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SaaS Case Studies to drive revenue and growth

Webprofits

How Canva acquired 15M+ users

 

Explores various channels such as Website breakdown, Paid & Social Ads, SEO, Content & more.

 
Noah Kagan

Marketing Ideas from Intercom’s Multi-Million Dollar SaaS Growth Strategy

It shows what traffic sources have contributed to grow + other viral/growth mechanics.
Sumo

HubSpot’s $271 Million Inbound Lead Generation Machine

The quality of imagery + examples really makes this an easy, digestible and action-oriented case study.

Vyper

Topaz Labs generated over 44000 emails from single social media contest

Really good explanations of how to run competitions with detailed and graphics = epic!

Unbounce

100k+ Leads Using Gated Content & Landing Pages

Shows examples of the offerings, assets and the way they structured their landing pages.

Buzzsumo

How Did BuzzSumo Achieve $2.5m Annual Revenue In The First Year?

One of the primary ways they achieved over 160,000 users in a short amount of time was due to influencers.

Slideshare

How Autopilot Grew from 0-3,500 Customers in 2 Years

The illustrations are awesome + provide real value/insight into the various strategies used.

Growthhackers

How Spotify Turned Free Music into a $10+ Billion Valuation

Dives into their existing growth levers and future growth levers + how they expanded internationally with pace.

Webprofits

Airbnb’s Growth Strategy: How they attract and retain 150 million users

30000 words on incredible detail across Paid & Social Ads, Organic/SEO, Referrals, Community + much more!

Product Habits

How Pinterest Became an $11 Billion Company by Organizing the World’s Hobbies

It's full of stats and great illustrations. The attention to detail and sources makes it a brilliant read.

BDOW

How Slack Generates 100,000,000 Website Visitors Per Month

Achieved traffic from medium articles sharing company updates, tutorials, and workplace tips + Sponsored podcasts

Fatbit

Quora Case Study – The Wonderful World of Quora

UCG via gamification, earn credits, share replies, organically boosted views + also seeded own questions

Neilpatel

The 7 Growth Hacks That Led Groupon to a $12.7 Billion IPO

 

Build a product that makes sharing fun and simple + Email game strong

 
Nathan Latka

How ClickFunnels Built a $160m Revenue Empire, $5 Billion+ Exit in 2023?

 

A big focus on social proof and leveraging everywhere

Growth Design

9 Ways To Boost SaaS
Revenues With A
Better Upgrade UX

Be clear, not exhaustive when asking customers to convert from freemium to paid

Cognitive SEO

How to Grow a Startup from $0 to $5 million – Buffers’ Digital Marketing Strategy Exposed

Very detailed illustrations of the strategies used by Buffer that you can learn and action for your SEO/Content growth.

Webprofits

Xero’s Growth Strategy – How they acquired 350k users in the last 12 months

20000 words covering everything from Paid & Social Ads, SEo/Organic, Community, Event Marketing, Email Marketing + more!

Spyfu

Drift’s Blog Helped Them Build a Multi-Million Dollar Brand

Content marketing being biggest factor for growth and this article highlights 5 rules that make Drift’s content successful

Slideshare

How Autopilot Grew from 0-3,500 Customers in 2 Years

The illustrations are awesome + provide real value/insight into the various strategies used.

Referral Candy

The PayPal Growth Strategy That Catapulted Them To Success

Referrals helped PayPal get 7 to 10% daily growth, catapulting their user base to over 100 million members

Inside Viral Loops

Dropbox grew 3900% with a simple referral program. Here’s how!

This study by Viral Loops highlights the exact mechanics and tactics leading to this strategy's performance.

Wild Maill

How ActiveCampaign (SaaS Startup) Grew To +50,000 Customers

Covers messaging & positioning, their funnel + other key strategies for their growth success.

Nathan Latka

16 Steps Outreach.io Took To Build a $1.1 Billion SaaS Company

They bought Sales Hacker which really helped them.

GrooveHQ

How GrooveHQ Built a $5M/Year Business in 3 Years With Content Marketing

Out educate your customers through course content - simultaneously making you look like domain experts

Webprofits

Marketing to Millennials – Lemonade’s Growth Strategy

 

One of the biggest factors that lead to their growth success was their chatbot strategy (great breakdown)

 
Page cloud

How to 10x Organic Growth with 1 Person SEO Team & No Budget

 

Systematic content production on upcoming trends to outrank competition a big growth strategy

Nira

How Atlassian Built a $10 Billion Growth Engine

Doubled down on freemium distributions and horizontal use cases in recent acquisitions to widen their top funnel (#trello)

Nira

How Salesforce Built a $13 Billion Empire from a CRM

Make bold statements, SF notoriously hijacked competitor conferences with guerilla marketing

Webprofits

Kabbage.com – the Growth Strategy of a Billion Dollar Fintech Startup

Used data science to provide answers in 10 minutes vs hours/days

Apollo Digital

Tallyfy: 0 to 200k Monthly organic traffic in 2 years

Spread SEO strategy across easy wins and rewarding challenges using competitor analysis via SEMrush

Growth hacker

Uber's growth engine

Whilst this case study was done some tiem back, the principles around earl adopter growth we can all learn from

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