Salafia: TaxTaker avoids paid ads, generating over $1M from affiliate partnerships
Ari Salafia · How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding · Nov 18, 2022 · at 7:44
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Ari Salafia, founder of TaxTaker, explains how the startup scaled on limited capital by avoiding paid digital marketing in favor of referral channels.
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“And by design, we've built out channel distribution programs and actually have not ever really done any paid programming. So we don't do PPC, any paid SEO, SEM these Full agreements have done wonders and have yield hundreds of thousands and now over a million dollars, which we're really excited about.”
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