A primer to growth hacking. Starts with the story of one of the web's most legendary growth hacks, then gets into what growth hacking is and how you can put it to work for your company. Originally presented at Growth Hacking Asia Singapore in Nov 2014
This document discusses the concept of a growth hacker and strategies for sustainable growth. A growth hacker focuses on scalable growth through experiments and data analysis. Their goal is viral and repeat growth through word of mouth, embedded social features, paid advertising, and recurring use. The document provides examples of how companies achieve growth through these channels and outlines psychological factors that influence word-of-mouth sharing. It emphasizes thinking like a growth hacker by constantly considering growth opportunities across communication platforms.
128 High Converting Growth Hacks - the most epic growth hacking listHelvijs Smoteks
Because of nothing much to do - we read 2 105 publications and articles. Result? The most comprehensive growth hacking list up to date.
All the growth hacks divided in easy to view AARRR sections - for pirates and growth hackers.
This document discusses growth hacking strategies used by early internet companies like Hotmail to achieve rapid growth. It defines growth hacking as a set of tactics and best practices for acquiring, activating, and retaining users. Some key tactics discussed include viral growth, A/B testing landing pages, optimizing the user lifecycle funnel, and identifying bottlenecks. The document provides examples of notable growth hacks from companies like Dropbox, Path, and Eventbrite.
This document discusses growth hacking strategies and examples. It defines growth hacking as leveraging non-traditional marketing tactics to unlock exponential growth. Examples discussed include Airbnb integrating with Craigslist, BranchOut using Facebook integration, and LivingSocial growing their Facebook app virally. The document advocates obsessing over data, thinking creatively, being curious, and getting hands-on with product and code. It provides categories of growth hacks like platform integrations, viral growth, and analytics-driven insights.
Growth hacking is a set of tactics and best practices used to optimize user growth and movement through the user lifecycle stages of acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue. The document outlines Hotmail's viral growth strategy of adding "PS: I love you" messages to emails, discusses mapping the user journey and measuring conversions at each stage, and provides examples of growth hacking tactics like incentivizing referrals and optimizing landing pages through A/B testing.
Lean Analytics for Startups and EnterprisesLean Analytics
Latest Lean Analytics workshop from the Lean Startup Week in San Francisco. Focusing on what metrics matter to both startups and big corporations. Incorporates elements of corporate innovation into the Lean Analytics framework to help bigger companies think through the data that really matters.
GROWTH HACKING Neil Patel Join the KISSmetrics team! kissmetrics.com/careers
@neilpatel
“Growth is important, and most great companies take it seriously.” Adam Nash HTTP://KISS.LY/ANASHNOTES
WHO ARE YOUR Customers? HTTP://KISS.LY/SMBANALYSIS
HOW DO YOU REACH YOUR Customers? HTTP://KISS.LY/KISSBLUEGLASSLA2012
CHANNELS GET CROWDED Fast!
Google AdWords Cost per acquisition: $233$388 For a $99 product. Fail. HTTP://KISS.LY/DREWDROPBOX
Distribution Hacks
Five strategies for distribution: Integrations, Work Emails, Embeds, Powered By, Free Stuff
Integrations
Shopify has 30,000+ businesses
Salesforce has 100,000+ businesses
Box has 120,000+ businesses
37signals has 150,000+ businesses
Yammer has 200,000+ businesses
Constant Contact has 400,000+ businesses
Github has 1,900,000+ people
MailChimp has 2,000,000+ people
Google Apps has 4,000,000+ businesses
FreshBooks has 4,500,000+ people
Google Analytics has 30,000,000+ accounts
Evernote has 30,000,000+ people
Dropbox has 50,000,000+ people
How to optimize integrations. Integrations make your product better. Measure your conversions and revenue. Discover valuable integrations. Ask users about integrations. Make your partner pages awesome
Work Emails HTTP://PODIO.COM
Work Emails HTTP://YAMMER.COM
How to optimize “Work Emails” Optimize on-boarding Show people who they should follow Utilize invitations during on-boarding Measure # of people in every company Discover the engaging interactions
Embeds HTTP://KISS.LY/YTEMBED
Embeds HTTP://KISS.LY/SSEMBEDS
How to optimize embeds Why should people embed? Make it as easy as possible to embed. Track how well your embeds convert. Test relevant call to actions. Optimize for search but don’t obsess
Powered By
How to optimize “Powered By” What are you Powering? Test the copy of your call to action. Test and optimize your landing pages. Track views, clicks, conversions and LTV Measure individual effectiveness
Free Stuff HTTP://GRADER.COM
Free Stuff HTTP://NEWRELIC.COM/ASI
Free Stuff HTTP://WWW.HUBSPOT.COM/INBOUND-MARKETING-KIT/
How to optimize free tools. Map to customer decision making. Think about what you can repurpose. Educate your prospects. Test your ideas minimally (ghetto). Measure and optimize revenue
FIGURE OUT WHAT’S BEST FOR Your Product
YOU HAVE No Excuses
We’re hiring. Join our team! kissmetrics.com/careers Neil Patel npatel@kissmetrics.com
Outbound prospecting for highly targeted lead flowDavid Skok
This presentation described how and when outbound prospecting (Cold Calling 2.0) can work to provide a predictable flow of leads from highly targeted prospects.
