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The Growth Master
• Founder, CEO of DoRevolution and Growth
Mentor at 500Startups, Optimized $1B+ in Ads.
• Founder of SearchForce and pioneer to apply
Wall Street Analytics and Quantitative Trading
Techniques to Advertising for Portfolio
Optimization. Raised $10M+ in financing,
developed a Cross-Channel Optimization SaaS
Platform Based and took the company to
profitability.
• MBA in Brand Marketing from Cornell's Johnson
School of Business.
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Growth Trumps all Metrics
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• High growth companies return 5X more to
share holders
• Growth predicts long-term success
• SuperGrowers (growth rate >60%) when
reached $100M were 8X more likely to
reach $1B than ones <20% growth rate
• Growth matters more than margin or cost
structure. Increases in revenue growth rates
drive 2X as much market cap gains
- McKinsey & Company
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Reach by Network
• Google Search -100 billion global web searches
per month. 71% of search market share
• Google Display – Over 1 billion monthly users, 6
billion ad impressions per month
• AdWords for Video – Over 1 billion unique users
per month on YouTube alone
• AdCenter – 29% search market share
• Facebook – 1.28 billion active users
• Twitter – 645 registered users
• Linkedin – 300 million users
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But Growth is Hard
• Rapid Evolution of
Markets
• Speed & Machines
• Lots of Money at Stake
• Increasing precision
brings complexity
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Easy to Lose Money
It’s Complex.
Figure out the Gap in
your skillset.
Pre-mature conclusions
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Where to Start?
• If you’re trying to drive sales, have a limited budget,
and need your advertising investment to deliver a
specific return, or at least be directly profitable, start
with the Search Network only.
• If you’re trying to drive sales but you feel you’ve
exhausted the Search market and still have additional
budget to spend, expand to Google Display Network
(GDN ) & Adwords for Video (AFV) targeting.
• If you’re trying to drive sales plus expand awareness
and grow your brand, go with all three.
• If you have a product or service that’s not well known,
and users aren’t likely to search for it directly, or it’s
value is hard to explain in a text ad, stick with GDN and
AFV targeting. (Video can be particularly useful here!)
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Actions
• Grow Fast or Die Slow
• Markets are hyper-competitive and inflated
• Companies are using Artificial Intelligence,
Math and Stats to gain competitive
advantage
• Companies are hiring the best and brightest
minds and paying billions for them. It’s the
TEAM stupid.
• Easy to spend money, hard to make money
• Bottom-line : Pay attention OR you will end
up in the dead pool.
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8 Qualities of World Class Growth
Teams
• Possess Data-Driven Thinking
• Rapid Learners of Dynamically Changing
Marketing Channels and Growth Platforms
• Understand Growth Process
• Are Highly Product-Savvy
• Have a Hustle Mindset
• Possess a Cross-Disciplinary Skillset
• Connect Marketing to Product Development
• Possess Technical Acumen
• Hiring connections
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Website.com
Emails &
widgets
Campaigns,
Contests
Biz DevAds, Lead Gen,
Subscriptions, etc
Homepage /
Landing Page
Product
Features
1. ACQUISITION
SEO
SEM
Apps &
Widgets
Affiliates
Email
PR Biz
Dev
Campaigns,
Contests
Direct, Tel,
TV
Social
Networks
Blogs
Domains
Emails &
Alerts
Blogs,
Content
System Events &
Time-based Features
~ Dave McClure
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Customer Lifecycle
• Acquisition: users come to the site from various channels
• Activation: users enjoy 1st visit: "happy" user experience
• Retention: users come back, visit site multiple times
• Referral: users like product enough to refer others
• Revenue: users conduct some monetization behavior
AARRR!
~ Dave McClure, 500Startups
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Steps to Build an Adwords Account
• Expertise to manage Adwords
• Define your Audience
• Budgeting
• Keyword Research
• Writing Ads
• Building out the Account Structure
• 5 Pillars of Optimization
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Establish Objectives and Key
Results (OKRs)
• Set your objective based on what’s going to
have the greatest impact on your business
right away
• Establish a timeline for testing
• Set multiple Key Results (KRs) based on
level of difficulty:
KR 1 – 90% chance of success. You did a good job.
KR 2 – 50% chance of success. You did a great job.
KR 3 – 10% chance of success. You hit it out of the park!
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Example -- Growth via Adwords:
Goal: Lower their CPA for accredited investor signups via
AdWords without a significant drop in conversion volume.
1. Focus on Search Network to drive lower CPA
2. Set timeline for 60 days
3. Three Key Results will be attempted:
• KR1 -- (90% change of success): Raise conversion volume by
10% by focusing on strategic bid modifications RLSA audience
lists.
• KR2 – (50% chance of success): Lower CPA by 20% by limiting the
keywords they buy to high performing terms only, and setting
location bid modifications by income-tier.
• KR3 – (10% chance of success): Lower CPA by 20% and raise
conversion volume by 10% by combining these two strategies.
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10 PPC Optimization Tips
• Search Query Report
• Keyword Match Types
• Cross Pollinations: SEO and SEM
• Ad Copy Testing
• Segmented Reporting for Day Parting
• Using Ad Extensions
• Budget Adjustments
• Competitive Terms
• Campaign Structure
• Device Based Bidding
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Tell them before you tell them
• Mobile Multiple Touch Points
• Calls
• Apps
• Cross Device
• Mcommerce & Mobile Sites
• In store
• 4 Tips: Optimizing Mobile PPC
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Calls
• This may sound obvious but let's not forget
smartphones facilitate an action that is native
to the device itself: phone calls. Customers
sometimes prefer to purchase by phone.
• how a spontaneous party was made possible
with purchases made via phone calls.
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Apps
• Mobile App Economy is 29.5B Gartner, 50B
downloaded, 1M apps, 190 Countries
• Apps are a great way to enrich your
relationship with your customers. App
downloads and transactions that happen
within your apps are two important sources of
value from mobile.
• When consumers download your app, it
creates new opportunities for conversions.
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New App Ads
• New Installations: Mobile App promotions
across search, display and YouTube.
• Extract and suggest keywords based on Google
Play and Google Seach
• Target Customers based on apps they use,
frequency of use and in-app purchase history
• Reengagement: Ads that redirect inside of
apps already installed, Deep Linking
• Conversion Measurement: Installation,
Reengagement & In-App Purchases
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Mcommerce & Mobile Sites
• A mobile-friendly site is the cornerstone of
any mobile strategy and makes it easier for
your customers to purchase directly from
their smartphones.
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4 Mobile PPC Optimization Tips
• Mobile Bid Adjustments : Need to get on top
positions because of form factor, bid higher for
location based targeting.
• Mobile Preferred Ads : Separate mobile/desktop,
Call directly or provide a promotion based on time.
Different URL for mobile.
• Call Extensions: Ad scheduling based on call
center, Your own number or Google’s forwarding
number
• On Site Call Conversions: Track calls from
phone number embedded on website when users
need to reach more before they buy