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What is growth
marketing?
Kareem Azees
Growth Marketing, Houzz Pro
About me
Growth marketer with 6+ years of experience
Lover of all things marketing (especially SaaS!)
Worked at Autodesk, Kujiale (2021 IPO), now at Houzz
Disclaimer
Growth marketing may look different for every company.
Marketers in tech
generally sit
within one of
these teams
Product
1 Creating core value and
optimizing time to value
Product Marketing
2 Positioning the product against
competitors, developing
personas and pricing
Growth
3 Building brand, owning
acquisition and engagement
channels, analytics
Andy Johns
Partner, Unusual Ventures
Previously growth leader at Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Wealthfront
Finance owns the flow of
cash in and out of a
company. Growth owns the
flow of customers in and
out of a product.
Source
Chamath Palihapitiya
SPAC King, Founder of Social Capital
Previously growth leader at Facebook
How do you get people in the front door?
How do you get them to an aha moment as
quickly as possible?
How do you deliver core product value as
often as possible?
Three most difficult problems any
consumer product has to deal with:
1.
2.
3.
Source
Growth marketers
work across the
whole customer
journey
Acquisition
Create and capture demand
Activation
Get to an aha moment
Retention
Continued engagement
Revenue
Monetize
Referral
Tell others
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Revenue
Referral
How do customers find you?
CHANNELS
Family and friends
Referrals
Email
Customer community
Watercooler communities
Reseller/Partners
Search engine optimization/content
Outbound
Search engine marketing
Online advertising
Offline advertising
Events
Podcasts
EXPLANATION
People you know
Word of mouth and referral programs
Welcome emails, onboarding emails, campaigns
Slack channels, Facebook groups
ProductHunt, HackerNews, Reddit, vertical specific communities
Third party integrations, resellers, affiliates
Keyword optimized content
Sales team
Paid search
Targeted ads across web properties
Out of home advertising like billboards
Trade shows and offline events
Hosting a podcast
Channels come and go... what works today may not work tomorrow
Source
Start-ups don't need every channel to work for
them, but if they can't get one to work, they fail
Justin Kan
Founder of Socialcam (acq. by Autodesk), Twitch (acq. by
Amazon) and Atrium (failed)
Case study: Zapier is an automation company. They help
people to seamlessly connect web apps.
Case study:
People are already searching for integrations. Just need to build landing pages for the integrations
and continue expanding their app library.
Source
Case study:
New app
partners
New integrations
and landing
pages
SEO drives
new users
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This demonstrates the concept of a growth loop.
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Revenue
Referral
When a user understands your
core product value.
Uber
DoorDash
Notion
Canva
Hinge
First ride taken
First meal ordered
First page created
Editing a photo
First conversation
Company Aha moment
Many ways to activate users
Homepage/landing page
messaging and creative
New user product
experience
Email, SMS, push
nurture flows
Case study:
Twitter is a social networking site
with the mission to give everyone
the power to create and share ideas
and information instantly, without
barriers.
Imagine joining a social network and
having no connections, followers, and
a blank feed. It'd be hard to
understand the value of it.
Source
Case study: Follow 5 people in onboarding through
suggestions. Now when they onboard into the
platform, their feed is filled with content.
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Revenue
Referral
Retention is the ability
of a company to retain
its customers over a
given period of time
Retention is the most important
strategy related to growth
It's 5 to 25 times more expensive to acquire a
new customer than it is to retain an existing one.
5% lift in retention increases profits by 25-95%.
Source
Tom Tunguz
VC, Redpoint
Churn is a limiting factor on the business. Like
fiction, at some scale, churn will prevent the
business from growing. To maintain the
subscription revenue from the existing customer
base requires ever greater mountains of cash.
A $20 million ARR business losing 50% of its
customers every year will have to replace $10
million worth of customers each year to achieve
0% growth. Assuming 18 month payback, that’s
$15M in sales and marketing spend. That means
the business will be fundraising constantly.
Source
Higher retention rates leads to higher lifetime value, acquisition
budgets, virality, and lower payback periods
Source
Source
Case study:
SketchBook is a digital sketching
application for creative artists.
Goal was to drive repeat
usage, which would improve
retention rate.
Case study:
Case study:
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Revenue
Referral
How do I make more
money?
Pricing and pricing page optimizations
Upsell
Cross sell
Case study:
------->
------->
Case study:
The Economist is a longstanding digital
newspaper that focuses on current affairs,
international business, politics, and
technology.
The economist used
price anchoring to get
people to buy their
preferred subscription.
Book source
Case study:
Dan Ariely took the ad and ran it by 100 MIT students
Case study:
Dan Ariely ran this variant by 100 different MIT students
An inferior choice makes a similar but superior choice
look better even when other options are cheaper.
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Revenue
Referral
When people love
your product,
they'll refer
others.
Growth marketers
create referral
programs to
incentivize this.
Case study:
Robinhood is a stock trading app that aims
to democratize finance for all.
Double sided reward - referrer and referee
Like playing the lottery - get up to a $500 stock
80% of new accounts come organically
Acquisition cost payback period improved from 13
months in 2019 to now <5 months in 2020
Robinhood's referral program:
Let's recap
Full funnel view Run experiments
Optimize time to value Many different functions
Work across and think about
the entire funnel
Come up with ideas, run tests
to validate them
Figure out how to connect user
to value as soon as possible
Can work across different
functions, depending on the
size of the company
Summary
I'm leading a Skillful sprint!
how to pick the right acquisition channel for the business
how to break down competitor strategies to inform your own
how to think like a growth marketer
If you want to learn:
Join me :)
Subscribe to
my newsletter
kareemazees.com
Thank you!
