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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

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There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. I’d like to make the case that the article is wrong. I’d strongly encourage you to read it. Avoid the spin, stay heads down and deliver the goods. But I still believe Sean Ellis was right.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. My articles never appeared on Digg so I didn’t focus on it at all. How do people drive SEO growth? Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). And they’re reading your press articles and thinking, “shit, they have everything figured out.&# I wrote about it in detail in this article. Read their articles.

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How to Choose Digital Marketing Channels for Long Term Growth

ConversionXL

SEM is great because you can capture people as they’re searching for a solution, which is often some of the highest intent traffic you can find. Here are some resources to learn more about paid acquisition: Customer Acquisition Master Course (includes SEO). The Intersection of SEO and CRO (and How to Maximize Long Term Growth).

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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

ConversionXL

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a marketing growth strategy to increase your market penetration, market share, and revenue. SEO , SEM, paid advertising , content marketing, social media, email marketing, strategic partnerships with other brands, PR; Activation. And fail fast.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

On the surface, it might seem difficult to quantify the value of good design – however, as per your article, I don’t see any reason why contracts with designers wouldn’t be structured in such a way that target conversion rates, bounce rates, and other metrics would drive the compensation level.

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