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1. Improve Organic Search Rankings by writing a Answer on Quora
Use SEMrush + Quora to improve your organic search rankings on Google by doing this:
- In SEMrush > Domain Analytics > Organic Research > search for quora.com
- Click on Advanced Filters and filter for Keywords containing your target keyword, Positions less than 10, and Volume greater than 100
- Go to Quora and write the best answer to the question
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2. Generate Leads by sharing something Valuable
On the landing page or opt-in form for your free lead magnet (whitepaper, case study, video, etc) include one extra âYes/No' field at the end of the form that says âWould you like a demo of our software?â so you can book demos with people who are already interested in seeing your software.
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3. âPowered Byâ
Use the âpowered byâ tactic. A fraction of these visitors will click on it and arrive on your homepage where some will request a demo. It has been shown to lead to a viral coefficient k > 0.4, meaning that every 10 users acquired will generate 4 extras users. To optimize for more conversions use dynamic keyword insertion on the landing page you send people to with the name of the company that referred them to your website.
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4. Limit the access
When Google launched Gmail in 2004 everyone was using either Hotmail or Yahoo. Google turned its underdog problem into an advantage. With limited server space available, Google made a virtue out of scarcity. When it was launched it was by invitation only, starting with around 1,000 influencers who were able to refer friends. This created the impression that when signing up to Gmail, you became part of an exclusive club.
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5. Send a personal note to someone on how X can help them
Use this straightforward account-based marketing technique to identify your dream 100 clients (or whatever number), find out which college the decision-maker in each company went to, send him or her a baseball cap from their college with a personal note about how your company can help them.
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6. Do a Co-Webinar
Do an Ask after demo is done.
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7. OK CuŃid’s data marketing hack
Online dating is a multi-billion dollar industry and OkCupid has leveraged its own in-house data to create blog posts and this has helped them to become a powerhouse in the dating industry. OKCupid’s colossal dataset has become a marketing goldmine. OkCupid blog posts are typically built around their own data research and laced with clickbait headlines and controversial topics. You can use data to help storytell empirically substantiated trends, observations, and analysis on the industry you are in.
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8. Create a landinpage for a epic new product a look for demand
Build something in 1-2 days thatâs more viral than your actual product to test sentiment-product fit and build a list of emails to launch your core product. Make sure your viral product is closely aligned to your core product and focus on the volume of users so you can maximize conversions from your viral product to your core product.
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9. The App Marketplace Hack
If you have an integration with a large SaaS company you can try and get your app listed on their marketplace (eg: Salesforce App Exchange, G Suite Marketplace, Xero App Marketplace).
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10. The Smart SEO Hack
Look at your highest converting keywords inside AdWords, then create an SEO strategy around also getting those keywords to rank organically. Or if you donât run AdWords look at your Search Queries report in Google Search Console to see what keywords are getting clicks to your website, but are on page 2 and need a boost to page 1.
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11. Integration Page
Create a page that talks about your integration with other software partners, so when someone searches for a specific use case of your integration partners software that your software solves, your website will come up.
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12. The 3,000 Word Content Marketing Hack
Write 3,000+ word in-depth blog articles that cover a specific topic in detail. In the article, feature quotes from industry influencers and link out to research from other reputable blogs, then email them to let them know you featured them in your article to promote social sharing.
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13. The Survey Response Hack
Send out a survey to your mailing list and offer respondents the chance to win cupcakes. Randomly select 10 participants from the survey to receive a dozen cupcakes. It’s proven that people would rather receive a dozen cupcakes than an iPad.
RJMetrics
Read more:
https://thinkgrowth.org/the-greatest-marketing-growth-hack-of-all-time-hint-cupcakes-784ccaa3f78
14. The Highly Qualified Lead Hack
Make sure everyone who buys your software first needs to go through this process before you give them a trial or demo of your software (unless it’s a referral). TOFU: top-of-the-funnel piece of content (eg: report, whitepaper, swipe file, etc), MOFU: middle-of-the-funnel piece of content (webinar, video, etc), BOFU: bottom-of-the-funnel piece of content (case studies, demo, strategy call, etc).
