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How Outseta Grew

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How did Outseta grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Outseta grew primarily through product-led growth driven by content marketing and SEO, which are its biggest sources of sales and traffic. The company does not have a sales team and relies on free trials and website visitors converting into customers. Partnerships with companies like Stripe and Webflow also contribute significantly to lead generation.

Channels

17 channels · grouped by how Outseta grows
  • Product-led growth

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “But about two years ago, we decided to lean fully into product led growth. We focus on getting people to our website, and our copy and a free trial converts some percentage of traffic into customers. A pre-recorded product demo helps a lot, and we invest a lot of time in our in-app onboarding exp...”
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    “No Sales/Support Teams: Engineers handle support; growth is 100% product-led via content and SEO.”
    medium
    “But we also made the deliberate decision not to build a sales team and to instead focus on product led growth and incentivizing referrals. All of these decisions were made in the same spirit and I can tell you with certainty that this has been hugely appealing to many buyers.”
    high
  • Organic social media

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “Fernando kept the momentum going by frequently sharing updates on both Linkedin and Twitter, where he has a relatively modest sized audience. 'The build-in-public approach has made marketing much easier for me,' he says.”
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    “our lead sources are like when people publish a profile on angels last when we see a new SAS product launch on product hunt that's the right time for us to reach out”
    high
    “X (Twitter) profile of Outseta @outseta.”
    medium
  • Content marketing

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “Going forward Fernando is turning his attention to affiliate marketing, writing blog posts, and building free tools to continue driving growth.”
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    “We talk about the role of content marketing in driving growth and how the team takes an unconventional approach to the content they create.”
    medium
    “No Sales/Support Teams: Engineers handle support; growth is 100% product-led via content and SEO.”
    medium
  • SEO

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “Three factors that really accelerated our growth rate in Q4. Redesigned website … We launched a new site after 2-3 weeks of really intensive effort, and the response to the new site has been fantastic.”
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    “No Sales/Support Teams: Engineers handle support; growth is 100% product-led via content and SEO.”
    medium
    “Those shares often resulted in high quality backlinks, which were great for SEO—currently his biggest source of sales and traffic.”
    high
  • Product Hunt

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “his Product Hunt launch went surprisingly well. aiCarousels was the 9th most upvoted product of the day, earning 154 upvotes, 64 comments, and 7 stellar 5/5 reviews.”
    medium
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    “Dropping out biggest product update ever either tomorrow or early next week. Thinking of doing the @ProductHunt launch 2.0 thing.”
    medium
  • Online Community

    · 1 mention
    “it was really the the no-code community sort of blossoming and Them discovering out setup. So these are less technical people...and they started showing up saying hey this outset of thing looks really interesting to us...and they sort of pulled us into the no-code world...that's what really kick-...”
    high
  • Testimonials

    · 1 mention
    “I absolutely love Alex's point about testimonials and results being what actually sells most effectively. ... I've always taken this to heart—recently I've been using Testimonial.to to capture testimonials from customers, which we display prominently on our pricing page. I would far prefer that o...”
    high
  • Product Page

    · 1 mention
    “With that in mind, we launched an 'Is Outseta for me?' page this year—a page in the same spirit. The goal of this page was to answer in the most direct and plain language possible questions like: What is Outseta?... This page was a hit since the moment we launched it—it's routinely cited by custo...”
    high
  • Building in public

    · 1 mention
    “Fernando kept the momentum going by frequently sharing updates on both Linkedin and Twitter, where he has a relatively modest sized audience. 'The build-in-public approach has made marketing much easier for me,' he says.”
    high
  • Webflow’s app marketplace

    · 1 mention
    “Big day for team Outseta—we're live in the @webflow Apps Marketplace!”
    high
  • Inbound

    · 1 mention
    “For the previous 7 years, we had a page on our website called 'Sales Pitch.' The idea behind this page was simple—we aren't going to chase you around from a sales perspective. If you wanted to be sold, we had a dedicated place where you could go to hear our pitch.”
    high
  • Integrations

    · 1 mention
    “The new Outseta plugin for @framer brings the building blocks of SaaS and membership businesses directly to Framer.”
    high
  • Cold outreach

    · 1 mention
    “that's the right time for us to reach out”
    high
  • Word of mouth

    · 1 mention
    “A lot of those, as you would expect, I don't want to discount anybody getting to 10 or 20 customers because that's a huge leap in and of itself. But a lot of them came referrals through our network and people that just knew what we were working on and were excited about it, that kind of thing.”
    high
  • Affiliate program

    · 1 mention
    “Become Outseta affiliate. Earn 25% commission forever... This program is now responsible for $111,173 in revenue.”
    high
  • Partnerships

    · 1 mention
    “We also talk about how the founders built successful partnerships with Stripe and Webflow, which have both helped to drive new leads and customers.”
    medium
  • Referral Program

    · 1 mention
    “But we also made the deliberate decision not to build a sales team and to instead focus on product led growth and incentivizing referrals. All of these decisions were made in the same spirit and I can tell you with certainty that this has been hugely appealing to many buyers.”
    high

How 2,707 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Outseta’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68%
  • Social media
    60%
  • Search/SEO
    57%
  • Email
    48%
  • Community
    34%
  • Content/Inbound
    32%
  • Partnerships
    31%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Events
    24%
  • Press/PR
    17%
  • Outbound/Sales
    16%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    9%
  • Product expansion
    2%
  • Influencer partnerships
    2%