Slides of the second part of my lecture on Growth Hacking at Sup de Pub in December 2016. It covers: how to craft growth engines, funnels and customer lifecycles, the growth hacking methodology, A/B testing, different tactics and LOADS of tools that I love for content creation, distribution and automation.
6. 6
startups search and pivot
Startup Transition Large
Corporation
Searching for a business model
Searching for:
• product/market fit
• a repeatable sales process
7. 7
startups search, companies execute
Startup Transition Large
Corporation
Execution of a business model
Execution:
• profitability, repeatability, scalability
• processes
8. The MVP is the product with
the highest return in terms of
investment/risk
minimum viable product (MVP)
13. 13
January February March April May
Number of new
visitors
1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Total visitors 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000
Revenue/customer €5,00 €4,50 €4,33 €4,25 €4,50
Revenue/customer
arrived in Jan
€5,00 €3,00 €2,00 €1,00 €0,50
Revenue/customer
arrived in Feb
€6,00 €4,00 €2,00 €1,00
Revenue/customer
arrived in Mar
€7,00 €6,00 €5,00
Revenue/customer
arrived in April
€8,00 €7,00
Revenue/customer
arrived in May
€9,00
cohort analysis 1/2
28. things to remember:
1. Identify and prioritise from the customer’s point of view
2. Always pick the solution that maximises return over
the shortest period of time
3. Define success before you run the test
4. If possible, reuse ressources
5. Try again and again, since nothing works at first!
39. 39
“Though the immediate cause of death in
a startup tends to be running out of
money, the underlying cause is usually
lack of focus”
- Paul Graham
42. channels ❤
Targeting blogs
Public Relations
Unconventional PR
SEO/SEM
Social and Display Ads
Offline ads
Content marketing
Email marketing
Engineering as marketing
Business development
Affiliate programs
Viral marketing
Community building
Sales
Existing platforms
Trade shows
Offline events
Speaking at events
48. tools to monitor the web
mention
google alerts
keywordtool.io
Buzzsumo
ruzzit.com
Google Trends
ShareTally.co
Site Alerts
charlieapp.com
discover.ly
audiense.com
websta.me
fanpagekarma.com
onalytica.com
famebit.com
leandomainsearch.
com
apptweak
Alexa
Similar Web
Longtail Pro
Crowdriff
Call Competitor
50. tools to analyse
Hotjar
Google analytics
VWO
Mixpanel
woorank
Pop Corn Metrics
baremetrics
crazyegg
bit.ly
Users Think
Optimizely
StoreMaven
Yoast
Segment
FollowerWonk
51. tools to be social
Canva
Text Cutie
Buffer
AdEspresso
LinkedIn share
(www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?
mini=true&url=http://
yourwebsite.com)
Reddit Later
Tweepi
Thunderclap
Ninja Outreach
snip.ly
54. some pre acquisition tips
Product/Market fit comes first
NPS are good to judge that
“How likely are you to recommend…?”
“How disappointed would you be if…?” ->
40%
64. how to facebook
1. Use personal profiles for professional matters
(notifs, groups, direct message etc.)
2. Use groups a lot
3. Make your own group, invite friends AND friends
of friends (use the Facebook suggestions)
65. how to facebook
4. know the rules:
Post Reach = interest for the poster x engagement of
the post x type of post x creators influence x recency
You have to be as good as a baby picture 👶
5. Use thunderclap
6. Custom audiences are a good start
7. Use fanpagekarma to find influencers
66. how to instagram
1. Find your ideal customer, screen his/her followers
and flood the # they use (both posts and comments)
2. Put links in your profile and monitor it
3. Use audiense.com to find influencers
4. Regram cool stuff, with their permission and quoting
them can be even cooler
67. how to twitter
1. Do as much as you can: follow, mention, RT, Like
etc.
2. Use audiense.com to find influencers
3. Use tweepi and target followers of your competitors
4. 5 times the same tweet/article is ok, many many
tweets per day is ok
68. how to pinterest
1. Find influencers with Onalytica or
Famebit
2. Use their network and content
69. how to LinkedIn
1. Use groups, find them via https://www.linkedin.com/
pulse/discover or by searching for “top linkedin groups”
2. Mass post to connections and groups in batch of 20
thanks to www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?
mini=true&url=http://yourwebsite.com
3. Build profiles that contain a CTA and automatically look
at other profiles
70. how to Reddit
1. Join the groups of your niche
2. Take it slow, make friends, grab karma, be
transparent and talk about your story
3. Scout for good content and discussions
4. Use imgur to find image content (what 9gag
mods do all the time…)
71. how to do content management
1. Pay A LOT of attention to the headlines
and thumbnails. Test them using bit.ly
2. Use buffer and/or Smarter Queue
72. how to do content management
3. Iterate from a basic diet:
Sunday from 9am to 12pm -> nothing
Monday to Thursday: 4 “money” posts at 10am
Everyday: “fun” posts at 6pm
Specific to twitter: 3 money tweets a day at 10am, 2pm
and 6pm, 3 fun tweets a day at 11am, 4pm and 7pm
From time to time: insta, pinterest and other peripheral
networks + bailouts