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Extreme Audience Building at Startup Extreme
- 1. EXTREME PRACTICES FOR BUILDING AN AUDIENCE
- 2. 2 FIRST RULE OF EXTREME AUDIENCE BUILDING EXTREME AUDIENCE
- 3. 3EXTREME AUDIENCE DONâT SELL A SHIT PRODUCT
- 4. EXTREME AUDIENCE HIRE A CMO
- 5. EXTREME AUDIENCE It reminds you of what to focus on when you wake up every morning. It forms the basis of your messaging when youâre sharing your product with your audience (customers, investors, and press). It affects what you focus on. It affects how you carry yourself. And it affects the people who want to work for you. START WITH WHY: SET A VISION
- 6. EXTREME AUDIENCE VISION STATEMENTS Vibease wants to see a world where women can have orgasms as much as men do.
- 7. EXTREME AUDIENCE VISION STATEMENTS Airbnb aims to connect millions of people in real life all over the world, through a community marketplaceâ so that you can Belong Anywhere.
- 8. EXTREME AUDIENCE VISION STATEMENTS Warby Parker wants a world where everyone can see clearly, stylishly, and at affordable prices.
- 9. EXTREME AUDIENCE DATA COLLECTION ⣠L Do people even want your product? Use TypeForm How are they using your product? Are they referring their friends? Use MixPanel, Kissmetrics, Heatmaps, Google Campaigns + Analytics
- 10. EXTREME AUDIENCE DATA COLLECTION ⣠L How can you incentivize your power users to share the service? Email Marketing, Mailchimp, Intercom How will you communicate with your customers? Intercom + Social Media (HootSuite, Edgar, Mention) Who are your top users? Where do they live? How many Twitter followers do they have? Use Social Rank, FollowerWonk, Klout, Brand42
- 11. EXTREME AUDIENCE YOU WILL ONLY GROW WHAT YOU MEASURE Measure: New users User referrals User retention User engagement Tip: Take a sticky note, and write one audience-related goal on it. Be specific. Place it on your bathroom mirror, so that each morning youâre reminded of your No. 1 growth priority for audience development.
- 12. 12EXTREME AUDIENCE COMMUNITY BUILDING Start Niche: Target a micro- universe Facebook started with Harvard. Yelp and Uber started with tech- savvy users in San Francisco. Foursquare started with late-night early adopters in New York City. Quora and LinkedIn's early savvy users were the VCs and startups of Silicon Valley.
- 13. EXTREME AUDIENCE COMMUNITY BUILDING Early Adopters / Influencers Focus on influencers within specific communities to drive WOM and evangelism of the product Promote early adopters and make them feel special Engage with early adopters + listen to their feedback. Use Twitter, blogs, SocialRank, Get Satisfaction.
- 14. EXTREME AUDIENCE HACK #1: TINDER Tinder cofounder Whitney Wolfe ventured to college campuses + scheduled meetings with sororities. Sheâs have all the girls at the meetings install the app. Then sheâd go to the corresponding brother fraternity â theyâd open the app and see all these cute girls they knew.
- 15. EXTREME AUDIENCE HACK #2: MAILBOX Mailbox, an email app that sold to Dropbox for ~ $100 million 37 days after launch was one of the first apps to stir up demand by creating a wait list
- 16. EXTREME AUDIENCE HACK #3: GOLDIEBLOX GoldieBlox created a viral video to the hit Beastie Boys song âGirlsâ about getting young girls into technology. It got 3 million views in 2 days and caused a lawsuit. It kept GoldieBlox, an interactive game company few people had heard of, in headlines for weeks.
- 17. EXTREME AUDIENCE GET NOTICED: CONTENT MARKETING Content marketing is a cost effective, smart and scalable way to acquire customers and establish credibility Content should be educational analytical, + authentic Content marketing is hard work. Thereâs a reason they call it âfeeding the beastâ. And the more you feed it the hungrier it gets.
