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Topics
• Full stack of marketing
• The Product/Market fit
• Market Positioning
• Marketing Warfare
• Marketing your customers and letting them market you
• Linking growth hacking to marketing
• What did we at Engagio
• Q&A – Town hall style 7:40pm.
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Growth is the most important
thing for a startup.
If you don’t grow, you won’t exist.
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Hacking…the tough part is
figuring out organic growth.
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Growth Hacking is . . .
① Analytics
② Marketing
③ Product
④ User Experience
User Growth
Revenue
Growth
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Positioning: The Battle for your
Mind
“It’s the first company to build the mental
position that has the upper hand, not the
first company to make the product. IBM
didn’t invent the computer; Sperry-Rand did.
But IBM was the first to build the computer
position in the prospect’s mind.”
- Al Ries & Jack Trout
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Positioning starts with your
product, but it is not what you
do to a product.
Positioning is what you do
to the mind of the prospect.
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Some rules for Positioning
1. Be First
2. Blogging is communicating
3. Understand the meaning of words
4. What will you sacrifice?
5. Position for defensability
6. Dissociate your company from your product
7. If you’re not #1, try to be the first to occupy #2
8. Don’t forget the less viral physical world
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“You must create a position in
the prospect’s mind that takes
into consideration not only your
strengths and weaknesses, but
also those of your competitors
as well.”
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-- Al Ries & Jack Trout, Positioning: The Battle for your Mind
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Marketing your Customers
• Telling stories about what they are doing with
your product
• Letting them tell their own stories
• Uncover how your product has transformed
them, not how they are using it, e.g. Google,
Prius.
See book “Who do you want your customers to become” by
Michael Schrage
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Growth Hacking Evolution
• Operationalize what works
• Email is also a growth marketing tool
• Retention and re-engagement are growth related
• Blow some metric
• Don’t think Analytics…Think Actionable Analytics
• Data Analysts in big co’s – take longer to get decisions approved, can’t trial
and error too much
• Reporting is for stable businesses that have known growth characteristics.
You want to model the velocity and dynamism of your business as a startup.
• Growth hacking will not help a product that sucks
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Discussion
• Is Growth Hacking part of Marketing, linked to
Marketing or parallel to Marketing?
• Does Growth Hacking end when you have
figured out Product/Market fit?
• Anything I said that you didn’t agree with, or that
we should be discussing further?
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