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Growth Hacking Magic?
Sean Ellis September 17, 2014
CEO of Qualaroo, GrowthHackers.com
Twitter @seanellis
Going Beyond the Hype to Take Your Business to the Next Level
About Me
• Founder/CEO of Qualaroo & GrowthHackers.com
• Previously VP Marketing from customer zero to NASDAQ IPO filing at LogMeIn and Uproar.com
• Then interim marketing exec roles at Dropbox, Lookout and Eventbrite
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Extreme Competition for Attention
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Rapidly Evolving Channels
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Yet Some Huge Startup Successes
Little or no traditional marketing…
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GROWTH HACKING MAGIC?
No – Rigorous Process of Experimentation
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The Dropbox Growth Story
• Freemium reduced allowable CPA
• Natural advantages to grow with collaboration and sharing
• Catalyze sharing with double sided referral program
• Optimize conversions on sharing loops
• 300 million users with no traditional marketing
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Desperation Drove Startups to Innovate
• Aggressive targets, tight resources
• Traditional approach not realistic
• Had to rethink growth…
The Growth Hacking Playbook
• Experiment with all available growth levers
• Understand what’s driving growth, test to improve it
• Heavy focus on product and optimization
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B2B or B2C?
• Growth hacking isn’t just for consumer-focused companies.
• B2B often requires integration with sales process.
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HubSpot’s Growth Hack – Free Tools
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Yammer – Engineered User-Get-User
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LinkedIn - Engineered User-Get-User
PUTTING GROWTH HACKING TO WORK FOR YOUR BUSINESS
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Finding Your Own Growth Hacks
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• Areas of exploration
• Process, team and tools
Some Areas of Exploration
• Platform integrations
• Engineered user-get-user
• Free tools
Examples
25+ M users
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Areas of Exploration (Cont)
• Powered by
• Reverse engineer success
Examples
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Success Data: Airbnb’s Pro Photos
• Airbnb discovered that listings with high-quality photos received 2-3x bookings
• Airbnb invested in professional photography
• Booking activity explodes as desire increases
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Other Growth Studies for Inspiration
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Experimentation is Key to Success
• Generate many ideas for experiments
• Prioritize by impact, confidence & effort
• Balance high impact & high probability tests
GOAL: INCREASED UNITS OF GRATIFICATION
Double Down on Success
• Challenge is not finding many channels that work, but rather finding one.
• Often your best growth opportunity is to double down on what’s already working.
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Growth Team Often Needed
• Multi-disciplinary
• Cross functional
• Evangelize experimentation culture
“Growth team” complements existing marketing team
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Some Helpful Tools
• Analytics — Identify drop-off points and under-performing pages (e.g. Google Analytics, KISSMetrics)
• Qualitative Insights — Uncover the why behind the numbers (e.g. Qualaroo, SurveyMonkey)
• A/B Test — Find better performing combinations to drive conversion rate (e.g. Hubspot, Optimizely)
Relentless Execution of Growth Process
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Key Takeaways
• Emerging marketing challenges require all to rethink growth
• Growth hacking is based experimentation, not silver bullets
• Add process/team to maximize number of experiments
• Get inspiration from data, VOC and what’s working for others
Questions?
THANK YOU.
Sean EllisCEO of Qualaroo
& GrowthHackers.com
Twitter: @seanellis