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How Sbl Grew

AI-driven LinkedIn outreach tool for automated sales

How did Sbl grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Sbl grew by focusing on organic LinkedIn outreach and posting content on LinkedIn and X, including blogs that answered long, specific questions people search for online. They initially tried direct sales outreach but shifted to engaging where their buyers already spent significant time, improving their reply rate.

Channels

5 channels · grouped by how Sbl grows
  • Organic social media

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “We posted on LinkedIn. We posted on X, AND the one that gave us actual results - we wrote blogs answering the long, specific questions people search for online…”
    high
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    “Multi-channel outreachReach prospects on LinkedIn, WhatsApp, email, or phone. AI handles every channel, persuasively.”
    medium
  • LinkedIn

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “Introducing Sbl .so Workflows 🔥 Now make a better LinkedIn outreach sequence with AI replies, smart follow-ups, and send personalized memes, attachments, and cloned voice - ALL UNDER THE SAME WORKFLOW.”
    high
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    “We posted on LinkedIn. We posted on X, AND the one that gave us actual results - we wrote blogs answering the long, specific questions people search for online…”
    high
  • SEO

    · 1 mention
    “we wrote blogs answering the long, specific questions people search for online, the kind nobody had answered properly. Result? We got 1.5M organic impressions in a niche where billion-dollar players were already spending Millions of dollars to get that traffic.”
    high
  • Direct sales

    · 1 mention
    “Started reaching out to people asking them to buy. And of course it failed terribly. We got about a 5 percent reply rate … So we flipped the order. Instead of starting with outreach, we started showing up where our buyers already spend SERIOUS time.”
    high
  • LinkedIn outreach

    · 1 mention
    “Autonomous AI SDR for LinkedInLinkedIn outreach without limits.The autonomous AI SDR that finds high-intent leads, runs personalized outreach, and books qualified meetings for you - from ready-to-use LinkedIn profiles, at scale.”
    medium

How 3,091 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Sbl’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    66%
  • Social media
    64% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    58% ◀
  • Email
    48%
  • Community
    37%
  • Content/Inbound
    35%
  • Partnerships
    33%
  • Events
    25%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Outbound/Sales
    19% ◀
  • Press/PR
    18%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    12%
  • Podcasting
    4%
  • Building in public
    3%