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How Transistor Grew

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How did Transistor grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Transistor grew through an affiliate program that became their most effective sales and marketing channel, with over 700 active affiliates driving traffic, leads, and conversions every month. They also benefited from strong search engine optimization, including blogs and guides that helped increase growth when their product was positively reviewed. Initial customers were acquired through inbound channels such as an audience built on Twitter, a podcast, and a newsletter. Word of mouth contributed to growth once they had about a hundred customers who recommended the product to their friends.

Channels

6 channels · grouped by how Transistor grows

  • Affiliate program

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “Justin Jackson, CEO & Co-Founder of Transistor.fm, explains how their affiliate program has become their most effective sales and marketing channel. With over 700 active affiliates driving traffic, leads, and conversions every month, Transistor.fm uses affiliate marketing to grow predictable recu...”
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    “I talked to Ruben GME, uh, he said, you gotta look at what other web hosting companies are doing. What are web hosting companies doing? Well, one of their channels is affiliate. So Kyle comes to me with this idea. Sure. Oh yeah, I should do that. So then we start using Reward Full.”
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  • SEO

    · 1 mention
    “These people are so good at search engine optimization. Like they have blogs and guides and you know, like, like how to start a podcast guides. They’re so good at it and they actually do a pretty good job of reviewing everything. And so when they reviewed Transistor and they’re like, man, this pr...”
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  • Word of mouth

    · 1 mention
    “Once you have a hundred customers and you’re really taking care of them, they start to tell their friends. And so we were able to get some initial word of mouth that way.”
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  • Facebook Community

    · 1 mention
    “We had, um, a really good product hunt on product hunt launch back, and I’d been investing in that community for a long time. So when I launched, people were, people were cheering for me because I’d been sharing my story all these years.”
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  • Inbound

    · 1 mention
    “I’d been building a audience on Twitter and on a podcast and on a newsletter that. Those became our first a hundred customers came from my audience.”
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  • Integrations

    · 1 mention
    “Kyle Fox that I started that first podcast with product people, he was starting, uh, affiliate management company called Reward Full... So then we start using Reward full.”
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How 2,678 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Transistor’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
    17%
  • Outbound/Sales
    16%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    8%
  • Brand Authenticity
    2%
  • Product expansion
    2%
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