The DRMG Blog

September 19, 2024

B2B SaaS CMO Playbook: Lessons from Backcountry.com's Rise and Fall

Discover key lessons B2B SaaS CMOs can learn from Backcountry.com’s success and failure, from staying focused on core values to driving sustainable growth.

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July 26, 2024

Balancing Category Strategy with Immediate Sales Needs in SaaS Positioning

In the world of B2B SaaS, the excitement of creating a new category must be tempered with the reality of clients' immediate needs. By balancing long-term vision with short-term solutions, companies can ensure their category strategy supports, rather than hinders, their sales efforts. This approach not only helps in closing deals but also builds a foundation for sustained success in the new category, enhancing SaaS positioning effectively.

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July 2, 2024

Call It A Catjacking: Apple Hijacks AI With Personal Intelligence Category

Following the launch of the Spatial Computing category, Personal Intelligence System is the second recent example of Apple embracing and crushing category strategy.

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March 1, 2024

Unlock GTM: Accelerate Your Strategy With DRMG And AI In 5 Weeks

DRMG's New SBAI start-up activation sprint workshops are designed to reorient and align your teams, quickly. Our activation sprints leverage AI to translate your vast business knowledge base into actionable, strategic plans, making your go-to-market strategy not just faster, but smarter.

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January 25, 2024

The Quencher and the Damage Done

Buffett advised, "Buy commodities, sell brands." The new model is "Buy brands, sell commodities." Stanley is the case-study.

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December 21, 2023

You have the technical talent, but do you have the strategic?

From pre-seed to pre-IPO, we've worked with leadership teams on up-market initiatives and down-market focus, teams in need of post-merger/acquisition alignment, teams that were growing fast and teams that were "restructuring," teams that were pivoting their focus, teams transitioning from a service model to a SaaS model, and teams on the hunt for their next round. In the last 26 months, DRMG clients have raised $96 million. We can likely help your team, as well.

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October 27, 2023

Tech and Trout retreat for the Winter

1,200 private companies are expected to run out of money next year. So, why should differentiation be the new survival instinct for B2B SaaS

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October 6, 2023

Creativity Versus Reality in B2B SaaS

“...can a brand campaign generate sales, increase profit and build brand? Yes. Can a direct response campaign generate sales, increase profit and build brand? Yes. Can any campaign generate sales, increase profit and build brand? Yes.”

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September 28, 2023

Strategy Before Creativity

Creativity feels big, unattainable, and unaffordable without the context and understanding of how to get to something Creative. What's missing is the strategic foundation to build upon, to ground the idea in objective analysis and approach to the opportunity in the market.

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September 13, 2023

Creativity in B2B: There's a Way But Is There the Will?

Being creative versus being a creative, and why that matters to Jira-jailed B2B SaaS cultures.

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August 8, 2023

Front.com's Customer Operations Platform Category Strategy Tear Down

Category Strategy looks easy and obvious when it is clear, concise, and executed with conviction and commitment. Few B2B SaaS companies are comfortable tweaking existing category conventions to the point where clear differentiation and premium positioning is achieved. We roll across a lot who try, but Front.com is one of the few who have done a great job bringing the strategy to life and to market. It's not all roses, though. There are a couple of opportunities for improvement.

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August 1, 2023

How does AI Impact Your Category Strategy?

So, now that everyone is adding an AI element to their product solutions, the question naturally arises: “How does this impact my category strategy?” The answer is that AI scratches the System 2 itch, and is not a System 1 tip of the spear, meaning...you don't lead with it.

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