How to Become a Growth Hacking Warrior in 30 days?

Week # 1: The Fundamentals of Growth Hacking

If you don’t understand the basics, it will be really hard for you to learn advanced techniques, growth processes, and even how to use the right tools. That’s why I’ve decided to teach you the fundamentals of growth hacking, first.

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If you study the guides provided below and master the principles you’ll find in them, six days from now you’ll be a better growth hacker.

Here you go:

Day1: What is Growth Hacking

In this guide you’ll find everything from what growth hacking really is, who coined this practice, and basic information you need to know if you want to master this discipline the right way.

Day2: Growth Vs Growth Hacking

You might be wondering:

Well, I already have a dedicated growth team; why should I spend more time and effort to incorporate growth hacking into my organization?

In today’s training, you’ll learn the difference between growth and growth hacking, and why you should start using it right now.

Day3: What makes a great growth hacker

There are a lot of misconceptions about this topic. For example, most people believe that growth hackers should master coding while others think they should be die-hard marketers. The truth of the matter is that none of those affirmations is quite right.

In today’s training, you’ll learn what the perfect growth hacker’s profile is, and the skills necessary to become a great growth hacker.

Day 4: Myths About Growth Hacking

This article will show you the six most popular myths about hacking your growth and why they are big lies. After reading this content you’ll have a stronger mindset, and will be able to make smarter decisions.

Day 5: The Five Phases of Growth Hacking

Although there is much more to cover about the growth hacking process, this article will introduce you to the five most important phases any growth strategy needs to meet.

Ryan Holiday will guide you through the spectacular methods big brands like Evernote, kissmetrics and Qualaroo have used to achieve such amazing growth.

Day6: Growth hacking 101: Read this to become a magician

In this guide, Yoav Vilner (co-founder of Ranky) will show you how to apply all the information you learned this week. He describes how Hotmail implemented growth hacking to get 12 million users in less than two years and the techniques and principles they used.

This is one of the best guides on the topic, so far.

Week # 2: In-depth Guides and Resources

Now that you’ve learned what growth hacking really is, the profile of a great growth hacker and some insanely useful information about how big brands have applied those principles, it’s time to delve deeper into the topic.

This week, you’ll learn everything from developing your own growth strategy, to building a powerful funnel, and implementing a growth culture into your team.

Here you go:

Day1: The Growth Hacking Process

Last week you learned about the five phases of any growth plan, but now it’s time to learn the full process. This detailed guide prepared by Neil Patel and Bronson Taylor will guide you step-by-step through the process that any company needs to use if it really wants to grow.

Day2: The Growth Hacker Funnel

As a marketer, it’s likely you already understand the importance of having a funnel in place, and this guide offers a great explanation of how to build an incredible growth funnel with three levels: Getting visitors, activating members, and retaining users.

Day3: Building a growth culture into your team

Paul Graham from Techcrunch.com has written this awesome article about the importance of introducing growth to your team and how adopting a culture of growth can boost your results in less time.

In this guide, you’ll learn specific methods for recruiting the right team and cultivating a culture of growth.

Day4: 15 Killer Guidelines for Growth Hacker

In this guide you’ll learn great tactics from a young growth hacker, these tips will blow your mind.

Day5: 13 Critically Important Lessons From Over 50 Growth Hackers

Think about it: What better way to learn growth hacking than reading and learning real-world lessons from 50 of the best growth hackers worldwide?

This guide is a must for those who want to master this fine art in record time.

Day6: What are Some Decisions Made by the Facebook Growth Team to Help Facebook Grow?

It’s not a big secret that Facebook is insanely successful, but do you know what their secret is? Well, it’s growth hacking. Facebook’s team is extremely good at it.

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In this article, you’ll find some key decisions that have given Facebook its incredible growth.

Week # 3: Growth Hacking Tools You Can Use Right Now

At this point, you should know how to develop a powerful plan that will finally lead you to growth, and it’s now time to talk about the six tools that every growth hacker needs in order to speed up the process.