Dan Olsen, The Lean Product Playbook , @danolsen
Room: C260
Everyone working on a new product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. Although product-market fit is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts, it’s also the least well defined. Dan Olsen shares the top advice from his book The Lean Product Playbook, including the Product-Market Fit Pyramid: an actionable model that breaks product-market fit down into 5 key elements. Dan also explains the Lean Product Process, a 6-step methodology with practical guidance on how to achieve product-market fit, illustrated with a real-world case study.
Andy Young discusses growth hacking strategies for startups. He defines growth hacking as experiment-driven marketing to achieve measurable, repeatable and scalable growth. Some key growth hacking tactics include SEO, content marketing, performance marketing, conversion optimization, viral loops and strategic pricing. He emphasizes the importance of testing ideas with customers pre-launch, focusing on key metrics, prioritizing high-impact areas of the customer funnel like top-of-funnel acquisition and bottom-of-funnel conversion and retention, and continually experimenting to optimize growth.
Customer Acquisition & Monetization - Keys to your Business ModelDavid Skok
Presentation describing how Cost of Customer Acquisition (CAC) and Monetization (LTV) are they key elements to get right for a successful business model. Also describes the latest techniques for reducing CAC, including Inbound Marketing, and the author's own methodology: Building a Sales & Marketing Machine.
[500DISTRO] The Scientific Method: How to Design & Track Viral Growth Experim...500 Startups
The document discusses building a growth process for a company. It advocates focusing first on establishing a repeatable process for experimentation and growth, rather than individual tactics. The process involves setting goals, brainstorming growth ideas, prioritizing experiments, testing hypotheses through minimum viable tests, implementing experiments, analyzing results, and systematizing successful experiments. Establishing this type of process allows a company to continuously run experiments, learn, and scale growth over time through an organized and data-driven approach.
Learn how to build the growth engine for your startup. Saas Lifecycle stages. Product Market Fit, Different perspectives for Marketing funnel, AARRR framework, lead generation, lead nurturing & what tools to use
Building a Repeatable, Scalable & Profitable Growth ProcessDavid Skok
The document discusses optimizing the sales funnel for SaaS startups. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the buyer's perspective and journey. The key points covered are:
1) The sales funnel should be designed around the buyer's process, not the vendor's solutions. It is important to understand buyer personas and map the funnel steps to their evaluation process.
2) Friction points in the funnel like long delays or steps requiring other people can drastically reduce conversion. These points should be identified and removed or simplified when possible.
3) The goal is to create a "wow moment" or motivation for the buyer to continue engaging as early as possible. This may require redesigning trial experiences to quickly
You're Too Focused on Product/Market Fit - Brian Balfour at SaaSFest 2016Price Intelligently
Over the past ten years, software gurus have been preaching the notion that you need to find product/market fit. Balfour presents an extremely cogent argument that because of the speed of technology now, this advice is no longer valid. In reality, you need to find market, product, channel, model fit (in that order). Balfour lays out his argument in this presentation at Price Intelligently's SaaSFest 2016 by cataloging his experience over his career and view of the market.
Unlocking Growth: Building a sustainable growth engine with the new rules of...Sean Ellis
As Marc Andreessen says, startups fail for two primary reasons: either they try to grow when they're not ready to, or they're not aggressive enough when they're finally to grow. In this presentation Morgan Brown walks through the Startup Pyramid framework to show how startups can gain traction and drive sustainable growth.
