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How Castanet Grew

LinkedIn outreach automation tool for sales teams

How did Castanet grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Castanet grew by leveraging personal networks, starting with friends and acquaintances who owned or ran companies, and expanding through referrals after validating the value of their offering through conversations. They also utilized organic social media channels like Twitter and LinkedIn to build awareness and grow their audience.

Channels

6 channels · grouped by how Castanet grows

  • Organic social media

    · 1 mention
    “I see it all the time. It's like people on Twitter, especially, I mean, that's where I am most active, but I just see people grinding it out, grinding it out and all of a sudden it's like, oh shit, like, wow, there they go. They just did it. They went from 1K MRR to 40K this month. Literally. I s...”
    high

  • Email List Growth

    · 1 mention
    “And honestly, right now, I have started a newsletter called the SaaS Bootstrapper a while ago. And I am just having a lot of fun with that. And that is sort of, it's a whole new set of challenges, honestly, like, I mean, it's just capturing an email instead of a credit card even, but it's, you kn...”
    high

  • LinkedIn

    · 1 mention
    “I see it all the time. It's like people on Twitter, especially, I mean, that's where I am most active, but I just see people grinding it out, grinding it out and all of a sudden it's like, oh shit, like, wow, there they go. They just did it. They went from 1K MRR to 40K this month. Literally. I s...”
    high

  • Customer feedback

    · 1 mention
    “by having enough conversations and enough people kind of agreeing that like this was valuable...I started with friends. So, and then took referral, but the same idea, right...by the time I have dozens of these conversations, I'm ready to launch something, I've got 50 to 100, whoever, however many...”
    high

  • Personal network

    · 1 mention
    “I reached out to, you know, a handful of people, you know, friends, or people that at least acquaintances, people that know who knew who I was. And I just, I went with people who either owned a company or ran an agency or were higher up in some company. And so I reached out to them and asked them...”
    high

  • Lead magnets

    · 1 mention
    “And honestly, right now, I have started a newsletter called the SaaS Bootstrapper a while ago. And I am just having a lot of fun with that. And that is sort of, it's a whole new set of challenges, honestly, like, I mean, it's just capturing an email instead of a credit card even, but it's, you kn...”
    high

How 2,695 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Castanet’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68% ◀
  • Social media
    58% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    57%
  • Email
    47% ◀
  • Community
    34% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    32%
  • Partnerships
    30%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Events
    24%
  • Press/PR
    17%
  • Outbound/Sales
    16%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    8%
  • Brand Authenticity
    2%
  • Product expansion
    2%
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