Agile Payments

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

9 Effective Growth Hacking Strategies to Skyrocket Your Startup Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash Although the term growth has been thrown around a lot, especially in the start-up community, many entrepreneurs still need to be made aware of what growth hacking is and how it works. What is Growth Hacking?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Growth Hacking. In a perfect world, you’d learn something about marketing first before you hire someone to take it over. I.e., you’d experiment and at least make some progress in: Content Marketing. Can you get even 1 or 2 customers from blogging and writing? Event Marketing. Can you get any good leads by going to an industry event?

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Marketing = Growth Hacking. I’m worried. You don’t need a CMO. At least, not yet. Let’s roughly break up what “marketing” means at different stages of a SaaS company: $0-$1m ARR. You are the 10,000th SaaS company to market. Why would anyone even look for you, let alone buy you? 1m-$10m ARR.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

When to Accelerate Growth? Early stages of growth. One of the most recent trends is the use of “ growth hacking.” Growth hacking is a process of taking shortcuts. This means there is no real growth which results in a lower valuation of the company and the firing of the sales leadership.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

These folks rarely have any idea how to do demand gen, ABM, growth hacking, etc. A few titles that IMHE are flags: “VP of Product Marketing” or “VP of Corporate Marketing” or “VP of Communications” for a VP of Marketing job. Product Marketers know how to explain how a product fits.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Product-led scaling isn’t about growth hacking, and it can be challenging no matter where you’re starting. So the Dropbox team decided to go back to the basics and focus on improving funnel health, pulling out some of the growth hacks, and focusing on the essential first user experience.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 1, 2013

That’s how long it would take to double your user base at those growth rates. Though there is some science to growth developed by the technology-fluent marketer, aka growth hacker, growth remains a confounding art because there isn’t one feature - like implementing FB Connect or promoting Tweets or having a big red button on a home page.

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2020

You’ll find a way to be decent at some aspect of marketing in the early days on your own (PR, virtality, growth hacking, outbound, cold calling, who knows). That’s a different, and critical, job than CTO. Marketing is also an art and science.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

You’ll find a way to be decent at some aspect of marketing in the early days on your own (PR, virtality, growth hacking, outbound, cold calling, who knows). That’s a different, and critical, job than CTO. Marketing is also an art and science.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This itself is one of the best growth hacks for gaining visibility in the SAAS industry. During your journey of growth X in SAAS business, you will get a chance to interact with different segments of the industry. Don’t ignore this segment and grow wisely. Prepare Pitchbook for your saas.

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Cobloom

JUNE 29, 2024

We've all heard stories of ' disruptive growth hackers' transforming tiny SaaS start-ups into multi-billion dollar businesses. There's even an aura of mystery surrounding these enigmatic figures, and the seemingly magical tactics they employ to achieve the near-impossible - but what exactly is a growth hacker?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

But a great head of demand gen (or maybe growth hacking if you are SMB) should be very accretive at even $20k in MRR. The chart above illustrates the ideal plan, but let’s dig into the detailed suggestions: You really can and should try to hire your VP of Marketing as Early as $20k in MRR.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Growth hacking. Most of us are bad at making events pay. But done right, they can really perform. Customers and prospects attend them, after all. Especially, try to do the 1–2 largest events in your industry. Building lists and spamming, er, emailing them often fails. Or even creates backlash. Favors + Warm Intros.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: “Growth hacking” means different things to different people, but Sean defines it as singular focus on growth through rapid experimentation across the full customer journey. What growth hacking is and isn’t. I thought startups had no choice but to be super focused on growth.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

From $1k-$3k ACV, marketing is growth hacking. The demand gen playbook is just so different at different ACVs: From $0-1k ACV, marketing is a B2C-style playbook — with no sales at all.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2021

corporate marketing or growth hacking) insisting on being your CMO. Typical examples are: A top individual sales exec with no management experience wanting to be a VP of Sales. A director of marketing experienced in one area (e.g.,

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Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2018

I asked Gaetano to join me in a discussion about permission based marketing and growth hacking – and where the boundaries lie with user consent. He said the most disturbing trend in marketing today is “influencers” promoting spam tactics to their fans and calling it “growth hacking.”. Growth Hacking Is Not a Strategy.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2019

And “growth hacking” may have reached its limits. He signed up that week. Most founders will tell you similar stories. Yes, spam doesn’t work anymore, at least not in B2B. Purchased lists have little-to-no ROI. But once you figure it out, email almost always work s. Well email is special: It is open , and.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 6, 2019

This episode is all about the importance of a solid analytics platform, the metrics freemium businesses should focus on, how to make your customers drive acquisition and how the Growth team fits in with the rest of the business. The post Malwarebytes’ Elena Verna on Growth Hacking in the PLG Era [Podcast] appeared first on OpenView Labs.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2023

