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How SaaS Companies Can Use Content to Edge Out the Competition
You're a SaaS company, and you're interested in how content can help you get more sales, earn a higher customer retention rate, and possible improve your overall brand reputation in the process. You've heard about content marketing, but you might not know what it takes to build an actual strategy. More importantly, you aren't sure what other, similar SaaS companies are doing, or what's expected from you from a baseline content perspective.
This is the guide for you. Throughout this in-depth, nearly-comprehensive article, I'll explain the basic tenets and advanced strategies that you need to take your content marketing game to a dominant, competitive level. I'll include examples, weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each tactic I introduce, and generally guide you to create a content strategy that your competitors simply can't touch. I'll do this in four main sections:
- An introduction, to follow, discussing the general advantages and goals of a SaaS-originated content strategy.
- A guide on content marketing for non-branded topics and an audience specific to your niche.
- A guide on help documents and troubleshooting for your current and prospective users.
- A section on growth and ongoing development to keep your strategy thriving for the long term.
With that covered, let's take a look at two major considerations for your content strategy. I'll dig a little deeper into the benefits and specific tactics to use in each respective section to follow, but to start, it's important to grasp these principles.
The Competitive Advantage
First, there are tons of benefits to a content strategy, but most important (arguably) and the focus of the article are on the competitive advantage. Your close competitors are all itching to poach your users, whether that's converting new prospects before you do or stealing them away with special offers. If you don't already have a straight competitor, you will soon. SaaS is a fast-paced, high growth industry, and it's only getting faster with time:
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Staying ahead of your competition means being more visible, being more trusted, being more valuable, and encouraging greater loyalty. If your content marketing strategy is, on the whole, better than your competitors', you'll have no trouble achieving all of these.
A Long-Term Investment
The second important consideration is that content marketing is a long-term strategy. As you'll see when I describe the benefits of each pillar of SaaS content, the benefits of content compound over time, growing exponentially especially during the early months of implementation. By comparison, a paid advertising or traditional marketing campaign will net you a positive, yet consistent return:
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Accordingly, it takes time to develop, but once you've established some early momentum, you'll see a rising rate return for as long as you continue managing your campaign.
Two Main Pillars
With those considerations out of the way, I'd like to present you with the two main pillars you'll use to establish your content strategy:
- Ongoing content, or content marketing, will refer to blog posts, articles, whitepapers, eBooks, infographics, and other forms of content that you'll be publishing onsite and offsite for your users. This will be targeted to both unfamiliar prospective users and current subscribers, and its main purpose will be to provide practical information.
- FAQ and troubleshooting content will focus on addressing the needs of your current user base in a number of different forms. Its main purpose will be to improve customer understanding of your app and increase customer retention and loyalty.
Let's explore each of these in turn.
Ongoing Content (Content Marketing)
There are many types of content you can use as part of an ongoing content marketing campaign, so I won't go to the trouble of listing them. There also aren't many rules for where you host this content; an onsite blog is a good spot, but don't neglect offsite opportunities. Remember, your goal here is to outcompete your fellow service offerers, so it's all about offering something your competitors can't or won't. In this section, I'll go over the principal benefits of ongoing content marketing, keys to success, angles to direct your strategy, and how to get started.
The Benefits
These are just some of the benefits you'll receive—many of which are amplified if you're able to produce and syndicate content better than the competition.
- Visibility opportunities and brand awareness. Have you ever heard of Hubspot? Of course you have. Do you know why? Because they have an awesome ongoing content marketing strategy.
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When you create and distribute great content that people want to read, they'll naturally happen upon it (by browsing their favorite sites, searching with a relevant query, getting it from a friend, or finding it on social media). Soon, they'll start noticing your name attached to the work, and your brand visibility will begin to grow.
- Inbound traffic. Ongoing content is a channel to increase inbound traffic, and from multiple directions. Writing good content targeted toward search user interests, consistently, helps you rise in search ranks, which increases your organic traffic. Syndicating on social media will increase your social traffic. Plus, posting on external sites will boost your referral traffic. Best of all, these effects tend to amplify over time.
