In today's fast-paced marketing environment, it's important to keep your team focused on what will have the most impact on sustainable growth. In this session you’ll learn the methodology behind the fastest growing companies innovating and disrupting the status quo. Walk away with tactics to drive alignment across your entire team and make an even bigger impact on your company’s mission.
8. Growth Hacking
Taking a product that provides
real value to customers.
Using a highly iterative
experimentation process
across the full customer
journey to identify the biggest
opportunities for
improvement.
Sean Ellis
16. “You can always feel when product/market fit isn't happening…
And you can always feel product/market fit when it's happening”
-Rachleff's Corollary of Startup Success according to Marc Andreesen
19. 6 Questions to Understand Early
Customers & Validate PMF
20. How would you feel if you could
no longer use this product?
Very disappointed (40%+)
Somewhat disappointed
Not disappointed
N/A – I already stopped using
23. What is the primary benefit
you’ve received from the
product?
24. Have you recommended the
product to anyone?
If so, please explain how you described it.
25. What type of person do you think
would benefit most from the
product?
26. The 6 Product Market Fit Questions
1. How would you feel if you could no longer use this product?
40%+ very disappointed
2. How did you discover the product?
3. What would you likely use as an alternative?
4. What is the primary benefit you’ve received from the product?
5. Have you recommended the product to anyone?
6. What type of person do you think would benefit most from the product?
30. Identify a North Star Metric
Align your team around a common success metric – customer value.
31.
32. Example North Star Metrics
Facebook
Value: Connect with others
NSM: Daily Active People (DAU)
à to value: 7 friends in 10 days
Lyft
Value: $ for drivers, rides for riders
NSM: Weekly rides
à To value: First ride/passenger
37. #4
What will align everyone in
the company?
Consider worst case scenario on how it could drive ineffective behavior.
38. The 4 North Star Metric Questions
1. Why did your team join the company?
2. What is the core value customers receive from the product?
3. How can you quantify this customer value?
4. What will align everyone in the company?
48. Levers for Moving the North Star Metric
Understand relationship between variables that improve your
North Star Metric
- Sources and motivations to try
- Aha moment (1st taste of core value)
- Core value (must have experience)
- Loops for generating new users
- Sources of money from customers
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Referral
Revenue
50. What are your customers doing?
User Level Event Tracking
• Every user’s actions
• Segment - integrate data
from multiple sources
• Amplitude - track user
behavior
Allowing for…
• Activation funnel analysis
• Engagement reports
• User context
51. What is an event?
Event name: “Created Shipment”
Unique user identifier: “7670b3f2-796d-4239-a284-45c5a37c2a7a”
Timestamp: 2018-03-12T04:39:16+00:00
Group/Company identifier (B2B): group_id=’walmart’
Additional custom properties
• URL and path
• Object IDs: order_id=7487465, shipment_id=89798, invoice_id=897899
• Revenue, Product, Plans
• A/B Testing variations
52. Where are your events?
ACQUISITION – Facebook, Google Ads, Unbounce, Email
ACTIVATION – In-product, Operational DB, Onboarding tools
RETENTION – In-product, Operational DB, Subscription systems
REFERRAL – Internal systems
REVENUE – Accounting systems, Salesforce, Stripe, Chargify
53. Layering on the “Why?”
Qualitative Feedback
Understand user decisions
• Interviews
• User Testing
• Recorded User Sessions
• Surveys
How can can you marry
this feedback with
quantitative data?
54. Tools to Improve
In-product beta feature tests – Launch Darkly
Generate interest for new launches – Unbounce
A/B test on web pages – Google Optimize
A/B test email messages – MailChimp
56. The Growth Team
Primary Goal:
Demonstrate value to customers
• Center around problems holding
back growth across the company
• Led by a “Growth Master”
• Support from CEO
Vision Intuition
Data Empathy
57. The Growth Team – Moving Forward
Grow the team as bottlenecks build & resources are needed.