- 18. EXTREME AUDIENCE GET READ: EMAIL MARKETING How do I grow my mailing list from 0 - 1,000? Start by scraping you inbox. Your friends will forgive you + they can always unsubscribe. Grow your user base through strategic partnerships, events and sweepstakes! What kind of content should I send? Balance content between sell, sell, sell + emails that are 100% value-add + informational Balance repurposed content from your blog + content written exclusively for emails
- 19. 19EXTREME AUDIENCE EVENT MARKETING Pros Community building Brand recognition Networking opportunities Cons Expensive without sponsorship Time-suck Hard to measure ROI Tips Network with superconnectors + influencers Use PPC Ads to Promote Your App During Events Have a clear call-to-action
- 20. EXTREME AUDIENCE SOCIAL GOOD AS MARKETING
- 21. EXTREME AUDIENCE PRODUCT MARKETING âą Airbnb reverse-engineered Craigslist to let users post listings automatically despite no public Craigslist API. âą Allowing users to embed videos was key to the success of YouTube and Vimeo. Youtube/Vimeo grows every time a video goes viral because users are personally invested in marketing it. âą Slideshare included a plain-text link in their embed code, driving traffic back to their site to get an SEO boost to boot. âą Dropbox incentivized referrals by giving free extra storage space â a strategy they claim accounted for 60% of their growth.
- 22. 22EXTREME AUDIENCE THE INTERNET WAS MADE FOR SHARING Forget gamification + âviral designâ: there is no bigger incentive for users than the ability to spread their creations, beliefs + causes in a manner that wasn't possible before. Make your platform shareable: ensure that what gets created on your platform is shareable. YouTube gained early traction because MySpace users (musicians) needed a way to share videos and Youtube offered them a solution while MySpace did not. Whoops.
- 23. 23EXTREME AUDIENCE SUBMIT YOUR APP Product Hunt Chrome Web Store Hacker News Reddit
- 24. EXTREME AUDIENCE USER REFERRAL AND RETENTION: TOP TIPS Viral Landing Page/Waitlist Use Social Analytics Tools to Find Influencers Curate Deals & Discounts for Your Email Subscribers Involve Users in Product Development Create Success Milestones for Your Users Cause a Problem Intentionally to Reach Out to Users Release New Features to Reach Out to Users
- 25. EXTREME AUDIENCE SOCIAL MEDIA BEST PRACTICES Improve your inbound Make more original content ENGAGE!- Like, Share, RT; Answer questions, tweets, comments, etc. Be opinionated Make your details public + up to date
- 27. EXTREME AUDIENCE WHY DO YOU NEED PRESS? 1. Users 2. SEO 3. Building Credibility + Trust 4. Raising Money 5. Testing Out a New Idea 6. Recruitment
- 28. EXTREME AUDIENCE FINDING THE JOURNALIST Do your homework. Scour Google News for reporters who have already covered apps similar to yours. STALK or Get an introduction! Cocktail party rules apply Give them a scoop!
- 29. EXTREME AUDIENCE Courtney B of the deep blue sea,âš Would you could you should you if you pleaseâš When youâve got a moment so freeâš Let known when you could lend your ear to me?
- 30. EXTREME AUDIENCE PR TIPS FROM A NON-PR $3K - $30K per month Try negotiating a "success-based" PR package that gives you the security of knowing that you will only pay for PR if certain pre-determined goals for coverage are met. Rotate through PR firms on a 3-6 month basis to maximize their Rolodexâs
- 31. EXTREME AUDIENCE IF ALL ELSE FAILS, GET NAKED
- 32. EXTREME AUDIENCE TAKE NOTES FROM
- 33. EXTREME AUDIENCE READ: BLOGS + NEWSLETTERS First Round â firstround.com/review/ Fred Wilson (A VC) â http://avc.com Chris Dixon â http://cdixon.org Paul Grahamâs Essays â http:// paulgraham.com Hacker News â http:// news.ycombinator.com Mattermark Startup Digest http://startupdigest.com
- 34. EXTREME MEDIA RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS Get Involved
- 35. EXTREME MEDIA RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS Get Involved Make Friends with Founders, Investors, Journalists, Startup Wannabes, Coworking Space Heads, the Cleaning Ladies and everyone in between
- 36. EXTREME MEDIA RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS Get Involved Make Friends with Founders, Investors, Journalists, Startup Wannabes, Coworking Space Heads, the Cleaning Ladies and everyone in between READ
- 37. EXTREME MEDIA RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS Get Involved Make Friends with Founders, Investors, Journalists, Startup Wannabes, Coworking Space Heads, the Cleaning Ladies and everyone in between READ Write
- 38. EXTREME MEDIA RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS Get Involved Make Friends with Founders, Investors, Journalists, Startup Wannabes, Coworking Space Heads, the Cleaning Ladies and everyone in between READ Write Be happy. And know itâs OK and normal to be sad, angry, frustrated, disappointed and insanely crazy too. As a founder, you will hit your highest highs and lowest lows.