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How Podscan Grew

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How did Podscan grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Podscan grew primarily through founder-led sales by reaching out directly to podcast hosts who mention their brand, leveraging the contact information they have to initiate outreach. The founder also implemented a systematic customer acquisition strategy involving cold emails, prewarm emails, and direct messages, customizing each communication with data from their system. Additionally, Podscan utilized email automation to engage potential customers, offering 15-minute Zoom chats that many people accepted.

Channels

6 channels · grouped by how Podscan grows

  • Founder-led sales

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “Every time one of my users triggers a mention of their brand, that podcast itself becomes a new target for my outreach. Because I can just reach out to the host because I have all their information and they're often influential people themselves who might wanna track their mentions on other podca...”
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    “Right then, I talked about it on Twitter, shared this story, and I got another email from someone who expressed interest in the enterprise plan. I created the same discount code for them, and sent it over.”
    high

  • Email List Growth

    · 1 mention
    “Setting up email automation from day one via ConvertKit was absolutely worth it. In every email I send, I offer to have a 15min chat via Zoom, and people have been taking me up on that a lot!”
    high

  • Customer feedback

    · 1 mention
    “Besides that, many of them have been trying out my product and shared their honest feedback with me. Several have even purchased it, although they are the minority — which is important to me because I don’t want to operate under the illusion of having customers when it’s just well-intentioned fin...”
    high

  • Cold outreach

    · 1 mention
    “I ... turned this idea into a systematic customer acquisition strategy. ... I do cold emails or prewarm emails or you tell them in a DM, you talk to your customers. ... I created a human written template. I wrote it myself for cold emails and direct messages, and I'm customizing each one with the...”
    high

  • Brand storytelling

    · 1 mention
    “Building Podscan in public has also created a sizeable idea backlog for me. Not only do I get people’s expertise, I also get to tap into their dreams and ingenuity. Dozens of DMs have arrived where people tell me how they see themselves use a future version of the tool, what they envision it bein...”
    high

  • Twitter

    · 1 mention
    “Twitter is a great initial marketing platform, because it allows me to find people who know who my next customer should be. My internal blockage at this moment is reaching out to people outside my audience.”
    high

How 2,677 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Podscan’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
    17%
  • Outbound/Sales
    16% ◀
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    8%
  • Brand Authenticity
    2%
  • Product expansion
    2%
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