Presenter: Morgan Brown, Head of Growth at TrueVault & Qualaroo
Event: SEJ Summit 2015 "3Takeaways" Hosted by Searchmetrics- Santa Monica
The rules of marketing have changed. The author of "Startup Growth Engines” will cover his experience in helping scrappy startups transform into breakout companies. Morgan will get tactical and show you how to apply growth hacking techniques in the enterprise, bypassing vanity metrics and get to numbers that matter.
SEJ Summit 2015 is a new, boutique marketing conference series for Big Brand marketers taking place in Santa Monica, Dallas, Chicago, London, Silicon Valley, New York, Miami.
It's *free* for invited attendees (a tip on how to get an invite is below).
Our day of learning and networking features speakers from Disney, Copyblogger, Taco Bell, AirBnB and Copyblogger to name a few.
Breakfast, lunch and a hosted networking reception are all included. SEJ Summit is hosted by Search Engine Journal and Searchmetrics.
There will be no pitches, no product demos, no sponsored content.
Note that anyone can request an invitation. Due to the room capacity, we can't guarantee everyone will receive one.
*Protip: Big brand marketers will get priority.
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3. • 15 year startup growth veteran
• Wrote Startup Growth Engines with Sean Ellis
• My hobby is studying fast growing companies
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4. 3TAKEAWAYS
1. Growth hacking complements marketing – not a replacement
2. Use data to find leverage points and double down on those
3. Rapid, continuous experimentation key to growth – no silver
bullets
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5. “Most startups don’t fail at building
a product. They fail at acquiring
customers.”
Growth is Everything
– Gabriel Weinberg
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6. • McKinsey & Co. studied 3,000 software companies
with different growth rates
• High-growth companies deliver 5x greater returns than
medium growth companies
• Supergrowers (CAGR > 60% at $100m mark) were 8x
more likely to reach $1B
• Increase in growth rates drive 2x the market
capitalization as margin reduction in companies < $4B
• No correlation between cost & growth rates
Growth is Everything
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7. What is growth hacking?
A cool-sounding euphemism for making
the doer feel good about using the same
old sleazy marketing tricks.
– David Heinemeier Hansen, 37 Signals
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8. What is growth hacking?
A … focus on understanding your users and how
they discover and adopt your products, [so] you
can build features that help you acquire and retain
more users, rather than just spending marketing
dollars.
– Josh Elman, Greylock. Frmr.
Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn
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13. Use a 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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14. 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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15. B2C or B2B
• Growth hacking isn’t just for consumer-focused
companies.
• B2B often requires integration with sales process.
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18. Finding Your Own Growth Levers
• Areas of exploration
• Process, team and tools
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19. SOME AREAS OF EXPLORATION
• Platform Integrations
• User-Get-User
• Free Tools
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20. SOME AREAS OF EXPLORATION
• Powered By
• Reverse Engineer Success
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21. Hotel Tonight’s 3G Epiphany
• Discover the why can lead to breakthroughs
in growth
• HotelTonight found poor data connections
drove conversion rates UP.
• WHY?
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22. Success Data: AirBnB’s Pro Photos
• Discovered that listings with high-
quality photos received
2-3x bookings
• Invests in professional photography
• Booking activity explodes as desire
increases
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25. Twitter’s Follow 30 People
"Once a user follows 30 people, they're more or less active forever.”
– Josh Elman, Greylock
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26. Experimentation Is Key To Success
• Generate many ideas for experiments
• Prioritize by impact, confidence & ease
• Balance high impact & high probability tests
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31. 3TAKEAWAYS
1. Growth hacking complements marketing – not a
replacement
2. Use data to find leverage points and double down on
those
3. Rapid, continuous experimentation key to growth – no
silver bullets
#SEJSummit #Searchmetrics