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How iZooto Grew

Owned audience marketing platform for media publishers

How did iZooto grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

iZooto grew primarily through inbound marketing efforts, including content marketing and SEO, which helped attract visitors and signups to their website. They also relied on enterprise sales and an outbound sales team to acquire customers, especially in the early stages. Additionally, iZooto leveraged distribution partnerships with marketplaces like Shopify, Magento, and WordPress to increase visibility and reach more prospects.

Channels

12 channels · grouped by how iZooto grows
  • SEO

    · 1 mention
    “There is a lot of content which is created essentially to facilitate sales conversations, right? So enabling sales to be more impactful in terms of helping prospects visualize how they can use push notifications for specific problems with statements, helping them visualize how they can use push n...”
    medium
  • Distribution Partnerships

    · 1 mention
    “We also leveraged marketplaces like Shopify, Magento, WordPress to get visibility within the ecosystem, drive our rankings in these app stores, and reach more and more prospects overall.”
    high
  • How-To-Guide Content

    · 1 mention
    “Now that as a product, we have been able to build a much more solid clarity of our ideal customer. We now rely primarily on our outbound sales team, right? And then we have a marketing team that goes out there and assists these sales reps with very, very targeted campaigns. So we're just getting ...”
    high
  • Channel partners

    · 1 mention
    “For US and Europe, we've been a lot more inbound heavy. We've focused a lot more on content marketing. We've focused a lot more on working with select partners.”
    high
  • Inbound

    · 1 mention
    “Our objective is to one, generate interest from people on the internet, get them onto our websites, let them sign up, fill a form, book a demo, right. And then engage in a conversation with them to, so as to convert them into a, into a customer.”
    high
  • Brand ambassador program

    · 1 mention
    “Our product has an inbuilt virality loop in it because whenever somebody activates aizooto on their website, it shows a notification permission box powered by aizooto. That sort of drives a lot of visibility for the brand.”
    high
  • Enterprise sales

    · 1 mention
    “For the longest time, I think ... until we hit close to about, yeah, a million dollars in ARR, we were pretty much, you know, we only had two channels of acquisition. One was inbound, and second was our enterprise sales efforts which were taken care by Neil.”
    high
  • Bootstrapping

    · 1 mention
    “We really started cranking the engine in the second year... and after we had figured out, okay, we want to clearly double down on e-commerce as a segment and keep exploring our GTM in the publisher segment.”
    medium
  • Original research reports

    · 1 mention
    “I think one good thing which we did right from day zero was investing in content and investing heavily in marketing. So I remember our first hire in the new company was a content marketeer.”
    high
  • Industry interest

    · 1 mention
    “Back early on, we had started investing in a content marketing setup so as to build a proper inbound funnel to attract visitors, attract signups to the website, and so on, right? That, along with the outbound slash field sales team, really is what sort of, you know, got us going on in the early d...”
    high
  • Yelp ads

    · 1 mention
    “In India, we've always had the leverage of our network, which is, which allows us to pick up a phone call, call up someone and set up a meeting and go ahead with that. So it was a very outbound heavy approach for the first few years.”
    high
  • Trade shows

    · 1 mention
    “This year was a lot more about investing, in fact, experimenting with events and trade shows.”
    high

How 2,669 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — iZooto’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68%
  • Social media
    58%
  • Search/SEO
    57%
  • Email
    47%
  • Community
    33%
  • Content/Inbound
    31%
  • Partnerships
    30%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Events
    24%
  • Press/PR
    18%
  • Outbound/Sales
    16%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    8%
  • Brand Authenticity
    2%
  • Product expansion
    2%