SaaS Marketing with Dekker: SaaS Startup Lead Generation (Udemy.com)
SaaS Customers! SaaS Business | SaaS Sales | Startup App Marketing, SaaS App Growth Marketing IT Startup SaaS Startup
Created by: Dekker the Marketer
Last updated August 2026
What you will learn
- SaaS marketing
- How to generate demo requests, free trial sign-ups, and paying customers
- SaaS lead nurturing
- SaaS demand generation
- Software marketing
- Startup
- SaaS sales
- SaaS startup
- SaaS app
How it compares
Against the other 173 rated Udemy courses in Marketing on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 15% of them
- Reviews1,022#35 of 174 by number of reviews
- Length22.9 hourslonger than 95% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 94% of them
Course Description
Learn SaaS marketing from an expert with 14 years experience marketing for Sony, two Google-backed SaaS startups, bootstrapped startups, and SaaS companies at various stages of venture funding from Series A to D.
I will teach you...
The single most cost-effective way to acquire new SaaS customers
New! How to generate $1M in sales pipeline in 6 months
New! 1-Sheet Million Dollar Blueprint PDF
Dekker's SaaS Positioning Worksheet
Step-by-step instructions for advertising profitably through platforms such as LinkedIn (with examples of successful SaaS ads)
How to grow your SaaS business profitably
How I acquired users for less than 10 cents each
Specific examples of SaaS marketing that have worked for me and others
SaaS lead generation strategies & tactics
Step-by-step instructions on how to reach out to key influencers to generate cost-effective word-of-mouth marketing
How to build your SaaS marketing funnel and overall marketing plan (in 1 page)
Detailed SaaS lead nurturing strategies and tactics (lead nurturing mastery!)
Detailed step-by-step marketing instructions
How to fix problem like poor MQL-to-SQL conversion rates
How my product got 15 million views from a single video with no ads
Specific tactics that worked for me in generating cost-effective sales meetings
Real-world SaaS marketing examples & cases
Startup marketing
How to approach lead generation and demand generation in 2021
This course includes:
Videos (tutorials, walk-throughs, go-to-market interview)
Templates (Word, Excel)
PDFs
Articles
Quizzes
I’m a Silicon Valley marketing veteran with 13 years’ experience in software marketing for companies including Sony, a Google-backed SaaS, SaaS firms at various stages of venture funding, and numerous bootstrapped SaaS startups. I have an MBA from the #1 marketing school in the US, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. I also wrote numerous marketing books and taught college-level marketing. This is my SaaS marketing playbook!
This is the perfect course for SaaS founders and their marketers and consultants. Amplify the effectiveness of your marketing team immediately without paying the hefty fees of a Silicon Valley CMO or senior consultant. Empower your team with this bundle which is guaranteed to DOUBLE your qualified SaaS leads! This is the easiest, fastest, cheapest way to get senior-level marketing advice for your SaaS product.
Don't learn from trial and error. Don't waste your cash on marketing experiments that don't pay off. This bundle will save you countless wasted dollars and produce qualified lead IMMEDIATELY.
SaaS Marketing Playbook PDF contents
The fastest, easiest way to generate demo requests and free trial sign-ups
ALWAYS be selling your demo request or trial, even if you’re just nurturing leads
Nurturing people after they’ve signed up for a free trial
Consider paying people to sit through your demo
The cheapest way to generate demo requests and free trials
The most efficient way to generate demo requests and free trials
How to find influencers
How to reach out to influencers
How to build partnerships
Latch onto larger companies
Identify the trigger events where to interject your SaaS into the conversation
Identify and address objections
Facebook ads (yes, for B2B too)
Fix the bottlenecks in your funnel
The limitations of inbound content marketing and SEO
Consider a “medium offer” that falls between a free trial and a demo request
Direct mail
Twitter ads
Write an email explicitly designed to sell the demo or trial
Content marketing should start at the bottom of the funnel, not the top
One of the most practical frameworks for building demo/trial-generating content
Often the best approach to lead nurturing is to let prospects choose what they want to do next
Educational content is the easiest way to nurture leads
Use time as a forcing function
Your website is a nurturing tool
Stop marketing your product and start doing this one thing instead
Your list
The case study is one of the most important pieces of content that you need
Frameworks for lead nurturing
When to send leads to Sales
Demand generation content
Common funnel mistakes
Set a clear goal for the # of demos, trials, SQLs, SALs, opportunities, or pipeline revenue
The most important SaaS metric
Software marketing
Advanced SaaS lead nurturing summarized
Articles
One reason why you may be struggling to grow your SaaS demo requests and free trial signups - and what to do about it
The big mistakes in B2B SaaS marketing that startups keep making
The colossal SaaS marketing mistakes that most startups make
7 big product marketing mistakes
7 secrets to acquires tons of new software customers quickly
Buy Today!
