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How SaaStr Grew

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How did SaaStr grow?

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SaaStr grew through multiple channels including direct traffic, which nearly tripled as more users typed saastr.com directly or used bookmarks, indicating strong brand recognition. Referral traffic, representing word-of-mouth sharing, more than doubled with users and sessions increasing significantly as people shared content and tools within their networks. Organic social media contributed to growth with user numbers rising by 46% due to consistent publishing on platforms like X and LinkedIn without paid promotion. Email marketing also played a role, with user engagement and sessions increasing by over 40% as the company maintained a clean B2B list and sent content people wanted to read.

Channels

6 channels · grouped by how SaaStr grows

  • Word of mouth

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “Referral traffic nearly doubled (+76%). People sharing our tools and content with their networks. The AI tools especially spread through founder communities because they’re genuinely useful.”
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    “Referral is up 116%. People are sending people. Referral users up 116% YoY. New users via referral up 123%. Sessions up 84%. Referral is the closest thing to a word-of-mouth metric that GA4 will give you. Someone read something, decided it was worth sharing, and sent it.”
    medium

  • Email marketing

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “Email grew 161%. Our newsletter strategy started working harder as we had more compelling reasons for people to click through.”
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    “Email is up 41%. The list still works. Email users up 41%. New users from email up 46%. Sessions up 59%. The “email is dead” takes have been wrong for 15 years and they’re still wrong. A clean B2B list, sent consistently, with content people actually want to read, still drives real engaged traffic.”
    medium

  • Organic social media

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “Organic social on SaaStr.ai hit 27% of that property’s traffic—way above our site average. The tools were spreading through Twitter and LinkedIn because founders were posting about them.”
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    “Organic social is up 46%. The compound effect of showing up. Organic social users up 46%. New users up 60%. Most of the social channels for SaaStr (X, LinkedIn, the podcast feeds) are not paid. They compound. You show up, you publish, you do it for years.”
    medium

  • Inbound

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “SaaStr.ai drove roughly 31% of our total session growth. A single new product, launched mid-year, accounting for nearly a third of our growth. It generated 112,551 views, 53,122 active users, and 79,790 sessions—all net new.”
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    “Referral is the closest thing to a word-of-mouth metric that GA4 will give you. Someone read something, decided it was worth sharing, and sent it. Or another site linked to us and a real human clicked. Referral more than doubling tracks with what we’re seeing inside SaaStr too. More inbound.”
    medium

  • SEO

    · 1 mention
    “Our organic search users are up 42% YoY. New users from organic up 46%. Sessions up 30%. Two things are happening at once: AI search is sending qualified traffic when it does send traffic. People who click through from an AI Overview already know what they want.”
    medium

  • Press

    · 1 mention
    “Direct traffic almost tripled. Brand is the moat. Direct users to SaaStr.com are up 160% YoY New users coming direct are up 184% YoY Sessions up 158% YoY SaaStr.com content views up 200% YoY This is the most important signal in the whole report. Direct means people are typing “saastr.com” into th...”
    medium

How 2,667 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — SaaStr’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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