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How BoloForms Grew

Digital signing and approval workflow software for small businesses

How did BoloForms grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

BoloForms grew by launching on the Chrome store and doing SEO, including writing blog posts and getting into Facebook groups. It began with a partnership with a Facebook group owner, who was given affiliate commission, and over about one and a half years it grew to 100,000-plus installs. Users who grew on the product also sent documents to sign to other business owners, who then discovered BoloForms.

Channels

6 channels · grouped by how BoloForms grows
  • SEO

    · 1 mention
    “After launching it on the Chrome store, as well as doing, you know, a lot of SEO, we wrote a lot of blogs around this and then getting into Facebook groups.”
    high
  • Word of mouth

    · 1 mention
    “And as the users grow, they send some document to sign to some other business owner, and then they discover us. And that's the growth flag. Now we are slowly starting to see.”
    high
  • Partnerships

    · 1 mention
    “It started with a simple like partnership with a Facebook group owner, we just, you know, gave him affiliate commission. And that's how we started. And over the course of one and a half year, we grew it to 100,000 plus installs, a lot of users, we could not monetize the product that way. But we g...”
    high
  • Facebook Community

    · 1 mention
    “After launching it on the Chrome store, as well as doing, you know, a lot of SEO, we wrote a lot of blogs around this and then getting into Facebook groups.”
    high
  • Organic social media

    · 1 mention
    “After launching it on the Chrome store, as well as doing, you know, a lot of SEO, we wrote a lot of blogs around this and then getting into Facebook groups. Over the next two, three months from August of 2022, like up until December, we grew to 10,000 plus users using the product.”
    high
  • Franchise your business

    · 1 mention
    “That's where the growth can come in very fast in a short period of time is what I feel. ...our goal for the next few years... acquisition, acquiring other products or companies in your space that maybe have an overlap with your customers.”
    high

How 3,091 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — BoloForms’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    66% ◀
  • Social media
    64% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    58% ◀
  • Email
    48%
  • Community
    37% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    35%
  • Partnerships
    33% ◀
  • Events
    25%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Outbound/Sales
    19%
  • Press/PR
    18%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    12%
  • Podcasting
    4%
  • Building in public
    3%