Launching today at the Dublin Web Summit, Blitzen is a new, lightweight yet powerful lead management solution that allows startups and small-to-midsize (SMB) businesses to market like their bigger brand cousins. According to a recent report by marketing automation software research firm Software Advice, a division of Gartner, 98% of SMBs are reportedly shopping for marketing software […]
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Using Customer Discovery Surveys to Help Find Product/Market Fit
We started our customer discovery survey adventure knowing that startups and SMB’s are paying a price for relying on a toolbox of specialized SaaS apps. If you’ve been hanging out here for a while, you know that price is a fragmented stack that requires manual data entry and copy/paste to keep your apps in sync […]
Your Fragmented Sales Stack Costs You Money – We’re Going To Fix That
Now is the best time to be in a startup or SMB sales team. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sales apps are coming to market at a rapid pace and they’re affordable to boot. These focused apps are leveling the playing field between the enterprise sales engines and the little startup that could. And unlike your traditional […]
11 Online Tools our Startup LOVES
It’s extremely important that you pick your online tools well. Pick them right, and your internal workflows hum along without any problems and productivity goes through the roof. Pick wrong and your teams spend more time managing tools and workflows than actually getting work done. So, today I’d like to share 11 online tools that we […]
Startup Copywriting: Avoid These 4+ Mistakes
Startup copywriting is a serious challenge. You’re trying to resonate with your ideal customer without really knowing who they are and what they’re most interested in. I get it. We’ve been there. So, in anticipation of our new splash page going live, I’m stripping version 1.0 of our web copy down to its skivvies and […]
How We Hacked and Upgraded Our Startup Beta Signup Process
We got the most out of our startup beta signup process. We identified motivated customers. We collected customer insights that informed feature prioritization and web copy decisions. We forced ourselves to feel the pain points we were trying to solve for. It even made us evaluate the competition by using the competition’s products. Then, it showed us what our users will feel when […]
Transparency-as-a-Service for Startups and SMBs
I read a piece by James Altucher today that completely changed the way I think about writing and those reading what I write. Readers are like onlookers in the Roman Coliseum calling for other people’s blood. Writers are the gladiators responsible for shedding that blood. Writers shed blood by sharing the things you want to know about most–things […]
reddit Co-Founder, Alexis Ohanian, Visits the Greenhouse with the Verge!
While the rest of the world was enjoying some much deserved rest and relaxation on Sunday, the Blitzen team was in the office. Don’t feel sorry for us though, because this time we were playing host to the co-founder of reddit (acquired in 2006), Alexis Ohanian, as part of his Oktoberfest layover and mission to document […]