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15. The Content Repost Hack
Follow these 5 steps.
- Step 1: Send email to your list with your article (at whatever time you have the highest open rate, based on your historical email stats ).
- Step 2: Share article on social media accounts as soon as email campaign is sent.
- Step 3: Look for channels relevant to your business and submit links there (eg: forums, FB groups, Slack groups).
- Step 4: Wait for a few days to get some analytics data (stats, shares and comments).
- Step 5: Send emails or tweet editors of big publishers who report on your content topic with screenshot of proof of traction (eg: âMy post has 50% share rate, screenshot attached, repost maybe?â).
Uber, HubSpot, KISSmetrics
Read more:
https://rocketshipgrowth.com/how-to-promote-b2b-saas-content-eab660ee2407
16. The PR Backlash Hack
Getting bad PR? Being accused as a ârip-offâ? Build a dedicated website where you unfold the story, present the facts, and show social proof to prove your version of the story and convert haters into customers.
Freshdesk
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17. The Twitter Leapfrog Process
Gone are the days when you could write a short, 500-word blog post on a topic and expect hundreds, if not thousands of visitors to find it online. Those âpublish and prayâ days are long gone. Today it takes more effort to get noticed. Enter âThe Twitter Leapfrog Methodâ. It’s a process that helps deliver your newly published articles to hundreds of highly targeted readers.
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Step 1: Write one 10x / badass article on a topic you know well
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Step 2: Identify people who have shared similar articles on social media
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Step 3: Share your article with these people
Junto
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ACQUISITION GROWTH HACKS (PAID MARKETING)
18. The Low Budget Advertising Hack
Retarget people who have seen the sales page for your SaaS product AND did not get a free trial/demo/bought AND who are users of certain fan pages (eg: your biggest competitor). With this layered targeting, your audience will be very small, which allows you to spend less than $10 budget per day, create an ad that speaks specifically to your target audience so you can increase your click-through rate and skyrocket your conversions, which in turn will drive down the cost of your ad.
SamCart
Read more:
http://www.digitalmarketer.com/buying-website-traffic/
19. The Inbound Retargeting Hack
Convert more of your inbound traffic into leads by retargeting them across these 8 ad networks: GDN, Facebook, Gmail, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Taboola, Yahoo Gemini and AOL ONE.
Optimizely
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20. The AdWords SaaS Hack
Target feature-specific, industry-specific, and high converting competitor keywords. Drive people straight to feature-specific and industry-specific landing pages with a call to action for a demo of your software to get people on the phone with sales.
NetSuite, Zoho, Freshdesk
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21. The PPC Hyper-Growth Hack
Run Google ads to a landing page for a free trial signup or demo call. 1-10% will convert. To convert the other 90%+ retarget them with FB lead ads using a softer sell (like a whitepaper). From their put leads into a marketing automation campaign (like an email mini-course) and nudge them to start a trial or book a demo with your sales team.
Drip, SurveyMonkey, Pardot
22. The Pixel Swap Hack
Find another company that sells to the same target customer as you do (but is non-competitive) and offer to partner with them by placing their retargeting pixel on your website, while they place your retargeting pixel on their website using a tool like Perfect Audience Connect. Use retargeting ads across Facebook to drive new, cost-efficient leads into the top of your funnel with a TOFU lead magnet.
New Relic, SendGrid, Runscope
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23. The AdWords Competitor Hack
If there is a major competitor in your space that many people search for, but your SaaS offers better value for money, better features, or a better reputation you can target their brand terms. To do this successfully without wasting the marketing budget first identify your unique point of difference (ie: value for money, features, reputation). Second, target keywords based on your USP (ie: features = [ mailchimp ], value for money = [mailchimp pricing], reputation = [mailchimp review]). Third, create a landing page that shows how you are better than your competitor in that area with a comparison table so your ad is more relevant and gets served.