Sincerely,
Dekker Fraser, MBA
Lead Nurturing
SaaS
SaaS Marketing
SaaS Product Management
Software Marketing
IT Startup
App Marketing
Lead Nurture
Lead Scoring
IT Startup
Startup Marketing
Nurturing Leads
Nurture Emails
Lead Generation
Marketing Strategy
SaaS Growth
Growth Hacking
Go to Market
Business Development for Startups and Tech Companies
Startups
Tech Startups
Startup Growth Strategies
Startup Marketing
Marketing for Startups and Small Businesses
Digital Marketing for Startups
Marketing for Tech Companies
Marketing for Entrepreneurs
Marketing for SaaS
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
1,022 Reviews
Dekker the Marketer
Marketing Management Experience
• Global Product Marketing & Brand Manager for Sony PlayStation
• Vice President of Marketing for a Google accelerator startup
• Senior Product Marketing Manager for a Series-A startup
• Product Marketing Manager for a Google-backed Series-D startup
• Director of Marketing for Ironclad Games / Flame Design
• SaaS Marketing Consultant
Education
• MBA in Marketing from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
• Leadership Essentials from Columbia Business School
• Bachelor of Commerce from Mount Allison University
• Master's and bachelor's business courses at BI: Norwegian Business School
• Presidential Scholar at Saint Mary's University
Academic & Volunteer Experience
• University MBA Program Advisor
• College Marketing Lecturer for Digital Marketing & Business Analytics
• Division Director and VP of Membership for Toastmasters International
• Board of Directors for a charity
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Reviews
By Benjamin Smyth on 8/5/2025
This is a collection of great, well explained information, but it is disorganised. It lacks a sequential character that makes courses feel like they represent a progression from novice to advanced. Definitely take the course for the valuable expertise Dekker provides, but go in with an expectation that you may need to hack through a jungle of dense, disorganised content to get to the valuable parts.
By Daniel Ironi on 4/8/2024
There were a lot of concepts I had to learn on my own and the material covered them a lot, including abbreviations. Slang that is less familiar, an extension of the material that could have been shorter, tests that are too simple but on materials that we did not go over. Unstable structure. At the end of the course, I don't know how much I learned and I can use the tools that were here, there was a lack of order and organization. Courses within the course and lack of focus. There was content that was repeated on different subjects and it felt that he simply took a pile of material that was on the subject in one way or another and threw it into one course.
By Melas No on 3/4/2024
It's easy to notice how Dekker has so many real world experience working with SaaS companies, an it's not simply regurgitating information. I am a technical founder and this is my first contact with real world marketing and it's very helpful with the down to earth explanations and easy to implement actions. I am happy to give the 5 stars and make his course noticeable so he can create more content.
By Daniel Morales on 3/1/2024
I have a mix of feelings about this course. The worst thing is that it is poorly organized. It seems like the author has a lot of unstructured content and put all of them here in the course. The first thing I'm looking into Udemy is organization and structure, and I did not find this in this course. The good thing is that teacher is well versed and seems like he know what he is talking about. For that I give this a hard 3
By Or Rozenberg on 2/22/2024
This is my second course with Dekker and as expected he is extremely knowledgeable, experienced, and eager to teach. His lessons his valuable and I wish every marketer should take them as early as possible in their career. However, I was hoping for this class to be a bit more structured. Many lessons repeat themselves in between formats and some of them seem outdated. I know it's in Udemy's best interest to have this course as lengthy as it can be but in my opinion this could have been a lot shorter.
By Charu Gupta on 8/10/2023
I absolutely love this course. It’s easy and simple to understand. Dekker has explained the common mistakes, myths and things one should do with a lot of examples across the spectrum which helps one understand the why. I have learnt most of the marketing on the job and so many things are intuitively so clear to me but when I hear experts say the same things, it’s validation.
By Marimar dela Torre on 2/13/2023
This course took me nearly a year to complete, but I'm glad I did. Even if it means starting from the beginning to remember everything I've done previously. I've learned a lot about where we went wrong and how to avoid them in the future. Now, I'm starting over with the knowledge I gained from this course. It definitely shows me where I went wrong and why my efforts were insufficient. Thank you very much.
By Richa Malhotra on 8/31/2022
The trainer is having so much of useful content to present but its presented in such a messed up manner that's its really time consuming and difficult to process. It could have been more organised, non-repetitive, aligned and less of pdf. What i like about the content is its practical in approach.
By Luka Seki on 12/11/2021
Well worth the money! I got 30 pages of notes out of it! It's packed with great tips that are clearly explained by the instructor. Dekker was also very responsive and answered all questions. This course gave me a solid foundation to build on and explore each area more in detail. I feel much more confident about marketing my SAAS after going through this.
By Daniel Iraheta on 12/19/2020
Good job! This course is full of amazing information on SaaS business and SaaS marketing. The instructor is very concise and open what he did to establish his online presence and has empowered me much to realize these opportunities. I'm thankful to learn new information about SaaS business.
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