How to Build a High Performing Growth Team
As technology continues to make data-driven marketing easier to implement and control, one thing remains constant: it’s all about the effectiveness of your team.
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How to Choose Digital Marketing Channels for Long Term Growth
How you decide to invest in marketing channels can make or break your business.
That sounds like an obvious statement, but not a lot of people think about it critically. Rather, marketers get trapped in the fervent anxiety of needing to be everywhere at once. This is both ineffective and stressful.
It doesn’t help that there’s a new blog post out every day about how you’re missing out on [X] and this company is killing it by doing [Y]. FOMO is real.
How to Drive Product Growth with Behavioral Personas
Retention is the key to building a great business.
When your core product experience brings your users back time and time again, you gain some incredible advantages. You spend less on acquisition, learn from your users faster, and start building a community through word of mouth and referrals.
If you can’t retain your users, you’re going to spend more on acquisition while not growing as quickly. You’ll spread distaste for your product, not delight. Soon, you’ll find that there are no more users out there to churn through.
The Intersection of SEO and CRO (and How to Maximize Long Term Growth)
You’d think conversion optimization and SEO should play together nicely, right?
In theory, conversion optimization aims to improve the user experience, which, conveniently, is what Google wants to do as well with their top search results. Therefore, the more you test and improve your site, the higher it should appear in the rankings. You get more traffic, more conversions, more money – in an endless hockey stick shaped cycle.
Of course, it’s not so simple.
Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)
You’re familiar with the term “growth hacking”, right? You’ve likely read about how Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Hotmail, Dropbox, etc. growth hacked their way to mega success.
Those case studies resulted in a widespread shift in thinking. Many marketers became more concerned with 10x growth hacks they read about online than strategy and growth process.
Is growth hacking useless? Absolutely not. Is the way it’s commonly talked about useless? Undeniably.
Unlocking Your Company’s Growth Engine w/ Conversion Rate Optimization w/ Sean Ellis
If you’ve heard of Dropbox, Eventbrite, LogMeIn or Qualaroo, you’re familiar with my work.
I’m Sean Ellis & I’d like to tell you how Conversion Rate Optimization played a critical role as the growth engine for the companies I’ve worked with. I’m going to lay out the specific tests & processes I’ve used to grow these startups into incredibly valuable businesses.
How important is CRO? It was the key to our success in scaling LogMeIn to a publicly-traded company, and helped us optimize our referral program at Dropbox, whose latest funding figures peg it’s value at a rumored $10 billion.
How To Start A Business W/ Noah Kagan of AppSumo
Is it possible to make $1,000 profit with no list, on a business that’s less than 24 hours old?
Noah Kagan did, using nothing but a $0.99 domain from Godaddy, his Facebook connections, Linkedin, Skype & Gtalk
In this interview with Noah Kagan of AppSumo, we discuss:
Practical Advice For Growing Your Software Business w/ Lars Lofgren of KISSmetrics
When a business increases it’s webinar attendance by 1000% & net $40,000 in the first 3 sessions, you should probably listen to what they’re doing right.
This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Lars Lofgren – Growth Manager of KISSmetrics.com, whose job is specifically to get more leads for his software company.