SaaS pricing strategies 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 […]

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, […]

I started my marketing career as an SEO analyst. Back in 2010, the process of backlink building was fairly easy. I’d see people putting together a press release and distributing it to hundreds of no-name platforms. Some would leave a slew of useless comments peppered with links beneath a blog post. Others would write a […]

If you’ve been following Chanty, you know that a lot of our success with marketing can be attributed to SEO. In fact, we’ve written about our techniques extensively in publications such as Hubspot. Building links remains one of our main tactics for getting new visitors and users to this day. We don’t stick to just […]

Introduction This is a story of competing with one of the biggest names in the industry of communication tools. This is a story of how we launched Chanty, an easy-to-use team collaboration tool. And finally, this is a story of numerous startup challenges we’ve solved.  I believe this story deserves your attention. Imagine a bootstrapped […]

Christmas is coming around and for us at Chanty, that means two things. One, spending time with our family and loved ones. Two, shopping around for amazing SaaS deals. Just because Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us, that doesn’t mean that there won’t be any deals. In fact, we decided that it’s time […]

Team communication is a great way to improve your work productivity, but on its own, it’s not enough. To get the most out of Chanty, we’re introducing the integration with Zapier, the best automation tool out there – so that you can connect Chanty with more than 1,000 other tools in Zapier’s program. What does […]

This fall we are taking Chanty, the world’s most popular team chat to the next level. I’m going to show you what is by far the most advanced Chanty update we’ve ever released. This is Chanty 0.3.0 –Inspired by recent Apple event On a serious note, we’ve got a doozy of an update for you. […]

At some stage, every SaaS team faces the issue of finding early adopters. Before making your product available for public, someone has to give it a spin and provide feedback, so you know in which way to tweak your roadmap. Finding beta testers for your app is only winning half a battle. In a perfect […]

Today we are proud to roll out the new version of Chanty apps. Several months of our hard teamwork turned out to be extremely productive. Despite the sleepless nights, we’ve achieved amazing results: The updated crisp and clean mobile apps for iOS and Android The insanely fast desktop app for both Mac and Windows Major […]

Your best teacher is your last mistake. Ralph Nader You’d probably agree with me – the more you learn from someone’s experience before launching a startup, the less mistakes of your own you’ll make. Our SaaS startup team has successfully passed the pre-launch stage and reached the beta test. Just a few months ago we […]

You and your team haven’t slept for weeks. You’ve worked so hard to develop and polish your app till it shines. Here it is – crisp and clean, ready to be uploaded to AppStore or PlayMarket.  Is it time for you to relax and enjoy the deluge of downloads?  Not even close!  It’s just about […]

Building a Twitter followers community isn’t easy Do you know that feeling when you are looking at zero followers on your corporate Twitter account and have no idea what to start with? You might feel discouraged. To tell the truth, I felt the same way… If you are struggling with this problem now, you are […]

How did you come up with an idea for your startup? Did it hit you like a ton of bricks during a sleepless night? I bet you got so excited that you had to instantly go online and explore the competition. Did it all start with you being a customer of your current competitor wondering, […]

Once you’ve joined a startup company or launched one of your own, you will continuously run up against thousands of issues that require your decision. “How do we fund our startup?” “Do we hire a freelancer or develop our landing page in-house?” “What is our marketing strategy going to be?”   “Do we choose freemium […]