The Product Market Fit Cycle (Updated to v. 2.0)Carlos Espinal
This presentation was used for my talk at HowToWeb 2014 in Bucharest Romania and is the updated presentation to my blog post on the subject - http://thedrawingboard.me/2013/05/03/the-product-market-fit-cycle/
Growth Tribe Academy - Europe's 1st Growth Hacking Academy Growth Tribe
This document summarizes a presentation on growth hacking. It discusses why growth hacking is important due to expensive traditional marketing channels and startups' focus on products over distribution. Growth hacking uses low-cost experiments and data-driven approaches. The presentation covers growth hacking skills and frameworks like the pirate funnel and BJ Fogg model. It emphasizes acquiring, activating, retaining and generating revenue from customers through techniques like onboarding, habit-forming hooks, and improving the user experience.
It's back! Content Marketing World's annual conference ebook featuring a large number of our incredible speakers offering their insights on content marketing, how to level up and advance, how best to amplify your message and so much more. Check out what your favorite content marketers have to say on these topics and also meet some new faces to CMWorld. CMWorld 2018 is going to be epic - be sure to join us there! Game On!
How do some businesses manage to grow and scale like rocket ships and other companies can barely get someone to share their content?
This presentation will go through the key components of a growth strategy that are leveraged by some of the most successful brands online.
It will discuss audience acquisition tactics that businesses of all sizes can use to ensure the work they're doing leads to continual growth spurts.
Smarter Marketing: Using online intelligence to inform customer developmentKate O'Neill
The document discusses how leading companies are using online data and testing to optimize their marketing efforts. It highlights how companies can build competitive advantages by learning from online data through hypothesis-driven testing and optimization. It also provides examples of how to measure key online marketing metrics like awareness, engagement, and conversions to continually improve marketing strategies.
Olivier Blanchard's presentation from the Advanced Social Media Bootcamp at the Social Media Integration Conference in Atlanta, GA on October 22, 2010.
Growth marketing for corporates - Intro session - ING innovation leadersGrowth Tribe
A recent talk give by Growth Tribe to the heads of innovation at ING... the talk covers growth hacking for corporates, growth marketing for corporates and how growth marketing fits within a digital transformation strategy,
This document provides information about starting a new business, including marketing strategies and social media marketing. It discusses the four P's of marketing - price, product, place, and promotion. The importance of understanding customer wants and needs and developing continuous relationships is emphasized. Strategic planning techniques like SWOT analysis and identifying strategic business units are presented. Using social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram to observe customer habits and target specific groups is recommended. The rise of e-business and how almost all major firms now use the internet for marketing, accounting, and production is covered. Business to business marketing and its key components are also outlined.
Why is content marketing critical for a healthy business?Scott MacFarland
Content has become noticeably more popular in
recent years. You have probably seen on many of
the social media channels the onslaught of articles,
infographics, blogs, photos, social posts and videos
all trying to communicate a message and compete
for the readers’ attention.
!
All types of companies, big and small as well as
entrepreneurs, and consultants are producing
content to let their voice be known, all while trying
to carve out their own slice of the market. It’s a
daunting task to say the least. What’s even more
challenging is the marketer’s job of trying to capture
the attention of the people most important to them
and measure the efficacy of their content.
Optimization plays a key role in a conversational growth strategy by:
- Testing elements of conversations to increase engagement and desired outcomes
- Using an iterative process of measuring performance, forming hypotheses, and testing changes
- Continually improving conversations to better meet goals and provide more value to participants
Do you have what it takes to be America’s Next Top Multifamily Marketer? In today’s competitive environment, it takes a fierce marketing strategy to position your company and communities ahead of the competition; and this session will equip you to make-over your existing marketing plan into a Super Model of success. You’ll learn the key characteristics that speak desirability to today’s consumer; how to create a truly unique selling proposition that far outshines the competition; the hottest advertising vehicles available today and how to use and leverage them for maximum ROI; when, where and how to market to today’s sales-savvy consumers in ways that they’ll accept; and much, much more!
A presentation I gave at Digital Summit: Mass publishing is the lowest form of value the internet can provide you. Relying on a content publishing model for lead generation, and relationship building will not give you the sustainable, or scaleable competitive advantage you need to succeed in this new world of infinite noise. Nobody cares about your content because you’ve missed the true reason people consume content, because it fulfills their inner purpose. Learn what the five pillars are and why they must be new foundations for the future marketing organization.
