The Growth Hacking List
The Growth Hacking List
Top growth hacking ideas you can put into practice right now
About the Book
I've built several blogs and startups over the years, and as I've built them, I've collected tips from all over the Internet (from books, blogs, articles, videos, podcasts, news, and comments) for the best growth hacks, each of which has been tested in my projects.
I started keeping these growth hacks in a short form and keeping them in a private wiki page. And then I had an idea: Why not put these into a book so that others can have them readily available too?
This book contains all the top growth hacks that I've tested and implemented and proven to work.
These growth hacks are divided into handy sections: Before Product / Market Fit, Hustling, Copywriting, Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue, Referral, and Psychology
As more growth hacks are added, then more growth hacks will get added to this book.
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Introduction to Growth Hacking
- Welcome to The Growth Hacking List
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Before Product / Market Fit
- Do this right away before launching a new venture
- Think Like the CEO of Pinterest
- How to get your first customers
- Are you sure about your product / market fit?
- Make use of Google Analytics
- Troubles with Product/Market Fit?
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Hustling
- Leveraging dead competitors
- Get emails of followers of your competitors
- Tinder’s early days growth hack
- Become an alternative to your competitors
- The TechCrunch journalists’ emails
- Find journalists for your startup instantly
- Pre-heat the journalists
- Hack the Press
- Hack Product Hunt
- How a $2B company gained its initial users
- Simplest trick to gain prospects from Twitter
- From 0 to 10K followers on Instagram
- Increase your chances to get press by 39%
- Guest blogging for 10 top media outlets
- Grow your twitter following with autoposts
- Partner up
- Submit for press coverage for your app
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Copywriting
- One single word, one single emphasis: +20% increase
- How we got +300% people to read our content
- How to touch the hearts of your prospects
- A/B test. 2 headlines. 40% difference.
- +6258% to the price to sell the product
- Brian Dean`s framework of writing articles
- 34 proven words to turbo-charge the Authority
- Never use these headlines (63% worse CTR)
- Write copy that converts
- 9 rules of cold emailing
- 7 engaging storytelling formulas
- 7 perfect headline formulas
- The magic of headlines
- Hack persuasive copywriting
- Copywriting tip to quadruple conversions
- Replace one word to get 90% more clicks
- Add a FAQ Page
- Write More
- Writing Persuasive headlines, emails, ads and calls to action with the right keywords
- How to make a prospect dream about a product
- 3 tools to find untapped keywords
- +124% better usability
- How Sean Ellis unlocks customer language
- A single letter increased sales by 20%
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Acquisition
- Parasite SEO (white hat)
- A real keyword strategy
- Hidden early stage growth hack of Airbnb
- Turn LinkedIn contacts into a list of emails
- Impress VIP clients, journalists, investors, etc.
- 200K users a month from long tail phrases
- Better than remarketing
- Boost conversions of your Tweets
- How to collect emails on Twitter
- Hack Twitter
- Creating Pinterest pins that drive results
- Best growth hack by Laxman Papineni
- How does A/B testing for SEO work?
- Which ads perform best for your competitors?
- Piggybacking tweak to earn a ROI
- Hack ideas for the 2nd largest search engine
- Hack Facebook ads
- 5 SEO hacks for the 2nd largest search engine
- Disrupt the cost of YouTube video marketing
- Case study: #3 on Google in 14 days
- How to hack SEO with Google+ hidden trick
- The easiest way to connect with influencers
- Gain customers by a best seller on Amazon
- The simple “Perpetuum Mobile” Twitter hack
- Case study: Hack Twitter, get acquired
- Download a list of competitors’ customers
- Simple trick to get huge Google ranking
- Case study: 2,000,000 downloads
- Growth hacking partnership by eBay
- Remarketing CTR declines over time. Stop it.
- One trick to increase your ads CTR by 12%
- Reduce Facebook ads cost by 41%
- Top 4 tools for link-building
- Hack Your Twitter Follower Gain With Chrome Developer Tools
- Sales leads without ads
- +9% to your ad`s CTR
- 3 words increased mobile conversions by 36%
- One email that gets people talking about your project.
