Episodios

  • MicroConf Tactics: Your Pricing is WRONG (even Sam Altman Made This Mistake)
    Mar 12 2025

    Incorrectly pricing your SaaS product is the easiest way to accidentally kill your business. I'll tell you how to fix your pricing, how founders fall into the trap of charging too little, and why charging more can catapult your business's growth.

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    Apply to MicroConf's Mastermind Matching Program before March 31st

    Invest in TinySeed

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    Announcing a change in pricing and process

    TinySeed Portfolio

    The SaaS Playbook

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    12 m
  • MicroConf Tactics: How to Find PROFITABLE Micro SaaS Ideas in 2025
    Feb 26 2025

    In this video, Rob interviews Snir Alayof about his stair-step approach to building a portfolio of Micro SaaS apps for the monday.com marketplace. Snir reveals how he explored users' needs and validated potential solutions. He then details how his team launched, refined, and supported these apps to go from $0k to $30k+ MRR in less than a year.

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    MicroConf Connect Applications will open next week from Mar 3-5th. Asia Orangio will be hosting a Connect Live session on March 13th.

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    Developer Documentation

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    Follow Snir on LinkedIn

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    20 m
  • MicroConf Tactics: 9 Signs It’s Time to SELL Your Business
    Feb 12 2025

    When do you know it's time to sell your company? After speaking with hundreds of founders, Rob and Dr. Sherry Walling identified 9 signs that it may be time for an exit. If you've dreamed of selling your business, pay attention to these signs, and strategize your exit.

    Links from the Pod:

    TinySeed Applications are Open until Feb 23rd

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    Back Exit Strategy on Kickstarter

    Read a Free Chapter of Exit Strategy

    Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company

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    10 m
  • MicroConf Tactics: Startup Founders, Do THIS to Beat Imposter Syndrome
    Jan 29 2025

    Many founders struggle with Imposter Syndrome and wonder how to get past it. It often shows up in different forms at the various stages in their founder journeys. Rob shares some of the forms that imposter syndrome takes and offers actionable advice if you are feeling like a fraud.

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    MC US Ticket prices go up on Jan 31st

    The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping

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    11 m
  • MicroConf Tactics: STOP Building Your Audience (Do THIS Instead)
    Jan 15 2025

    If you want to build an amazing SaaS product, building an audience is almost never the best use of your time. Rob shares what to do instead, giving practical tips on how to build a network and the benefits that it can provide your business.

    Links from the Pod:

    MicroConf Connect Applications are open until the end of today, Jan 15th

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    The SaaS Playbook

    The Startups For the Rest of Us

    State of Independent SaaS 2024 Report

    Ship Fast

    TinySeed

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    16 m
  • MicroConf Tactics: If I Started SaaS in 2024, Here’s My B2B Content Strategy for $1M ARR
    Jan 1 2025

    Rob Walling takes the stage at MicroConf US 2024 in Atlanta to share his framework for B2B SaaS content marketing. After wasting thousands of dollars taking the wrong approach in marketing Drip in the early days, Rob shares how he would apply the 5 stages of customer awareness to B2B SaaS.

    Links from the Pod:

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    Register for MicroConf US 2025 in New Orleans

    Watch the rest of the MicroConf US 2024 Atlanta talks

    Solve Your Customer Acquisition Problem

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    30 m
  • MicroConf Tactics: How to Make SaaS Enterprise Sales (5 SIMPLE Steps)
    Dec 18 2024

    One of the biggest growth levers in your SaaS business is to embrace enterprise sales. Craig Hewitt, founder of Castos, shares how to drive sales so that you're not leaving revenue on the table.

    Links from the Pod:

    The SaaS Launchpad – Start Free with “The DNA of a Great SaaS Idea”

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    The SaaS Launchpad

    The SaaS Playbook

    Craig's YouTube Channel

    Castos

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    Effective Marketing Starts With the Perfect Customer Persona

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    11 m
  • MicroConf Tactics: This Pricing Strategy is DISASTROUS (unless...)
    Dec 4 2024

    Choosing the right pricing strategy for your bootstrapped SaaS is critical. Freemium can be alluring, but it's not a pricing strategy – it's actually a marketing strategy. In this video, I'll explain why freemium is so tricky, and why you should almost always avoid it.

    Links from the Pod:

    MicroConf Masterminds Applications Close on December 4th

    We are relaunching MicroConf Connect!

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    Get access to the full 9+ hour course today, The SaaS Launchpad

    Episode 717 | Bootstrapping to $1.3M ARR and 300,000 Free Users

    Episode 725 | SEO in the Age of AI, Freemium, When Brand Becomes Important, and More Advanced Listener Questions (with Ruben Gamez)

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    11 m