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B2B SaaS Marketing Agency vs In-House Marketing Teams: Which is the Right Choice for Your Company?

If you’re a SaaS company founder, CEO, or executive, you know the importance of having a solid marketing strategy in place. There’s a great deal at stake. Typically, SaaS companies?invest 80-120% of their revenue?in marketing and sales in the first five years of existence. The question of whether to handle marketing in-house or work with a?SaaS marketing agency?can be a challenging one. Both options have their benefits and drawbacks. Making the right decision is crucial to the success of your business. In our most recent blog post, the Bay Leaf Digital team walked readers through the pros and cons of using a marketing agency vs. in house teams and offered some insights into factors you should consider when making this important decision.

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Netline Report Offers Information for SaaS Marketing?

NetLine, a B2B content syndication platform that helps companies distribute their content to a targeted audience of potential buyers, recently released their "2023 State of B2B Content Consumption and Demand Report." The report offers valuable insights into the current state of content consumption and demand in the B2B industry , and is a must-read for anyone working in SaaS marketing.?

Here are seven key takeaways:?

1. Buyer intent data is strong. More than one-third of professionals expect to make a purchase decision in the next year.?
2. C-suite staff members including Executive Vice President and Senior Vice President are likely to be involved in buying decisions. That’s no surprise. Unexpectedly, the report determined that senior employees outside of the C-suite have influence in these decisions as well. That makes them important targets for ABM campaigns.?
3. Content marketing remains a successful approach. Overall, B2B content consumption increased more than 18.8%??
4. eBooks are the most popular content format, accounting for 33% of all registrations.?
5. Webinars dominate the content landscape. Registrations are highly correlated with purchase decisions in less than 6 months. “Webinar fatigue” is a myth. Demand continues to increase. Registrations grew 81% in 2022.??
6. Consumption of some content indicates purchase intent more than others. White papers are popular among those preparing to make a choice in the next year. ?
7. Relatively simple and inexpensive to produce and market, newsletters are a smart choice. There was a 307% YOY increase in newsletter sign-ups.?

It’s important for B2B marketers to understand how our target audience consumes content and what they are looking for. By creating high-quality, informative content that is personalized to the audience’s needs, we increase engagement, driving more leads and sales. Additionally, understanding the importance of email and long-form content helps to create a more effective content strategy. The Netline report offers valuable insights into the B2B content landscape and is a must-read for the Bay Leaf Digital team and our SaaS marketing industry colleagues.?

Is Auto-GPT the Next Wave in AI??

Over the past few months, many people working in and adjacent to the SaaS industry have found themselves quickly exploring the advantages of AI tools. ChatGPT, Jasper, and other large language model (LLM) applications have exploded in popularity, but they have their limitations. These AI services examine the large datasets they’ve been trained on and, in an instant, use past examples to create new chains of words in response to user-defined parameters. LLMs are only as good as the data they’re trained on and are often lacking in the most current information. Even worse, they hallucinate, providing inaccurate responses that sound sophisticated and informed.??

?Current AI applications are known in the programming world as “weak” or “narrow” artificial intelligence. They operate sequentially, completing one task at a time before the human user must input another prompt to get the next result. Auto-GPT may change all of that. Created by an entrepreneur named Toran Bruce Richards, who goes by the online handle Significant Gravitas, Auto-GPT is an “experimental open-source attempt to make GPT-4 fully autonomous.” In contrast to ChatGPT, which can only generate a response based on the input it’s received, Auto-GPT’s unique feature is its ability to interact with online and locally-hosted software and services. The platform can ask questions and do its own research, eliminating the need for back and forth prompting and responses to complete multiple steps. The process becomes automated as Auto-GPT asks itself the next question, researches the answer, and provides a solution.?

What might that look like? Here’s a scenario: Imagine you’re a SaaS marketer and you’re working with a client who provides a niche platform used by florists. You already know that you can save time and increase revenue by leveraging AI. You might use ChatGPT to generate the first draft of an eBook that you’ll use to generate leads for your client, then to create a video script for your next campaign, and still later to provide you with copy for your next social media post. Auto-GPT takes all of this a step further. You could ask Auto-GPT “Help me reach more florists who might be interested in software to grow their business,” and get not only a marketing plan but drafts of emails, relevant social media images, and more The application creates its own feedback loop, using previous results to generate the next command and response. Many believe that Auto-GPT could be the next step toward “strong AI” or “artificial general intelligence” (AGI).?

Auto-GPT is currently available on GitHub. Installation requires some technical savvy. We’re curious to see it in action! If you get it up and running, please tag @BayLeafDigital on LinkedIn and let us know how you’re using it.?

5 Reasons SaaS Founders Should Attend SaaStock USA 2023?

If you’re a CEO or co-founder of a SaaS startup with a goal of achieving at least $10 million ARR, there is a conference around the corner you won’t want to miss.?

SaaStock USA is hosting 400+ SaaS founders, 100+ investors and 60+ speakers in the Silicon Valley of the South (Austin, Texas) from May 31 through June 2, 2023.?SaaStock USA 2023 is an opportunity to surround yourself with like-minded SaaS experts who are willing to share their experiences, wisdom, and connections with you, paving a path to success.?

Check our blog below to read about 5 compelling reasons why you should attend this conference.

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