• Data Analyst(s) – Find opportunities and analyze tests
• Growth Marketer(s) – Develop/manage acquisition channels
• Growth Engineer(s) – Implement growth ideas requiring development
• Growth Designer(s) – Provide design for growth ideas
58. “Generally, big successes in growth hacking come from a series of
small wins, compounded over time.
Each bit of learning acquired leads to better performance and
better ideas to test, which lead to more wins, ultimately turning
small improvements into landslide competitive advantages.”
-Hacking Growth
59. Setting High Impact Objectives
• Support growth of North Star Metric
• Identify leverage across the customer journey
• Set baseline & target
• Set time-frame for achieving
• Empower team to test
64. After: Cross-Functional Team
Marketing PM
Product PM
Customer
Success Agent
Compliance
User
Research/
Data Analyst
• Centered around common goal
• Applied growth process
• Improved onboarding by 2X in
less than a month
• Allowed marketing channels to
scale
Increase
# of approved
loans > funded
65. Growth Mindset + Empathy - Ego
The equation for a successful growth team.
67. Step 1: Ideate
• Unbridled ideation
• Use test framework
• Name
• Description
• Hypothesis
• Metrics to be measured
• ICE Score
Impact, Confidence, Ease
Prioritize
TestAnalyze
Ideate
Objective
68. Types of Ideas for Testing
Ping tests to discover
• Try something you’ve never done
before to learn whether it works
A/B tests to optimize
• There’s always a better way to
do something. Test to find it.
69. Step 2: Prioritize
• Current objective
• ICE score
• Available resources
• Minimal viable tests
• Nominate ideas every week
Prioritize
TestAnalyze
Ideate
Objective
70. Step 3: Test
• Implement tests w/ clear
hypothesis
• Ensure measurement is in place
• Assign a test owner
• Communicate to team
Prioritize
TestAnalyze
Ideate
Objective
71. Step 4: Analyze
• Determine results of test
• Worked
• Didn’t Work
• Inconclusive
• Discuss additional learnings
Prioritize
TestAnalyze
Ideate
Objective
74. Growth Meeting Agenda
Preparation: Team nominates ideas to test against the current
objective.
1 hour meeting with growth team
• 15 min: Discuss progress against current objectives & overall NSM
• 15 min: Discuss analysis of previous tests
• 10 min: Review tests planned vs. launched (throughput)
• 20 min: Team “pitch” nominated ideas, choose ideas, assign to team
82. #3
Ask everyone in company for
their ideas.
Different perspectives will approach the same problem in different ways,
leading to diverse collection of ideas.
83. #4
Ask team members “what have
you learned lately?”
It should be known you’re expecting learning to happen and that you want
to learn with them.
84. #5
Share weekly wins & learnings
across the company.
Contributors should be recognized & new successes/learnings should be shared
widely to embed the mindset.
86. #7
Introduce customer success
stories into weekly all-hands.
How can you reiterate the mission through the customer’s voice to remind the
team why their efforts matter?
87. #8
Create a channel for internal
feedback.
If a team member doesn’t understand or agree with something, give them an
opportunity to tell you & ask questions.
88. #9
Start a reading club.
A great way to foster skill building and identify how new ideas can be applied to
your business.
89. Recommended Books to Get Started
Growth Hacking
Playbook
Building
Habits
OKRs & Growth
Process in Practice
Building
Empathy
Build, Measure,
Learn Methodology
90. #10
Do something fun.
The team needs to bond & build rapport across departments on a regular basis…
it makes the grind easier.
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92. 10 Growth Culture Builders
1. Start the team with an easy win.
2. Communicate current objectives & why they matter.
3. Ask everyone in company for their ideas.
4. Ask team members “what have you learned lately?”
5. Share weekly wins & learnings across the company.
6. Introduce postmortems.
7. Introduce customer success stories into weekly all-hands.
8. Create a channel for internal feedback.
9. Start a reading club.
10. Do something fun.
93. Growth Mindset + Empathy - Ego
The equation for a successful growth culture.