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How Shot Pattern Grew
Golf GPS app showing personalized shot patterns
How did Shot Pattern grow?
Summary of the sourced claims below
Shot Pattern grew through a combination of paid social media advertising and organic social media engagement. The founder invested in paid ads on platforms like Instagram and Facebook, achieving low costs per install and a favorable lifetime value. Simultaneously, they engaged with golf strategy communities on Twitter by sharing screenshots, participating in conversations, and adding value, which helped build an audience and generate downloads. Word of mouth and influencer interest also contributed to growth, as did algorithm-friendly posts that increased visibility.
Channels
8 channels · grouped by how Shot Pattern grows
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Advertising on social media
· 1 mention“I decided to try my hand at advertising on with meta so like mainly Instagram and obviously someone Facebook and I put together a handful of videos and I paid him some content creators... I was getting installs for like 50 cents or 80 cents and my Revenue cat dashboard is showing me a 30-day LTV ...”
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Word of mouth
· 1 mention“I was talking about the app on Twitter, when I was sharing screenshots, when I was in conversations, downloads and trials and purchases would come in without me ever really understanding who it was or where they came from. It was so much more frictionless, like straight out of the gate, that basi...”
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Organic social media
· 1 mention“Shortly after that, I got like a couple of phone calls from often influencers from coaches, from people who were very interested in what I was doing. And like, that was a key moment of like the, the leap to buy the data, unlock something that's again, propelled it forward.”
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Paid social ads
· 1 mention“I kicked it off at a pretty sizable number I'd heard you need to spend in order for it to get enough data. So I think I put in like $300 a day For an ad spend and then meta will let me set the goal of like I just want installs And I was seeing after a couple of days of running the ads that the to...”
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Live shows
· 1 mention“Slowly, but surely, I started to build my own following. Then, finally, I managed to hit on an algorithm-friendly post with a teaser for a feature I was working on that earned 25K impressions on its own.”
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Twitter
· 1 mention“Without a budget for paid advertising, I leveraged social media, particularly X, to engage with my target audience. There are a few thought leaders in golf strategy & stats who have large followings on X. I’d created a new account for my app and didn’t have my own audience, so I took the approach...”
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Existing Tik Tok Content
· 1 mention“It was really just Twitter. That was like my social media of choice for talking golf content and there was people in there sharing ideas about like analytics and strategy and so that was the place where I showed up and really didn't have my own audience but when I jumped in with the screenshots o...”
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Mentorship
· 1 mention“There are a few thought leaders in golf strategy & stats who have large followings on X. I’d created a new account for my app and didn’t have my own audience, so I took the approach of engaging in their conversations, posting meaningful replies, and adding value to the community.”
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How 2,669 businesses grow
Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each —
Shot Pattern’s highlighted.
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Referral/Word-of-mouth68% ◀
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Social media58% ◀
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Search/SEO57%
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Email47%
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Community33%
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Content/Inbound31% ◀
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Partnerships30%
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Paid ads24% ◀
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Events24%
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Press/PR18%
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Outbound/Sales16%
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Marketplaces/App stores8%
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Brand Authenticity2%
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Product expansion2%