This is the first part of a series of presentations on marketing strategy and deals with improving marketing ROI.
It's full of colorful slides to make points simply and clearly.
This 70-slide PowerPoint presentation will:
1. Give you a comfort level with Social Media and its place in your marketing program.
2. Introduce a systematic approach to marketing that will ensure your plans are effective and efficient.
3. Provide 3 worksheets to help you improve ROI.
4. Show you the full business upside when the Bottom Line process is used.
For more, please
This document discusses how business intelligence tools can help attract the right participants and grow an organization. It introduces three BI platforms - MyAIESEC.net, CustomerGauge, and manage.aiesec.org - and how each can be used for targeted marketing. MyAIESEC.net provides supply and demand data and participant numbers to inform strategies. CustomerGauge offers promoter feedback and comments to showcase positive impacts. Manage.aiesec.org allows tracking marketing campaign performance, measuring conversions, and analyzing user profiles to promote the right opportunities. Regular analysis of these tools is recommended to continuously refine marketing approaches and ensure effective participant attraction and organizational growth.
Presentation by Doug Hay, CEO of Doug Hay & Associates covering how to integrate the various elements to maximize the ROI for small and medium businesses.
This document provides 10 steps to ensure a successful marketing automation program. It begins by explaining that while marketing automation seemed like a good solution, it is not delivering the expected leads, productivity, or conversion rates. It then outlines 10 actionable suggestions to make marketing automation effective, including knowing your buyers, using quality content, aligning sales and marketing, using data to guide decisions, and continuously improving through measurement. The overall message is that carefully following these steps can help optimize a marketing automation platform.
This document discusses how business intelligence tools can help attract more customers and enable growth for an organization. It introduces three main BI tools: MyAIESEC.net, CustomerGauge, and manage.aiesec.org. MyAIESEC.net provides access to global organizational data through tools like supply and demand management and participant/partner numbers to help with targeted marketing. CustomerGauge allows analyzing promoter feedback and comments to showcase positive customer experiences. Manage.aiesec.org enables tracking marketing campaign performance, measuring conversions, and analyzing customer profiles and search behavior to promote the right products to the right audiences. Regular analysis of these tools is recommended to continually improve marketing strategies and asset updates.
How to Build a World-Class Marketing OrganizationWe Are Marketing
The document provides guidance on building a world-class marketing organization. It discusses that having the right structure, talent, processes, ecosystem, and management are key. It emphasizes that structure should be tailored to current needs and reorganized regularly. Talent should be "T-shaped" with both deep and broad skills. Processes should bring accountability around objectives, methodologies, and responsibilities. The organization should utilize full stacked, cross-functional squads with partners from different departments. Strong management is also important for success.
It is a presentation on Content Marketing where each and every minute detail is being mentioned while one is into such part. It is a summarized study of it which will help you to understand it much more easily.
Quality Patents: Patents That Stand the Test of TimeAurora Consulting
Is your patent a vanity piece of paper for your office wall? Or is it a reliable, defendable, assertable, property right? The difference is often quality.
Is your patent simply a transactional cost and a large pile of legal bills for your startup? Or is it a leverageable asset worthy of attracting precious investment dollars, worth its cost in multiples of valuation? The difference is often quality.
Is your patent application only good enough to get through the examination process? Or has it been crafted to stand the tests of time and varied audiences if you later need to assert that document against an infringer, find yourself litigating with it in an Article 3 Court at the hands of a judge and jury, God forbid, end up having to defend its validity at the PTAB, or even needing to use it to block pirated imports at the International Trade Commission? The difference is often quality.
Quality will be our focus for a good chunk of the remainder of this season. What goes into a quality patent, and where possible, how do you get it without breaking the bank?
** Episode Overview **
In this first episode of our quality series, Kristen Hansen and the panel discuss:
⦿ What do we mean when we say patent quality?
⦿ Why is patent quality important?
⦿ How to balance quality and budget
⦿ The importance of searching, continuations, and draftsperson domain expertise
⦿ Very practical tips, tricks, examples, and Kristen’s Musts for drafting quality applications
https://www.aurorapatents.com/patently-strategic-podcast.html
The DealBook is our annual overview of the Ukrainian tech investment industry. This edition comprehensively covers the full year 2023 and the first deals of 2024.
