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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

ConversionXL

Building new revenue streams in an untapped channel, like content marketing or email marketing. Strategic alliances with other brands to develop offerings or leverage each others’ distribution channels. A common framework for defining your growth model is Dave McClure’s Pirate Metrics for startups : the AARRR framework.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. ” Are you going into an industry (say, music?)

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

This is when metrics come into play. See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics. If there’s something that we’re really proud of in Slidebean, it’s our onboarding emails. Intercom allows you to build drip email campaigns based on specific actions users take on your site. Successful and failed experiments.

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The Direct-to-Consumer Checklist

Austin Startup

How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM? Instituting some sort of reward for the top referrers and nada for everyone else is a bit cheesy in my opinion, but can work for more lightweight programs such as email list referrals. What about appealing to a certain lifestyle category? Have you instituted a gifting program?