59 min

How Boast.ai hit $10M ARR from Community-Led Growth with Lloyed Lobo SaaS Marketing Superstars

    • Marketing

In this episode of SaaS Marketing Superstars podcast, Lloyed Lobo talks about how he grew Boast.ai to over $10M ARR using Community-Led growth.

Episode Highlights
- The differences between USA and Dubai as it relates to child care, safety, community, quality of life and work-life balance (3:17)
- Lloyd asks me how I manage with 6 kids (4:48)
- Appreciates his wife for her support and keeping the family in sync (7:49)
- How his daughter’s comments challenged his workaholic mindset and being present for the birth of his 3rd child (10:12)
- Why he was forced to step out of his company (13:20)
- What is community-led growth (18:26)
- How Boast.ai helps companies (22:14)
- Why people associate print media with legitimacy and how he got referral partners from his weekly newspaper column on startups (29:15)
- Why your idea will fail without consistency (36:51)
- The key strategies SaaS company can adopt to grow their community in today’s market (42:35)
- How his cold emails for podcast outreach gets over 70% open rate (48:50)
- Creating content for superfans, contributors and lurkers (51:43)
- Favorite books, apps and business leaders (55:24)

Check out the show notes and get links to all the resources mentioned in this episode here: https://aaronzakowski.com/podcast-lloyed-lobo-community-led-growth

In this episode of SaaS Marketing Superstars podcast, Lloyed Lobo talks about how he grew Boast.ai to over $10M ARR using Community-Led growth.

Episode Highlights
- The differences between USA and Dubai as it relates to child care, safety, community, quality of life and work-life balance (3:17)
- Lloyd asks me how I manage with 6 kids (4:48)
- Appreciates his wife for her support and keeping the family in sync (7:49)
- How his daughter’s comments challenged his workaholic mindset and being present for the birth of his 3rd child (10:12)
- Why he was forced to step out of his company (13:20)
- What is community-led growth (18:26)
- How Boast.ai helps companies (22:14)
- Why people associate print media with legitimacy and how he got referral partners from his weekly newspaper column on startups (29:15)
- Why your idea will fail without consistency (36:51)
- The key strategies SaaS company can adopt to grow their community in today’s market (42:35)
- How his cold emails for podcast outreach gets over 70% open rate (48:50)
- Creating content for superfans, contributors and lurkers (51:43)
- Favorite books, apps and business leaders (55:24)

Check out the show notes and get links to all the resources mentioned in this episode here: https://aaronzakowski.com/podcast-lloyed-lobo-community-led-growth

59 min