2. Executive Summary
• Acme Newspaper content can be consumed anywhere. Outside of Acme
Newspaper ecosystem.
• No need to come to The Acme Newspaper website to get news. Can be read on
Facebook or competitor with ease.
• What's the Acme Newspaper’s “viral” factor, why use The Acme Newspaper over
something else?
• Any Growth Hacking strategy needs a “core product” to “grow”.
– Facebook has its USP and its “walled garden”.
– The Acme Newspaper “product” is disseminated across channels. Facebook
on the website or mobile or tablet provides the same experience.
• Once the Acme Newspaper product experience is stabilised. Then bring in the
Technology and Marketing to optimise the conversion rate.
– The higher the conversation rate, the higher the viral growth factor.
• Certain assumptions have been made
3. Contents
• Acme Newspaper Growth Hacking Strategy
Conceptual Model
• Social Media Optimisation Big Picture
• Editorial Approach
• Technology Building Blocks
• Product Framework
• Marketing Skeleton
• Analytics, Testing & Optimisation Stratagem
4. Key to Success is...
Technological Walled
Garden / Ecosystem
6. 6
Conceptual Growth Hacking Platform
A multi tier approach; outer layers translate to core goal of monetisation of the user
Monetising
the user
Personalisation
Acquiring the
user
Activating the
user
Marketing: Bought Media
Analytics
A/B|Multivariate
Editorial
Editorial
Culture
TVVideo
9. And the previous chart is missing...the
below and many, many more....
Wikis, crowdsourcing sites, crowdfunding sites, countless other travel sites, music sites, social TV networks and
more and more niche networks like goodreads focusing on a specific activity or passion are popping up everyday
To achieve ultimate VIRALITY , the Acme Newspaper must take their content to
where the target audience spends their time online
10. Use of Gamification Social Engagement tactics
Gamification of the News – Can it be done? YES!
11. HOW? Can the Acme Newspaper
achieve ultimate virality?
• Day-to-day management of the Acme Newspapers' social profiles, content and campaigns, across ALLof the
social networks is required. Some networks maybe more relevant to some types of editorial / content.
Social
Media
Tools &
Platforms
Automated
Distribution
of content
& comms
Social
Networks
API
integratio
n
Localisation
Personalisa-
tion for
Networks
A/B
Testing of
Social
Profiles
Exponential
Viral
Distribution
Technology
Marketing /
PR
Product Editorial Analytics Virality
Social CRM
Social Design & Integration
Gamification
12. Personalisation of content via
Social, Interest, & even Knowledge
Graph
cme Newspaper.co.uk
Circa 2002
Acme Newspaper.co.uk
Circa 2006
Acme Newspaper.co.uk
Circa 2008
Acme Newspaper.co.uk
Circa 2010
Pushed
content, static
Pushed
content, augment
ed by semi-
trusted reviews
Recommended
content based on
past views
Deep, personal
analytics based
on social graph
"People don't want something targeted to the whole world--they want something
that reflects what they want to see and know“
-- Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, September 2010
13. Viewed another way. Imagine all the unique Acme Newspaper
Facebook & Twitter profiles AMPLIFIED, LOCALISED &
PERSONALISED every WHERE.
15. Long term plans, produce Editorial based on data
returned from Social, Interest & Knowledge Graph
Cull lowest
performing
Editorial
Inform
Editorial
Roadmap
Mine
Consumer
Data from
Graph
Editorial A/B
Tests, gain
more insight
Several Acme
Newspaper readers
“like” Marvel Comics
movies
Source more Marvel
Comics Movies Content
e.g. News, rumours
Run tests on e.g.