Prioritize user experience as a growth strategy Today, most SaaS companies depend on growth hacking and funnel optimization to unlock growth. Co-founder and CEO of Scratchpad, Pouyan Salehi, and OpenPhone’s Co-founder, Daryna Kulya, share how they consistently engineer delightful experiences for their customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 28, 2019

You can growth hack the first one, but to build a great business, you need to invest in the second one. There are two funnels for SaaS companies. The first is all about acquiring new users. The second is all about keeping them. The key to solving the second funnel is onboarding.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Known better as growth hacking, the Website/Conversion team is a group of front-end and back-end engineers optimizing the various funnels potential users may go through, by creating referral programs, testing new designs on the website and experimenting with incentives. The video went viral, further bolstering the brand.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 18, 2019

Expecting magic growth hacking solutions. Yes, some B2C and even some B2B products do experience magic virality and magic growth hacking. Growth hacking is real. More here: I Never Lost a Customer I Actually Visited | SaaStr. But in B2B, even when it works, it takes months at best.

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SaaStock

MARCH 28, 2019

On this week’s regular episode of the show, Alex chats with Aaron Krall, Founder of the SaaS Accelerator and the SaaS Growth Hacks Facebook Group. Aaron spends his time helping SaaS companies operating a trial to paid model get more traffic, increase conversions and reduce churn.

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2019

Growth Hacking. In a perfect world, you’d learn something about marketing first before you hire someone to take it over. I.e., you’d experiment and at least make some progress in: Content Marketing. Can you get even 1 customer from blogging and writing? Can you get even a couple of customers by emailing to a list? Event Marketing.

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2024

Every new market has growth hacks. Be intentional about when to do the science yourself, when to implement something open-source with a timeline around it, and when to buy off the shelf. Think about what’s going to happen to the market in the future. The AI landscape is changing rapidly, so you want to stay ahead of the curve.

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The Angel VC

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Andrew is a writer and entrepreneur and has written a large number of must-read essays on topics such as viral marketing, growth hacking and monetization. [Note: This post first appeared as a guest post on Andrew Chen's blog. He was kind enough to publish my post on his blog, and I am republishing it here.]

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SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2019

To Growth Hacking at Scale, with ex-Drift and Segment VP Growth Guillaume Cabane. We’re doing a new, very cool, all-day, 1-day event in San Francisco on August 29th just on The Playbook. The Playbook: To Recruiting Your Sales Team, with Brex CSO Sam Blong. To Scaling High-Performing Teams, with Gusto COO Lexi Reese.

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Sujan Patel

JANUARY 13, 2020

A few I’ve seen in my time include “digital marketing,” “conversational marketing,” “growth hacking” and “viral loops,” but there’s another hyped-up phrase making the rounds these days: Product-led growth. The post What the Heck is Product-Led Growth? Blogs are going up on the subject, and […].

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 15, 2015

Most of the terms like content marketing, inbound marketing or growth hacking didn't even exist yet or weren't widely used. As I've written before , when Mikkel told me how Zendesk was doing sales and marketing in 2008, I was intrigued but also slightly confused. Lemkin alone has answered more than 1100 (!)

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

What is growth hacking? Growth hacking was coined by Sean Ellis to describe strategies that singularly and obsessively drive a company's growth. The idea of growth hacking is ambitious, if not vague. They are changes you make across your workflow that align your entire team to work toward growth.

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Brian Balfour

JUNE 28, 2017

Learn Authentic Growth, One Email Per Post. It’s Definitely Not Growth Hacking One of the other common answers that has emerged is “Growth Hacking.” You have a great product, you have product market fit, now all you need is to find a growth hack to grease the growth wheels. Then what is it?

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 11, 2021

Instead of focusing on costly marketing methods, such startups must focus on low-budget marketing hacks. The beauty of growth hacking is that it engages alternate methods of growth, methods which are sometimes lower cost. Where marketing and engineering meet, growth hacking happens.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2019

Here she shares her thoughts on setting mobile growth strategy, measuring success, and of course, key subscription metrics for teams with mobile apps. Earlier this month, I had a chance to learn more Aleksandra Siciarz’s role as a mobile app marketing lead at GetResponse. A bit of background.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2019

Of course, when you’re working in a startup or high-growth SaaS company, the focus is often on maximizing active users and increasing revenue. We hear about all the growth hacks to get new users into your product, and the latest patterns in user onboarding (we’ve even written a book on it ).

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

In any event, in our case, the growth hacking worked from a top of the funnel perspective, but it was not closing deals. We realized six months in that we had to do something to close deals, and that’s when we started building a sales team.

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CloseSaaS

AUGUST 28, 2017

They map out hundreds of tests and hacks, hoping to find that one perfect path to success. Startup founders love to experiment, especially when things aren’t going well.

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