Hacking your LinkedIn Ads audiences using LinkedIn Sales Navigator

If you’re doing B2B marketing, you know that having a laser-focused hit-list is one of the important things to get good SQLs for your sales team. LinkedIn is the go-to platform for B2B professionals in both the Marketing and Sales departments. For marketing teams, it’s great targeting capabilities to create laser accurate audiences to run their campaigns against makes up …

5 Tactics to find journalists and influencer’s email using Twitter

In the past few years, finding emails has gone from a challenging research task to almost a commodity, thanks to all the different email prospecting tools out there. You see, we’ve used RocketReach, Hunter.io, and the other popular tools. We tried them a bunch of them (we’re even paying for RocketReach). While they are mostly able to deliver on their …

Growth Hacking Books: 12 books to start with

“What are the best books for startup growth hackers? ” Is one of the most common questions asked by aspiring growth hackers. Truth be told, is that there is no “one” book that you read and become a good growth hacker. To be more precise – there’s also no one skill that will qualify you to be one. Growth hacking …

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How To Find Real Twitter Engagement Opportunities Using This Simple Hack

This post was origianly published on Roy Povarchik’s blog. This is going to be a short post, but you’re going to love it, bookmark it and show it to your friends, promise. Every marketer knows that getting tons of followers on Twitter in a nice challenge, but the real Everest, the real holy grail is in your genuine engagement rates. …

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I’m teaming up with Summurai to Launch Marketing Bits

Are you all sitting down? Well, you can now actually stand up. Walk around. Drive your car. Go to the gym – and still enjoy awesome content by top marketing and growth experts. Today, I’m happy to announce that we’re launching our new Soundcloud channel, debuting our first playlist: ‘Marketing bits.’

How to grow your business using Instagram [Live Interview & insights]

Instagram is a social network not many businesses were able to figure out. Sure, it’s great for branding, but how do you get leads out of it? The two first rules of building your social strategy are : Be where your audience is at. Focus on your strengths. That’s what ‘Joy’s World’ founder, the guest of our latest live show …

Why I’m starting a new blog (and leaving my old content behind)

Starting a new blog is intimidating, right? Grabbing attention, building readership, having to produce a lot of content to build trust on your new domain. It’s quite a challenge. My old blog brought me to where I am today, and I’m scared as hell to leave it behind. But that’s what I’m doing right now. ‘But Why? Do you ask? …

9 Webinars To Help Sharpen Your Growth Hacking Skills

I love webinars. Webinars combine the appeal of a masterclass — private and personalized — with the learning style of a lecture. If, as a company, you’re not sure how webinars fit into your content strategy, you can see what 77 webinars have done for Kissmetrics. Basically, webinars are a great learning tool for marketers and startups. You get to …

The Ultimate List Of Tools For Growth Hackers [public Spreadsheet]

Ever since growth hacking became a ‘thing,’ the Internet has been overloaded with endless lists of growth hacking tools. After “How can I learn to be a growth hacker?” or “What are the best resources for growth hackers? ;”, “What tools growth hackers use” is the most commonly-searched query. On a day-to-day basis, beside having the right growth mindset, growth hackers need …

Instagram Layout: 4 Ways To Use Instagram’s New App For Your Marketing

Just a couple of days ago, Instagram announced their latest iPhone app called ‘Layout’. On their blog, Instagram describe ‘Layout’ as an app that: “lets you easily combine multiple photos into a single image. It’s fun, it’s simple and it gives you a new way to flex your creativity.’ While Instagram are definitely not the first ones to go into …

These WordPress Plugins Are The Hidden Secret Behind Some Of The Best Bloggers Success Stories

Being a good blogger and producing high quality content is damn hard but luckily, there are some tools that can help make your job easier. Two weeks ago, Neil Patel published a list of 11 tools and services every blogger should use to make their journey “a bit easier and more successsful.” In his post, Neil shares tools that will help you with your writing, …

These 4 Tips Will Help You Increase Your Referral Program Share Rate By 3.6% Instantly

Referral programs, when done right, can be a powerful user acquisition channel. According to Friendbuy’s CEO, using referral programs can lower your Cost Per Acquisition to under $2 and sometimes even less than one dollar, which makes it a very desirable tactic to master. While in theory most referral programs sound like they should work brilliantly (why shouldn’t everyone share this link …

3 little known hacks to get more leads using Reddit

Marketing on Reddit has been a big challenge for me to comprehend. Everyone kept telling me: if you’re doing content marketing and still haven’t tapped into the power of Reddit, then you are truly missing out. So I kept going. I would like to share with you 3 tricks that are currently working for me that I haven’t seen any …

3 Secret Content Distribution Techniques Only The Pros Know (part 1)

Creating engaging content is a two part job. First, you have to make sure you’re creating the right kind of content for your target audience, second, you have to make sure it reaches your target audience so they can engage with it.   The distribution part of content marketing is just as important as the creating part when it comes …

The 3 hacks that got SpringSled 138,790 users in less than 40 days

About two weeks ago I saw a friend’s post on Facebook promoting a new management tool called “SpringSled”. He posted a link saying – “Honestly I don’t know what this product is, but if you sign up using this link, I will get it for free for 12 months”. He even wrote a blog post about it.  I was intrigued. …

The 7 steps of planning high converting landing pages

Landing pages and conversion optimization are some of the trendiest topics regarding growth hacking and customer acquisition / activation. There are tons of really great posts talking about the ‘anatomy of a converting landing page’, and articles breaking down the optimization process, but I haven’t read many posts that actually prepare you for the full process, from a blank page to …

Master Google Analytics For Growth Hackers From A-Z In Less Than 6 Hours

Google Analytics is a mandatory tool for any online marketer who takes himself (or herself) seriously. In order to be a good marketer, you have to know where your traffic is coming from, what content works best, take control over it, and fully understand your sales funnel and what people are doing on your website. A marketer who doesn’t master the …

Learn How To Use Twitter To Find The Emails Of Influencers’ And Journalists’

Doing great PR or even expanding your startup’s reach depends on the networks you built. Twitter is already well known as a great tool to build relationships, but when you want to take further base your relationships or pitch your story you’ll need to go to the next level. Emails. In this post I want to show you 4 simple …

How to choose the right social media platform for your startup

If you’re working on a startup then you probably don’t need anyone selling you social media. I mean, it’s 2013 and you probably already have Facebook or Twitter connect on your product by now. What most startups need help with is figuring out when to start using the different social platforms and how to choose the right ones. On this …