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As a SaaS startup team, you’ll have to choose a pricing model for your product at some point. This decision is crucial as it shapes the future of your brand, your marketing and your business. When we started our pricing strategy research we were choosing between freemium and free trial as these are the models our competitors use. However, when we dug deeper into the research, we were surprised to learn that there are actually dozens of different monetization strategies a startup can choose from.

Social networks are a huge part of our everyday lives, both at work and at home. It’s easy to get lost in the avalanche of social media updates. Before you know it, your whole workday has been consumed by unproductive web surfing, tweets, and posts. Nucleus Research found that 25 percent of US workers spent a minimum of two hours a day surfing the Internet. For that reason, many companies have blocked Twitter, along with Facebook, YouTube, and other social media websites at work.

In this article, I’m sharing the exact steps we took to get our Chanty website from 0 to almost 400K visits and from 0 to 10K leads in two years. I know, the numbers aren’t too impressive. It’s not like saying, “I got from 0 to 125 million visitors in a few months.” But hey, we are talking bootstrapped here, and many of the B2B SaaS consultants and founders I know would give their arms to see their 10K goal hits in their reports.

Have you ever wondered how much time we actually spend working? According to Huffpost Australia’s research, over the course of a lifetime, an average person spends 4,821 days at the workplace, which equals 13 years and 2 months or 24% of your life. Big time, isn’t it? And I think you would definitely prefer to spend a considerable amount of that time in maximum comfort, peace of mind, and productivity.

The new Google Business Center is designed to increase the chances of accidental meetings between office workers. Yahoo has terminated employees’ ability to work remotely. According to Marissa Mayer, its CEO, “people are more collaborative and innovative when they’re together.” In our new global society, working methods are rapidly changing and so is office collaboration. Developing technologies and world competition make the business more complex, interdependent, and dynamic.

Let’s keep it simple. There are basically two management styles: “bossy” and “buddy.” All managers are drifting between these extremes, looking for the best approach in their particular cases. For you to choose the right management style, I’d like to share some insights, expert tips, and stories. I hope you’ll find them helpful!

I know that a piece of content about too much content is kind of ironic, but hear me out. With every company out there putting out blog after blog, reading all the latest content seems like a chore. That’s good news for a content creator, but if you’re trying to catch up on your reading list, you could end up spending hours every day just to stay on top of the latest content.

In some shape or form, email has been around since as early as the 1970s. In the world of IT, where trends change every few months, four decades is quite a long time. According to the data on Statista, there were an astounding 4258 million email accounts in 2022. While email usage remains high, the digital communications landscape is changing rapidly. The ‘death of email’ is a topic that is gaining popularity as businesses and individuals alike look for more efficient ways to communicate.

Busy is the new cool. Somewhere along the line, it became a badge of honor to have as many responsibilities as possible. Stories of CEOs waking up at 4 am, working 80-hour weeks, and glorifying their struggle to succeed are everywhere. But for many, this culture can lead to burnout and unhappiness. The pressure to take on too much responsibility at work has never been greater.

Despite all the technological advancements, apps, and productivity tips, it seems that we have less time every day and that we’re in a constant hurry trying to get things done with a nonstop delivery mode. We rush from one task to another, only to find that there’s always more to do. And yet the data shows that we actually have more free time than we used to. In fact, people in developed countries now work 12 hours less than they did 40 years ago.