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GrowSurf

Score8.5 out of 10

10 Reviews and Ratings

What is GrowSurf?

A tool that helps automate customer acquisition, for B2C and B2B tech companies GrowSurf offers a referral program software that helps them get new customers on autopilot. With it, users can launch a customer-to-customer referral program to incentivize word-of-mouth referrals and grow organically.

The vendor states GrowSurf customers enjoy results approaching 312% return on investment, 30% of new leads from referrals, 15% of ARR from referrals.

GrowSurf is presented as best suited for B2B SaaS, B2C subscriptions, financial services, online education and online insurance companies.

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the GrowSurf website

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Grow your business with referral campaigns

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this to bring more leads by giving away our eBook to the user who refers the most people to our product. We are using it on a client site where every user gets 10% off if they refer a person to the store. It is really easy to use and get leads without spending on ads.

Pros

  • Works very well for referral campaigns.
  • Perfect for giving coupons for users with referrals.

Cons

  • I think they can work on pricing considering users all countries.

Most Important Features

  • Custom design.
  • Email analytics and reports.
  • Fraud Protection.

Return on Investment

  • Got more newsletter subscribers after using GrowSurf.
  • Improved sales on my client site giving coupons.

Other Software Used

Canva, VistaCreate (formerly Crello), Buffer

GrowSurg - Give it a try you might just learn something new and make work a bit easier for yourself and others!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were looking for a software tool to help automates customer acquisition at the lowest possible cost for our company. There were a few options out there, but ultimately GrowSurf was the correct choice. We had too many ways of managing these transactions with spreadsheets, SugarCRM opptys, or random emails. Having this one tool has made tracking and reporting on this so much easier.

Pros

  • Referral Program Creation
  • Loyalty Program Comparison
  • Incentive and Reward Managing

Cons

  • Better developer documentation
  • More releases per year
  • Release notes with details and change log.

Most Important Features

  • Email Auomation
  • Growth Strategy & Marketing
  • Viral Marketing Techniques & Training

Return on Investment

  • One tool to rule them all
  • Easy referral code management
  • Boilerplate content creator and template.

Alternatives Considered

Allvue Growth Equity, App Growing Global and Samesurf

Other Software Used

DevSamurai Agile User Story Map and Roadmap for Jira, Booz Allen Hamilton Cyber, ConSol CM/Helpdesk

Great for acquisition tracking and growth incentives

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GrowSurf helped us track all of our referrals from several marketing channels and was very customizable to use, which made it far less intensive to set up something similar on our own or with a competitor. There was no complex coding required. All acquisition channels such as paid marketing, newsletters, and more can be added to GrowSurf to track revenue and data really well.

Pros

  • Partner and referral incentives are done well.
  • Tracking of all acquisition channels in the business.
  • Easy to set up and implement, very easy to use.

Cons

  • None that I can think of - everything is done very well.

Most Important Features

  • Data visualization and tracking for all acquisition sources.
  • Incentives given easily to affiliates - ease of set up.

Return on Investment

  • Added 10% ARR over a 3 month period using GrowSurf.

Alternatives Considered

PartnerStack

Other Software Used

ActiveCampaign, PartnerStack, Mailchimp

GrowSurf: Let the words Spread

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When we launch a new product marketing is a pain as there are many factors to be considered Like target audience and whatnot. We use GrowSurf to generate referral campaigns for the newly launched product, By using GrowSurf we just send out the referral links with coupon codes to a small number of people, and then via word of mouth, encourage them to share that referral by providing extra bonus on referral.

Pros

  • Very nice HTML templates with variables.
  • Zapier integration is a very handy feature.
  • Great support and onboarding.

Cons

  • A team dashboard will be a great feature to have with more levels of access.
  • Filter and parameters can be added into dashboard.
  • Template UI customization can be enhanced.

Most Important Features

  • Custom UI Templates.
  • Webhooks and Zapier Integration.
  • Notifications to join people to contest.

Return on Investment

  • Around 30% growth in new user onboarding.
  • Less cost of marketing then ad programs.
  • Less time consuming and requires less team size

Alternatives Considered

VYPER

Other Software Used

VYPER, ADSecure, Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)

GrowSurf for Your Referral Needs

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use GrowSurf to promote our company through friends, family, co-workers and affiliates who are already customers of ours. It helps us to expand our customer base by providing rewards for our already dedicated customers. This not only helps us but also helps our customers. GrowSurf brings people straight to our website to increase traffic and highlight what we feel is most important.

Pros

  • easy step by step set up
  • easy editing once a campaign is made
  • easy personalization of the campaign
  • tips on why and how to use each feature

Cons

  • promoting themselves and becoming more well-known
  • using more modern images and logos
  • expanding the integration apps

Most Important Features

  • easy to use
  • fair, tiered pricing schedule
  • detailed campaign options

Return on Investment

  • we have engaged more customers
  • we have expanded our customer base
  • we have provided positive rewards for current customers

Other Software Used

Citrix Podio, Slack, Helium 10