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
- Bootstrap and Sell a Profitable Micro-SaaS Company - with Tyler Tringas [207]
- lempire: From $1K Launch to $26M ARR Profitable SaaS - with Guillaume Moubeche [405]
- From Bootstrapping Struggles to a $60M Exit and Beyond - with Bob Moore [396]
- Paddle: From a Failed SaaS Launch to a $1.4+ Billion Valuation - with Christian…
- ClickFunnels: Bootstrapping a SaaS to $140M ARR with Webinars - with Todd Dickerson [413]
- CinchShare: How a Stay at Home Mom Built a $5M ARR SaaS Company - with Jennifer…
- Assembly: Going from Nice to Have to Must Have SaaS Product - with Jonathan Fields [365]
- Vajro: The Importance of SaaS Founder-Market Fit - with Baskar Agneeswaran [262]
- How to Grow a SaaS Company to $100M ARR - with Clate Mask of Infusionsoft [146]
- Building an 8-Figure SaaS by Focusing on One Market - with Dave MacLeod [298]