SAAS Marketing Help/Opinion

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by amac • 13 years ago

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I need some help and opinion from folks who either run or use SAAS/Web based Marketing applications.

Being relatively new (circa one year) to Digital Marketing, I'm still learning the ropes and as such, I've created a service called Octopus (octopus.org) to help myself and marketers. The goal of the service, with the help of other Marketers/Developers, is to list Marketing apps as well as make them searchable and discover-able.

I'd appreciate your thoughts on the site and whether you think it would be useful.

domaniac• 13 years ago

I like the idea. I find it hard looking for trustworthy reviews of marketing apps. If there was one site which i could trust, then i would definitely find myself coming back for more.

That said, there is only one app being reviewed on the site - the site itself. Maybe you could first seed some content yourself and post reviews of apps you use.

Instead of this being a community driven review site i would prefer reviews from a single person or a small team with public profiles. For any marketing app you will find a 1000 fake online reviews. If you can trust into your site, there is a good opportunity here.

ph4• 13 years ago

As a direct marketer I could see this being useful, but it's hard to get a feel for it when the site is pretty much bare now - get some content up. I would think that you'd do pretty well in organic search results for things like "<app name> reviews" (which I search all the time, and never find anything good).

amac• 13 years ago

Thanks for the replies guys and those who emailed. Working hard to make this service better.

SAAS Marketing Help/Opinion

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