Disclosure certainty 4/5 debate potential 1/5

Niche drives leads via automated monthly traffic reports to all US schools

Luke Skurman · 1162 Pittsburg Placed Niche.com Passes 10m Uniques/Mo, $3m in SaaS Revenue · Sep 29, 2018 · at 10:07

Luke Skurman, founder and CEO of Niche.com, describes the company's automated outbound acquisition engine to Nathan Latka.

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“We also have a very successful mail merge every month to our clients and our non-clients where we send them every month. Here's how much traffic is on our page. Here's how much traffic your competitors are getting. And here's how many clicks we're driving back to your site right now. And we send that dynamically every month to every high school and every college in the United States.”

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