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How Visme Grew

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How did Visme grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Visme grew primarily through organic growth strategies including SEO, content marketing, influencer marketing, and word of mouth. Understanding how Google's algorithm works and leveraging SEO helped Visme increase its traffic significantly. Word of mouth contributed to Visme's growth by encouraging users to recommend the platform to others.

Channels

17 channels · grouped by how Visme grows

  • SEO

    · 8 mentions · 8 sources
    “So as you know, Andrew is a few main acquisition channels, paid ads, cold outreach, [00:04:00] and SEL ... So we're like, okay, well, let's put ourselves in the shoes of a customer ... So we're like, okay, great. We've heard of this SEO and content thing. And so let's start producing some bunch o...”
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    “We have focused tremendously on organic growth: content, SEO, influencer marketing, and word of mouth.”
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    “In the past five years, the company’s popularity on Google search grew by 416%. According to SimilarWeb, Visme is now recording 3 million visits per month.”
    medium
    “We knew from day one, SEO was definitely in the cards for us because we wanted to make sure that we show up in places where people who are looking for a product like ours would come and organically find us, instead of us having to either become a household name that is super expensive, or go door...”
    high
    “So I think that spark, when you write something, you want to raise a certain level of awareness. I mean, we would share it on our social media channels. We do that all still continuously. That helps a little bit to some degree, depends on the content... Still, there's the spider web of the whole ...”
    high
    “I wouldn't still say that we gain most of our users through virality because we drive a lot of traffic through organic means like search engines. You know, we have done a very good job, content marketing and so on. However, with that said, I mean, so that drives millions of users a month itself, ...”
    high
    “The SEO playbook Payman used to scale Visme to 25 million users”
    high
    “Payman Taei discusses the growth of VisMe, from zero to over eight million users, and how organic search and word of mouth played a significant role in their success.”
    medium

  • Content marketing

    · 8 mentions · 8 sources
    “Learn, step-by-step, all the marketing strategies we’ve used to grow Visme to 4 million users. Our team has spent 450 hours documenting every single tactic we’ve implemented to reach over 1.4M monthly organic traffic to our website and 100% YoY growth, with little to no advertising budget.”
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    “a 350% increase in just two years thanks to its effective, budget-friendly marketing strategies.”
    medium
    “We have focused tremendously on organic growth: content, SEO, influencer marketing, and word of mouth.”
    high
    “So long story short, what we did was to start putting together a lot of content pieces. And as one would, when it comes to content marketing, we just started the blog and built a bunch of landing pages.”
    high
    “We discuss his experiences with content marketing and SEO, finding the right balance between great UX and monetization, competing with larger companies, and scaling the platform to meet the demands of a growing user base.”
    medium
    “You know, we have done a very good job, content marketing and so on. However, with that said, I mean, so that drives millions of users a month itself, but what we have millions of visitors to our sitemap.”
    high
    “it's more of people reading you know about it, content marketing and so on and depends you know in europe they tend to say this may and then uh in the u.s they tend to get it right they just say it is me it's interesting yeah as long as they find us on the web that you know that's okay they can c...”
    medium
    “it's more of people reading you know about it uh content marketing and so on”
    high

  • Word of mouth

    · 5 mentions · 5 sources
    “On the other hand, yes, virality is our highest conversion rate. And I think it is with any application and so on, is people. that read for other people. Someone told me to come, my colleague was using it, told me to come use it. Cause you know, we ask, where did you hear us sometime? So yeah, th...”
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    “We have focused tremendously on organic growth: content, SEO, influencer marketing, and word of mouth.”
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    “Referrals from existing people that are using the tool, tell others about it, a lot of it from organic traffic that we drive.”
    high
    “What to do differently to grow purely by word-of-mouth”
    medium
    “Payman Taei discusses the growth of VisMe, from zero to over eight million users, and how organic search and word of mouth played a significant role in their success.”
    medium

  • Backlinks

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “Now you have Googled. Now we were like, okay, great. We know that just producing content and just putting a website [00:07:00] out there. Isn't enough. Uh, we're like, let's, let's try to go get some of those things that people call backlinks ... but basically what we found out was that the best ...”
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    “we spend 20% of our marketing resources on content creation. And the other 80% goes into promotion and link building. Let me repeat that again. We spend four times the amount of time we spend on content creation on promotion.”
    high

  • Organic social media

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “we would share it on our social media channels. We do that all still continuously.”
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    “With a growing social network and comprehensive learning resources, Visme users gain inspiration, support and ideas for how to captivate their audiences through visually engaging content. YouTube Facebook Visme Lounge (Facebook Group) Twitter Instagram Pinterest”
    medium

  • Course

    · 1 mention
    “We have a course that thousands of people have taken that is a presentation course, how to create compelling presentations. And it's a course you can get a certification on. So you get Visme certified and that's basically how to become better presenters. That's a course that's provided free.”
    high

  • Influencer partnerships

    · 1 mention
    “We have focused tremendously on organic growth: content, SEO, influencer marketing, and word of mouth.”
    high

  • Webinars

    · 1 mention
    “So one of the strategies is, again, I don't mean this to come across as a link building strategy. So we chatted about this Omert and I said, I'm going to talk about it. ... one of the strategies is actually going on other people's podcasts as a guest.”
    high

  • AppSumo Launch

    · 1 mention
    “So we want to reach out to AppSumo. And we're like, hey guys, I wrote this ebook, about 160 pages. And I literally outlined step-by-step everything we've learned in the past five years, building our... And they were like, sure, we can launch maybe as a freebie. So I was like, great. So we went to...”
    high

  • Innovation

    · 1 mention
    “Innovation is something, there's a lot of features, on the surface, Visme looks like any other presentation or design platform. And then yet when you get deeper into it, you realize there's certain things and features that you just cannot find anywhere else.”
    medium

  • Freemium

    · 1 mention
    “The free model was always when we made it a freemium version where we close it off or hey, there's a free version, there's a paid version.”
    high

  • Cold outreach

    · 1 mention
    “So what Respawn really was built to do was to automate a lot of the dirty work and mundane tasks. Like, okay, you have this article, want to promote it. Here's a list of these particular web pages that we think that you need to build links from. And here are the right people at each one of these ...”
    high

  • PR

    · 1 mention
    “we're going to go and reach out to Search Engine Journal and a bunch of relevant publications in our space and pitch that content to be featured.”
    high

  • Peer Community

    · 1 mention
    “we have a lot of great material for education. Educator uses how to use a platform. And also we have a brand is something that is stamped on quality product and also great education.”
    medium

  • Video content

    · 1 mention
    “We have a really cool YouTube channel that basically is all about not using Visme in essence, it's just learning how to make information beautiful. So we spend a lot of time and effort on creating these videos that basically go over how to create a marketing plan, how to do this.”
    high

  • Ebook

    · 1 mention
    “So we want to reach out to AppSumo. And we're like, hey guys, I wrote this ebook, about 160 pages...So we went to AppSumo. And we already had a relationship with them because we had run an LTD with them on the Visme side back in the day when it was very early beta...So we basically launched an eb...”
    high

  • Online Community

    · 1 mention
    “With a growing social network and comprehensive learning resources, Visme users gain inspiration, support and ideas for how to captivate their audiences through visually engaging content. YouTube Facebook Visme Lounge (Facebook Group) Twitter Instagram Pinterest”
    medium

How 2,670 businesses grow

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