- Brand reputation value. This is especially important in a competitive environment. When you write good content—better content than a user's ever seen before—you'll be perceived as the thought leader in the industry. Your reputation as an expert authority will increase, and you'll earn better conversions and higher customer loyalty as a result.
- Competitive differentiation. It's hard to stand out in the SaaS world, especially if your model is similar to another company's. Content gives you the opportunity to differentiate yourself. Take a look at Kroll's unique content offerings, which include events and webinars to attend in addition to basic content—you can even submit your own.
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- Conversions and new subscriptions. Content also gives you a platform to pitch the value of your product (though your primary focus should be on providing valuable information). If executed properly, content can earn you more conversions and subscriptions directly.
Components of a Successful Strategy
Clearly, an ongoing content strategy is a good thing. But you also know that simply having a "good" strategy isn't enough. Your strategy needs to be better than that of your competition, so what components are going to help you get there?
- Consistency. If you want an ongoing loyal readership, you have to be consistent. That means publishing similar types of material of a similarly high quality on a regular basis. The goal here is to set and then consistently meet your user expectations; consider implementing regular features, such as Zendesk has with its "tip of the week":
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- Appropriate targeting. Don't write for everybody or you'll end up writing for nobody. It's tempting to write to a "general" audience for the extra volume, but it's far better to have a smaller audience who's hungry for your content than a large one who's lukewarm. Know which demographics matter, and write to them.
- Originality. This should go without saying, but your content must be original! Don't just find a SaaS competitor with a service similar to yours and copy everything they're doing on their blog. Find a unique angle and go with it. Make yourself stand out.
- Detail. The level of detail you provide is crucial to proving you're worth your salt—and when I say detail, I don't mean length. I mean nuggets of specific information your users wouldn't be able to find anywhere else, such as case studies, examples, statistics, and hard facts. Dig deep here.
- Practicality. The content that gets shared the most tends to be useful in some way. For example, it might help people be more efficient, or give them a new idea to try in their chosen careers. Again, write to a specific target audience here.
- Diversity. Don't write variations of the same topic over and over, and while it's a good idea to retain some consistently, it's a bad idea to use the same formulas and formats too often. Diversify your strategy by adding in new mediums, such as infographics or video, and experimenting with new topics regularly.
- Syndication and visibility. Even if your content is amazing, people won't be able to find it on their own. Work to syndicate your content and make it visible to people outside your current readership on social media and other online outlets.
- Propagation. It's also a good idea to set up separate pillars of your content strategy, such as by building relationships with different publishers. This will also help you earn more high-quality inbound links, with a more diverse backlink profile.
- Escalation. All these components in place may seem like enough—and yes, if you follow these, you'll likely start getting the edge on your competition within months or even weeks. However, you can't let your strategy remain stagnant. Your competitors will be breathing down your neck, and that means you'll have to escalate your efforts, iteratively, to see better results over time.
Key Angles
The general rules I outlined above apply to everyone, but they don't give you much direction when it comes to topic selection or angles to choose for your content. Unfortunately, I can't give you much specific advice here unless I knew exactly what type of service your company offers and who your target audience is.
You have to choose topics that your audience wants to read and present them in a way that makes it easy for them to do so. You'll want a blend of short-form and long-form content, since each have inherent advantages, and as a general rule the following content types are exceptionally popular when it comes to social shares and link earning potential:
- Lists. You've seen listicles everywhere, and for good reason; they're digestible and appealing.
- How-tos. Help people do what they need to have done.
- Futurism. Make bold predictions about the future of your industry (or technology).
- Resources and cheat sheets. Give your users long, downloadable guides to use in their professional environments.
- Infographics. Infographics have massive share potential thanks to their attention-grabbing nature.
- Videos. Videos are only getting more popular—consider video webinars here too.
