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WhoAPI is a WHOIS/domain data API service for developers, run by Goran Duskic.

whoapi.com · 27 public sources · Updated about 1 hour ago

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How WhoAPI Grew

domain WHOIS data API for developers and SEO businesses

How did WhoAPI grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Media coverage surged after the startup received an investment on the spot, which was reportedly the first time this happened for a startup in Croatia, with interviews taking place every day. Preorders gradually started coming in after a few backlinks were added to a landing page and an AdWords campaign was started.

Channels

7 channels · grouped by how WhoAPI grows

  • SEO

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “they asked me, hey, Goran, you want to start a company with us? You can do sales and SEO and all that stuff, and all the design websites, and Eddie here will code them, and we'll start our own company.”
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    “Because, what you write on Google+ actually matters! What do I mean by that? Well, everything is indexed, because it’s Google’s.”
    medium
    “I did a couple of backlinks to that landing page, and I started an AdWords campaign, and little by little, some preorders started coming.”
    high

  • Organic social media

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “Also on the webmaster.ninja, on the blog, I've started writing a series of this process of how you get from zero to $100 a month. And on each of those posts, there's a call to action where they can sign up.”
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    “I blog a lot, I am on Twitter, I am on Tumblr, I am on Linkedin and on Google+ (multiply that by 2 for my company)”
    medium

  • Partnerships

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “So while I was listening to your podcast, I finally decided to to start trying making money with affiliate marketing and AdSense and everything really that's available.”
    high
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    “But here’s what really blew my mind, and what Kawasaki reminded me, and I knew this all along, but forgot about it. Before the social networks, when search engines were dying and Google kept growing SEO was a hot job... Maybe it still is.”
    low

  • Leveraging existing platforms

    · 1 mention
    “And I saw some website on Flippa making money and I did the due diligence... And the website was priced at $2,000... I clicked to withdraw the funds and my AdSense account got banned.”
    high

  • Pay Per Click Advertising

    · 1 mention
    “I did a couple of backlinks to that landing page, and I started an AdWords campaign, and little by little, some preorders started coming.”
    high

  • Press

    · 1 mention
    “All the media flew around us, I had interviews everyday, it was really crazy. Because this was the first time in Croatia that a startup would get an investment on the spot... All the media flew around us, I had interviews everyday”
    high

  • Search engine marketing

    · 1 mention
    “I did a couple of backlinks to that landing page, and I started an AdWords campaign, and little by little, some pre-orders started coming.”
    high

How 3,362 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — WhoAPI’s highlighted.
  • Social media
    64% ◀
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    63%
  • Search/SEO
    58% ◀
  • Email
    47%
  • Community
    37%
  • Content/Inbound
    36%
  • Partnerships
    32% ◀
  • Events
    24%
  • Paid ads
    23% ◀
  • Outbound/Sales
    18%
  • Press/PR
    17% ◀
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    12% ◀
  • Podcasting
    4%
  • Influencer partnerships
    3%
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