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How SnapShooter Grew

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How did SnapShooter grow?

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Scheduled Server backups for DigitalOcean and all providers grew primarily through organic social media and word of mouth. Users shared positive experiences, such as ease of server migration, which contributed to growth.

Channels

2 channels · grouped by how SnapShooter grows
  • Word of mouth

    · 1 mention
    “it took less than a week to build a product [with billing 00:02:20]. And I put that online and people started using it. So, that was how it worked. Every other product I tried before, I’d spent months and months developing it and never getting a customer. And the one time I spent less than [laugh...”
    high
  • Organic social media

    · 1 mention
    “I first heard about you when Patrick McKenzie—or @patio11, as he goes by on Twitter—wound up doing a mini-thread on you about, 'I’ve now used SnapShooter.com for real, and it was such a joy, including making a server migration easier than it would otherwise have been.' ... And he keeps talking ab...”
    medium

How 2,739 businesses grow

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