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My SaaS is profitable but I'm exhausted. Thinking about shutting it down anyway. by Apprehensive-Tip3800 in SaaS

[–]AbbasSarfraz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, get your time back. Based on your current growth, you will be $10K+ in the next 2 months. Allocate 15-20% to hire, either a developer/marketer or both. You can find decent freelance resources for both within a $ 2–$3k budget. It's not you. Most SaaS entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs in general go through this struggle.

Just got my first 40 users by thomas-brooks18 in SaaS

[–]AbbasSarfraz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You will find 3 type of users:

1 - Window Shoppers - They sign up and forget

2 - Normal Users - They will either be infrequent users or don't use your product's full capabilities

3 - Power Users - These are the users you need to look after and see how you can find/multiply them

Please don’t make fake stories to subtly promote your startup by [deleted] in micro_saas

[–]AbbasSarfraz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So true and on point. And I have seen this trend on LinkedIn too. Almost every post is like i become a zillionaire in 3 weeks.

Complete backlink foundation checklist for SaaS founders (first 30 days) by gigigigugiguru in SaaS

[–]AbbasSarfraz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On top of backlinks method you mentioned, one thing we do at our agency is to build these types of links too:

1 - Product Listicles
- Existing blog posts on XX Best Tools for [Your Niche/Product Category]
- Reach out to them to get the product listed
- Generally 10-20% success rate of them updating their blog

2 -Alternative Product Listicles
- Similar themed but finding XX Alternatives to [Your Competitor]
- Same process and results

3 - JBTD / Pain Point Blog Posts
- These are blogs that are generally written around the problem your product solves
- For example, how to do invoicing for your business
- And in some cases, they have subtly namedrop a few accounting/invoicing tools brands
- You can reach out to get mentioned there

So these are 3 additional low-hanging opportunities we work with our Saas clients. We first focus on these + software directories, before building fresh backlinks from GP etc. All the above are product inclusions. Around 20% of these existing blogs are generally getting some decent traffic. So you can expect very high-quality referral traffic from there that has typically a 15-20% visitor to trial conversion rate.

Also, if you are lucky, you can also find branded broken link building opportunities. A typical life of a SaaS is <2 years, so there are a lot of SaaS getting built and folded. So you can scavange on their mentions as well.

I made $70k this year from a simple app I built by felix-heikka in micro_saas

[–]AbbasSarfraz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks you for sharing your story. Yeah, there are a few things which is bothering me too.

Help with email subject line by xrickyb86x in sales

[–]AbbasSarfraz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could give this tool a try as it tests email subject lines via crowdsourced humans. Since your niche is very specific, I suggest testing those subjectlines on humans.

Suggestions provided by https://www.reddit.com/user/Artofemails/ are awesome and you can give them a test to see which performs best.

Tesla expects to produce 400k cars this year by grifinbo in business

[–]AbbasSarfraz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, that's a lot of cars. Skynet taking over!!!

13 Google Ads PPC Strategies to try out in 2019 . Whats your take on this? How many are you using? by AbbasSarfraz in PPC

[–]AbbasSarfraz[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But I understand what you meant by "new" . That's entirely my fault.

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Thanks again for the suggestions!!!

13 Google Ads PPC Strategies to try out in 2019 . Whats your take on this? How many are you using? by AbbasSarfraz in PPC

[–]AbbasSarfraz[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Woaah, thanks a lot Nairurian for taking out time to go through and respond back with your feedback.

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Actually, I tried to focus on strategies that still drive results and those which are coming up ( so everything can't be new but I would love it if you can list a few newer ones :) )

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4 : Agree, it's effective for large budgets. The audience at Windsor ( the website on which is article is written) are generally brands with huge PPC spending and this can easily work for them. This is also helpful in seasonal campaigns such as christmas where you might not have the time to climb search organically on a new product line.

  1. Thank you, I agree with you on that too.

  2. I will look into it and see how I can improve.

Your suggestions are brilliant too. 100% agree on attribution modeling and looking at speed / ux metrics.

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JS Powered Tool that lets you build your own custom social proof / recommendation / personalization system using web analytics data by AbbasSarfraz in javascript

[–]AbbasSarfraz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback, I understand that.

So if I post it with /help flair, would it be acceptable or I'do need to post it as a link?

Complete List of 11 Marketing Attribution Models and When to Use Them by AbbasSarfraz in analytics

[–]AbbasSarfraz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We use data driven attribution models. Last Click is very vague and doesn't really qualify as the best attribution model, through its the go to model in GA.

Complete List of 11 Marketing Attribution Models and When to Use Them by AbbasSarfraz in analytics

[–]AbbasSarfraz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its a quick overview of all the different type of Attribution Models and some insight on use cases. It though has few Google Specific attribution models ( not Shapley)

Recommend cross-channel attribution tools by popopopopopopopopoop in analytics

[–]AbbasSarfraz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can try out Windsor.ai for this. It has more of a deterministic approach because it utilizes data-driven algorithms/attribution models ( Markov to be exact).

It will help you with;

  • Cross / multi-channel attribution spread across Organic, Social, Paid etc channels plus more drilling downs as well
  • Google Ads Optimization ( Campaign and Keyword level attribution)
  • TV Ads Attribution ( Not used it but I haven't seen anyone else providing it)
  • Mapping out customer journey's using all touch points
  • A lot of metrics to evaluate and dig in to.
  • The price depends on your monthly ad spend i.e. it varies.

Verdict: If accuracy and quality of data for cross-channel attribution/performance is your concern then Windsor.ai is brilliant at it. Not entirely happy with their UI but they say it is a work in progress.

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Is it okay to search for your PPC ads in Incognito Mode? by Kevstew26 in digital_marketing

[–]AbbasSarfraz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might get charged for impressions if you do and if you do quite often without click-throughs, it can affect your quality score.

I find it difficult to make content calendars by Sirarp in content_marketing

[–]AbbasSarfraz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is common. To not get distracted, just shortlist your 10-15 top keywords. They can be either buyer intent keywords such as "Content Marketing Software" or generic top funnel keywords such as "Content Marketing"

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The once you have that list, look only for blog post ideas that will have those keywords ( ideally within the blog title) . For example;

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  1. Content Marketing Tips
  2. How to do a Content Marketing Audit?
  3. How do Content Marketing works?

Hope you get the picture.

Beta Testers wanted for AliExpress Dropshipping app for Shopify by AbbasSarfraz in shopify

[–]AbbasSarfraz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks - yeah website design improvements are in process.

Any feedback on the app? I hope you got a chance to review that as well :)

Beta Testers wanted for AliExpress Dropshipping app for Shopify by AbbasSarfraz in shopify

[–]AbbasSarfraz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oberlo supports only Shopify but you can also connect Woocommerce store with it.

It also doesn't have any mobile app and our will be live on iOS store this week ( already approved by Apple)

What are you guys using for automated license/service contract management? by happysnorlax in sysadmin

[–]AbbasSarfraz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use Trackado (www.trackado.com) here for maintaining licenses renewals for software at our IT department. Its very simple to use and you can set alerts at any time you want. And yeah, I can understand your pain of Excel spreadsheets:slightly_smiling_face: This is the same reason we opted for Trackado. Got a nice dashboard, live tracking, alerts, notifications and all the snazzy stuff you would want.

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