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Organic growth strategies for SaaS businesses.
Ankur Tiwari
SaaS Growth Strategy Model — A spreadsheet based model to discover growth insights
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A growth strategy is as good as the insights it's based on. Past data is the goldmine of profitable growth insights. Here is a spreadsheet-based model to quickly analyze past data and discover hidden growth insights.
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Ankur Tiwari
Hello Product Hunt, Today I am launching the SaaS Growth Strategy Model - a spreadsheet-based analytics model that runs eight analyses on past data and helps you discover hidden growth insights. If you are in the business at least for a couple of months, offer a free tier plan, and have a few paying customers, the model will help you discover growth bottlenecks. Some of these problem areas will be the growth levers for your business. 💡 Then it suggests top growth strategies mapped for each bottleneck. The model needs four types of data to work: - Website Traffic Data - Free Plan Funnel Data - Retention, Renewals, and Churn Data - Marketing & Sales Expense Data You can enter past data for any number of months, from 2 to 12. The model runs following analyses: - Funnel analytics - Growth rates calculation of various metrics - Conversion rate benchmarking - Cohort Analysis - Anomalies Detection - Sensitivity Analysis - Downgrades Analysis - Targets & budgeting It is built on a spreadsheet, so you can use it right away and unearth your biggest opportunities within a few hours without wasting days learning new fancy software. WHY I BUILT THIS? I have always been intrigued by the question, "How to design a SaaS growth strategy that works?" And while working with various SaaS businesses, I discovered two truths about growth strategies: ✔️ A strategy is as good as the insights it's based on. ✔️ Good and bad, both strategies take almost similar efforts to implement but produce vastly different results. Thus, discovering compelling growth insights is the most ROI-focused heuristic for growth strategy design. 💡 And past data is the goldmine of growth insights. So, I created this model to analyze past data and discover growth insights quickly. It has been an internal tool for my work, and recently I thought of launching it as a product.
ZHENG Haibo
@ankur_tiwari1 Congrats on launching, Great job ! I've always believed that spreadsheet are the best tool for lightweight data analysis.
Ankur Tiwari
@oe_zheng Thank you!