An agency guys attempt to understand startup growth marketing.
1/ What is growth marketing?
2/ Understanding virality
3/ Loop optimisation
4/ Product and channel development
5/ Analytics
6/ What does this mean for the traditional marketer
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Product-focusedmarketing
Which combines creativity and analytics to drive distribution
1996: “ps I love you, get your free email at hotmail.com” led to Hotmail going from 0 to 30m users in 30 months
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Growthhackinghasbecomesynonymouswithtipsandtricks
VersionA:original Versionb:lessinput Versionc:noinput
+30%! +75%!!
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Password
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Growthmarketingisasynergyofseveralimportantdisciplines
Loop optimisation
Product development
Virality
Channel development
Analytics
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Chainletter–theoriginalviralmechanic
1935 the first money chain letter appeared, the infamous “send-a-dime”
It flooded the world w/in a few months
Virus(product)-letter
Host(channel)-post
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PaypalwasbuiltoneBay
Paypal understood growth early and their key employees applied it to: Tesla Motors, LinkedIn, SpaceX, YouTube,
Yelp, Yammer, Palantir Technologies
Virus(product)–PayPal
Host(channel)–eBay
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Viralityistheprocessofsiphoningachannelsinhabitantstoyou
NOTE: Your product needs to be good! We pass on interesting products or memes to our personal social networks.
1.Preintegration
Product
Channel
2.Integration
Product
Channel
3.Postintegration
Product
Channel
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Viralcoefficient–themeasureofvirality
K = i * conv%
K is viral coefficient, i is the number of invites sent out by each new customer, conv% is the conversion rate
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20,100
40,100
60,100
80,100
100,100
120,100
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
0.2
0.5
0.75
1.1
Viral coefficientMust be greater than 1 to have viral growth
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Everychannelhasaceiling
You can’t continually reach new people for ever
Ceiling
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Retentionmatters
When your retention sucks going viral is bad for business
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20000
30000
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50000
60000
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50%
99%
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Therearedifferenttypesofvirality
Businesses with all three are the ones with Silicon Valley Unicorn user adoption
Engineered viral loops
Analytically-driven optimisations
Viral product category
Social, chat, email, photos etc
Great product
High net promoter score
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Understandcompoundinteresttounderstandloops
Any quantity multiplied frequently by an amount slightly greater than one can become immeasurably large
Take a cent and double it every day…
$100 $150 $200 $250 $300 $350
$50 $50 $50 $50 $50
$100 $150 $225 $337.5 $506.25 $759.375
$50 $75 $112.5 $168.75 $253.125
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Aproductloopismorecomplicatedthanthecompoundinterestloop
The aim is to design a system where the output is bigger than the input, far different to a linear channel e.g. PR
This example is a search loop, other loops: paid marketing, viral loop etc
1. Visit
Seller’s product page
2. CTR
% click on PayPal badge
3. Sign up
% sign up, visitor and seller get $5
4. Share
The person who signed up
puts the badge on their listings
eBay’s loop
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Modelyourexpectations
Example viral loop with 30% inviter rate, 100 invites per inviter and 10% invitation CTR > Sign Up rate
In this example we gain 1,486 signups for every 1,000 signups
Cycle Signups Inviters Invites Clicks
1 1000 300 30000 3000
2 600 180 18000 1800
3 360 108 10800 1080
4 216 65 6480 648
5 130 39 3888 389
6 78 23 2333 233
7 47 14 1400 140
8 28 8 840 84
9 17 5 504 50
10 10 3 302 30
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It’seasytoconvinceyourself ofthe“nextfeaturefallacy”
A “better product” doesn’t necessitate growth
Random features lead to random results
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Growthchannelsaredifferenttotraditionalmarketingchannels
AirBnb’s Craiglist integration drove 10s millions of users prior to automated services
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Diffusionofinnovation –channelsexistonans-curve
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1.Earlychannel
Small but inefficient, good ROI because low competition
Example niche blog, mailing list
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2.Goldenage
Still novel and a big market, people don’t know how best to take advantage
Example Google Chrome, Periscope?
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3.Saturated
Low ROI, mature marketing platforms and practices established
Example AdWords
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4.Relic
Very low ROI, in decline
Example TV and print
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“Channels are the other 50% of
your product UX”
AndrewChen
Takeaphoto Newchannelsharingfeature
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Discoveryandcommunication ofmeaningfuldatainsights
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Notallmetricsarecreatedequally
Key
metrics
One metric
that matters
Vanity
metrics
Meaning
Easetoid/collect
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Theonemetricthatmatters
Causal, clear and actionable
Averagetimeacustomer’s
invoiceispaid.
26daysvs41daysfornoncustomer.
7friendsin10days. Timewatchedperday.
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Keymetrics
Give you guidance on your business performance
Tell you how effective your efforts are and how you’re driving value back to the business
Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
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Vanitymetrics
Pretty to look at and distract you from driving value by focusing on a number, not a business outcome
Uniquevisitors
#offriends,likes
Pageviews
Timeonsite
Downloads
Sessions
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Keymetricsneedtocoverthecustomerlifecycle
How do users become aware of you?
SEO, SEM, widgets, email, PR, campaigns etc
Do drive-by visitors subscribe, use, etc?
