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Doing customer research? Start doing this
If you’re doing customer research, you’re already way ahead of the game. Not to make it a competition, but let’s be real here — if your competitors are doing customer research and you’re still not, then you’re making it way too easy for them to surpass you. But in the...
EP. 17: The 3 stages of Marketing
Is your marketing great, good, or non-existent? No matter where it is today, it’s important to recognize where you are and what your next steps should be. In this episode of InDemand, Asia Orangio, founder of DemandMaven, breaks down the three stages of marketing, how...
EP. 16: The 3 stages of growth
Is your growth strategy working? There are few questions as important. In this episode of InDemand, Asia Orangio, founder of DemandMaven, walks through the three stages of growth, and the key actions for assessing and planning for improvement from each stage....
EP. 15: How to prioritize your growth ideas
As a founder, you probably think of new growth ideas everyday. But how many of the ideas do you follow through on? Deciding how to prioritize your growth ideas is the critical first step to implementing them. In this episode of InDemand, Asia Orangio, founder of...
EP. 14: Can you measure product-market fit?
How do you know if you have product-market fit? You measure it! In this episode of InDemand, Asia Orangio, founder of DemandMaven, breaks down the different ways to think about measuring product-market fit and how to apply it in your Saas business. The four...
EP. 13: How product-market fit ACTUALLY works
Does your business have product-market fit? Are you sure? There can be a lot of grey area when it comes to understanding your business's product-market fit, but with a bit of examination, we can bring clarity to the topic and plot a course for strengthening your...
EP. 12: How Long Does it Take to See Marketing Results
When it comes to measuring marketing nuance is key. For every market, product, and business, the results of marketing have their own specific context. To understand when you should be expecting results from your marketing efforts, you need to understand the context of...
EP. 11: Why Every Founder Needs a Market Vision
We all start our businesses for different reasons. For some, it is a personal pain point--a problem that we want to solve for ourselves. For others, it is a person or group that we want to help. No matter how you start as a founder, it is crucial that you find the big...
EP. 10: 6 Basic Principles for Competing in a Competitive Market
In this episode of In Demand, Asia Orangio, founder of DemandMaven, shares the principles for growing a SaaS company when you are competing in an overcrowded market. At DemandMaven, we just wrapped up a project for a client that was in one of the most...
Why you need to start delegating those trivial tasks NOW
Truth: If your brain can learn it, there’s usually another brain that can learn it. It’s a fundamental truth that took me years to learn, and blocked me from growing the company a lot faster than if I had just accepted the truth. What delayed me for so many years from...
EP. 9: How to Know You Have Product-Market Fit
Product market fit is often talked about like it is a specific destination. A place you arrive at once and know that you’ve arrived. But the reality of growing a SaaS company is that you may not know if you have product-market fit or if you have it, you may not...
EP. 8: The Biggest Growth Lessons I’ve Learned the Hard Way
Some lessons in marketing are easy to learn. You pick them up from a book, take a class, or hear a talk and get it immediately. Other lessons are harder to come by. They are the ones learned over time and through experience. The ones that we look back on and...