Implementations of Fused Deposition Modeling in real worldEmerging Tech
The presentation showcases the diverse real-world applications of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) across multiple industries:
1. **Manufacturing**: FDM is utilized in manufacturing for rapid prototyping, creating custom tools and fixtures, and producing functional end-use parts. Companies leverage its cost-effectiveness and flexibility to streamline production processes.
2. **Medical**: In the medical field, FDM is used to create patient-specific anatomical models, surgical guides, and prosthetics. Its ability to produce precise and biocompatible parts supports advancements in personalized healthcare solutions.
3. **Education**: FDM plays a crucial role in education by enabling students to learn about design and engineering through hands-on 3D printing projects. It promotes innovation and practical skill development in STEM disciplines.
4. **Science**: Researchers use FDM to prototype equipment for scientific experiments, build custom laboratory tools, and create models for visualization and testing purposes. It facilitates rapid iteration and customization in scientific endeavors.
5. **Automotive**: Automotive manufacturers employ FDM for prototyping vehicle components, tooling for assembly lines, and customized parts. It speeds up the design validation process and enhances efficiency in automotive engineering.
6. **Consumer Electronics**: FDM is utilized in consumer electronics for designing and prototyping product enclosures, casings, and internal components. It enables rapid iteration and customization to meet evolving consumer demands.
7. **Robotics**: Robotics engineers leverage FDM to prototype robot parts, create lightweight and durable components, and customize robot designs for specific applications. It supports innovation and optimization in robotic systems.
8. **Aerospace**: In aerospace, FDM is used to manufacture lightweight parts, complex geometries, and prototypes of aircraft components. It contributes to cost reduction, faster production cycles, and weight savings in aerospace engineering.
9. **Architecture**: Architects utilize FDM for creating detailed architectural models, prototypes of building components, and intricate designs. It aids in visualizing concepts, testing structural integrity, and communicating design ideas effectively.
Each industry example demonstrates how FDM enhances innovation, accelerates product development, and addresses specific challenges through advanced manufacturing capabilities.
Quantum Communications Q&A with Gemini LLM. These are based on Shannon's Noisy channel Theorem and offers how the classical theory applies to the quantum world.
In this follow-up session on knowledge and prompt engineering, we will explore structured prompting, chain of thought prompting, iterative prompting, prompt optimization, emotional language prompts, and the inclusion of user signals and industry-specific data to enhance LLM performance.
Join EIS Founder & CEO Seth Earley and special guest Nick Usborne, Copywriter, Trainer, and Speaker, as they delve into these methodologies to improve AI-driven knowledge processes for employees and customers alike.
UiPath Community Day Kraków: Devs4Devs ConferenceUiPathCommunity
We are honored to launch and host this event for our UiPath Polish Community, with the help of our partners - Proservartner!
We certainly hope we have managed to spike your interest in the subjects to be presented and the incredible networking opportunities at hand, too!
Check out our proposed agenda below 👇👇
08:30 ☕ Welcome coffee (30')
09:00 Opening note/ Intro to UiPath Community (10')
Cristina Vidu, Global Manager, Marketing Community @UiPath
Dawid Kot, Digital Transformation Lead @Proservartner
09:10 Cloud migration - Proservartner & DOVISTA case study (30')
Marcin Drozdowski, Automation CoE Manager @DOVISTA
Pawel Kamiński, RPA developer @DOVISTA
Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner
09:40 From bottlenecks to breakthroughs: Citizen Development in action (25')
Pawel Poplawski, Director, Improvement and Automation @McCormick & Company
Michał Cieślak, Senior Manager, Automation Programs @McCormick & Company
10:05 Next-level bots: API integration in UiPath Studio (30')
Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner
10:35 ☕ Coffee Break (15')
10:50 Document Understanding with my RPA Companion (45')
Ewa Gruszka, Enterprise Sales Specialist, AI & ML @UiPath
11:35 Power up your Robots: GenAI and GPT in REFramework (45')
Krzysztof Karaszewski, Global RPA Product Manager
12:20 🍕 Lunch Break (1hr)
13:20 From Concept to Quality: UiPath Test Suite for AI-powered Knowledge Bots (30')
Kamil Miśko, UiPath MVP, Senior RPA Developer @Zurich Insurance
13:50 Communications Mining - focus on AI capabilities (30')
Thomasz Wierzbicki, Business Analyst @Office Samurai
14:20 Polish MVP panel: Insights on MVP award achievements and career profiling
Scaling Connections in PostgreSQL Postgres Bangalore(PGBLR) Meetup-2 - MydbopsMydbops
This presentation, delivered at the Postgres Bangalore (PGBLR) Meetup-2 on June 29th, 2024, dives deep into connection pooling for PostgreSQL databases. Aakash M, a PostgreSQL Tech Lead at Mydbops, explores the challenges of managing numerous connections and explains how connection pooling optimizes performance and resource utilization.
