3. 3twitter @meetsamir
The Growth Master
• Founder, CEO of DoRevolution and Growth
Mentor at 500Startups Silicon Valley,
Optimized $1B+ in Ads.
• Founder of SearchForce and pioneer to apply
Wall Street Analytics and Quantitative Trading
Techniques to Advertising for Portfolio
Optimization. Raised $10M+ in financing,
developed a Cross-Channel Optimization SaaS
Platform Based and took the company to
profitability.
• MBA in Brand Marketing from Cornell's Johnson
School of Business.
12. 12twitter @meetsamir
Growth Trumps all Metrics
12
• High growth companies return 5X more to
share holders
• Growth predicts long-term success
• SuperGrowers (growth rate >60%) when
reached $100M were 8X more likely to
reach $1B than ones <20% growth rate
• Growth matters more than margin or cost
structure. Increases in revenue growth rates
drive 2X as much market cap gains
- McKinsey & Company
13. 13twitter @meetsamir
Be Vanilla or a Gorilla
International Ice Cream Association the Top 10 flavours of ice cream in order are: vanilla,
olate, butter pecan, strawberry, neapolitan, chocolate chip, french vanilla and cookies ‘n’ cre
anilla (#1) got approximately 28% of sales and chocolate (#2) got approximately 8% of sales
The rest got 6% or less.
In this instance, being #1 makes you 350% better off than #2.
33. 33twitter @meetsamir
Actions
• Grow Fast or Die Slow
• Markets are hyper-competitive and inflated
• Companies are using Artificial Intelligence,
Math and Stats to gain competitive
advantage
• Companies are hiring the best and brightest
minds and paying billions for them. It’s the
TEAM stupid.
• Easy to spend money, hard to make money
• Bottom-line : Pay attention OR you will end
up in the dead pool.
38. 38twitter @meetsamir
8 Qualities of World Class Growth
Teams
• Possess Data-Driven Thinking
• Rapid Learners of Dynamically Changing
Marketing Channels and Growth Platforms
• Understand Growth Process
• Are Highly Product-Savvy
• Have a Hustle Mindset
• Possess a Cross-Disciplinary Skillset
• Connect Marketing to Product Development
• Possess Technical Acumen
• Hiring connections
43. 43twitter @meetsamirTraffic Acquisition
Market Research & User Feedback
Email Marketing
Competitive Research Tools Sales Intelligence
Lead & Customer Acquisition
AB / Multivariate Testing
46. 46twitter @meetsamir
Website.com
Emails &
widgets
Campaigns,
Contests
Biz DevAds, Lead Gen,
Subscriptions, etc
Homepage /
Landing Page
Product
Features
1. ACQUISITION
SEO
SEM
Apps &
Widgets
Affiliates
Email
PR Biz
Dev
Campaigns,
Contests
Direct, Tel,
TV
Social
Networks
Blogs
Domains
Emails &
Alerts
Blogs,
Content
System Events &
Time-based Features
~ Dave McClure, 500Startups
53. 53twitter @meetsamir
Customer Lifecycle
• Acquisition: users come to the site from various channels
• Activation: users enjoy 1st visit: "happy" user experience
• Retention: users come back, visit site multiple times
• Referral: users like product enough to refer others
• Revenue: users conduct some monetization behavior
AARRR!
~ Dave McClure, 500Startups
59. 59twitter @meetsamir
Establish Objectives and Key
Results (OKRs)
• Set your objective based on what’s going to
have the greatest impact on your business
right away
• Establish a timeline for testing
• Set multiple Key Results (KRs) based on
level of difficulty:
KR 1 – 90% chance of success. You did a good job.
KR 2 – 50% chance of success. You did a great job.
KR 3 – 10% chance of success. You hit it out of the park!
60. 60twitter @meetsamir
Example -- Growth via Adwords:
Goal: Lower their CPA for accredited investor signups via
AdWords without a significant drop in conversion volume.
