I’m speaking with Luca Micheli, CEO and founder of Customerly.io. Customerly helps companies create better relationships with their customers with effective communication. He launched Customerly about 4 years ago, they have over 17,000 customers around the world.

This is a fascinating story, Luca is competing in a very hot market, where it was once pretty much a monopoly with Intercom as the main provider in the space. The communication marketing space has now opened up which is evident through Customerly’s success.

Luca is from Italy and currently lives in Ireland. Customerly is fully bootstrapped, which is amazing. We’re digging into a lot of great topics in this episode, that a lot of you will definitely find useful. We break down exactly what Luca did to gain such a large user base in a short time, with lifetime deal offers and other marketing techniques. We talk about what they’re doing today to drive up their user base, as well as some of their mistakes and learnings along the way.

Whether you’re a bootstrapped founder or not, this is an episode you’re sure to get a ton of value from. Enough of the intro, here’s my chat with Luca. Enjoy!

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