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How LeadMeNot Grew

App for digital wellness and screen time management.

How did LeadMeNot grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

LeadMeNot grew through a combination of founder-led sales involving direct, relational interactions with customers and cold outreach to institutions. The company also leveraged pilots with enterprise clients, often offering free trials for one to two months to encourage adoption. Word of mouth and personal network introductions played a role in expanding LeadMeNot's reach among ministries and other organizations.

Channels

11 channels · grouped by how LeadMeNot grows
  • Word of mouth

    · 1 mention
    “I got on a call yesterday with a ministry. He sent an email on that call to three other ministries intro to Jason intro to Jason intro to Jason.”
    high
  • Direct sales

    · 1 mention
    “I get on Google Meet calls with my customers to diagnose stuff. People will call me like, I'm very relational with my customers on Lead Me Not because like, this isn't an app that helps you look like a dog, right? ... The institution has a face and it's built on a relationship, right? So they're ...”
    high
  • Partnerships

    · 1 mention
    “the organization is investing in LeadMeNot on behalf of the people that they're serving.”
    medium
  • Pay Per Click Advertising

    · 1 mention
    “And the channels that have been effective, that we're still very much figuring out to continue to optimize, just given our numbers, we're still very early, whether it's Apple search ads, Google ads, meta.”
    high
  • Organic social media

    · 1 mention
    “I sent all these universities this week, a bunch of marketing materials that my head of design, Vijay put together, of like, okay, here's how you communicate this on campus, da da da da da, right? ... it's like, distribution isn't the contract, distribution is successful deployment, right?”
    medium
  • Referrals

    · 1 mention
    “What if we didn't have to acquire every user one at a time, right?... what does it mean lead me not to one or to tens, hundreds, or thousands of potentials?”
    medium
  • Pilots with enterprise clients

    · 1 mention
    “Leo says, have you run pilots before selling it? If yes, were they paid or free pilots? No. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like, that, that one shirt technically did a pilot. Um, let them use lead me not for 30, 60, however many try not to go beyond. Like I lead with like one to two months. ...”
    high
  • Cold outreach

    · 1 mention
    “Asbury was cold, right? It's like, hey, I'm Jason founder, I didn't know anyone who worked at the institution. And then some of these were warm, but most of them were just cold.”
    high
  • Founder-led sales

    · 1 mention
    “it's still like it's founder led sales, I have to be running it. And there's gonna, we're gonna get a lot of nos before we get more yeses.”
    high
  • Personal network

    · 1 mention
    “on the warm side is not being shy to ask your network for help of like, hey, man, who do you think this could work with? Can you make an intro? Can you make an intro? Can you make an intro? I'll take it over.”
    high
  • Google Ads

    · 1 mention
    “And the channels that have been effective, that we're still very much figuring out to continue to optimize, just given our numbers, we're still very early, whether it's Apple search ads, Google ads, meta.”
    high

How 2,739 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — LeadMeNot’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68%
  • Social media
    60%
  • Search/SEO
    57%
  • Email
    48%
  • Community
    35%
  • Content/Inbound
    33%
  • Partnerships
    32%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Events
    24%
  • Press/PR
    17%
  • Outbound/Sales
    17%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    10%
  • Product expansion
    2%
  • Influencer partnerships
    2%