How To Kick SaaS
  • Introduction
  • Forward
  • Who & How
  • The business of SaaS
    • The Business of SaaS
    • Basic Lessons of Saas
    • The Process
    • Parts of a SaaS
  • Validating You SaaS
    • Validating Your SaaS
    • What happens when you don't validate
    • The SaaS Validation Process
      • Why are you doing this?
      • Should you do this?
      • Competition Analysis
      • Buyer Analysis
      • Sales & Distribution
      • Time & Money
      • The Secret Sauce
      • Buyer Categorization By Sales Method
      • The Advisory Approach
    • Validation Success
  • SaaS Build Process
    • SaaS Build Lessons
    • Planning & Costing
      • The Costing Process
      • The Estimate
      • The Scope of Work
      • Information Architecture Development
      • Working Numbers
      • The Project Plan
    • Build Team Roles
      • What To Expect From Your SaaS Development Team
      • Build Teams
      • The Project Manager
      • Information Architect
      • UX Designer
      • Developers
      • Quality Assurance
    • Standard Tools
      • Project Management Tools in SaaS Development
      • Development Environment & Dependencies
      • Remote Development Environments
      • Code Repositories in SaaS Development
      • Monitoring Your SaaS
    • Steps to Developing a SaaS
      • What to expect in SaaS development
      • Systems Setup
      • Creative
      • Project Planning
      • SaaS User Experience (UX)
      • Concept Design
        • SaaS UX Design Case Study
      • Content Development
      • FrontEnd Development
      • BackEnd Development
      • Quality Assurance (QA)
      • Alpha Testing
      • Beta Testing
      • Launching Your SaaS
      • Continuous Integration
    • Things to know and expect
      • You MUST learn at least the basics of Project Management
      • Things you do and do not know
      • How to tell if your development team is working
      • Good, Cheap, Fast. Choose Two.
      • Positivity is Key in Management
      • Storytime: The Story of a Ton of Lost Users and Money!
      • Development is iterative
      • Development Time Increases As Complexity Increases
      • Storytime: Don't Send Me Shit
      • Story Time: The Best of the Best
      • Sunk Costs
    • Your SaaS MVP Pre-Development Build Checklist
  • Appraisement: Pricing Your SaaS
    • Appraisement: SaaS Pricing
    • SaaS Pricing Metrics
    • SaaS Pricing Metrics Glossary
    • Science of Pricing
    • What You Need To Know About Your Customers
    • How To Price Your SaaS
    • Customer Types Case Study
    • Storytime With Brennan
    • Pricing Page: The Most Valuable Page On Your Website
      • Pricing Page Examples
  • Acquisition: Gaining SaaS Users
    • Acquisition: Getting SaaS Users
    • SaaS Traction Lessons
    • Acquiring your first users
    • Getting ready for growth
    • Organic Search Marketing
      • Content Marketing Is An Investment
      • Step 1: Keyword Research
      • Step 2: Content Planning
      • Step 3: Writing, Formatting, & Beyond
    • Marketing Automation in SaaS
      • Marketing Automation Basics
      • Storytime: Learning about marketing automation the hard way
      • Lead Scoring, Tagging, & Triggers
      • Marketing Automation Systems
    • Lifetime Deals
    • Outbound Campaigns
    • Affiliates & Partnerships for SaaS Businesses
    • Narrowing Your Message With Adaptive Design
    • Social Media Marketing
      • Social Media Retargeting
      • Testing your social media ads
      • Social Media Ad Tricks
    • Pay Per Click (PPC)
    • SaaS Software Checklist
    • Email Marketing
    • The Marketing Website
  • Activiation
    • Activation
    • Getting Personal
    • Stalking Your Users
    • Onboarding
    • Training Webinars
    • Onboarding Emails
    • New User Tour
    • Setup Checklist
  • Attrition: Supporting Your Community and Growing Your Business
    • Supporting Your SaaS Customers
    • SaaS Community Building
    • Chatbots
    • Events
    • Swag
    • Education
    • The Knowledge Base
  • NOTES
    • NOTES
    • The best growth hacks no one wants you to know
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  1. Validating You SaaS
  2. The SaaS Validation Process

Buyer Analysis

Buyers

  • Who are your buyers?

    1. Did you ask people with the problem you are solving?

      1. What did they say?

    2. What is the current market size?

    3. Is it worth selling to them?

    4. Ask current distributors

      1. Influencers

      2. Competitors

      3. Podcasts

      4. Youtube channels

      5. Facebook groups

      6. Consultants

    5. Creating a list:

      1. Ask the distributors

      2. Li, Tw, Fb groups, Ads, Socal Ads, Forums, Podcasts, tradeshows

    6. Survey your buyers - get a list of 10 - 1000 people from either your distributors or your lists

      1. Who are they?

        1. Role

        2. How long in business

        3. Do they have the problem?

      2. Do they have the need?

      3. Do they know they have a need?

      4. If not, why?

      5. Do they want the product?

      6. How much are they willing to pay?

      7. If you can’t create a list at the beginning of the project, how will you do it later?

    7. Do you know already? Are you sure?

    8. Can you make a list of buyers to call today? Most of the time, the answer is no.

    9. If yes, then can you break them apart into the different buyer types?

    10. If you can’t identify all of them, here is how to do it:

      1. Fake it up process

        1. Fake business

        2. Fake website

        3. Fake ads to drive ideas

        4. Figure out who they are

          1. Facebook customer validation process

          2. Test your messaging

        5. How do you identify them?

    11. Do they want what you’re selling?

      1. Test your messaging

      2. See if they will buy it

      3. Get their contact info

    12. Now that you have a set of people to reach out to, let’s talk… literally.

      1. Get on the phone and CALL THEM

      2. Ask about who they are, what they want, how you can help them

      3. Understand their issues

        1. You will learn things you never realized about your product and offering

        2. You may realize that what you’re doing is going to be a huge success, or that it is not going to work

        3. You have to do things that don’t scale to enable things that do.

        4. Don’t underestimate the value of this.

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