The document discusses growth marketing and strategies. It mentions that Samir Patel is the founder and CEO of DoRevolution, a growth marketing company, and has also worked as a growth mentor at 500 Startups. DoRevolution provides growth marketing and analytics services to help companies optimize advertising spending and scale through techniques like search engine optimization, paid advertising, and analytics. The document emphasizes that growth is important but also complex and competitive given advances in technology and data science.
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How to Build a Growth Machine at TheNextWeb San Paulo Brazil
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The Growth Master
Founder, CEO of DoRevolution and Growth
Mentor at 500Startups Silicon Valley,
Optimized $1B+ in Ads.
Founder of SearchForce and pioneer to apply
Wall Street Analytics and Quantitative Trading
Techniques to Advertising for Portfolio
Optimization. Raised $10M+ in financing,
developed a Cross-Channel Optimization SaaS
Platform Based and took the company to
profitability.
MBA in Brand Marketing from Cornell's Johnson
School of Business.
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DoRevolution Growth Services
Growth Marketing & Analytics
Google Adwords
Facebook Ads
Mobile Advertising
Retargeting
SEO : On-page & Off-page
Analytics: Google Analytics, Mixpanel,
Kissmetrics
Growth Training Seminars for CEOs, CMOs
and Staff
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Be Vanilla or a Gorilla
International Ice Cream Association the Top 10 flavours of ice cream in order are: vanilla,
chocolate, butter pecan, strawberry, neapolitan, chocolate chip, french vanilla and cookies n cream.
Vanilla (#1) got approximately 28% of sales and chocolate (#2) got approximately 8% of sales.
The rest got 6% or less.
In this instance, being #1 makes you 350% better off than #2.
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Growth Trumps all Metrics
High growth companies return 5X more to
share holders
Growth predicts long-term success
SuperGrowers (growth rate >60%) when
reached $100M were 8X more likely to
reach $1B than ones <20% growth rate
Growth matters more than margin or cost
structure. Increases in revenue growth rates
drive 2X as much market cap gains
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- McKinsey & Company
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But Growth is Hard
Law of Vanilla Ice-cream
Rapid Evolution of Platforms
Increasing precision brings
complexity
Speed & Machines
Lots of Money at Stake
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Actions
Grow Fast or Die Slow
Markets are hyper-competitive and inflated
Companies are using Artificial Intelligence,
Math and Stats to gain competitive
advantage
Companies are hiring the best and brightest
minds and paying billions for them. Its the
TEAM stupid.
Easy to spend money, hard to make money
Bottom-line : Pay attention OR you will end
up in the dead pool.
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9 Qualities of World Class Growth
Teams
Possess Action-Driven Thinking
Rapid Learners of Dynamically Changing
Marketing Channels and Growth Platforms
Understand Growth Process
Are Highly Product-Savvy
Have a Hustle Mindset
Possess a Cross-Disciplinary Skillset
Connect Marketing to Product Development
Possess Technical Acumen
Hiring connections
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Lead & Customer Acquisition
Market Research & User Feedback
Email Marketing
AB / Multivariate Testing
Competitive Research Tools Sales Intelligence
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1. ACQUISITION
Homepage /
Landing Page
Product
Features
Website.com
Campaigns,
Contests
Emails &
widgets
Ads, Lead Gen, Biz Dev
Subscriptions, etc
SEO
SEM
Apps &
Widgets
Affiliates
Email
PR Biz
Dev
Campaigns,
Contests
Direct, Tel,
TV
Social
Networks
Blogs
Domains
Emails &
Alerts
System Events &
Time-based Features
Blogs,
Content
~ Dave McClure
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Customer Lifecycle
Acquisition: users come to the site from various
channels
Activation: users enjoy 1st visit: "happy" user experience
Retention: users come back, visit site multiple times
Referral: users like product enough to refer others
RAAeRvReR!nue: users conduct some monetization behavior
~ Dave McClure, 500Startups
69. twitter @meetsa69mir Establish Objectives and Key
Results (OKRs)
Set your objective based on whats going to
have the greatest impact on your business
right away
Establish a timeline for testing
Set multiple Key Results (KRs) based on
level of difficulty:
KR 1 90% chance of success. You did a good job.
KR 2 50% chance of success. You did a great job.
KR 3 10% chance of success. You hit it out of the park!
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Example -- Growth via Adwords:
Target : Lower their CPA for accredited investor signups
via AdWords without a significant drop in conversion
volume.
1. Focus on Search Network to drive lower CPA
2. Set timeline for 60 days
3. Three Key Results will be attempted:
KR1 -- (90% change of success): Raise conversion volume by
10% by focusing on strategic bid modifications RLSA audience
lists.
KR2 (50% chance of success): Lower CPA by 20% by limiting the
keywords they buy to high performing terms only, and setting
location bid modifications by income-tier.
KR3 (10% chance of success): Lower CPA by 20% and raise
conversion volume by 10% by combining these two strategies.
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Its the Questions that drive
Change
1. Do you have millisecond
strategy?
2. Have you identified a Growth
Team?
3. Do you run Growth as Risk &
Portfolio Management?
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Samir Patel
samir@dorevolution.com
President & CEO,
DoRevolution
Growth Mentor
@500Startups
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