Key Takeaways:
* Understand why connection pooling is essential for high-traffic applications
* Explore various connection poolers available for PostgreSQL, including pgbouncer
* Learn the configuration options and functionalities of pgbouncer
* Discover best practices for monitoring and troubleshooting connection pooling setups
* Gain insights into real-world use cases and considerations for production environments
This presentation is ideal for:
* Database administrators (DBAs)
* Developers working with PostgreSQL
* DevOps engineers
* Anyone interested in optimizing PostgreSQL performance
Contact info@mydbops.com for PostgreSQL Managed, Consulting and Remote DBA Services
Data Protection in a Connected World: Sovereignty and Cyber Securityanupriti
Delve into the critical intersection of data sovereignty and cyber security in this presentation. Explore unconventional cyber threat vectors and strategies to safeguard data integrity and sovereignty in an increasingly interconnected world. Gain insights into emerging threats and proactive defense measures essential for modern digital ecosystems.
Are you interested in dipping your toes in the cloud native observability waters, but as an engineer you are not sure where to get started with tracing problems through your microservices and application landscapes on Kubernetes? Then this is the session for you, where we take you on your first steps in an active open-source project that offers a buffet of languages, challenges, and opportunities for getting started with telemetry data.
The project is called openTelemetry, but before diving into the specifics, we’ll start with de-mystifying key concepts and terms such as observability, telemetry, instrumentation, cardinality, percentile to lay a foundation. After understanding the nuts and bolts of observability and distributed traces, we’ll explore the openTelemetry community; its Special Interest Groups (SIGs), repositories, and how to become not only an end-user, but possibly a contributor.We will wrap up with an overview of the components in this project, such as the Collector, the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP), its APIs, and its SDKs.
Attendees will leave with an understanding of key observability concepts, become grounded in distributed tracing terminology, be aware of the components of openTelemetry, and know how to take their first steps to an open-source contribution!
Key Takeaways: Open source, vendor neutral instrumentation is an exciting new reality as the industry standardizes on openTelemetry for observability. OpenTelemetry is on a mission to enable effective observability by making high-quality, portable telemetry ubiquitous. The world of observability and monitoring today has a steep learning curve and in order to achieve ubiquity, the project would benefit from growing our contributor community.
Fluttercon 2024: Showing that you care about security - OpenSSF Scorecards fo...Chris Swan
Have you noticed the OpenSSF Scorecard badges on the official Dart and Flutter repos? It's Google's way of showing that they care about security. Practices such as pinning dependencies, branch protection, required reviews, continuous integration tests etc. are measured to provide a score and accompanying badge.
You can do the same for your projects, and this presentation will show you how, with an emphasis on the unique challenges that come up when working with Dart and Flutter.
The session will provide a walkthrough of the steps involved in securing a first repository, and then what it takes to repeat that process across an organization with multiple repos. It will also look at the ongoing maintenance involved once scorecards have been implemented, and how aspects of that maintenance can be better automated to minimize toil.
The Rise of Supernetwork Data Intensive ComputingLarry Smarr
Invited Remote Lecture to SC21
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
St. Louis, Missouri
November 18, 2021
Video traffic on the Internet is constantly growing; networked multimedia applications consume a predominant share of the available Internet bandwidth. A major technical breakthrough and enabler in multimedia systems research and of industrial networked multimedia services certainly was the HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) technique. This resulted in the standardization of MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) which, together with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), is widely used for multimedia delivery in today’s networks. Existing challenges in multimedia systems research deal with the trade-off between (i) the ever-increasing content complexity, (ii) various requirements with respect to time (most importantly, latency), and (iii) quality of experience (QoE). Optimizing towards one aspect usually negatively impacts at least one of the other two aspects if not both. This situation sets the stage for our research work in the ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory (Adaptive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked Multimedia Services; https://athena.itec.aau.at/), jointly funded by public sources and industry. In this talk, we will present selected novel approaches and research results of the first year of the ATHENA CD Lab’s operation. We will highlight HAS-related research on (i) multimedia content provisioning (machine learning for video encoding); (ii) multimedia content delivery (support of edge processing and virtualized network functions for video networking); (iii) multimedia content consumption and end-to-end aspects (player-triggered segment retransmissions to improve video playout quality); and (iv) novel QoE investigations (adaptive point cloud streaming). We will also put the work into the context of international multimedia systems research.