- Quizzes. This may be hard for SaaS companies to adopt, but try to find an application for your specific software.
- Opinion pieces. State-of-the-industry pieces and bold, controversial stances can be powerful.
Don't take this list as the be-all, end-all; instead, use it as inspiration in combination with your audience knowledge and topic selection to come up with all-star post ideas.
Getting Started
If you want to beat your competition, you have to know what they're doing in the first place, so get researching! Everything starts with strategy, and you won't be able to form one until you know where you currently stand. Once you've gathered the data on your competitors' ongoing content strategies, you can use this entire section to hunt for weaknesses. What are they doing that they shouldn't be doing? What aren't they doing that they should? This information should provide the foundation for your strategy, and once you start following it, readers will naturally be more attracted to your brand's work over any other competitor.
FAQ and Troubleshooting
Of course, content for SaaS companies isn't and shouldn't be limited to only traditional content marketing. Generally, content marketing is designed to attract new customers—but how can you use content to make sure they stick around? Customer retention is crucial if you want your SaaS to keep growing, and one of the best ways to up your rates is by providing a free, comprehensive body of content to answer common user questions, troubleshoot problems, and generally keep your users informed of your software's latest updates.
The Benefits
FAQ and troubleshooting content takes a lot of work, but the benefits are well worth it. Here are just a few of them:
- Improved customer retention. I mentioned this in the introduction, but customer retention is a need you can't ignore in a competitive setting. Losing a customer is bad enough, but think about the effects of a customer transitioning to one of your competitors—you'll lose traction, they'll gain traction, and the word-of-mouth ripple effect could cause even more users to go. You have to fight to keep your users, so make sure your help and resources are better than anyone else's.
- Bad experience recovery. Occasionally, your software is going to leave users feeling frustrated or confused. When that happens, they're vulnerable, and you need to be there. A fully fleshed-out content strategy can be a major comfort to a distressed user. Check out the comprehensive help that Moz offers as an example:
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- Prospect reassurance. Your FAQ section, if publicly available, can also serve as a way to reassure possible prospects that your company is the right choice. Seeing a full resource library will demonstrate your commitment to customer service, and could help you close an otherwise iffy deal.
- Reduced customer service costs. Think about it this way—if your content library was so comprehensive that it answered every possible customer question, you wouldn't need a customer service team at all! Though not a competitive advantage, there are cost efficiency benefits to adopting this type of content strategy.
- Greater customer ownership. Depending on what elements you offer, you could encourage a greater sense of ownership and participation among your users. For example, a community forum could bring your users together, establishing greater brand loyalty and even brand evangelism.
- Circular feedback. Finally, with improved customer participation and small additions like "was this article helpful?" style micro-surveys, you'll glean new insights from your customer base, which can lead you to even better improvements of your brand and software. Think of it as a glorified customer survey that requires no additional investment.
Components of a Successful Strategy
Just like with ongoing content, there are certain components you'll need to include if your strategy's going to be successful. These tenets apply no matter what type of content you're pursuing—an FAQ page, an encyclopedic-style library, a customer forum, or some other type.
- Specificity. Your content shouldn't speak in general terms. When your customers arrive, they're either dealing with a specific problem or they have a specific question—your content needs to address this specifically. Otherwise, your guidance will be unhelpful, and your customers may seek a more knowledgeable competitor as an alternative.
- Thoroughness. Your customers are probably smart. Very smart. But assume they have no idea what they're doing. Be as comprehensive as possible in your offerings, with a dedicated article or section to cover every possible complaint or point of confusion a customer could have. Take a look at how many options Unbounce has for its users:
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- Multi-platform nature. The more platforms you include in your model, the better. Earlier in this section I alluded to FAQ pages, customer forums, and resource libraries as distinct constructions—but why not feature all of them? Why not also include an offsite presence, such as through social media? The more channels you offer, the more ways customers have to get in touch with you, and the more satisfied the majority of your user base will be. Take a look at all the ways Pega has to get support:
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- Timeliness. This is especially important when you address a new update, a new change, or something that went wrong in your app. You have to be proactive in your offerings, so that when users start looking for something, it's already there waiting for them. Your help documents aren't something you can procrastinate on—get them up and running as soon as possible, and be proactive when it comes to addressing new features.