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Activation
- How to get great testimonials
- 85 times smaller CTRs
- Easy to understand tutorials via email
- Contests that receive 40% more subscribers
- Boost your email opt-in rate by 22%
- Little trick increased conversions by 26%
- Evernote’s onboarding framework
- Increase email opt-ins by 70% in 5 minutes
- Quiz your audience
- Drawbacks & competition increase conversions
- Negative social proof for persuasion
- 10 Second Trick
- How I doubled my app downloads
- How typography affects conversions
- Save your bounced visitors
- Turn invisible into leads
- One symbol that increases conversions
- Hack to define your key activation event
- A simple hack to double your conversion rate
- User Onboarding (+ free tool)
- Unexpected way to reduce friction
- How to get a full profile by an email
- A 300% increase in monthly sales leads
- Stock photos reduced conversions by 45%
- Reach out to 90% of your bounced visitors
- 55%-400% more leads
- Revenue jumps up by 71% thanks to segmentation
- A/B test. A 60% increase in signups.
- A +232% lift to account signups
- This form increased conversion by 25%
- +844% through the crazy minimalism
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Retention
- Put your social media on autopilot
- 7 ideas for your retention emails
- Ideas for your social media content
- Increase YouTube subscribers by 400%
- 1 minute to increase your email open rate
- Best growth hack by Ryan Holiday
- Hack retention like unicorns do
- 7 scalable ways to get email-address
- Facebook page likes vs emails
- Automate your email marketing without coding
- How to triple open rates
- An invaluable feature of Google+
- One word increases email open rate by 57%
- This boosted conversions by 785% in one day
- Two times better than a good tutorial
- Case study. +178% more repeat business.
- A 28% increase in click-throughs from emails
- Remarketing to YouTube viewers
- The framework to double CTR on emails
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Revenue
- 14-day trial versus the 30-day trial
- Increase ROI by 7000% over standard 200%
- Get customers back once they’ve churned
- This simple trick increased revenue by 600%
- Money back guarantee vs. a Free trial
- Sales button that made over $3,000,000
- Growth hacking for nonprofits
- +416% by changing 2 words
- How not to fail with coupon codes
- How to make your free SaaS users pay
- #2 sales channel in terms of revenue
- +262% increase in purchasing the bigger plan
- One of the easiest ways to reduce churn
- How Udemy got +150% more revenue (1 trick)
- Increase LTV x20
- Be among the first to sell to 70M users
- Never do what Netflix did (lost 800K users)
- Reduce friction, increase sales
- Make your app worse and double your sales
- The Barack Obama campaign A/B testing
- +367% boost in revenue
- Hack influencers
- Psychological hack. Free Trial conversions.
- The way to boost your SaaS revenue instantly
- Fixing conversions and killing the business
- What is it to have a free plan for your SaaS?
- How to drive more value for your SaaS?
- When is $9 better than $9.89?
- A softer switch from trial to paid
- The 5 “Must Have” metrics for your SaaS
- Case study. Double the donation.
- Existence testing. Revenue went up by 25%.
- One line of code: revenue +500%
- 1 trick to convert trial users faster
- +349% Increase in lead inquiry rate
- How to increase purchases by 69%
- Run a one-for-one program
- 5 steps to turn blog readers into customers
- How to get insights from churned users
- A 45% increase in customer purchases
- An 11.9% increase in sales
- 116% more sign-ups with credit cards
- A surprising 42% increase in form fills
- The pucker test
- Credit Card Now or Credit Card Later
- Never do this - 1000% decrease in sales
- A 55% increase in sales
- The Twitter ‘Buy’ button
- Add this thing to boost sales by 185%
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Referral
- Case study. Hack word of mouth.
- Neil Patel’s hack to gain social shares
- How to encourage sharing on LinkedIn
- Accelerating viral growth
- How to optimize referral programs
- From 0 to $400M in 2 years
- Unlock viral marketing
- +71% to referral activation
- Get a nuclear viral mechanism
- An easier way to share emails with friends
- From 150K users to 2M in 5 months
- A giveaway. From zero to 500K subscribers.
- Referrals program: self-interest vs. altruism
- Simple hack to get 4x more shares
- Hack offline word of mouth
- How to automate your feedback and sharing
- A 474% conversion increase
- How to make influencers share your content
- WhatsApp vs Twitter as a sharing channel
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Psychology
- Increase your product’s value without changing your product
- Logic vs Emotions
- Case study. A sense of consistency: +15%.
- Get testimonials without asking for them
- How to increase desired outcome by 7 times
- This A/B test increased sales by 82%
- Never do this. Results drop down to 0%
- The Ben Franklin effect
- You made a mistake. What now?
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Other
- A free and effective tool to get feedback
- How to get 10 times more growth ideas
- Google Analytics Dashboard Templates
- The key to hack growth
- How to stand out & hire the best candidates
- 98% open rate
- How Sumome hit 1 billion people
- A 23.8% lift was wrong. Was yours?
- How to help your team feel your customers
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