Transcript: Details of description part II: Describing images in practice - T...BookNet Canada
This presentation explores the practical application of image description techniques. Familiar guidelines will be demonstrated in practice, and descriptions will be developed “live”! If you have learned a lot about the theory of image description techniques but want to feel more confident putting them into practice, this is the presentation for you. There will be useful, actionable information for everyone, whether you are working with authors, colleagues, alone, or leveraging AI as a collaborator.
Link to presentation recording and slides: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/details-of-description-part-ii-describing-images-in-practice/
Presented by BookNet Canada on June 25, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
10. So what’s next?
Get PR coverage!
Post on social media!
Buy ads!
11. So what’s next?
Get PR coverage!
Post on social media!
Buy ads!
Hire an SEM guru!
12. So what’s next?
Get PR coverage!
Post on social media!
Buy ads!
Hire an SEM guru!
And you know what, it worked.
13. So what’s next?
Hire an SEM guru! BUT
Get PR coverage!
Post on social media!
Buy ads!
14. So what’s next?
Customer acquisition FAIL
Get PR coverage!
Post on social media!
Buy ads!
Hire an SEM guru!
It worked, but the economics were totally broken. It’s possible to grow and fail.
15. So what’s next?
Customer acquisition FAIL
Get PR coverage!
e.g. ads
CPA = $388, LTV = $99
Post on social media!
Buy ads!
Hire an SEM guru!
16. “Okay, let’s regroup.
How about we…”
Back to the drawing board; otherwise they would’ve used up all their funding
17. “Okay, let’s regroup.
How about we…”
Hey, look at this data I found
Suddenly, a wild usage-data insight appears
18. “Okay, let’s regroup.
How about we…”
Our customers LOVE telling their
friends about us
20. “Okay, let’s regroup.
How about we…”
How about a referral program?
Instead of paying for users, could they just amplify organic WOM behavior?
21. “Okay, Good let’s idea regroup.
How about we…”
J
Is there a way we can help them
do that?
22. “Okay, Good let’s idea regroup.
How about we…”
J
• 35% of signups came from referral program
Is there a way we can help them
do that?
23. “Okay, Good let’s idea regroup.
How about we…”
J
• 35% of signups came from referral program
• Customer base grew 40X in 15 months
Is there a way we can help them
do that?
24. “Okay, Good let’s idea regroup.
How about we…”
J
• 35% of signups came from referral program
• Customer base grew 40X in 15 months
• 15% MoM growth
Is there a way we can help them
do that?
30. How did they do that?
They stumbled on a Growth Hack
31. How did they do that?
They stumbled on a Growth Hack
A fancy way to describe a tactic for
getting more customers by using a
certain combo of skills
32. How did they do that?
They stumbled on a Growth Hack
A fancy way to describe a tactic for
getting more customers by using a
certain combo of skills
Growth with skills, not money
33. Skills Needed To Find Growth Hacks
We can deconstruct what they did. There were 3 skills at play:
43. FIRST Your product has to be
ready for growth
x = ✖
If you just launched, or biz model not defined, just stop.
You’re pouring gas on cold wood. Waste of resources. Start a fire first.
44. FIRST Your product has to be
ready for growth
x = ✖
x = ✔
But, if you have a small fire – you have traction, customers, revenue – go for it
45. Use data. Use the
Pirate Metrics framework
to visualize your funnel
SECOND
This is one of many frameworks you can use. I just find this to be the simplest
46. SECOND Use data. Use the
Pirate Metrics framework
to visualize your funnel
AARRR!
Based on “Startup Metrics for Pirates” by @dmc500hats
48. Acquisition
Activation
Everyone’s definition of Activation, Retention, etc is different.
The point is to define the metric and use GH skills to improve them
55. Acquisition
M
P
T
What channels are most effective?
What attracts people to our product?
How can we make it scalable?
How can each skill contribute to increasing the number of people at each stage?
56. Acquisition
M
P
T
Use analytics to rank channels
What attracts people to our product?
How can we make it scalable?
