InnovaPve
products
don’t
fit
in
exisPng
sales
&
markePng
channels.
“The
Medium
is
the
Message.”
-‐Marshall
McLuhan
InnovaPve
products
demand
innovaPve
context
and
mediums.
The
Medium
is
the
Message
How
you
get
to
the
customer
is
as
important,
if
not
more,
then
what
you
get
to
the
customer.
ExisMng
mediums
provide
wrong
context
for
innovaMve
products.
(Important
corollary:
innovaMve
mediums
need
innovaMve
content
to
maintain
context.)
B.Y.O.C.
• Fundamentally,
growth
hacking
is
NOT
mastery
of
>>exisPng<<
markeMng
eg
for
online
SEO,
SEM,
PPC,
viral
markeMng
etc
etc
• Growth
hacking
is
true
innovaMon
in
sales
and
markeMng
mediums.
•
Ergo,
different
than
tradiMonal
VP
of
MarkeMng
role.
(ExecuMon
of
best
pracMces)
• “Bring
Your
Own
Channel.”
–
Sean
Ellis
Message
Tupperware
Xerox
copiers
The
4-‐Hour
Chef
(Ferriss)
Cubism
(Picasso)
Tesla
(Musk)
PayPal
YouTube
Instagram
Facebook
(Zuck)
Street
skaMng
(Hawk)
GoPro
Medium
Home
parMes
Direct
sales,
selling
consumables
BitTorrent
Art
dealers
as
patrons
Stores,
not
dealerships
eBay
Embeds
(?)
Status
&
bragging
via
iPhone
Photo
tagging
VHS
(?)
AcMon
Sports
The
Medium
is
the
Message
Vice
versa?
Message
Growthhacking
Flurry
as
ad
network
Apple
products
The
Lean
Startup
book
Lean
Entrepreneur
book
Veronica
Mars
Zach
Braf
sequel
?
Novel
content
Medium
‘Sohware
eaMng
the
world’
AnalyMcs
Apple
as
retail
experience
Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding
3D
prinMng
&
digital
fab
Nejlix
The
Medium
is
the
Message
Vice
versa?
You
Have
Been
Warned
• Want
exponenMal
growth?
à
The
Medium
is
the
Message.
• Hockey
sMck
is
outcome
of
discovering/manufacturing
an
uncontested
markeMng
channel.
• Test
with
convexity.
Don’t
punish
‘failure’.
• Steal.
Copy.
Remix.
• ‘Think
Different’
–
Steve
Jobs
ß
The
Medium
is
the
Message.
• PS
Big
thanks
to
Venkatesh
Rao
of
RibbonFarm.com
for
TMITM
framing.
Read
his
blog.