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How Boomerang Grew
Email scheduling and productivity tool for professionals
How did Boomerang grow?
Summary of the sourced claims below
Boomerang grew through viral growth, where each user sending meetings exposed many others to the product, encouraging them to try it. The company also leveraged SEO by creating high-traffic organic tutorial pages to attract users. Additionally, Boomerang followed a product-led growth strategy before the term was widely used. Its freemium SaaS model allowed many trial users to convert to free basic users, supporting growth.
Channels
4 channels · grouped by how Boomerang grows
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SEO
· 1 mention“It was a very good, high-traffic, organic SEO tutorial page with no conversion button at the beginning.”
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Product-led growth
· 1 mention“we've been doing the PLG route before it even had a name.”
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Freemium
· 1 mention“We are a freemium SaaS, so as a freemium company, many of our trials will convert to free basic user at the end of their trial.”
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Viral growth
· 1 mention“So this is the virality of our product, right? If you have one Boomerang user sending out 100 meetings, there are 100 people coming across Boomerang Experience. And the pitch is very simple. You just had a great meeting scheduling experience, don't you want that for yourself? If we improve this f...”
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How 3,289 businesses grow
Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each —
Boomerang’s highlighted.
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Social media64%
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Referral/Word-of-mouth64% ◀
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Search/SEO58% ◀
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Email47%
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Community37%
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Content/Inbound35%
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Partnerships32%
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Events24%
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Paid ads23%
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Outbound/Sales19%
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Press/PR17%
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Marketplaces/App stores12%
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Podcasting4%
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Influencer partnerships3%
