Database optimization tool for Postgres users
pganalyze grew through multiple channels including a weekly educational video series on YouTube, which attracted over 2100 subscribers and generated word-of-mouth referrals among users moving to new companies. They also conducted successful webinars with hundreds of live attendees and used lifecycle email campaigns to engage potential customers without being intrusive. Additionally, pganalyze invested in SEO through blog posts and organic search traffic, which took multiple months to years to become significant.
“I think always do something else as well, if you're trying to get revenue fast. But I would say at the very least multiple months to actually get good content that actually is successful. And then probably multiple years to the point that we can say our organic search traffic, for example, is sig...”
“Yes, some word of mouth as well, like these days. So we definitely get people that are like, Hey, I used you guys at the previous company. Now I'm at a new company. So I still like the product. So can we use it here?”
“So we have a lifecycle email campaign. So let's say, so a couple of things actually, so you can sign up for a newsletter. That's one way of getting into the system, so to say. ... Once they give us an email address, we try not to be obnoxious, but we do try to give them a little bit of a, Hey, yo...”
“Now what we do in these monthly newsletters is besides product updates, we have started doing webinars about two years ago... these webinars have been really successful, like we had multiple 100 people, I think 400 people show up live for webinar, which is very unusual.”
“One and a half years ago, we started a weekly video series on YouTube called five minutes of Postgres. It’s definitely generating results ... that channel has 2100 subscribers ... people find these videos really educational and talk about them to their colleagues.”