5 Actionable Growth Hacks For B2B SaaS

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5 ActionableGrowth HacksSeptember 2015

Created by Alex at WeeklyGrowth.com

Get Your Happy CustomersTo Share Your SaaS

This Growth Hack, used byBaremetrics, uses human

psychology in a clever way, to gettheir happy users to share

Baremetrics.

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OBJECTIVE

Social Sharing

Send an email and tellthem "Can I ask you 2questions?"

How to do it

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To those that score over 7send them a secondemail

Ask them how likely is itto recommend yourSaaS

In the second email thankthem and give them aprepopulated tweet

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Get Extra Monthly Traffic ToYour Blog in 10 minutes

This Growth Hack is used by AlexChaidaroglou for blogs that postconsistently to drive some extra

traffic every month for free.

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OBJECTIVE

Traffic

Go to AllTop.com andsearch for your category

How to do it

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Register and submit yourblog

Then go toalltop.com/submission/

You will need to have anRSS feed and meet somecriteria

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Co-promote your SaaSintegrations

This Growth Hack is used by Alex atGrooveHQ. Before they prioritize and

launch an integration with anotherSaaS, they talk with that SaaS and

organize a co-promotion, if possible.

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OBJECTIVE

Growth

Make a list of potentialintegrations

How to do it

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Reach out before theintegration. Ask if theother SaaS is willing topromote it with you

Find the sweet spot ofuser usability andpromotional potential

Craft a mutual promotionplan of the integration tobenefit both SaaS

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Get 300-500 Signups ToYour Beta

This Growth Hack is used byMatthew Barby and he mentions iton his website. Think of it as a light

version of Product Hunt for startupsin beta.

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OBJECTIVE

Beta Signups

Go to BetaList.com

How to do it

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Follow the instructions,but there is no guaranteeyou will be featured.

Click "Submit startup"and sign in with Twitter

On average, startups onBetaList get 300-500signups.

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Get your competitors' trafficwho want an alternative

This Growth Hack is used by many,but I first saw it on a SlideSharepresentation by ClavainSkade.

Sometimes people just don't wantyour competitors. Why not you then?

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OBJECTIVE

Competitors'Traffic

Go to google or anyother major searchengine

How to do it

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Search for discussionboards, like Quora

Search for "is there analternative to<competitor's name>?"

Once you find thisquestion, go and writeyour SaaS as analternative, but beupfront about workingthere

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Go do one of them today

At least one of them will be applicablefor instant implementation to yourstartup.

Don't wait, go do it today.

This infographic is brought to you byAlex at WeeklyGrowth.com. Alex is aB2B SaaS Growth Marketer.

Thanks to Josh at Baremetrics, Alex atGrooveHQ, Matthew Barby and ClavainSkade for doing these growth hacks.

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Growth Hack #1: Not publicly availableGrowth Hack #2: Not publicly availableGrowth Hack #3: bit.ly/1OCD1WwGrowth Hack #4: bit.ly/1MBNKNKGrowth Hack #5: bit.ly/1J8Iy3S

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