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Practical strategies for building, marketing and growing a software business — from SaaS models and pricing to growth hacking and product design.

Headlines for Marketing – Introducing headlinr
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Headlines for Marketing – Introducing headlinr

On just about every marketing blog that discusses anything online - there is a post about headlines.  It doesn't seem to matter what you are doing, publishing or emailing about - the headline is funda

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Listen To Your Own Advice
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Listen To Your Own Advice

KudaniCloud launched privately via webinar last week.  Why via webinar?.. why not open it wide?  So before I explain why..let me tell you whats been happening in the last few months.

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Why Aren’t You On Twitter
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Why Aren’t You On Twitter

Let's talk about Twitter. Are you in or are you out? Discover a great method you can use to determine if you are using the right hashtags or not. Read on...

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Raise Your Life Time Value Through Cross Selling
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Raise Your Life Time Value Through Cross Selling

Today I want to talk about cross selling and maximizing the lifetime value for your customers. What are the three methods to maximize revenue?

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The Power of Masterminds
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The Power of Masterminds

I want to talk about the power of Masterminds. I recently went to a new Mastermind organized by a friend of mine called Jared Stevenson. Local San Diego...

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10 Growth Hacks to Accelerate Your SaaS
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10 Growth Hacks to Accelerate Your SaaS

This collection of growth hacks comes from Thomas Schranz who's the CEO of a company called Blossom.IO. I've taken his ideas and expanded it to make it relative to my audience, but I think these things really, really work.

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How To Name Your Product
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How To Name Your Product

Knowing how to properly name your product is an important business decision. Discover the key factors that you should always consider.

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The Question Is Not How To Get Funding
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The Question Is Not How To Get Funding

"How do I get funding?" is the wrong question to ask. Instead you need to be asking, "How do I get my first customer?" You only need one to get things moving.

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Productize Don’t Customize
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Productize Don’t Customize

Say no to customer customizations and instead discover why you need to productize instead. And find out how you can get your customers to pay for these features to be added to the core product.

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Hot Site: Learn From Other Onboarding Successes
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Hot Site: Learn From Other Onboarding Successes

Learn about a new site that has taken onboarding to a different level. Samuel Hulick examines the user experience at sign up. Read more...

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How To Monetize OpenSource Software
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How To Monetize OpenSource Software

Is it ethical to monetize OpenSource software? Sure is. Read on and find out even more interesting facts about how to make money from free software.

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Why Freemium Is The Wrong Model For Your SaaS Product
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Why Freemium Is The Wrong Model For Your SaaS Product

While Freemium is a very attractive proposition it may not be the best pricing model for a SaaS product. Discover the reasons why, who's done it well, and who's tested it and decided against it.

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Growth Hacking: How One Company Got 2000 Users In 20 Days
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Growth Hacking: How One Company Got 2000 Users In 20 Days

Ryan Hoover's great growth hacking strategy consisted of reaching out to influencers and getting validation, while using a free tool. This was a great way to make sure that the market was interested in his product before investing time and money.

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Growth Hacking 5 Free Traffic Strategies
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Growth Hacking 5 Free Traffic Strategies

Today is Growth Hacking Day and I want to give you five strategies or tips to get free traffic to your business. Let's get started with number one. First of all, one thing that you can do is make your training videos accessible to the public and that has really two benefits. First of all, by SEO optimizing your training videos then you're going to get some more long tail traffic.

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The 5 Reasons For Startup Failure
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The 5 Reasons For Startup Failure

Discover how not to crash your freshly minted startup, using five really simple concepts that anyone can use today.

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How To Wireframe With Balsamiq
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How To Wireframe With Balsamiq

Paul: Hi.  It’s Paul Clifford and today I want to talk about wireframing with Balsamiq.

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How To Accelerate Your Software Project
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How To Accelerate Your Software Project

I want to talk about accelerating your application with ready-made code that's already done for you. Now at the very basic level you've probably heard me talk about PHP as an example programming language which you can use. Well, together with PHP you can also use PHP frameworks. And those frameworks are things like CodeIgniter, CakePHP and one called Yii and a whole load of others.

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What Is The One Word That Causes Projects To Fail
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What Is The One Word That Causes Projects To Fail

Paul: Hi. It's Paul Clifford from Disruptware and I want to tell you about one word that stands between you and a software disaster. That word is communication. Now, essentially, let's look at just fo

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Growing Your Business Using APIs
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Growing Your Business Using APIs

Paul: Hi. It's Paul Clifford from Disruptware and I just want to talk about the four ways of increasing your revenue and growing your business using APIs.

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How To Design
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How To Design

Discover how to get that idea out of your head and into a form where you can communicate it to yourself and to your developer.

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How Do You Know If Your Business Model Will Work
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How Do You Know If Your Business Model Will Work

75 percent of startups fail. Find out whether you have the fundamental elements in place.

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How To Reinvent A Better Wheel
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How To Reinvent A Better Wheel

Never sit there thinking you don't have the perfect idea. 99 percent of companies take something that works and make it 10 times better. You can too.

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Which Language
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Which Language

With a plethora of languages, technologies and platforms to choose from here are some basic strategies to help you make your choice.

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What Is SaaS And Why Is It A Great Business Model
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What Is SaaS And Why Is It A Great Business Model

Online business strategies like SaaS are proving to be the most efficient software businesses on the planet. Find out how.

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