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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Oof. I’ve been neglecting Bluesky. Anybody out there? has engagement improved much over here?

Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Stuck at $3-5M ARR? The answer likely isn't better marketing. It's operations: flat orgs, analytics debt, founders still executing as ICs, no product process. Customer acquisition is the least efficient lever at this stage. 🎧 demandmaven.io/ep61-why-co...

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EP61: Why companies get stuck at $3-5M ARR | DemandMaven: Strategic growth partner for SaaS & Software Companies

Why early-stage SaaS companies get stuck at $3-5M ARR and what it actually takes to break through to $10M. It's not just about hiring more people.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

You need to know when you're thrashing. When you're spending a lot of energy doing a whole lot of nothing. When you're wasting energy over something that's not actually crucial. That's self-awareness. And it's critical for leadership.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A founder fed customer interviews into ChatGPT to get jobs-to-be-done. Output wasn't wrong. Just goofy. Missed all the nuance. The AI tension: incredibly useful, incredibly easy to misuse when you're not the expert. AI-assisted ✅ speeds up your work AI-led ❌ replaces your judgment

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It’s fascinating to me how marketing is the center of the universe for an up-and-coming SaaS business despite it being the least efficient lever to pull. It makes sense — customers pay the bills and you need as many as possible to survive.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Product is the center of the universe for PLG SaaS. Marketing depends more on product than product depends on marketing. You can't put lipstick on a pig. And if people don't want the pig, they're not buying it. Latest In Demand: demandmaven.io/ep58-why-ma...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Monthly churn: 3-4%. Looks fine. NRR at 12 months: 70%. Not fine. This is value decline. Your product isn't getting worse — it just stopped growing with your customers. Three causes, all preventable. New In Demand ep - demandmaven.io/ep57-why-yo...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

In most of the growth troubleshooting I do — which spans qualitative research and a deep dive into product, marketing, and subscription analytics — activation is almost always where the opportunity is hiding. And the #1 mistake I see? Teams treating activation like a box to check.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Your customers are survivors. They made it through whatever friction exists in your product. They're not representative of the people who left. That's why UX research with strangers beats research with customers every time. New In Demand episode on activation:

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Watching your competitor crush it with community, content or sales-led growth? Before you copy their playbook, ask yourself: -Do we have their funding? -Their team structure? -Their stage of growth? -Their customer base? Context is everything. Copying without it is a waste of time.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

"You can't do research for everything." Agreed. But if you're changing pricing without interviewing a single customer, you're wasting your time. Data can show you patterns. Only customers can tell you what they actually value and will pay for. demandmaven.io/ep53-why-re...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Here's the thing about research projects: Clients aren't paying you because research is "cool" or "fun" (even though it is). They're paying for the outcome research unlocks — better activation, smarter pricing, stronger retention. Research = 1/3 Translation = 1/3 Execution enablement = 1/3

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

That slow growth you're experiencing? It might not be a marketing problem. When we troubleshoot growth with SaaS companies, pricing is often one of the first things we look at. At DemandMaven, we start by talking to customers then running a survey. demandmaven.io/ep52-the-bu...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Stop shouting "we have product-market fit!" when you've got 5 customers and 6 months in business. It's way more accurate (and honest) to say: "I have early intuition that we might have PMF, but I won't know for sure until I see 12+ months of retention data."

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

IYKYK sooo many founders collect growth tactics like Pokemon cards. LinkedIn ads, influencers, referrals. But our client 4x'd revenue by optimizing 3 areas: messaging, pricing, onboarding. Each reinforced the others. Ready to build your growth system? demandmaven.io/contact/

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

You can feel like you have product-market fit, but your Net Revenue Retention will tell you the truth. I talk to founders all the time who are convinced they've nailed PMF because they have some paying customers and good feedback, but they haven't looked at their NRR.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

You may not think about operations, but operations is thinking about you. You're executing processes every day whether you've documented them or not. The question is: are they good processes? And are you aware of them? That awareness is what unlocks growth.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Your churn might *look* healthy at 3% but what if you're losing 55% of revenue every 12 months? With stats like that, no wonder growth feels impossible. Step 1: A free growth audit (with me), so we can identify missing metrics. Let’s chat: demandmaven.io/contact

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Partnerships and community programs launched too early rarely hit the scale you want. Not because they're bad strategies — but because the network effects haven't had time to mature yet. Timing matters.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

True story – I worked with a translation software company with a 10% activation rate. After our research sprint, they redesigned their UI around the actual "jobs" customers hired the product for and DOUBLED activation. Is your activation where you want? I can help demandmaven.io/contact

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The more founders I work with, the more I realize: most teams write off entire marketing channels based on one failed campaign. The channel isn't broken. You're just not looking at the campaign-level data that actually matters. demandmaven.io/ep49-can-yo...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Founder stuck at $40k MRR: "We didn't have time for customer interviews." 12 interviews and 3 weeks later: We identified why 99% of free accounts never converted AND uncovered 2 new profitable features. 😮‍💨 Ready to pull your greatest growth levers? demandmaven.io/

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DemandMaven || Strategic growth partner for PLG SaaS & Startups

