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
- Assembly: Going from Nice to Have to Must Have SaaS Product - with Jonathan Fields [365]
- Whooshkaa: Launch & Differentiate Your SaaS in a Crowded Market - with Rob…
- Subly: Bootstrapping a SaaS from Zero to 60,000 Users - with Holly Stephens [289]
- How to Build a Better SaaS Product (and Business) with User Stories - with Matt…
- Kumospace: From $1M ARR to a Pivot Driven by Churn - with Brett Martin [384]
- Krepling: How Two Teens Co-Founded a Shopify Competitor - with Liam Gerada [295]
- Vajro: The Importance of SaaS Founder-Market Fit - with Baskar Agneeswaran [262]
- 7 Key User Flows to Unlock Your SaaS Growth - with Peter Loving [410]
- How a Founder Successfully Pivoted His SaaS Business - with Geoff Atkinson [219]
- Vacation Tracker: 60 Waitlist Signups to $2M Bootstrapped SaaS - with Lav Crnobrnja [406]