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Product Marketing · March 9, 2026 · 8 min read

Why your SaaS product isn't getting recommended (and how to fix it)

Most SaaS teams wait for word-of-mouth to follow product quality, and it never arrives that way. Recommendations are a narrative outcome. People recommend a product when the recommendation makes them look smart, informed, or early. Wharton's Jonah Berger opens Contagious with social currency, the idea that we share what makes us look good, and the mechanism is status, so it still holds. A product that confers no identity worth claiming won't spread however good it is. Find the peer sentence your customers already say when nobody from your company is in the room, then build the positioning around it.

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GTM Strategy · March 8, 2026 · 7 min read

Why your SaaS revenue is flat even though you have product-market fit

Product-market fit doesn't grow revenue. It says the market wants what you built. Whether you can find more of those buyers at a repeatable cost is a separate problem, and most teams have never solved it. The early speed came from relationship velocity, which is trust built before the company existed. Map the last twenty deals and find where the pipeline actually breaks.

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Positioning · March 8, 2026 · 8 min read

Why your SaaS homepage isn't converting (and why design won't fix it)

Your homepage describes what you built. Your buyer showed up carrying a problem. Every line that names a capability instead of a situation widens the address gap, and most of them won't pay it. No design refresh gets that money back. Writing down the before does.

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Positioning · March 8, 2026 · 7 min read

Why your signups aren't converting to paid (it's not what you think)

Near-zero signup-to-paid conversion is a positioning problem long before it's a funnel problem. Broad positioning fills the top of the funnel with a curious majority who look identical to buyers in every dashboard and never pay. The repair is language specific enough to push the wrong people away before they ever sign up.

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Sales Enablement · March 7, 2026 · 7 min read

The B2B product demo playbook: how PMMs build demo experiences that win deals

The standard demo accumulates. Every feature in it earned a slot after some lost deal, nothing ever gets taken out, and eventually the demo can't do the job it exists for. What goes in, and in what order, is a positioning decision wearing a sales costume. PMM owns the narrative spine, the environment requirements, the variants that decide which slice of the product this buyer sees, and the competitive moments. A demo should carry the nine pages that belong to the person on the call, not the whole manual.

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Go-to-Market · March 7, 2026 · 8 min read

The product launch tier framework: how PMMs prioritize launches without burning out their teams

Not every launch deserves the same investment. A tier framework sorts releases into T1, T2, and T3 before anyone builds a plan. T1 gets eight to twelve weeks and a cross-functional team, T2 gets four to six weeks and a focused activation, T3 gets a changelog entry and one sentence to sales. The tiers matter less than the question they force, which is what a launch is worth before we spend on it.

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