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How Unicorn Platform Grew

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How did Unicorn Platform grow?

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Unicorn Platform grew primarily through organic social media by posting transparent monthly revenue updates and sharing insights and data, which attracted many new clients without a marketing budget. The company also benefited from word of mouth, as satisfied existing clients recommended the product to their friends and circles. Great customer service played a key role in growth by building emotional connections with users and fostering loyalty through personal communication and support. Additionally, the founder leveraged his personal network to gain initial paying clients and used platforms like Product Hunt and a Facebook community to increase traffic and sales.

Channels

10 channels · grouped by how Unicorn Platform grows

  • Organic social media

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “I know you build your startup in public, sharing your revenue and stats. Do you think it helps with marketing too? Yes, my most popular tweets are those with numbers. Where I share insights and data. It attracted many new clients. I don’t have any marketing budget, and this is something I can do ...”
    high
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    “We have people who like our posts, who talk about Unicorn Platform on Twitter for years. You open notifications and you see that guy tweeted about us.”
    high
    “why posting transparent MRR updates on Twitter started driving attention”
    high

  • Great customer service

    · 2 mentions
    “If someone asks you for a feature, it's a great, great opportunity to build an emotional connection. ... You can alert, even a small alert, a personal email when you finish that request. ... It gives them so much points of loyalty. ... and you are so much valuable person in his life. And you feel...”
    high
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    “I have only one active marketing campaign. I call it “human support”. By “human”, I mean with empathy, passion and full commitment. I spend hours and hours supporting my users. I really do care about their success because they are not “traffic” (I dislike this word) to me, but fellow startup folks.”
    high

  • Word of mouth

    · 2 mentions
    “You want more clients, but the solution is not to find more clients, but make your existing clients as happy as possible. Because first, they will bring their friends and second, your product will improve. ... there are hundreds more who are not so active on social networks, but they recommend Un...”
    high
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    “Combine a good product and good support, and you will get a good word of mouth effect.”
    high

  • Facebook Community

    · 1 mention
    “Product Hunt helped me to sell only half of the licenses. The second half was sold on this Facebook group full of passionate entrepreneurs.”
    high

  • Brand Authenticity

    · 1 mention
    “The second tip and what made actually that exit possible is being transparent and open. When you share transparency reports, open startup reports, when you write blogs about your vision, about your strategy, about your product thinking, about your understanding of the market, you communicate with...”
    high

  • Product Hunt

    · 1 mention
    “Product Hunt works very well for me. It’s a great target audience for my product. But be careful, it won’t work for everyone. It’s a great source of traffic and awareness, but you need to find out where your target audience is.”
    high

  • SEO

    · 1 mention
    “Luke shared how he went from running an SEO agency to firing almost all of his clients and building his own digital assets instead. We got into how he picks the right local niches, why boring services like towing, tree service, carpet cleaning, and concrete can work so well, and what makes a webs...”
    medium

  • Personal network

    · 1 mention
    “My first user is my friend, and he’s still using the tool today. I build credibility among my friends, freelance web developers, who trust me and my product. That’s how I got my first 5-10 paying clients.”
    high

  • Email marketing

    · 1 mention
    “One guy asked me for a Stripe integration feature. After 3 months I finally launched it. I remembered that guy wanted the integration so much. So I wrote to him even before the official announcement. He was so happy and instantly became a paid customer.”
    medium

  • Press

    · 1 mention
    “I launched Unicorn Platform on Product Hunt and it just blew it away! Man, I got such huge support from the community: tons of feedback, hundreds of registrations.”
    high

How 2,695 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Unicorn Platform’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68% ◀
  • Social media
    58% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    57% ◀
  • Email
    47% ◀
  • Community
    34% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    32%
  • 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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