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What is growth marketing?

  • 1. What is growth marketing? Kareem Azees Growth Marketing, Houzz Pro
  • 2. About me Growth marketer with 6+ years of experience Lover of all things marketing (especially SaaS!) Worked at Autodesk, Kujiale (2021 IPO), now at Houzz
  • 3. Disclaimer Growth marketing may look different for every company.
  • 4. Marketers in tech generally sit within one of these teams Product 1 Creating core value and optimizing time to value Product Marketing 2 Positioning the product against competitors, developing personas and pricing Growth 3 Building brand, owning acquisition and engagement channels, analytics
  • 5. Andy Johns Partner, Unusual Ventures Previously growth leader at Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Wealthfront Finance owns the flow of cash in and out of a company. Growth owns the flow of customers in and out of a product. Source
  • 6. Chamath Palihapitiya SPAC King, Founder of Social Capital Previously growth leader at Facebook How do you get people in the front door? How do you get them to an aha moment as quickly as possible? How do you deliver core product value as often as possible? Three most difficult problems any consumer product has to deal with: 1. 2. 3. Source
  • 7. Growth marketers work across the whole customer journey Acquisition Create and capture demand Activation Get to an aha moment Retention Continued engagement Revenue Monetize Referral Tell others
  • 9. How do customers find you? CHANNELS Family and friends Referrals Email Customer community Watercooler communities Reseller/Partners Search engine optimization/content Outbound Search engine marketing Online advertising Offline advertising Events Podcasts EXPLANATION People you know Word of mouth and referral programs Welcome emails, onboarding emails, campaigns Slack channels, Facebook groups ProductHunt, HackerNews, Reddit, vertical specific communities Third party integrations, resellers, affiliates Keyword optimized content Sales team Paid search Targeted ads across web properties Out of home advertising like billboards Trade shows and offline events Hosting a podcast
  • 10. Channels come and go... what works today may not work tomorrow Source
  • 11. Start-ups don't need every channel to work for them, but if they can't get one to work, they fail Justin Kan Founder of Socialcam (acq. by Autodesk), Twitch (acq. by Amazon) and Atrium (failed)
  • 12. Case study: Zapier is an automation company. They help people to seamlessly connect web apps.
  • 13. Case study: People are already searching for integrations. Just need to build landing pages for the integrations and continue expanding their app library. Source
  • 14. Case study: New app partners New integrations and landing pages SEO drives new users -------> - - - - - - - > - - - - - - - > This demonstrates the concept of a growth loop.
  • 16. When a user understands your core product value. Uber DoorDash Notion Canva Hinge First ride taken First meal ordered First page created Editing a photo First conversation Company Aha moment
  • 17. Many ways to activate users Homepage/landing page messaging and creative New user product experience Email, SMS, push nurture flows
  • 18. Case study: Twitter is a social networking site with the mission to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers. Imagine joining a social network and having no connections, followers, and a blank feed. It'd be hard to understand the value of it. Source
  • 19. Case study: Follow 5 people in onboarding through suggestions. Now when they onboard into the platform, their feed is filled with content.
  • 21. Retention is the ability of a company to retain its customers over a given period of time
  • 22. Retention is the most important strategy related to growth It's 5 to 25 times more expensive to acquire a new customer than it is to retain an existing one. 5% lift in retention increases profits by 25-95%. Source
  • 23. Tom Tunguz VC, Redpoint Churn is a limiting factor on the business. Like fiction, at some scale, churn will prevent the business from growing. To maintain the subscription revenue from the existing customer base requires ever greater mountains of cash. A $20 million ARR business losing 50% of its customers every year will have to replace $10 million worth of customers each year to achieve 0% growth. Assuming 18 month payback, that’s $15M in sales and marketing spend. That means the business will be fundraising constantly. Source
  • 24. Higher retention rates leads to higher lifetime value, acquisition budgets, virality, and lower payback periods Source
  • 26. Case study: SketchBook is a digital sketching application for creative artists. Goal was to drive repeat usage, which would improve retention rate.
  • 30. How do I make more money? Pricing and pricing page optimizations Upsell Cross sell
  • 32. Case study: The Economist is a longstanding digital newspaper that focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, and technology. The economist used price anchoring to get people to buy their preferred subscription. Book source
  • 33. Case study: Dan Ariely took the ad and ran it by 100 MIT students
  • 34. Case study: Dan Ariely ran this variant by 100 different MIT students An inferior choice makes a similar but superior choice look better even when other options are cheaper.
  • 36. When people love your product, they'll refer others. Growth marketers create referral programs to incentivize this.
  • 37. Case study: Robinhood is a stock trading app that aims to democratize finance for all. Double sided reward - referrer and referee Like playing the lottery - get up to a $500 stock 80% of new accounts come organically Acquisition cost payback period improved from 13 months in 2019 to now <5 months in 2020 Robinhood's referral program:
  • 39. Full funnel view Run experiments Optimize time to value Many different functions Work across and think about the entire funnel Come up with ideas, run tests to validate them Figure out how to connect user to value as soon as possible Can work across different functions, depending on the size of the company Summary
  • 40. I'm leading a Skillful sprint! how to pick the right acquisition channel for the business how to break down competitor strategies to inform your own how to think like a growth marketer If you want to learn: Join me :)