IronMan vs Hulk
Content
Don’t Produce content
on “She-Hulk”
17. Growth Hacking Platform Capability Framework
The Acme Newspaper’s digital technology stack should encompass the following four layers and
capabilities
17
Editorial
1.0 Content Management System
2.0 Social Media Marketing Platform
3.0 Mobile Platform
4.0 Social Media Publishing Platform 6.0 On Site Search
7.0 Digital Asset Management
13.0 Ruby on Rails Dev Platform - Vanity 15.0 Ruby on Rails Dev Platform - Abingo
17.0 Segmentation, Funnel Analytics - MixPanel 20.0 Person Web Analytics – KissMetrics – Who, Why
18.0 Real Time Command Centre - Geckoboard
Marketing
Product
Analytics & Intelligence
8.0 Gamification Platform – Bunchball or BigDoor or Badgeville or Gamify
10.0 SEO Crawler / Spider Analysis - Screaming Frog
12.0 Landing Page Builder - Unbounce
9.0 Email Platform – Platform e.g. ExactTarget vs. Vendor e.g. Epsilon
21.0 Real Time Command Centre - Leftronics
19.0 Web Analytics - Google Analytics – What Happened 22.0 A B Testing – Optimizely
14.0 User Testing – UserTesting.com
5.0 Social Listening Platform
16.0 Live Mouse Tracking, Heatmaps - Mouseflow
11.0 Targeted Surveys - Qualaroo
22. Forget iOS, Android, Blackberry, screen
sizes, downloading...bleh!
In the native vs web argument, for a news & editorial provider, there is only one
choice. That's CSS 3 & HTML 5
23. Refresh, Revive & Rethink Acme
Newspaper Open Platform
• Revisit API strategy.
• Drive towards vision of:- anything created with Acme Newspaper
data or API must live / function within the Acme Newspaper
Ecosystem /digital presence.
• Have you ever noticed that you can share content on or in
Facebook, but you can never share Facebook content outside of
Facebook?
– Try sharing something from a FB wall or page you have liked. To share
a meme or video on FB outside of FB is not intuitive, nor easy!
24. Share on the Acme Newspaper Button
• Would Facebook allow a “Share on the Acme
Newspaper” Button. Unlikely.
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26. Content Discovery:- Todays Search
Location/
Mobile
Search Engine
Social
Networks
Bookmarking
Sites
Device Based
Images &
Video
Ecommerce
Sites
TAOBAO
Groupon
Groupon
Google+Local
Facebook Places
Google Yandex
Yahoo
Baidu
27. Content Discovery:- Tomorrows Search
Mindmeld
Google Now
Apple Siri
Samsung S
Voice
Facebook
Graph
Search
Yahoo
Interest
Graph
28. Even Email has felt the
innovation wave
Optimise content for ALL
Screen Sizes & email
providers. A/B Test to death
29. Content Discovery:- Next Generation Email=
Social + Mobile + Email + Operating System
Read Email on Social Networks Client
Read Email on Operating System / Browser Client
Read on Device Client Read on Email Client
32. Micro-Optimisation. For every touch-point in the Persuasion & Sales funnels,
Identify, Benchmark, Target, Optimise [IBTO] metrics with the view that each
metric contributes to a conversion. [below are examples only, some may not be relevant to the Acme
Newspaper]
33. Conduct Marketing Attribution Analysis. Determine
most effective channels for The Acme Newspaper
Attribution Methodologies
• First click- full credit is assigned to
the first interaction
• Last click - full credit is assigned
to the last interaction
• Linear - all interactions share
credit evenly
• Time decay - more credit is
assigned to interactions closer to
the time of conversion
• Customized by channel - certain
channels are weighted more/less
heavily
• Unique methodology developed
in-house or by agency
Added Value to the Acme
Newspaper
• Ability to better allocate
budget/resources across channels
and ROI is improved.
• Acme Newspaper are better
positioned to obtain budget due to
higher accountability.
• Attribution provides insights into
audience makeup and behaviours.
• Better understanding of how
online/offline media interactions
work.
• Better understanding of how some
channels assist in conversion rather
than play a direct role.
34. A/B Test Everything, Everywhere, Everywhen –
Key tools that need to be in a growth hacking arsenal
35. Get in touch:-
Twitter :- @zohe
Blog:- http://www.zohe.co.uk/blog
Twitter:- @GrowthHakka
Web:- http://www.growthhakka.com/
Hinweis der Redaktion
Email is changing. With 30% of mobile users now accessing their emails using their phone, the inbox is now a moving target. Plus there are all the new inboxes created by Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc.. Add further different user experience on operating systems e.g. Windows 8, Apple & user behaviour of switching between devices to read sometimes the same email, marketers need to supply the same email in multiple formatsSegmented Behavioural targeting to all these different inboxes with customised emails for each screen size & inbox will drive ROI up.