This document discusses growth hacking, which is a low-budget way for startups to acquire and retain customers. It focuses on testable and scalable tactics like data analytics, blogs, and platform APIs, rather than traditional marketing. A growth hacker is a hybrid of coder, marketer and designer who uses these tactics. The document then outlines the growth hacking process, including pull hacks to attract customers through blogs and SEO, push hacks using ads, and product hacks like social sharing. It provides examples for acquisition and activation, such as landing pages and copywriting, and concludes with classic growth hacking examples from companies like LinkedIn, YouTube, Airbnb, and Dropbox.
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Growth Hacking 101
1. Growth Hacking
Marketing of Startups
ilyes Boudjelthia
Head of Growth at ioGrow and Copylead
osidsoft@gmail.com
2. Ill answer
1. Whats Growth Hacking & Growth hacker
2. How is it different from Traditional marketing
3. Growth Hacking process
4. Examples of great hacks
3. Whats Growth Hacking
Growth Hacking is a all about growth, it is a
new way of thinking or a mindset designed to
Acquire & Retain customers with low to zero
budget.
4. Growth Hacker?
A growth hacker is someone who throws out
traditional thinking and replaces it with what is;
testable, track-able and scale-able.
5. Growth Hacker is?
A growth hacker is a hybrid between, a coder, marketer,
and a designer.
6. Traditional Marketer vs Growth Hacker
1. Commercial & print ads
2. Media planning
3. Press releases
4. Events
1. Data analytics
2. Blogs & content marketing
3. Platform APIs
4. SEO
5. Referral programs
#12: Blog posts are keyword rich, and are easily indexed by Google, which aides an overall SEO strategy.
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#13: As an author (even a self-published one) you are a thought leader of sorts, and people will want to use the product youve created.
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#14: Visualizations are powerful tools, and they are spread using social media extremely easily.
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#15: SEO is important, and for many businesses its the primary way they gain traffic at the top of their funnel.
Udemy is experimenting with creating transcripts of their courses, just for the sake of SEO.
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#16: Engage with people who might actually use your product. Know your demographic.
Provide value at every chance. Answer questions. Give advice. Help them in some way. Dont just take, but also be a giver.
Here is the Skittles homepage showing every mention of the word Skittles. This is very brave and very creative.
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#17: You provide a discount to their audience, and in exchange they provide you with distribution
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#19: There are many different ways to purchase ads. Most people assume that there is just Facebook, Google, and Twitter, but there are so
many more.
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#20: each company sends out a tweet to their followers about the other company.
Each company writes a post on their Facebook page about the other company.
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If you want people to take a certain action, and not bounce, then the words you use are more important than you realize. To learn more about copywriting I recommend Joanna Wiebes series of books atcopyhackers.com.
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The best way to get someone to do what you want is by giving them a clear call to action.
Leave nothing to their imagination.
Tell them where to click and make the button obvious.
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Gamification can cause someone to complete actions they normally wouldnt complete.:
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LinkedIn grew from 2 million to 200 million users using SEO, the search engines index people profiles and show up organically in search results.
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they had an easy-to-go option of Embedding the video. This made it seamlessly easy for users to upload their YouTube videos and running it like a video player on their own website.
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Airbnb was using Craigslist to find listings, then soliciting the people who posted the Craigslist ads and asking them to place their ads on Airbnb instead.