- Visual and/or audio elements. Not everyone learns the same way, so it's imperative that you don't rely on any one format or medium to comprise the bulk of your resources. Written articles are great because they're relatively easy to produce and they can be indexed completely in search engines, but video and audio elements are also helpful—even the inclusion of screenshots can take your documents to the next level of quality.
- Customer engagement. No matter what forms of help you choose to offer, there should be some way for customers to engage. In a forum, this means hosting an open community that can ask and answer its own questions. In a tutorial series, this might include micro-surveys to gather feedback. Even a simple thumbs-up/thumbs-down can make customers feel more engaged and give you more feedback with which to improve your approach.
- Ongoing improvement. Speaking of improvements, you should always be making them. Your help and resources section will never be complete, and it will never be "good enough." To stay ahead of the competition, you need to constantly work to add new content, update old content, and refine your tactics to provide the best material possible for your audience.
Key Angles
Like with ongoing content, there are a few angles you should strive for—though this list is less focused on specific formats and mediums, and more focused on the purpose of the content you provide:
- Problem resolution. First and foremost, your content should be able to—theoretically—solve any customer problem on its own. If your content is unhelpful for any reason, you need to have contingencies in place, such as a chat feature or a customer service line.
- Curiosity exploration. Next, remember that prospective users will be crawling your help guide to get a feel for what your software is like. Accordingly, much of your content should "show off" the best features of your product, and make it look as simple and appealing as possible to an outside user.
- Transparency. The more open you are about problems, issues, and discrepancies in your app, the less room there is for customer criticism. No platform is perfect, and you need to be willing to admit that. Proactively give users the tools they need to compensate for these weaknesses. Take, for instance, SalesForce's social media presence, which has an entire wing dedicated to customer service:
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- Customer commitment. Show that you truly are committed to your customers by listening to them. If you have forums, get involved yourself. If you see lots of the same question or complaint, prioritize it as an item for the next round of publication. This will show prospective customers how valuable you are (and will increase loyalty in your existing user pool).
- Secondary value. Your resource library can have secondary values in addition to its ability to solve user problems. Take, for example, Wistia's customer forum, which has evolved into a platform for shared experiences and mutual help in areas beyond the software platform:
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Getting Started
The goal here is to be as specific and comprehensive as possible, but you don't have to do everything all at once. Don't put that level of pressure on yourself. Instead, start with the basics; a simple how-to guide or tutorial can work well as an introductory measure. Walk through your software as a new user, and document the process. Think up a handful of common questions a user might have, and address them on a simple FAQ page.
From there, you can expand outward. Start digging into more specific problems a user might run into, and gather data about what your customers might like to see. Your resource library here will be a continuous work in progress, so the sooner you get started, the sooner you can reap the benefits.
Growth and Ongoing Considerations
In both a traditional content marketing strategy and a help/troubleshooting strategy, it's important that you prioritize your long-term growth and ROI. That means making improvements, doing more work, and giving your customers more of what they actually want. Your competitors will continue to be aggressive long after you initially adopt your strategy, so keep them at bay with these ongoing tactics:
- Keep what works. If you find a particular type of article or feature is popular, try to learn what qualities made it that way, and replicate them in future additions. Rely on objective data here, rather than your own assumptions.
- Throw away what doesn't. Sometimes, a content idea seems great in theory, but when it's published and live, it just doesn't generate any meaningful momentum. Don't force the jigsaw puzzle piece into place; instead, recognize that it isn't working, and move onto something else.
- Listen to user feedback. If you know what questions to ask and how to get your users to participate, they'll tell you everything they want and everything they need. All you have to do is listen, and give it to them.
