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
- How to Build a Better SaaS Product (and Business) with User Stories - with Matt…
- How to Grow a SaaS Company to $100M ARR - with Clate Mask of Infusionsoft [146]
- How a Founder Successfully Pivoted His SaaS Business - with Geoff Atkinson [219]
- lempire: From $1K Launch to $26M ARR Profitable SaaS - with Guillaume Moubeche [405]
- Flow - How to Turnaround a Struggling SaaS Company - with Daniel Scrivner [275]
- CinchShare: How a Stay at Home Mom Built a $5M ARR SaaS Company - with Jennifer…
- Command AI: Mastering Cold Emails to Grow a 7-Figure SaaS - with James Evans [385]
- Workforce.com: Bootstrapping a SaaS to Tens of Millions in ARR - with Alex…
- Boast.ai: The Tough Road to SaaS Success and Beyond - with Lloyed Lobo [377]
- Vajro: The Importance of SaaS Founder-Market Fit - with Baskar Agneeswaran [262]