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How Testimonial.to Grew

Platform for collecting and displaying video testimonials.

How did Testimonial.to grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Testimonial.to grew primarily through social media channels such as Twitter and Product Hunt, where frequent updates and launches helped attract users. The founder also promoted an affiliate program on Twitter, which generated over $100,000 in revenue from affiliates. Organic growth was supported by word of mouth, SEO, and building a public presence, which brought in traffic naturally without extra effort.

Channels

11 channels · grouped by how Testimonial.to grows

  • SEO

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “But one good thing is that the wave will rise for other boats. So if you go to Twitter and just search testimonial, you'll probably see that testimonial rank really high on Twitter. And also, it just affects the word of mouth and some organic traffic from Google. So if I check the customer acquis...”
    high
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    “The launch brought me $1,600 in just one day.”
    high
    “I would just credit this kind of growth to the building public ... most of the traffic that I got is from the social media ... the SEO, all those kind of words of mouth will also come just naturally, organically, without me doing anything extra.”
    medium

  • Email marketing

    · 1 mention
    “Then I just go after/outreach those potential users in particular area.”
    medium

  • Affiliate program

    · 1 mention
    “And >$100k came from affiliates.”
    high

  • Partnerships

    · 1 mention
    “Most of the traffic comes from Product Hunt and Twitter. I'd share my update very frequently in my tweets.”
    high

  • Outsourcing

    · 1 mention
    “And if you can offer all of them, and it probably can have many, many happy customers. For me, I like to ask my customers for testimonials if I ship anything that they desperately want. And that's my strategy to collect testimonials.”
    medium

  • Organic social media

    · 1 mention
    “So I pretty much just use social media to build the word of mouth. That's a more scalable approach to me, and it worked pretty well.”
    medium

  • Offline advertising

    · 1 mention
    “Damon promotes the affiliate program on Twitter and LinkedIn to his almost 79k followers.”
    medium

  • Optimize conversion rates

    · 1 mention
    “The more features that I added to the product, the more stuff that I can tweet on Twitter. So that brought me more closures to more potential customers, and things started going like a snowball from there.”
    high

  • Republish Content

    · 1 mention
    “I announced it on my Twitter and launched it on ProductHunt, and even got someone to share the deal in some private MarTech groups on Facebook that I didn't expect. That's probably another really valuable customer acquisition channel.”
    high

  • Advertising on social media

    · 1 mention
    “2 days ago, I launched it on Product Hunt. It's my best launch ever...”
    high

  • Instagram Live

    · 1 mention
    “I kind of set a good foundation with those connections from my early community, Lonely Dev. We just basically support each other, no matter what we do. And if someone has a hard time, we're going to provide our help.”
    high

How 2,669 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Testimonial.to’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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