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Windhill Design
Marketing B2B

Windhill Design LLC is a WordPress development and SEO company that supports small business owners by helping them with digital marketing and their web prese...

windhill.com · Founded 1996 · 6 public sources · Updated 23 days ago

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How Windhill Design Grew

WordPress development and SEO agency for small businesses.

How did Windhill Design grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Windhill Design LLC grew primarily through personalized cold outreach and direct mail campaigns, achieving response rates of 10 to 12%. The company also expanded by acquiring client lists through mailing letters to other business owners to initiate conversations about selling. Additionally, growth was supported by organic methods such as referrals, word of mouth, and search engine optimization.

Channels

8 channels · grouped by how Windhill Design grows

  • SEO

    · 3 mentions · 2 sources
    “I didn’t realize the potential size of the market and was content picking up small projects organically, mostly from referrals and search engine optimization.”
    high
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    “Organic SEOHigh-quality organic traffic to your website from Google.”
    medium
    “I didn’t realize the potential size of the market and was content picking up small projects organically, mostly from referrals and search engine optimization.”
    high

  • Word of mouth

    · 2 mentions
    “I didn’t realize the potential size of the market and was content picking up small projects organically, mostly from referrals and search engine optimization.”
    high
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    “I was pretty shy so I didn’t do a lot of sales outreach as I should. My leads came very organically and word of mouth.”
    high

  • Email marketing

    · 1 mention
    “I also got emails. So then I started doing, you know, email file, like, Hey, did you get my letter? Or Hey, it's been a few years. Let me check in with you.”
    high

  • Organic social media

    · 1 mention
    “Social Media MarketingSocial media can be a significantly powerful tool that...”
    medium

  • Search engine marketing

    · 1 mention
    “Pay Per Click ManagementWhen setup and managed correctly, Google AdWords...”
    medium

  • Direct Mail Campaign

    · 1 mention
    “Up until last year, I used to send these out manually. I'd written a little form letter in Word. I'd print the letters out. I'd hand sign all of them. And then I'd print on the envelopes...I might do a hundred, 200 in a batch...the response rate would be 10 to 12%, which I think was pretty darn g...”
    high

  • Cold outreach

    · 1 mention
    “it's this volume game of sending out a lot of outreach and, you know, the more you can personalize it, the better, but trying to do that at scale and, you know, hopefully get a few bites like Link said, 10, 12% response rate, really, really strong for that personalized outreach because it cuts th...”
    medium

  • Guest posting

    · 1 mention
    “Between 2017 - 2018, I acquired four separate client lists to grow my cash flow from $18,400 in 2016 to $124,000 in 2018. All four of these opportunities came from mailing letters to other business owners asking them if they were interested in having a conversation around selling.”
    high

How 3,362 businesses grow

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