How To Create The Perfect SaaS Business

Struggling with what your product roadmap should look like as you start to expand? In this video, I talk about the 5 certain characteristics all the best SaaS and software companies have.

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[danmartell]

Want to grow like Slack, Dropbox, or Intercom? Then check to see if you have the 5 growth indicators in your business. I cover them in this week's video.

[viably]

I like the idea of product hook, we've always looked at it as building an MVP around a compelling offer, and having the offer as complex as the channel and method of promotion. To put it another way if there are features you can't fit into your promotion they don't go into the product. If a feature is getting the most reaction the product has to revolve around that feature. I like the idea of calling it a product hook!

[GirishVenkatachalam]

Dan I have a spam filter product, I am thankful to you for guiding me sell it to B2B businesses

[gabrielbasque]

great content Dan! thank you for helping me reflect on the pain points of my customer

[daratha]

Thanks Dan... I really like your content.
Happy

[viably]

Clearly laid out content, quite dense but each point is very valuable, great job!

[IssarCerrato]

Thanks DAN!! you are awesome. I been working all by myself as a content creator and now getting heavily overworked by so many jobs that I am changing strategy. Basically drawing a new plan to work as a team and get as many good people on board. Thanks to you I am learning how to :)

[oranecole]

Merry Christmas Dan, thanks for the amazing content.I got some invaluable feedback from my clients over the past 6 months, so it's time to revamp my product and give them more of what they want :) This will have a ripple effect because I can then focus on cost/value proposition and market leadership.Enjoy the holidays Dan and all the best with your upcoming projects!!!
Cheers.

[mikebenteau]

This was great and so was the second Dublin video, we have been working on a product for the last five years that we have tested within our franchise systems with the true value proposition reflecting our goals ( saves time, sells more and increases profits ).The goal for us has alway been SAAS but really needed to look at a roadmap and these videos were awesome for inside info.

[TK-yeuy]

Great content as always Dan! How would you recommend getting a mentor and guidance in the early days as a first time SaaS entrepreneur? I am highly ambitious and I feel anxious to get started but it just feels like my inexperience and feeling I have so much to learn first is leading to inaction. You mentioned knowing a lot of big names how did you grow such a valuable network or did it come later after you had built your first companies?

[ShortStockStories]

When it comes to the progress of the company, two things are most important that one needs to keep in mind. One is constancy of Customers to the Company, and other is the Revenue generation. While one thinks of increasing costs, the customers are hit hard. When we lower the complexities and prices to provide customer comfort, the business faces an economic crisis. So, one needs to keep a balance between the two strategies to take the SaaS app performance and profit to the peak.

Anyways, read the below. This might help.

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Regards,
Sourav Basak
Namaste UI

[diannejewell]

I'm building a SAAS model, an imitation of a SAAS model, we're running the BETA TEST starting on the 3rd Jan 2018 with 5 maybe 6 businesss who've put up their hand. I can check off all 5 points but they arent all strong. The product is already out there and I've been working it for 3 years but not at a scalable extent. Nows the time, if its ever going to be, its going to be now. I hired a coach to work with me in November. Its coming together. The product is definitely part of TM's day to day. I'm a bit sketchy about whats required for Item 4.

[paulvonprandible]

Hey Dan, great talk. We are having after 2 months already 10 paying customer. They pay 10$ / month. Now we want to invest in content marketing and I really like your idea of owning a market space "inbound marketing" is obviously already taken 😉

Do you have a strategy of finding a new keyword, which we can own?

[AbhideepChakravarty]

How about capturing market by giving free and then charging after a time or volume/limit?

[nataliedavismd]

Thanks Dan, Great advice for us and timely. Using Hubspot for Marketing and Sales now, such an impressive product, thanks for your help.

[danielwalker]

Dan, thank you for the great video! whats the best way to reach you?

[srujithsunny]

Dan I don't code but I want to build a sass product I even to don't want to hire people in-house I want to outsource developing is it possible? Which niche has more scope to scale?

[daviddean]

Skip to 2:10 for actual content. Good video but the constant name dropping is jarring.