11 Tactics for Early Growth & Acquisition - FounderFuel, Fall 2015 Cohort

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11 TACTICS for early growth & acquisition

Georgiana Laudi VP Marketing, Unbounce

@ggiiaa

FounderFuel - Fall 2015 Cohort

Manual outreach to first customers

1.

Your chance to build advocates

use your smallness to your advantage

http://customer.io/blog/welcome-email-templates.html

Partner distributions

2.

It’s not what you know

a special offer on yourproduct/service that you

distribute through partners

Unique to them

huzzah

a discount bonused acct

a trial an extended trial

a free consult relevant content

What to offer?

Where to start?Offer

+Landing Page

+Partner to distribute it

(+ a way to return the favour)

Always lead with what’s in it for them

Double loop referral programs

3.

Provide monetary value for your users to

refer your product

“SHOE It Forward”

tons more at http://www.referralsaasquatch.com/39-best-referral-program-examples-2014/

HARO

4.

Help A Reporter Out

helpareporterout.com

It’s Free

Social prospecting & Influencer outreach

5.

Social prospecting

Save this search

Social prospecting

Don’t be spammy!

Influencer outreach

do what you gotta do to get them to

use your product

Don’t be spammy!#@!

Comment marketing

6.

Build your rep

nice example of comment marketing:

Valuable insight

Relevant link

find your audience +

pinpoint opportunities+

add tons of value =

win friends/influence people

Where to start?

Badge program

7.

Build awareness

super simple example:

What’s in it for you

What’s in it for us

Vetting

Badges for: achievements unlocked

certifications verified providers

partnerships integrations

authorized resellers

Big content

8.

Build authority (and a list)

Make it so good, someone would pay for it

EbookWhitepaper

Ecourse Webinar Toolkit

Infographic

Free standalone tools

9.

top of funnel

GradersROI Calculators

Checklists Templates

FAQ

10.

Have an answer for everything

Look for the long tail

Look for inspiration

Easy to scan

PersistantTopic Nav

• Always incl. search bar • Lots of visuals • Video tutorials • Contextual links • Suggested further reading • Allow comments

Product integrations

11.

be a team player

11 TACTICS for early growth & acquisition

FounderFuel - Fall 2015 Cohort

Georgiana Laudi VP Marketing, Unbounce

@ggiiaa

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