Here they are:

Day1: Click to Tweet

Twitter is one of the biggest sources of traffic for many companies, and click-to-tweet can help you hack the number of people who actually share your content on Twitter.

It’s very straightforward, you only need to create a free account and start adding shareable quotes, links and even buttons to your content.

Here’s how:

1. How to Generate Click-to-Tweet Links for Your Content [Quick Tip]
2. How to Add a “Click to Tweet” Link to Quotes Within Your Posts

Day2: Optimizely

If you want to hack your growth you need to understand the importance of A/B testing. Without testing, you can’t learn whether a hypothesis performs well or not. In fact, testing is one of the key steps to a successful growth hack.

The good news is that Optimizely can help you automate some of the most tedious processes of testing and gives you results -fast.

Here’s how:

1. Roll Your Own A/B Tests With Optimizely and React
2. 6 Things I Wish I Knew Before Using Optimizely

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Day3: Crazy Egg

One of the best ways to learn how users interact with your website is by using a heat mapping tool like Crazy Egg. Heat mapping technology allows you to see which elements people tend to click more when visiting your site, but also how people scroll down your page and exactly where they leave it.

That’s insanely useful to find points of friction and develop well-thought hypotheses for your a/b testing sessions.

Here's how to use Crazy Egg properly:

1. Why should I use Crazy Egg?
2. The Koozai Guide To Using Crazy Egg
3. How We Are Using Crazy Egg to Radically Improve Our Product Pages

Day 4: Intercom.io

Intercom is a platform that allows you to directly communicate with your customers and send messages to visitors via live chat. In other words, this tool makes it easier for you and your customers to build a relationship and keep the conversation alive.

Taking into account the fact that you can get $5.60 for every $1 spent on CRM, Intercom is very useful.

Here’s how:

1. How to Use Intercom.io to Learn About Your Customers
2. How to Use Intercom When You Have More than 1 User Model

Day5: Buzzstream

Some of the most tedious processes of link building and social media are contact management and outreaching.

Here’s where BuzzStream comes in handy. This tool allows you to organize your contacts and outreach influencers with a single click or two. That way, you’ll be able to save a lot of time and focus on more important things.

This is the best tool to hack link building and social media growth.

Here’s how:

1. How to Use BuzzStream to Find Guest Blogging Opportunities
2. BuzzStream University
3. Quick & Effective Outreach with Buzzstream

Day 6: SEMrush

Do you know what the best way to grow quickly is?

Learning what your competitors are doing and then modeling your efforts after them. That’s why SEMrush is very useful. You can use it to easily track what your competitors are doing to rank in Google, so you can pinpoint and outsmart them.

Taking into account that Google is the most popular website in the world and you can get a lot of traffic from it, SEMrush is very useful.

Here’s how:

1. How to Use SEMRUSH for SEO of your Blog
2. How to Use SEMrush: Competitor Analysis Made Easy
3. How to use SEMRush to Rank Above Your Competitors

Week # 4: Advanced Growth Hacking Tactics

The best part about growth hacking is that you can practically hack anything. If you’re creative enough, you’ll find that some of your biggest successes will come from weird ideas (that’s why you should spend enough time on idea development).

This week, you’ll learn advanced tactics to hack everything from traffic generation, conversions and even content marketing.

Day 1: How to Apply Growth Hacking to Your Content Marketing

95% of B2B marketers use content marketing for one single reason:

It works incredibly well.

Now, what if I tell you that you can hack content marketing to even double your results? Well, in today’s training you’ll learn exactly that.

Day 2: Six Hacks to Get Customers For Free

Getting more customers can be really expensive, right? Well...no. With the right tactics and methods you can hack your acquisition processes to get more customers without spending a single dime.

In this guide, you’ll learn six actionable hacks to grow your user base for free.

