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How One Sec Grew

Screen time management app to help users focus.

How did One Sec grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

One Sec grew by creating and advertising content on social media platforms like Instagram to reach their target audience. They also leveraged organic social media by hiring employees and freelancers through Instagram, which helped expand their team.

Channels

4 channels · grouped by how One Sec grows

  • Advertising on social media

    · 1 mention
    “I started making content for Instagram as well and was also paying for that content to be shown to more people. And I figured out that works really well because of course on social media, I find my target group of people that spend a lot of time on social media and want to spend less.”
    high

  • Email marketing

    · 1 mention
    “I was spending kind of like my whole day just replying to emails, which is like a really nice job... But I quickly realized that it's actually a very beneficial relationship for both of us because the person, Lukas, that I hired, he was super happy... Everyone in our company uses the app themselv...”
    medium

  • Organic social media

    · 1 mention
    “I hired almost all my employees or freelancers through social media. So yeah, if you want to get a job at OneSec, follow me on Instagram. Because sometimes I just put a story, hey, we need a new person to join our customer support team. Do you know anyone? And then usually it's like a friend of a...”
    high

  • Co-marketing Emails

    · 1 mention
    “I quickly realized that Instagram especially is a great channel to acquire new customers. Like kind of like previously how I did it on Twitter. I brought it over to Instagram because of course on Instagram you have like a completely different target group of users...”
    high

How 2,669 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — One Sec’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%
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