This document discusses growth hacking strategies used by companies like Hotmail and Airbnb to achieve rapid growth. It defines growth hacking as using tactics and best practices to increase user growth. Some key strategies discussed include viral growth, landing page optimization, copywriting, and behavioral experiments. The document emphasizes measuring the user lifecycle funnel and testing multiple experiments to find improvements. It recommends establishing product-market fit and adopting a growth mindset before implementing funnel analytics and relentless experimentation to activate rapid growth.
2. A bit about
me…..
Digital marketing professional for the last
20+years
Have led various digital marketing agencies
across WPP & Omnicom
Currently co-founder of Chalkcheese.ai and also
a consultant to startups and corporations alike.
Trendspotter and marketing technologist
Love Music & Driving
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/digvine/
Twitter: @beeraajaah
3. In 1996 co-workers Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith
planned to start a company called Javasoft
14. GROWTH
HACKING IS A
SET OF
TACTICS AND
BEST
PRACTICES
FOR DEALING
WITH USER
GROWTH
How do I get more users?
How do I measure effectiveness of new
features?
How do I get more users to be active?
What is our AHA moment?
How do I increase LTV of a user?
How do I reduce churn?
15. TO BE ONE…
OBSESS OVER DATA
Know your customer exceptionally well.
Measure everything.
CREATIVITY
Think different.
Push the limits.
CURIOSITY
Learn early, learn often.
Poke around.
DIRTY HANDS
Get in at the code & product level.
Make, launch and break stuff.
45. EACH PAGE SHOULD BE 90% UNIQUE
Use different offers
Target different customer segment
Highlight different unique selling points
Send paid ads to targeted landing pages and NOT your homepage
65. UNDERSTAND YOUR BUSINESS NUMBERS
And then activate your growth machine
GROWTH can also kill a business
“Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising”
66. GROWTH HACKING COULD BE OTHER
THINGS TOO…
ZAPPOS – Insane customer service
Sent flowers to a woman who ordered 6 pairs
of shoes due to a health problem
Got shoes from a rival store for a woman
staying at a hotel when Zappos ran out of stock
Overnighted a pair of shoes to a best man
The longest customer call reported is 10 hours
and 29 minutes
Let me start by telling you a story….
They were afraid that their bosses would catch them, so they built a web-based email system.
They raised some funds…
Context - There were only 70 million internet users at the time)
Saw that listings with pro photos received 2-3x more bookings.
Result:
Went from 20 photographers in the field in 2011 to doing 5,000
shoots per month.