- Be better. There are always ways to improve the quality of your content—more detail, more images, more coherent organization, etc. The minute you stop improving, your competitors will start catching up, so always strive to be better.
- Do more. Expand horizontally by offering new regular features, new systems, and new areas of development. You don't have to keep everything (and you shouldn't keep applications that aren't working), but you should always be building new wings of your portfolio.
- One-up your competitors. Your competitors are sneaky, wily, and unpredictable. If they've managed to compete with you this long, it's because they're smart and they aren't afraid to tackle challenges. They're going to keep coming out with new, innovative content strategies, so keep an eye on them—and work to find ways to one-up them with your own.
Content is more than just a marketing tool, and it's more than just an ingredient in your overall brand strategy. If wielded properly, content is the ultimate weapon you have to edge out the competition. With a better ongoing content strategy, you'll be more visible, more authoritative, and more helpful than any of your competitor, and as a result, you'll wind up with a far higher customer acquisition rate. Similarly, if your troubleshooting and "help" content strategy is better than your competitors, your customer retention will prevent your users from ever switching sides.
SaaS is a crowded, competitive field with lots of turnover, lots of risks, and enormous potential rates of return. You may have a great product, but there are likely dozens of competitors with similarly great products. You owe it to yourself to find alternative routes to differentiation and, of course, improvement to set yourself apart from the crowd. Content is the perfect place to start.
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Verdict in the case of bullfighting in Spain,
France and Portugal
Preamble: the Court finds that:
1. The torturing, killing and humiliation of animals in arenas during corridas for the sole purpose of public entertainment panders to man's basest instincts. These spectacles are a cultural disgrace, and a primitive and barbaric relict from the past that insults the basic ethical principles of modern European society.
2. The initiation of children and young people into the world of the corrida violates legislation on the protection of minors. Anyone who authorises it is jointly responsible for the corruption of young people's morals and of rendering them insensitive to violence, as well as being jointly responsible for the growing incidence of aggression between adults.
3. The promotion and organisation of corridas also contravenes a number of national laws which already prohibit such cruelty in the towns and regions where it takes place. The penal code is still repeatedly interpreted in favour of the corrida by taking a "generous" attitude approaching a circumvention of the law.
V e r d i c t
in the case of the corridas
against the leaders of France
based on the oral testimony given today and an examination of the evidence,
the Court finds
the President and the Prime Minister of the French Republic,
Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy and Mr. François Fillon,
guilty of
- complicity in acts of cruelty to animals;
- failure to protect children and young people
- by encouraging bullfighting propaganda in French schools,
- by allowing young children to attend corridas,
- by tolerating the establishment of bullfighting schools and subsidising these schools,
in which children and young people are taught to discard all sentiments of compassion and mercy;
- blocking the abolition of the corrida in France;
- condoning the masquerade in French arenas and thus causing the death by torture of
hundreds of bulls every year;
- using national and European public funds to promote the interests of bullfighting, overruling the
opinion of three-quarters of the French population, who want to see the corrida abolished in their country;
- contributing to the decline in French moral standards by encouraging spectacles of torture that
are reminiscent of ancient Roman circuses and which are abhorrent to modern, civilised society.
V e r d i c t
in the case of the corridas
against the Prime Minister of Spain
and the four Spanish bullfighters' unions
based on the oral testimony given today and an examination of the evidence, and in the face of the magnitude of the cruelty inflicted on animals in Spain, particularly fighting bulls,
the Court finds
Mr. José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain,
guilty of
- complicity in acts of cruelty to animals;
- accepting and even advocating, as popular entertainment, the torture and killing of inoffensive,
sensitive and sentient creatures;
- maintaining the bloody and degrading spectacle of the corrida through subsidies, to the
detriment of underprivileged sections of the population.
