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How Weekend Club Grew

Remote co-working community for weekend entrepreneurs.

How did Weekend Club grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Weekend Club grew primarily through SEO and content creation, leveraging blog posts and organic traffic from search engines. The founder also promoted the service via social media channels such as Twitter and the IndieBeers newsletter, as well as participating in podcasts and events to increase awareness. Additional growth came from word of mouth within the Facebook community and engagement on platforms like Indie Hackers and Reddit. The newsletter and Indie London community also served as effective funnels for attracting members.

Channels

10 channels · grouped by how Weekend Club grows

  • SEO

    · 1 mention
    “To be blunt - the way we get there is by SEO and content creation. We have barely scratched the surface here so far, so I believe there are lots of opportunities to grow by leveraging the stories and insights of our fantastic members.”
    high

  • Referral Program

    · 1 mention
    “I think there's a lot more we could have done and that's, you know, that's my fault. But you know, on the other hand, if we can get to like a decent enough place without doing tons of marketing, it makes me hopeful that if we start, that it should help us. Maybe start doing a bit more with like i...”
    medium

  • Facebook Community

    · 1 mention
    “Word of mouth: If you create a nice experience, your members will tell others about it.”
    high

  • Product expansion

    · 1 mention
    “Since launch, I was still working full-time, so would organize it on evenings and weekends. While I could mostly re-invest our subscription revenue on improving the service.”
    low

  • Reddit

    · 1 mention
    “I currently have ~3.5k followers, mainly in the maker/indie hacker world. So this is a good, cheap way of getting new members.”
    high

  • Welcome Email

    · 1 mention
    “I posted this on the IndieBeers newsletter (~150 subscribers back then) and my Twitter account (~1k followers at the time). Then, at the next IndieBeers IRL event, I handed out a few business cards I’d made to promote the event.”
    high

  • Newsletter

    · 1 mention
    “But then after that it was a combination of Indie London's actually quite a good funnel for this, like through the newsletter. And I think we've got about 600 people in the newsletter. It's not massive, but it's like enough to make some difference. And that's like, so that's actually a good chann...”
    high

  • Social Media Engagement

    · 1 mention
    “Also just Twitter, just tweeting about stuff, referrals, posting on IndieHackers itself. It's quite basic. It's not like a really sophisticated thing, but these things sort of add up over time, you know?”
    high

  • Inbound

    · 1 mention
    “Indie Hackers: I’ve been reasonably active on Indie Hackers, so we seem to get a good stream of visits from there.”
    high

  • Pilots with enterprise clients

    · 1 mention
    “Podcasts: I’ve gone on a few people’s podcasts before—such as with Nathan Latka, Indie Bites, and Growth Today. This is a good, high-impact means of driving awareness.”
    high

How 2,670 businesses grow

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