Intercom, Quickbooks, Wrike
Read more:
https://www.intercom.com/customer-support/zendesk-alternative
24. The Facebook Algorithm Trial Signup Hack
Place a FB conversion tracking pixel on the page that people land on after signing up for a trial of your software, create a Lookalike Audience based on people who have hit the conversion tracking pixel, then create a FB campaign with the âWebsite Conversionsâ objective sending your lookalike audience traffic to a page with a free trial offer. Facebook will use its algorithm to target people who are the most similar to people who have already signed up and converted on your site.
InVision, Treehouse, Asana
25. The Facebook TOFU Hack
Use FB lead ads to drive people to a lead magnet (eg: case studies for specific verticals, whitepaper, etc). You will increase conversions because when someone clicks on your lead ad, a form will open with the person’s FB contact information automatically populated. Then use marketing automation emails to nurture the lead into requesting a demo of your software.
Infusionsoft, Salesforce, InsightSquared
26. The Case Study Retargeting Hack
Retarget website visitors to a case study page (eg: See how Bob, a CMO at Zendesk used us to get XYZ done) with a call to action at the end of the case study for a demo (exclude your list of paid users so you don’t waste ad budget). Group the website visitors who see the case study into a unique audience and then show them ads to a new case study so your most engaged prospects keep seeing fresh, new case studies in the sequential order you set up.
simPRO
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27. The Custom Affinity Audience Hack
Create an audience from people who have visited specific websites you define (your competitors, blogs, industry publications, etc) and then target them with Google display ads. Someone seeing a display ad isn’t necessarily interested in your product just yet, so offer content that you think will be valuable and helpful to your prospects to build trust and brand awareness (eg: webinar, whitepaper, etc).
Zendesk, Intuit, Emma
Read more:
https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2497941?hl=en-AU
28. The Gmail Competitor Hack
Show Gmail ads to people who receive your competitors' emails. To get the most accurate targeting, target your competitor’s domains using domain placements.
DigitalOcean
29. The Paid Tech Stack Hack
Use a lead list tool like BuiltWith to build a list of decision-makers at ideal target companies that use your competitor’s software. Upload the email addresses of the decision-makers into a Custom Audience that you can run ads to. Then create a lookalike audience from that custom audience to target your ads at even more qualified prospects (start at a 1% lookalike audience, then scale up as you see results).
BuiltWith, Datanyze
30. The YouTube Ads Hack
Use YouTube in-stream ads to target specific YouTube channels relevant to your market and only pay if someone watches past 30 secs.
Wishpond, Salesforce
Read more:
http://www.digitalmarketer.com/youtube-ad-types/
31. The Native Ads Hack
Look at your Conversions report inside Google Analytics to identify your blog content URLs with the highest amount of lead conversions. Promote your highest converting blog content piece on ad networks like Taboola, Outbrain or Twitter.
Netflix
Read more:
https://blog.hubspot.com/agency/native-ads-201
MONETIZATION GROWTH HACKS
32. The Voicemail Personalization Hack
When someone opts-in for one of your lead magnets, collect their mobile number and then use Slybroadcast to record a personal message that gets sent to their voicemail.
33. The Trial Conversion Hack
Send this seven-word email to a sizeable segment of your trials who did not convert into paid customers using this email copy: â{{Name}}, are you still looking for {{product}}?â Then prepare for a busy day of answering emails. Combine this with The Irresistible Offer Hack by sending a short follow-up offering a discount or extended trial (especially if there have been product changes since) to get them back.
34. The Onboarding Retargeting Hack
Once someone has signed up for a free trial, retarget them with ads that go to a page for a free webinar or free call with your customer success team to make sure they have everything set upright in their business to prepare for after their trial ends.