We use qualitative insights and quantitative analysis to help you better understand your customers, identify gaps in their journey, and ultimately grow your business.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

every year i talk to 10-15 consulting firms trying to spin off a SaaS and the pattern is always the same: they think their brand equity will translate to the new product it won't you're selling to strangers now, and your product needs to stand on its own two feet demandmaven.io/ep48-why-sp...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The harsh truth about agencies at early-stage: You're paying them to learn. Just like any new hire, they won't hit their stride until month 3-4. If you're pre-PMF, that's a very expensive education for everyone involved. Consider contractors and freelancers first to de-risk.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

"What's the ONE thing that will 10x our growth?" It’s never just one thing. Our client went $20k→$80k MRR by fixing activation, clarifying ICP, and adding expansion revenue. Each improvement compounded the others. Need help identifying your highest-leverage growth opps? demandmaven.io/

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DemandMaven || Strategic growth partner for PLG SaaS & Startups

We use qualitative insights and quantitative analysis to help you better understand your customers, identify gaps in their journey, and ultimately grow your business.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I've seen too many founders spend $100K with an agency only to learn they didn't have product-market fit. There are cheaper ways to learn this. Before you hire the big agency, make sure you have: 80%+ NRR at 12 months Clear channel hypotheses >6 months of customer data

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Wild stat from my years troubleshooting slow growth: 60-70% of product opportunities aren't even conscious in your customers' minds. They can tell you about "quality-of-life improvements", but rarely about "true value generators". That's *your* job to figure out.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Founder: "We're doing everything right but stuck at $50k MRR." Me: Have you looked at net revenue cohort retention, activation rates, or customer jobs-to-be-done yet? 😉 Need help getting unstuck? DM me or book your free growth audit at demandmaven.io/contact

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

"We're doing everything right but still can't grow." Translation: You haven't checked your retention yet. Under 80% after 12 months? Marketing won't save you – you've got a leaky bucket. Let's fix it: demandmaven.io/contact/

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Someone needs to make a SaaS that shows you all the courses you bought so when you reach to buy the next one, it's like *AHT AHT* here are the 2-3 other courses you already have like the one you're about to pay for.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Your monthly churn looks fine at 3-5%, but you're still struggling to grow? Here's the metric that's probably punching you in the face: ↓

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Had a fantastic conversation on the #InsightsUnlocked podcast with Lija Hogan from UserTesting. We dug into what it really takes to troubleshoot growth challenges in SaaS, and why customer conversations are the secret weapon so many teams overlook.

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Balsamiq @balsamiq.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Most teams try to fix stalled growth by building more features. @sparktoro.bsky.social did it by fixing their UX. After some solid user research with @asiaorangio.bsky.social, they used Balsamiq to rethink the product—and grew signups by 20%. See how they did it: balsamiq.com/customers/sp...

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How SparkToro grew signups by 20% with Balsamiq

After a major setback, SparkToro rethought their product with wireframes. Here’s how a UX-focused redesign helped them ship faster and grow again.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

"I wish your product could do [feature that already exists]." Heard this in 3 churn interviews last month. But your churn problem isn't missing features ➡️ It's customers not knowing what you can already do. demandmaven.io/ep46-how-to...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Your 3% monthly churn might look healthy, but your 60% Net Revenue Retention says you're replacing half your customers every year. Yikes 😓 #SaaSFounders, here's the numbers you really need to be looking at demandmaven.io/ep46-how-to...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Stop 👏 using 👏 survivor bias 👏 to justify 👏 poor onboarding. 3-5 #UXinterviews will show you exactly where you're losing good prospects. My tips: demandmaven.io/ep45-the-fo...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Don't guess your activation metrics. Build a new user retention report and layer different behaviors on top. Look for ANY action that beats your baseline retention by 2-3x. Listen to the latest #InDemand podcast ep: demandmaven.io/ep45-the-fo...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Everyone puts "data-driven" in their core values but then makes decisions based on feelings and assumptions. Your actual core values are what you do under pressure, not what looks good on your website. demandmaven.io/ep44-a-real...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The more #founders I work with, the more I realize #EOS is like that friend who gives great advice but doesn't actually know your situation. Take the parts that work (scorecard, issues tracking, SOPs). Skip the parts that don't. demandmaven.io/ep44-a-real...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

whew this was a bad day to have good news 😔

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I need to start being less surprised when I get big wins for my clients. Just found out another client 2X’d their trial activation rate and 3X’d their AGR. They’re growing for the first time in YEARS. NRR chart is GLOWING WITH GREEN. 💅🏾💅🏾💅🏾

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Cancellation surveys are lying to you. Your customer didn't churn for "one reason" – it was probably 4-5 things stacked up over time. So, what's the best way to really dig into "why"? Find out in our latest podcast ep: demandmaven.io/ep43-how-ou...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🧵 How we completely overhauled customer research at DemandMaven (and why most teams are doing it wrong):

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I'm 3 months into my #fractionalCMO role and "Get executors executing" is my mantra. Strategy docs are worthless if your team doesn't know how to act on them. demandmaven.io/ep-42-diary...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Just hit my first 90 days as fractional CMO and wanted to share what this process actually looks like. Spoiler: It's not what most people think.

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

You can be a great manager and a terrible leader. You can be a great leader and a terrible manager. Most executives need to be both, just at different times. demandmaven.io/ep-41-the-h...

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Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

In customer interviews, I'm not just listening to what people say – I'm running every answer against a mental algorithm. The repeat stuff? That's your pattern. The new stuff? That's breaking your pattern. Both are gold. 💎 demandmaven.io/ep-41-the-h...

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