It's challenging to scale up your startup if you're on a budget. That's why we've outlined 10 easy ways to growth hack your startup. Here's a cost-effective strategy to grow as a lean startup - that actually works!

1. Ways to Growth Hack Your
Startup in Singapore10

2. 1. Build relations with influencers

3. So how do you win over influencers?
Help them before you ask for their help.
✘ Connect them with potential clients
✘ Share valuable content with them
✘ Share your thoughts on their articles
✘ Share their pieces with your community
✘ Offer to fix a problem on their site

4. 2. Focus on SEO

5. At Happy Marketer, we use our KARATE approach to SEO.

6. 3. Guest blog

7. How to get started guest blogging?
✘ Identify blogs your audience would read
✘ Check out what kind of articles those blogs
post
✘ Pitch 1-3 topic blog post ideas relevant to
their audience
✘ Write high-quality content with 1-3
strategic backlinks to your site
Sites like Hiverhq.com offer free guest post
opportunities.

8. 4. Write expert roundup posts

9. How to develop a popular round-up post
✘ Identify a list of prominent
startup founders
✘ Shortlist 1-3 meaningful
questions related to their field
✘ Reach out to the founders and
collect their responses
✘ Combine best responses in a
blog post
✘ Encourage them to share the
finished blog post with their
community

10. 5. Co-promote with partners

11. How to effectively co-promote your offerings
✘ Collaborate on a webinar series
✘ Create how-to videos to post on
their websites
✘ Create online communities to
discuss and organize co-
promotional events

12. 6. Answer queries on platforms like Quora

13. How to effectively use Quora
✘ Find questions relevant to
your business
✘ Keep your answers brief
and to the point
✘ If you need to provide a
detailed explanation,
number your points
✘ Provide a link to your
website (if applicable)

14. 7. Get featured in startup communities

15. Here’s a great list of online resources for startups:
✘ Foundedx.com
✘ Growthhackers.com
✘ Inbound.org
✘ Moz.com/community
✘ Marketing.happymarketer.com
✘ Hiverhq.com/blog

16. 8. Share your startup story in the press

17. Reach out to media who cover startups
In your pitch, answer the following
questions:
✘ “Why is my startup different?”
✘ “What inspired me to start my
business?”
✘ “Are there any client success
stories that I can share?”
✘ “Did I include a link to the
product page on our website?”

18. 9. Sprinkle in some social proof

19. Back up your story with proof
Feature these proof points throughout your website:
✘ Testimonials
✘ Client logos
✘ Media logos (if featured in the press)
✘ Case studies

20. 10. Networking

21. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know
Get off the computer and attend networking
events where your customers, partners or
media might be.
Google offers a great list of startup events in
your area:
https://www.googleforentrepreneurs.
com/startup-communities/

22. Want to growth hack your startup?
Check out our Growth Hacking with Digital Masterclass:
www.futuremarketer.co/growth-hacking-with-digital
Or drop me a line at:
✘ hello@happymarketer.com
✘ www.happymarketer.com

23. Credits
Special thanks to all the people who made and
released these awesome resources for free:
✘ Original blog post by Niraj Ranjan Rout, Co-
founder and CEO of Hiver
✘ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
✘ Photographs by Unsplash