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Polo: Half of AcademyOcean clients use customer academies for lead generation

Vladimir Polo · 1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo · Nov 11, 2018 · at 2:05

Vladimir Polo, founder and CEO of AcademyOcean, describes customer use cases for his SaaS customer education platform during an interview with Nathan Latka.

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“Actually half of our clients use academies directly to teach their current customers. About how to use a product or about how to use new features. And another half are using academies in a very interesting way. They use it as a brand new content marketing tool. So for lead generation.”

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