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How Headlime Grew
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How did Headlime grow?
Summary of the sourced claims below
Headlime grew primarily through SEO, leveraging blog posts and organic traffic from search engines as a key growth channel. Additionally, organic social media played a role, with the founder sharing teasers on Twitter and participating in the "build in public" community, which contributed to organic growth. Press coverage, including a feature on Techcrunch triggered by social media exposure, also contributed to Headlime's growth by creating a flywheel effect attracting bigger accounts.
Channels
3 channels · grouped by how Headlime grows
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SEO
· 1 mention“using SEO as a moat”
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Press
· 1 mention“This caused a flywheel effect. Bigger accounts would see the tweets on their timeline and learn about Headlime, which got me featured on Techcrunch.”
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Organic social media
· 1 mention“While building it, I would drop the occasional teaser on Twitter on how powerful the new tool was. So, when I launched in December, the growth and hype were out of this world. Revenue would double every few weeks. I started December with $1K MRR and reached $20K MRR in February 2021. Most growth ...”
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How 2,705 businesses grow
Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each —
Headlime’s highlighted.
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Referral/Word-of-mouth68%
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Social media60% ◀
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Search/SEO57% ◀
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Email48%
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Community34%
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Content/Inbound32%
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Partnerships31%
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Paid ads24%
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Events24%
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Press/PR17% ◀
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Outbound/Sales16%
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Marketplaces/App stores9%
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Product expansion2%
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Influencer partnerships2%
