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How Pod Squeeze Grew

AI tool for automating podcast content creation

How did Pod Squeeze grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Pod Squeeze grew through multiple channels including podcasting, organic social media, and an affiliate program offering commissions on sales and renewals. They also engaged in direct and enterprise sales, attending conferences to demo the product and closing deals with media companies and agencies. Additionally, they used SEO efforts and free trials to increase website traffic and user acquisition, although increased traffic did not always translate into revenue growth. Early growth was supported by cold emails, Reddit, Product Hunt launches, and word-of-mouth referrals.

Channels

12 channels · grouped by how Pod Squeeze grows

  • SEO

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “from September on, we started seeing less people coming to the website, and we started focusing on SEO. And since then, I think we have made great efforts, and we were very successful in bringing a lot of traffic, in terms of traffic, not in terms of MRR. The argument that João and I always have ...”
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    “Tiago Ferreira and João Amaro bootstrapped their AI podcast-repurposing tool Podsqueeze from zero to €16K/mo in less than a year, but then watched it sit flat for two years despite more features, better SEO, and free trials.”
    medium

  • Word of mouth

    · 1 mention
    “It got a lot of traction, a traction that we have never seen before in other products that we build. And I think word-to-mouth was a big part of it.”
    high

  • Direct sales

    · 1 mention
    “And then we go through the full enterprise cycle of, okay, do you like it? I will get you a trial so that you can try it out. We will accompany the full process. And then eventually, if they like it, we convert the sale. But it takes months.”
    high

  • Affiliate program

    · 1 mention
    “BECOME AN AFFILIATE PARTNERShare Podsqueeze with your audience and earn money!Our affiliate program offers 25% commission for 15 months, on every sale and subscription renewal payment.”
    medium

  • Organic social media

    · 1 mention
    “Social mediaGet short posts and bite-sized insights to spread the word on social media.”
    medium

  • Reddit

    · 1 mention
    “we did a lot of cold email, Reddit, product hand launches, and that was enough to grow to basically 14K.”
    high

  • Podcasting

    · 1 mention
    “LISTEN TO OUR PODCASTMasterclasses fromexperienced PodcastersListen to our podcast, where we interview experienced podcasters and users of Podsqueeze from around the world. We ask them to share their tips, insights, stories, and everything you need to know to grow your own podcast.”
    medium

  • Product Hunt

    · 1 mention
    “we did a lot of cold email, Reddit, product hand launches, and that was enough to grow to basically 14K.”
    high

  • Conferences

    · 1 mention
    “we go to conferences and we just demo the products to the people. And obviously, we go to conferences where relevant people are, people that are working in these media agencies or newspapers and companies, and we show this to them.”
    high

  • Freemium

    · 1 mention
    “It just increased recently because we introduced the free trials, by the way.”
    medium

  • Enterprise sales

    · 1 mention
    “I must say one thing that I think is very important and something we found out in the next two years, which was the B2B sales that added 2K to our MRR. So here in Portugal, we actually got the main media companies here in Portugal to be our clients. And we are charging them around 400, 500K.”
    high

  • Photo Ads

    · 1 mention
    “We have been cold calling people. We closed a few deals with smaller agencies.”
    high

How 2,739 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Pod Squeeze’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%
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