The Best of Startup Business Tips 🚀 Newsletter 2023

Hey - it’s Alex!

Welcome to Startup Business Tips, a bi-weekly newsletter, where I share with you 3 actionable growth tactics that will help you quickly grow your SaaS business from €0 to €1 million ARR 🚀.

Today we cover:

1️⃣ My Best 10 Newsletters 2023

2️⃣ The Best 10 LinkedIn Posts 2023

3️⃣ My Top Products in 2023 (+ New Year Special)

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Every year, I take the time between Christmas and New Year to reflect on my year, the ups and downs, the learnings, and set new goals for the next year (doing a Life Review).

Reflecting on the year also means analyzing every single newsletter and LinkedIn post of the year.

While I was doing this, I thought it was a nice idea to select the TOP 10 Newsletters and Posts of the year and share them with you.

1. My Best 10 Newsletters 2023

2023 was also the year when I saw the first sign of real subscriber growth.

The year, when I finally found content-market fit.

The Best 10 Newsletter Posts in 2023

1. The Ultimate Framework to build your Ideal Customer Profile for SaaS startups

2. The Ultimate SaaS Messaging Framework for Early-stage Startups

3. SaaS Positioning - 6 different ways to position your SaaS product

4. The Perfect Homepage for Early-stage SaaS companies: Free Template + Examples

5. The Ultimate B2B SaaS Pricing Guide for early-stage startups

6. The Ultimate Guide to Sales Product Demos: Mastering the Art of Closing Deals

7. The perfect Sales Deck (Template) for B2B SaaS companies

8. The perfect cold email: TAPSA framework

9. The Sales Demo Follow-Up Email (Template)

10. 7-step framework: Turn 1 content idea into 250+ LinkedIn posts

These 2 did not make it on the list, but still are super valuable for most SaaS founders.

1. 3 must-have BOFU content pages to drive traffic to your website

2. The 3 indicators that your SaaS business is ready to scale

2. The Best 10 LinkedIn Posts 2023

This year I’ve started to be truly active on LinkedIn - and posted 6x/week and recently even committed to posting daily 7x/week.

Doing so helped me to:

✅ Over 1.7 million impressions

✅ Grow from 3.650 to almost 10.000 followers on LinkedIn

✅ Grow from 560 to over 2400+ newsletter subscribers

But what it truly means for me is that I found the growth channels for my 3 services:

1. GTM advisory - Working 1-on-1 with SaaS founders on their journey from 0€ to 1€ million ARR

2. 90+ actionable SaaS growth tactics (helped 200+ SaaS leaders)

3. Newsletter sponsorships to reach 2400+ SaaS leaders (Booked out the next 4 episodes)

My Growth Channels (aka. Acquisition Channels) 👇

💡 It’s LinkedIn + Newsletter + referrals from founders I already work with.

The Best 10 LinkedIn Posts in 2023

1. SaaS Pricing pages: 10 awesome examples

2. 5 SaaS Pricing Fundamentals: Bring your pricing to the top 10% of all startups

3. The 16 most important PLG SaaS Metrics

4. PLG vs. SLG - What’s right for your SaaS?

5. The difference between GTM strategy and growth tactics

6. The 3 reasons why your GTM sucks

7. The 10 most common GTM myths for early-stage SaaS

8. The 9 early-stage SaaS startup misconceptions

9. Sales Discovery: 15 questions you can ask in your discovery

10. Your 1-sentence value proposition template

Plus my personal favorite: The 10 most common GTM myths

3. My Top Products in 2023 (+ New Year Special)

#1 SaaS GTM Strategy Workbook

The B2B SaaS GTM Strategy Workbook covers all the relevant aspects to take your SaaS business to the next level.

1️⃣ Market Strategy - Understand the market you’re going after.

2️⃣ Ideal Customer Profile - Who are you targeting

3️⃣ Market Segmentation & Positioning

4️⃣ Product Strategy

5️⃣ Sales Strategy

6️⃣ The Model / Pricing Strategy

7️⃣ Value Proposition & Messaging

8️⃣ Growth Channels & Activities

9️⃣ Measuring Success

The Workbook helped more than 3000 SaaS leaders already.

#2 The 90+ SaaS Growth Tactics

Once you've built your GTM strategy, it's about execution.

💡 But there is no need to reinvent the wheel.

That’s why I've created a list of 90+ actionable B2B SaaS Growth Tactics.

Since I’ve launched the product, the results are awesome:

✅ 200+ SaaS leaders implement the growth tactics to their business

✅ Only 5-star ratings

The first version was only 82 growth tactics, then I added a few more so it became the 90+ growth tactics list.

🚨 And now I’ve added more growth tactics: You will now find 129 growth tactics.

This product is for you, if:

✅ you're the founder/leader of a SaaS startup

✅ your revenue is between 0€ and 3.000.000 € ARR

✅ you're struggling to grow your business

✅ you're uncertain about which growth tactics are truly effective for your business

✅ you're looking for proven tactics (to skip trial & error)

✅ you're open to implementing new growth tactics

🚀 New Year Special 🚀

💡 With the discount code ‘Growth2024’ you get a 50% discount (+ No Risk Guarantee (100% positive ROI). The code is only valid for the next 7 days (7.12.2024).

Happy growth 🚀.

Alex

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1. GTM advisory for early-stage SaaS founders on their way to hitting the first €1 million ARR. Work with me 1-on-1 in weekly or bi-weekly deep-dive working sessions to build and execute your powerful GTM strategy.

2. List of 90+ actionable SaaS Growth Tactics and Free SaaS Growth Strategy Worksheet.

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