Lots of important marketing & SEO work done this weekend for @serverauth. Next up is plans for some major new features! 👀

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With all the house buying stuff the ServerAuth firewall took a bit of a back seat over the last week, but we're getting very close to finally shipping this now!

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Finishing touches nearly done on the new @serverauth firewall manager. Just gotta get those docs finished, run our final tests and we'll be ready to go! 🚀

Time for a quick sneak peek of it in action...
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🔍 SaaS Tip 15: Keep an eye on your competitors.

(1/6) Competitor analysis is a great way of seeing what's working well for other companies in your space, and what areas you can improve on. 👇

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⚙️ SaaS Tip 14: Make use of free SEO and Marketing Tools.

(1/6) There are lots of free marketing & SEO tools out there that can make figuring out where your site needs improvements, and how to find customers a fair bit easier. 👇

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🔮 SaaS Tip 13: Plan for the future.

(1/6) When you're starting out, it's easy to get caught up in the day to day running of your business, and not think too far ahead. However, its definitely worth considering what the future might hold for your business.

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SaaS Tip 12: Focus on the important things.

(1/3) With all of the different things you need to do to get your business up and running, it's easy to get caught up in all of the different things you need to do, and end up not doing anything at all. 👇

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🤖 SaaS Tip 11: Automate as much as possible.

(1/5) The more you can automate, the more time you'll have to focus on the important things. There are many different ways that you can automate your business. 👇

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♻️ SaaS Tip 10: Don't be afraid to pivot.

(1/5) This one's definitely easier said than done, but it's worth considering. Just because you've put a lot of time, effort and money into your idea, doesn't mean that you can't change it. 👇

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👪 SaaS Tip 9: Get involved with the community.

(1/4) This is something that I've been doing a lot recently, and its been working out really well. If you're totally anonymous, how will people find and be interested in your product? 👇

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🗣SaaS Tip 8: Figure out your marketing strategy early.

(1/8) I'm guilty of this, and I'm sure a fair few of you are too. You dive in to development, and build an awesome MVP, build a website, launch it and then...nothing. Where is everyone? 👇

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Every Tuesday @mikebarlow and myself have an IRL meeting to discuss @serverauth dev and marketing. It helps us figure out where things are and whats on the horizon.

Talk to your co-founder regularly! Even if its just a chat over coffee, it'll help immensely.

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💰 SaaS Tip 7: Three price plans is the golden rule.

(1/6) Services like Stripe & Paddle make it easy to create a range of price plans for your product. With some going as far as offering upwards of 10 different plans! Here's why that's a bad idea... 👇

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🤖 SaaS Tip 6: Be a human, not a robot.

(1/7) Customers are increasingly trusting people over faceless corporations when subscribing to SaaS products online. Here's why... 👇

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Working on some website updates for @ServerAuth this week to add some targeted landing pages. Figure it'll help people if we can show them how we'll help their individual type of business.

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👋 SaaS Tip 4: Share your product EVERYWHERE, but don't be an annoying spammer.

(1/9) So this should be pretty obvious. You want to tell as many people about your product, and there are a bunch of places you can do this for free. 👇

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🧵 SaaS Tip 3: You need to focus on doing one thing well.

(1/5) We're all guilty of having loads of ideas for different solutions to problems, and it can be easy to try to work on multiple projects at once.

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Big blog post drafted up this morning on DNS providers (yep a thrilling topic!).

Should be up on the @serverauth blog in the next couple of weeks.

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🛬 SaaS Tip 2: Get a landing page up, right now.

(1/5) This needs to be the first thing you do. Before you're ready to launch you need to start building your audience, and that audience is going to need a place to be sent to find out what you're offering.

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🧵 SaaS Tip 1:

(1/4) Getting your product 'done' and out there is more important than finishing off a bunch of features. Your first version should be held together with stickytape...

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