The Court finds Mr. Zapatero and the four co-accused Spanish bullfighters' unions
guilty of
- exporting the humiliating practice of the corrida to other countries, in particular to France;
- establishing and supporting bullfighting schools, in which children and young people are
taught that it is heroic to torment, to torture and to kill;
- making every effort to keep alive a barbaric tradition that is a disgrace to civilised society and
Europe's cultural heritage;
- blocking the efforts of the EU to establish ethical standards that will include animal rights,
and contributing to the decline in Spanish moral standards by encouraging spectacles of torture that are reminiscent of ancient Roman circuses.
in the case of the corridas
against the former President and the former Prime Minister
of the Republic of Portugal
based on the oral testimony given today and an examination of the evidence,
the Court finds
Mr. Jorge Sampaio, former President of the Republic of Portugal
Mr. José Manuel Barroso, former Prime Minister of Portugal
and current President of the European Commission,
guilty of
- openly enjoying the torture of bulls and other cattle, as well as the horses used in the arenas;
- maintaining and promoting bullfighting, despite the condemnation of these degrading
spectacles by the vast majority of Portuguese and European citizens;
- partially abolishing the law of 1928 which protected bulls from being put to death in Portuguese
arenas, thus putting their country back 80 years in matters of animal protection;
- deliberately delaying social and legislative progress concerning the protection of animals,
making Portugal a less civilised and a backward country, seen from a humanitarian point of view;
- using legislative means to spread the idea that the torturing of animals is part of everyday life,
that it is a form of art and entertainment and that it should be accepted as normal and respectable;
- contributing to the decline in Portuguese moral standards by encouraging barbaric spectacles
that are reminiscent of ancient Roman circuses and which are abhorred by modern, civilised society.
Verdict in the case of the corridas
Demands of the Court
The Court appeals to the legislators in the countries incriminated to take into account the opinion of the vast majority of their compatriots, who consider the corrida to be a barbaric practice, unworthy of a civilised nation. The Court calls for the abolition, as quickly as possible, of all forms of bullfighting that involve the harassing, the torturing and the killing of bulls.
In the meantime
the Court demands
- that all direct and indirect subsidies for corridas be stopped immediately;
- in protocol No. 33 of the Treaty of Amsterdam (which foresees full respect of the needs and
welfare of animals), the cancellation of the clause exempting the established traditions of member states – particularly religious rites, cultural and nationalist traditions;
- the immediate closure of all bullfighting schools for children and young people for reasons of the protection of minors;
- the barring of young people under the age of 16 from arenas and a prohibition against exposing children and young people to any forms of lobbying or propaganda in support of the corrida.
- that the European Community cease all subsidy of the corrida, whether direct or indirect.
- that the protection of animals be anchored unequivocally and without compromises in the
future European Constitution.
- that Pope Benedict XVI invoke the (still valid) papal bull DE SALUTE GREGI DOMINICI
of Pope Pius V, which clearly condemns bullfighting, as well as issuing clear directives calling
for the condemnation of the bloody, repulsive spectacle of the corrida.
- The Court demands that the European Parliament urgently organise a referendum to
allow the overwhelming majority of opponents to the corrida to express their opinion.
Geneva, 23 June 2008
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1 comment:
- Xphstos said...
Cher Kostas
Je connaissais cette pétition contre les corridas sur le territoire français.
Je suis membre de GAIA, GREENPEACE et W.W.F
J'ai donc signé et fais parvenir à d'autres personnes. I have all ready signed the petition against the corrida. Efkaristo parapoli filé mou. Je te remercie pour m'avoir communiqué ton adresse de blog.
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Helicopters hovered just above the palms. We did not yet have the full story but as the day unfolded with another stabbing incident at a Ra'anana café less than two hours later, life became surreal. Scary.
We soon found out that the first incident happened right outside our friend Marina's clothing store. As soon as it occurred, a regular middle-aged guy, ran out from his office with an umbrella and bashed the assailant down against the curb. Really hard. He did not think twice. He simply reacted with intuition, force and he saved lives.