1. Focus on Search Network to drive lower CPA
2. Set timeline for 60 days
3. Three Key Results will be attempted:
• KR1 -- (90% change of success): Raise conversion volume by
10% by focusing on strategic bid modifications RLSA audience
lists.
• KR2 – (50% chance of success): Lower CPA by 20% by limiting the
keywords they buy to high performing terms only, and setting
location bid modifications by income-tier.
• KR3 – (10% chance of success): Lower CPA by 20% and raise
conversion volume by 10% by combining these two strategies.
67. 67twitter @meetsamirTraffic Acquisition
Market Research & User Feedback
Email Marketing
Competitive Research Tools Sales Intelligence
Lead & Customer Acquisition
AB / Multivariate Testing
70. 70twitter @meetsamir
Website.com
Emails &
widgets
Campaigns,
Contests
Biz DevAds, Lead Gen,
Subscriptions, etc
Homepage /
Landing Page
Product
Features
1. ACQUISITION
SEO
SEM
Apps &
Widgets
Affiliates
Email
PR Biz
Dev
Campaigns,
Contests
Direct, Tel,
TV
Social
Networks
Blogs
Domains
Emails &
Alerts
Blogs,
Content
System Events &
Time-based Features
~ Dave McClure
71. 71twitter @meetsamir
Customer Lifecycle
• Acquisition: users come to the site from various
channels
• Activation: users enjoy 1st visit: "happy" user experience
• Retention: users come back, visit site multiple times
• Referral: users like product enough to refer others
• Revenue: users conduct some monetization behaviorAARRR!
~ Dave McClure, 500Startups
84. 84twitter @meetsamir
Establish Objectives and Key
Results (OKRs)
• Set your objective based on what’s going to
have the greatest impact on your business
right away
• Establish a timeline for testing
• Set multiple Key Results (KRs) based on
level of difficulty:
KR 1 – 90% chance of success. You did a good job.
KR 2 – 50% chance of success. You did a great job.
KR 3 – 10% chance of success. You hit it out of the park!
85. 85twitter @meetsamir
Example -- Growth via Adwords:
Goal: Lower their CPA for accredited investor signups via
AdWords without a significant drop in conversion volume.
1. Focus on Search Network to drive lower CPA
2. Set timeline for 60 days
3. Three Key Results will be attempted:
• KR1 -- (90% change of success): Raise conversion volume by
10% by focusing on strategic bid modifications RLSA audience
lists.
• KR2 – (50% chance of success): Lower CPA by 20% by limiting the
keywords they buy to high performing terms only, and setting
location bid modifications by income-tier.
• KR3 – (10% chance of success): Lower CPA by 20% and raise
conversion volume by 10% by combining these two strategies.
99. 99twitter @meetsamir
Hack#12 : Pay Using a Tweet
Provides users access to your content,
product, or service once they’ve tweeted or
posted about it
Impact on Growth:
• Invite people to pay with a post across
major social media channels
• Measure traffic, conversions, click and
geo data
100. 100twitter @meetsamir
Hack# 13 : Nimble, Social Signals
Hack
Consolidates your contacts, email, social signals,
activities and follow-ups from everywhere, allowing
you to manage your relationships more effectively.
Impact on Growth:
• Easily manage contacts across multiple channels
• Tracks the complete history you and your contact
share—on every channel
107. 107twitter @meetsamir
Hack#20: ListBuilder
A free way to collect the email addresses of
users who visited your site.
Impact on Growth:
• Build your subscriber list and easily
download it as a CSV
• Integrates with other email services and
allows you to use your own custom email
form
111. 111twitter @meetsamir
1. Mobile Bid Adjustments : Need to get on top
positions because of form factor, bid higher for
location based targeting.
2. Mobile Preferred Ads : Separate mobile/desktop,
Call directly or provide a promotion based on time.
Different URL for mobile.
3. Call Extensions: Ad scheduling based on call
center, Your own number or Google’s forwarding
number
4. On Site Call Conversions: Track calls from phone
number embedded on website when users need to
reach more before they buy
Hack #24 : Mobile SEM Hacks