Heyo
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35. The Onboarding Optimization Hack
Backtrack through successful customers who are using your product and look through what they’ve done in the first 7-14 days. Try and find the first three common things those people did and build that into a product user score. These are the activities you want leads to do. Optimize your onboarding and in-app messaging to lead people down the path of doing those three things.
36. The Irresistible Offer Hack
If your software value speaks for itself, add an email into your marketing automation with an incentive to buy or demo your product (eg: See how our software works and get a $25 Amazon gift card). It may seem spammy, but many large B2B SaaS companies use it to generate qualified demos because it can move people from having you at #101 on their priority list to #3.
LeadPages, Bizible
Read more:
http://www.bizible.com/blog/4-b2b-saas-growth-hacks-that-helped-bizible-raise-8m
RETENTION GROWTH HACKS
37. The Customer Feedback Hack
After a person signs up and completes all the in-app onboarding tooltips, send them a congratulatory in-app notification and email that offers to send a gift of stickers in the mail. In the email link to a Typeform that collects the userâs mailing address. At the bottom, give people two optional response fields: 1) What brought you to [your app]? What problem were you looking to solve? 2) Anything we could be doing better? Any feature/product we are missing? Use Zapier to send responses from those 2 fields into the product board. Use product board to bucket and rank feature requests by priority of user cohorts, and by how a feature fits into your broader vision for your product.
CloudApp
Read more:
https://clearbit.com/books/data-driven-marketing/customer-retention
38. The Product Reactivation Hack
Automatically send this email to users that havenât used your product for 30 days: âI was wondering if you could spare a second to let me know what you thought of the product and if you have ideas on what we could do to improve? In return, Iâve gone ahead and added one month of the pro plan to your account for free.
CloudApp
Read more:
https://clearbit.com/books/data-driven-marketing/customer-retention
39. The Sticky Product Hack
For every subscription level in your product, create a three-email series with a CTA to enable/walk them through the most important feature on that pricing tier (eg: Email #1 > Wait 1 Day > Email #2 > Wait 2 Days > Email #3 > End Campaign). Then start a 2nd three-email campaign to enable/walk them through the next most important feature in your product so you can create sticky users who are less likely to churn.
CoSchedule
Read more:
https://clearbit.com/books/data-driven-marketing/customer-retention
40. The Personalized Report Hack
Automate the sending of a personalized Monthly Metrics Report that includes a summary of what your customer has achieved with your product during the month. Use a customer data tool like Segment to pipe your usage data from your product into a data marketing automation tool like Customer.io. Setup data-triggers using âif/elseâ logic to give your customers actionable recommendations on where they can improve.
AdRoll
Read more:
https://clearbit.com/books/data-driven-marketing/customer-retention
41. The Product Gamification Hack
When a customer hits a specific milestone in your app send them a reward, tips to get to the next level and a call-to-action to upgrade. For example, for Sumo email list software:
- 1 Email Subscriber = Sumo Sticker (plus tips to get to 100 email subscribers)
- 100 Email Subscribers = Sumo T-Shirt (plus tips to get to 1000 email subscribers)
- 1000 Email Subscribers = Sumo Sunglasses (plus tips to get to 10000 email subscribers)
- 10000 Email Subscribers = Sumo Hat (plus tips to get to 100000 email subscribers)
- 100000 Email Subscribers = Sumo Taco Lunch
AdRoll
Read more:
https://clearbit.com/books/data-driven-marketing/customer-retention
- The NPS Churn Buster Hack
Send an email to all users 1 day after their free trial ends. In the email use an NPS survey that asks your user how likely they are to recommend your software to a friend or colleague on a scale of 0 to 10. If the NPS score is <6 thank them for their honesty and ask for feedback, if it is 6-8 offer to extend their free trial, if it is >8 offer them an upgrade promotion.
Mention
Read more:
http://slideshare.net/mentionapp/mention-nps-process-reduce-churn-increase-customer-hapiness
41 Examples Of Growth Hacking Techniques Brands Use (You Can Copy)