Day 3: 21 Actionable growth hacking techniques

Jon Yongfook, author of the “Growth hacking handbook” has written an incredible guide where you can learn 21 mind-blowing hacks that professionals are using now and some untapped principles that gurus apply, everyday.

Want to know the best part?

This guide is totally free.

Day 4: Using “Powered by” Growth Hack to Boost Conversions

If you pay close attention to most websites, plugins, and apps, it’s very likely that you find a “powered by” on them, but do you know that most people use it wrong?

If you implement some simple tweaks to your “powered by”, you can find that more people trust you and finally convert.

Well, in this guide, you’ll learn the best practices and methods to hack your conversions using this simple sign.

Day 5: Increase Conversions With the “Live Chat” Growth Hack

When people arrive at your website, they want fast solutions, and if you make them wait too long, you could lose them forever. A simple live chat can be the perfect solution for this problem. In this article, you’ll find exactly how to achieve this.

Day 6: 43 Hacks to Drive Traffic to Your Website

Traffic is the lifeblood of your online business. Think about it: without traffic you can’t get conversions, and without conversions you make no money. In today’s training you’ll find 43 insanely actionable hacks that will open the doors to profitable traffic to your business.

Week # 5: Incredible case studies

The best way to master something (no matter how hard it can be) is by studying how others have succeeded and then apply the same strategies, methods, and steps as them. That’s why I’ve decided to add some incredible case studies in this guide.

This way, you’ll learn how big brands applied all the techniques and information you learned earlier, but more importantly, you’ll learn how to apply them in your own business.

Day 1: The 7 Ways Dropbox Hacked Growth to Become a $4 Billion Company

Dropbox is one of the most successful SaaS companies worldwide, thanks to their amazing creativity and consistent implementation of growth processes. That’s how they were able to grow Dropbox to 200,000 million users.

In this case study, you’ll find exactly how they went from 0 to $4 billion using growth hacking.

Day 2: How We Put Facebook on the Path to 1 Billion Users

In this video, Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder and Managing Partner of The Social+Capital Partnership) tells you the story about how Facebook grew to 1 billion users and the decisions made and tactics implemented to achieve this.

Day 3: Airbnb: The Growth Story You Didn’t Know

The guys at GrowthHackers.com tell you the story about how Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia grew Airbnb from zero to hero by integrating Craigslist into their strategy. This case study will give you a real-world view of how creativity can lead to massive growth.

Day 4: 13 Ingenious growth hacking strategies ever done

This is not a case study, but it will show you how 13 big brands were incredibly creative and developed out-of-the-box hacks that allowed them to not only increase their userbase, but result in more profitable customers as well.

Day 5: The Story of Etsy’s Crafty Growth to IPO and a $2 Billion Valuation

In today’s training, you’ll learn how Etsy (an e-commerce website focused on selling vintage and handmade products) started to grow in its early days and the decisions made by founder members that finally resulted in insane success.

Today, Etsy is a company valued at $2 billion dollars.

Day 6: How to increase visitors by 16 million monthly unique visitors in one year

One million visitors a year would be incredible. Now, can you imagine what 16 million monthly unique visitors could do for your business?

That would be nothing short of amazing, right?

Well, in this guide you’ll see exactly how a news publisher dramatically increased their visitors by applying some hacks to their core strategy. I’m not saying that you’ll get 16 million visitors, but if you read the case study and model their strategy, you can easily grow your traffic.

Conclusion

Remember, the good thing about growth hacking is that you don’t need any certification or college degree to earn money. If you are capable of demonstrating results, you’ll never be short of clients.

All the information you learned in this guide is proven and you don’t need to take my word for it; if you apply it in your business or your clients’ businesses, you’ll see an incredible growth.

Yes, you need to spend some time to read and put into action all the information you learned in this colossal guide, but believe me, your effort will be worth it.

Just remember the words of the legendary Vince Lombardi:

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win"

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