Features, design, tone, compensation, affirmation
Does a one-time user become engaged?
Notifications, alerts, reminders, emails, updates…
Do you make money from user activity?
Transactions, CLV, subscriptions etc
Do users promote your product?
Email, widgets, NPS, virality etc
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Revenue
Referral
Pirate metrics is way of categorizing key metrics based on the customer context
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Tractiongraphs:theteam’sfocusmetric
Sign ups per day
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-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
Conversion rate Viral coefficient
Prioritizing and learning from the one-metric that matters ensures focus, discipline and accountability
to something that will have a real business impact
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Thegrowthmetricsstack
-4
-2
0
2
4
1. Traction graphs
Focused action
2. Key metrics dashboard
Correlation and context
6%
Churn rate
20%
Active after
30 days
3%
1st visit sign
up rate
30%
MAU
3. Key metrics dimensions
Understanding
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
Churn rate
Facebook
Blog
SEM
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What does this mean for a
traditional marketer?
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“None of our
competitors has its
own data business,
which gives us a
huge advantage.”
SirMartinSorrell,
WPPAnnualReport2014
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1. Traction
Key metrics defined, tracked and used to make decisions
Operationalized multivariate testing: channel + site
Documentation of test results and lessons learnt
Automation of findings
Growth maturity
2. Scale
Owned / earned channel scale
Cross-channel analytics
Creative engine (test platform + dry powder)
3. Growth
Product development
Growth methodologies: product and
channel integration
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Thank you
Vlad Mehakovic
Head of CX
Office +61 2 9469 5954
Suite 5, 30 Boronia Street
Redfern NSW 2016
@vladiim
Notas do Editor
This is hotmail in 1998
Got to 12m users in 1.5 years
B.C on every email sent, there was a note that said: “ps I love you, get your free email at hotmail.com”
This is hotmail in 1998
Got to 12m users in 1.5 years
B.C on every email sent, there was a note that said: “ps I love you, get your free email at hotmail.com”
This is hotmail in 1998
Got to 12m users in 1.5 years
B.C on every email sent, there was a note that said: “ps I love you, get your free email at hotmail.com”
1935 the first money chain letter appeared, the infamous “send-a-dime”, which flooded the world w/in a few months
1935 the first money chain letter appeared, the infamous “send-a-dime”, which flooded the world w/in a few months
Started millions of users on Palm Pilots to pay each other but the users were so diverse no one needed the service
Then focused on top few thousand eBay sellers. Needed the product and mich smaller
Before paypal, could only order on eBay w/ a check
$10 to every new user signed up
7% daily. Double every 10 days
eBay tried to start a PayPal competitor and gave incentives to use Billpoint instead of PayPal
Started millions of users on Palm Pilots to pay each other but the users were so diverse no one needed the service
Then focused on top few thousand eBay sellers. Needed the product and mich smaller
Before paypal, could only order on eBay w/ a check
$10 to every new user signed up
7% daily. Double every 10 days
eBay tried to start a PayPal competitor and gave incentives to use Billpoint instead of PayPal
Time matters – look up https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=y0e29704d6b6ede984e5d8b7209cd37ae3eb9
Draw something is a perfect example – fastest app to get to 50 million users (x days) then died
both retention and virality are critical
important to understand what's good for your category and to use that to understand if you've got protraction or not
* To super charge need to integrate with channel
* Level above is engineered and optimised loops
* PayPal early days would sample eBay listings and figure out how many had PayPal badges and try to increase
Take a cent and double it every day
In a week you'd have 64 cents in 2 you'd have 83.92 in 30 days you'd have $5.4 million
> - @ the centre of every growth strategy is a loop
> - PR = linear channel, output = input
> - We're aiming for something bigger, output > input
> - Every growth loop touches a channel, ask how you pull audience from the channel
> - High ceiling of saturation 100s of millions – each loop cycle gives you momentum into the next cycle
Example is SEO loop Examples: Stack Exchange, Rap Genius, Trip Advisor etc
Others:
* Paid marketing loop: New users click on ad > % sign up for free trial > % convert to paid features > budget used to buy more ads > end loop
* Viral loop: New users sign up > % import their address books > % send invites > % click on links & sign up > end loop
V powerful when you have multiple loops e.g. LinkedIn w/ SEO & social
* Incremental improvements are amplified with loop
* Growth models help id highest value projects
* Using prev e.g. let's say there's a +10%:
* Qual/quant
* Needs predictive values; existing data as baseline
* Focus on the loop with steady, inc improvements
* Great product features have very fuzzy correlation with growth
Drove 10s millions of users prior to automated services
Powerful but any external channel integration is inherently risky as you loose 50% of your Growth Multiplier if an integration causes a viral factor drop from 0.9 to 0.8\
Similar – YouTube was built on MySpace
* Bet on channels that are growing and healthy
* Spam detection happens as channel matures
Conquest: your channel strategy has worked so well that there's no one left to acquire
* Every channel decays until no one's making any money
* E.g. Adwords for search, everyone with experience for keywords is optimising to full extent
* Go after Golden Age channel
* Once consensus hits - it's over
* Adding or switching to a new channel is hard
* Developing the right product is hard
Actionable data insights is a competitive advantage
Causal data is hugely powerful