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How Live Tourney Grew

Golf tournament management software with live scoring.

How did Live Tourney grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Live Tourney grew primarily through direct sales methods such as cold calls and cold emails, which have been their most successful way to find new customers. They also used LinkedIn and Apollo for cold outreach, which accounted for about half of their customers. Great customer service played a key role in their growth, as quick responses to issues built trust and had a compounding positive effect.

Channels

3 channels · grouped by how Live Tourney grows
  • LinkedIn

    · 1 mention
    “We use LinkedIn and Apollo for cold outreach. So far, that has worked well and it’s how we’ve gotten about half of our customers.”
    high
  • Inbound

    · 1 mention
    “I cold-emailed a bunch of courses and asked if they’d be willing to try the product and give their feedback on what I built.”
    high
  • Google Ads

    · 1 mention
    “We’ve just started to dabble in Google / LinkedIn ads, but probably don’t have enough spend or data yet to say whether or not it’s working. We’re a very niche product, so the targeting we get with LinkedIn seems promising and we’re hoping that it will eventually be a profitable channel for us.”
    medium

How 2,740 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Live Tourney’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%
  • Influencer partnerships
    2%
  • Product expansion
    2%