaker

Rob Freedman

Zuper

 - Zuper

Rob is the Head of Growth at Zuper

Free Trial of Zuper
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