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.
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
- SaaS Recurring Revenue: Lessons from a Former MMA Fighter - with Dan Faggella [163]
- Dover: How to Get Customers without a Product or Website - with George Carollo [287]
- How to Grow a SaaS Company to $100M ARR - with Clate Mask of Infusionsoft [146]
- Trackier: How 3 Guys in India Bootstrapped a $2M SaaS Startup - with Udit Verma [255]
- Lessons on Marketing a SaaS App with Zero Marketing Budget - with Erik Christiansen [162]
- SaaS Founder Lessons: On Startup Failures, Vulnerability & Leadership - with Dennis van…
- Building an 8-Figure SaaS by Focusing on One Market - with Dave MacLeod [298]
- Bootstrap and Sell a Profitable Micro-SaaS Company - with Tyler Tringas [207]
- Subly: Bootstrapping a SaaS from Zero to 60,000 Users - with Holly Stephens [289]
- SaaS Turnaround: From Near Failure to $10 Million ARR - with Derek O'Carroll [218]