At the café, the next assailant (a worker from the nearby Beit Levenstein Hospital) stabbed four people sipping coffee and ran. A cab driver saw him fleeing and instinctively veered into him to stop him. The guy somehow got up and kept running. A man on a motorcycle then ditched his bike, took off his helmet, jumped a fence and bashed the terrorist with his helmet. The cab driver caught up to him and together they captured him. Two more heroes who acted calmly, quickly and saved the day.
Meanwhile, in my son's grade 11 chemistry class, a student who is trained with Magen David Adom (emergency first aid response team) received a text message that there was a stabbing in the café about one hundred yards from the school. He calmly got up, left the class, grabbed his first aid kit that he kept in his locker, asked a friend to hoist him over the school fence (the schools were all on lock down yesterday) and was the first to arrive on the scene, saving a life. Another hero, this one a 16-year-old kid.
The roads of Ra'anana were clogged with drivers, parents picking their kids up from school. There was talk that another terrorist was running around Ra'anana, right near my friend's bookstore. She had locked her store door. People came pounding on the door wanting to be let in. One was a woman from Petach Tikvah who had been on Ahuza during the first stabbing and was now completely fearful. One was a young high school girl.
The third was a young boy who said he was riding his electric bike when a guy threw himself at him with a knife. He sped away from the terrorist and now sat calmly. My friend was so amazed at how composed he was, she asked him if he was sure it was a terrorist. Yes, he said, the guy had a knife and shouted 'allahu akbar.'
No sooner had the attacks occurred, I received an email about a free krav maga (street defense developed by the IDF) class that would take place in a few hours. I went with my 14-year-old daughter and hundreds of others. The room was filled with young and old, English, French, Spanish, Italian and Hebrew speakers.
It's almost impossible to own a gun here, pepper spray was quickly sold out today and we all wanted to know what to do. Word got around fast. The city did not organize anything so the locals took it into their own hands.
Rachel, a spirited, confident, gorgeous young woman took control of the class. Originally from Toronto, she is the daughter of my friend who owns the store where the first attack happened. Rachel has a black belt in Karate and was recently a krav maga instructor in the IDF. She knows her stuff.
She first said we should not stay home afraid. We should go out with total awareness, knowing how to defend ourselves. Within one hour, she taught us basic self-defence tactics in multiple languages, giving us tips on how to fend off an attacker, giving precious time to run away.
One little girl who looked no older than six put up her hand. "What if he is bigger than me?"
"Pretend you are playing soccer," Rachel answered, giving a strong kick to an imaginary guy in a place that would make him see stars.
People in this country continue to amaze me. They take control. They adapt. They continue to live.
Amir now walks the dog with a huge bicycle chain around his neck. My kids report back as soon as they arrive safely at school. My son took a knife with him this morning. In most countries, weapons are checked in at the door. Not here. And not now.
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BOSTON -- Mookie Betts put together the finest all-around season by a Red Sox player in recent memory, but it wasn't quite enough for the 24-year-old to land the 2016 American League Most Valuable Player Award.
Betts finished second in the Baseball Writers' Association of America balloting announced Thursday to Angels center fielder Mike Trout, who is considered by many to be the best player in the game.
BOSTON -- Mookie Betts put together the finest all-around season by a Red Sox player in recent memory, but it wasn't quite enough for the 24-year-old to land the 2016 American League Most Valuable Player Award.
Betts finished second in the Baseball Writers' Association of America balloting announced Thursday to Angels center fielder Mike Trout, who is considered by many to be the best player in the game.
Trout finished with 356 points, beating out finalists Betts (311 points) and Astros second baseman Jose Altuve (227). The results were revealed during a one-hour special on MLB Network.
Of the three finalists, Betts was the only one to play in the postseason this year, creating some hope among Red Sox fans that he would win the MVP.
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Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, who retired after a brilliant final season, finished sixth and received a first-place vote and a second-place vote.
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