3 Growth Lessons to Get Your First 5000 SaaS Customers
Stuart McKeown is the co-founder of Gleam, a growth platform that helps businesses to drive more engagement with customers. Gleam provides a suite of marketing apps focused on giveaways, rewards, and user feedback.
Stuart's background is in search engine marketing. He's originally from the UK and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 2005.
Gleam was founded in 2013 and has over 400,000 users and 5000 customers including companies such as Hubspot and Shopify. The company generates over a million dollars in annual recurring revenue.
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Book Recommendation
- “Good to Great” by Jim Collins
The Show Notes
- Gleam
- Hitwise
- Shopify
- Capture
- Zapier
- Buffer
- Yesware
- Mailchimp
- Drip
- Leadpages
- Typeform
- Lessons Learned Growing to Over 100 Customers
- Gleam Customer Success Stories (Case Studies)
- 25 Growth Hacks Using Gleam.io
- John Sherwood on Twitter
- Stuart on Twitter
- Omer on Twitter
Recommended Podcast Episodes
- Kumospace: From $1M ARR to a Pivot Driven by Churn - with Brett Martin [384]
- Airbase: From Solo Founder to 8-Figure ARR SaaS - with Thejo Kote [381]
- From Bootstrapping Struggles to a $60M Exit and Beyond - with Bob Moore [396]
- Building an 8-Figure SaaS by Focusing on One Market - with Dave MacLeod [298]
- UserZoom: Getting to $100M ARR by Falling in Love with a Problem - with Alfonso de…
- Vacation Tracker: 60 Waitlist Signups to $2M Bootstrapped SaaS - with Lav Crnobrnja [406]
- Thinkific: From $29 Online Course to $60M ARR SaaS Company - with Greg Smith [380]
- Vajro: The Importance of SaaS Founder-Market Fit - with Baskar Agneeswaran [262]
- Assembly: Going from Nice to Have to Must Have SaaS Product - with Jonathan Fields [365]
- Workforce.com: Bootstrapping a SaaS to Tens of Millions in ARR - with Alex…