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Over 80% of Webflow customers come through organic channels

Vlad Magdalin · 1320 $14m in ARR on $2.9m Raised Inventing New Visual Way to Code Service 3000 Freelancers · Mar 6, 2019 · at 12:20

Vlad Magdalin, co-founder and CEO of Webflow, details customer acquisition channels and paid marketing experiments with Nathan Latka.

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“More than 80% of our customers are still coming through word of mouth SEO, things like that.”

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