(This is just a small sample of what you could do for each skill)
57. Acquisition
M
P
T
Use analytics to rank channels
Study customer behavior for insights
How can we make it scalable?
58. Acquisition
M
P
T
Use analytics to rank channels
Study customer behavior for insights
Use available tech to make it easy
59. Acquisition
Hotmail
“P.S. I love you. Get Hotmail.”
M = “what channels can we use?” P = “how can we hook into product?”
T = “how can we make it scalable?”
62. Activation
M
P
T
What messaging is most effective?
What factors have the most impact?
How can we implement?
At this stage, you want people to engage with product in a meaningful way
63. Activation
M
P
T
Measure and compare campaigns
What factors have the most impact?
How can we implement?
You have their attention; figure out what the best message is
64. Activation
M
P
T
Measure and compare campaigns
Understand what levers you have
How can we implement?
What assets do you have that can help you hook them in?
65. Activation
M
P
T
Measure and compare campaigns
Understand what levers you have
Use A/B testing tools
How can you use data to inform your decisions?
69. Retention
M
P
T
How can we stay top of mind?
What causes customers to churn?
What can we automate?
What MPT questions would you ask to increase # of ppl at this stage?
70. Retention
M
P
T
Audit available channels
What causes customers to churn?
What can we automate?
And here’s a small set of the things you could do to answer those questions
71. Retention
M
P
T
Audit available channels
Mine usage data for insights
What can we automate?
72. Retention
M
P
T
Audit available channels
Mine usage data for insights
Create processes or tools
73. Retention
Quora
Digest emails w/ cool content
Quora gets you to come back by teasing you with content
they know you’re interested in
74. Retention
Zynga
Email to churning players
Social games know they can make you come back by offering
you valuable in-game items for free
75. 4. Referral
At this point, you should have communicated your value so clearly that
referrals feel natural
76. Referral
M
P
T
What copy will provide the right nudge?
What incentives can we align?
What does the process look like?
Find growth hacks by thinking what MPT questions you can ask
77. Referral
M
P
T
Create campaigns to build awareness
What incentives can we align?
What does the process look like?
How do you compose messaging such that referring
friends has clear benefit to the user?
78. Referral
M
P
T
Create campaigns to build awareness
Build referral loop into usage
What does the process look like?
Is there a way to make referrals add value to core product usage?
79. Referral
M
P
T
Create campaigns to build awareness
Build referral loop into usage
Remove steps from the process
How do you make it as simple as possible?
80. Referral
Dropbox
Refer a friend and get 500 mb
The poster child of referral programs: you’d be stupid not to refer a friend
81. Referral
Facebook
Import your contacts
Value-based messaging: “find friends” and “add personal contacts”
Not “import your address book” – which has no clear benefit
82. 5. Revenue
How do we grow the # of people who make it to the bottom of the funnel?
83. Revenue
M
P
T
What message will trigger purchases?
What can we offer to increase orders?
How do we implement?
Again, we combine MPT skills to come up with ideas
84. Revenue
M
P
T
Design to address friction points
What can we offer to increase orders?
How do we implement?
And these are some of the activities we can do
85. Revenue
M
P
T
Design to address friction points
Play with limits of product offering
How do we implement?
86. Revenue
M
P
T
Design to address friction points
Play with limits of product offering
Use tools to help find opportunities
92. The best growth hack
is to make your
product AWESOME
you can’t save
a crappy product
93. The best growth hack
is to make your
product AWESOME
you can’t save
a crappy product
An amazing acquisition growth hack can’t save you
if you can’t get people to stick
94. The best growth hack
is to make your
product AWESOME
you can’t save
a crappy product
Same story here. Viddy hooked up to Facebook after some initial traction,
but the product wasn’t good enough
96. Your Growth Hacking formula:
Traction
x
So much of growth hacking is based on usage data.
If you have no data, or traffic, or traction, you can’t run experiments
97. Your Growth Hacking formula:
x x
Traction GH skills
The confluence of MPT skills allows you to come up with ideas
that you wouldn’t have found in isolation
98. Your Growth Hacking formula:
x x
Traction GH skills Framework
Use some kind of framework so that you have metrics to watch and measure
99. Start with these:
Startup Metrics for Pirates
Quick Sprout
GrowthHackers.com
Dave McClure’s pirate metrics is a great start. Neil Patel’s Quick Sprout is great
for anyone new to marketing. GrowthHackers.com if you’re intermediate.