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Lessons from two clever ad campaignsSigns of a true growth nerd: Saving ads you see on Instagram. Sending ads to your fellow nerds. Dissecting what works and what doesn't. Let's be those nerds today. We'll dive into two clever ad campai
Actionable ways to get more out of your SEO articlesI hope you all survived the various April Fool's campaigns this year. My favorite was definitely Häggis-Dazs by Aldi. If you can top it, reply and let me know. But let's dive into how to revamp and ge
Wallet Opening Words that increase conversionsCopywriting is one of the most important skills. This newsletter dives into simple but powerful ways to increase conversions. Let's just dive right in 🐰 – Neal
The Innovator's Dilemma that kills companiesToday's newsletter is more strategy focused. We'll discuss why massive companies fail and why startups are able to take them on. Let's dive in 👘 – Neal
Narrow in on their Trigger Events"Wait... this looks different than normal." We're changing up the newsletter after following the same format for ~5 years. Instead of sending three growth tactics once per week, we'll send one growth
Solve all their problems. SaaS Quick Ratio. Increase friction.Happy Spring Break for all the parents in the crowd. Kids burst into the room at least 12 times while editing the newsletter this week 😂 Topics for the day: Solve all their problems. SaaS Quick Ratio.
Sales-to-Fulfillment Continuum. Milkshake's Job. Dynamic repurposing.St Patrick's Day is this weekend 🍀🌈🥇🍀 There are only 5M people in Ireland and 1.8M in Northern Ireland. Yet there are over 70,000,000 people worldwide with Irish heritage, including me. Happy St Paddy
Racecar Growth. Dynamic long-tail SEO. Time savings.Yeehaw
Remote OK’s upsells. Viral promos. Optimal pricing pages.Quick note: I'll be at ETH Denver this week to explore the community of web3 weirdness. If you're going, I hope to see you there! Topics for the day: Remote OK’s upsells. Viral promos. Optimal pricing
Growth Loops > Growth Hacks. Gmail’s new rules. Personalize pitches.We've generated 480 growth tactics for this newsletter now by continuously researching and interviewing founders and marketers. But we'd love to hear from all the smart people who read this. If you ha
Amazon mobile teardown. Personal researcher. Objection handling.Happy pre-Valentine’s Day y’all! I hope you've enjoyed a week of Apple Vision Pro and Taylor Swift memes. Now back to growing startups ;0 Topics for the day: Amazon mobile teardown. Personal researche
Graceful exit points. Ad profitability. Satirize your enemy."Your margin is my opportunity" – Jeff Bezos Industries where companies have huge profit margins are typically complacent and ripe for disruption. Their profit margin is your opportunity to innovate a
Valentine's Day hooks. Repeatable themes. Reframe the boring.2024 🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 2025 We're officially one month through 2024. Quick check-in: Are you still making progress towards your goals? Topics for the day: Valentine's Day hooks. Repeatable theme
Stages of Market Sophistication. Strategy, not tactics. Hook resources.Quick reminder (because I needed it recently) If there's something you keep thinking about or talking about doing: Stop putting it off. There will never be "the right time." There will always be an ex
Video retention mechanisms. Psych Energy. 2x daily use gamification.Happy belated Martin Luther King Jr. day to all the Americans in the crowd. I'm Canadian, but I feel MLK day is a great reminder to everyone to fight to make the world a better place. To right a wrong
Incentivize UGC. Hack through the Cold Start. 10M-view YouTube Shorts.I hope you're all enjoying the Fresh Start Effect—where we're more motivated to start a new habit at the beginning of a new time period (week, month, year, decade, or birthday). A new year is the stro
3 creative video ads. 2.75M authentic subscribers. Barnum-style Qs.~Happy 2024 to all, and to all a good year~ I have some exciting plans for our content this year. If you like this newsletter, our playbooks, and our past events—you're gonna love it. Topics for the d
Gamify daily usage. Take back, charge more. The "Price Hike" strategy.IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN. (Man the 80s were a strange time culturally.) Only a handful of days left in 2023. Here's the final Growth Newsletter of the year: Topics for the day: Gamify daily usage. Tak
Reverse Trials. Don't overwhelm DTC subscribers. 230k subs in 18mo.Happy holidays one and all. I hope you have a chance to unplug and recharge for 2024. I have a feeling it's going to be a big year. Rumor has it, it's going to be 366 days. And fear not—because I know
Ladder of Proof. The Opposites Game. TOFU + BOFU at the same time.Welcome to all you growth-loving founders and marketers! 450 growth tactics shared in 150 editions with zero repeats 🤪 What do you think, should we go until 3,000 tactics and 1,000 editions? Maybe I c
Respond fast, cover fast. Don't make me think. {Clever 3rd tactic}.Welcome to all you growth-loving founders and marketers! HOLY COWS IT'S DECEMBER. 2023 flew by. Now for the final couple weeks before all the OOO autoresponders kick in. Until then: Respond fast, cove
Weird the normal, thumbnails that increase views, and good processing fluency.Welcome to all you growth-loving founders and marketers! idk about you, but I've reached my quota for BFCM deals for at least the next 360 days. I hope your credit card survived. Now for: Weird the no
Tasting awful & costing more, single opt-in, & stealing from competitors.Welcome to all you growth-loving founders and marketers! I hope you all survived the drama from Sam Altman getting fired from OpenAI. Twitter hasn't been this entertaining in months. (More in News & L
Death to PMF, grow with free tools, and landing pages that convert.Welcome to all you growth-loving founders and marketers! We're back from the team retreat in Palm Springs, a bunch of us got COVID, BUT we've got some exciting things to come :) Now that I've hit send
Army of creators, feed a starving crowd, and emotional journeys.Welcome to all you growth-loving founders and marketers! Broadcasting live on location in Palm Springs for a team retreat :) We're spending the next few days strategizing on the best ways we can help
"Obviously Awesome," Price Relativity, and X's algorithm.Happy Halloween all you growth-loving founders and marketers! I hope that you're all Trick or Treating this evening 👀 Couple things I'm excited for: 1) Candy. 2) The DC/BC team retreat is next week! A
122k Followers in 8 days, Bowling-Alley Framework, Sh*tty Clickthroughs.Welcome all you growth-loving founders and marketers! Variety of random things to tell you. I discovered that ChatGPT thinks "Canada" has multiple M's in it. I tested it myself and the results are hil
S.C.A.R.F. your ads, viral content formula, and copywriting cheatsheet.Welcome all you growth-loving founders and marketers! Hello everyone! I just got back from my second anniversary trip where I stayed in a boat in the woods—here's a pic of the boat! Without further ad
Unfair Advantage, psycho-logic, and better annual pricing.Welcome all you growth-loving founders and marketers! Happy (slightly-belated) Thanksgiving for my fellow Canadians 🦃🦃. It's like American Thanksgiving just earlier and without BFCM sales and football
Snapple's surprising stats, a PLG invite email, and 7 LP questions.Welcome all you growth-loving founders and marketers! Fun fact of the day: I live on an island ~25% the size of England, but with ~1.5% of the population. It would take ~6 hours for me to drive to th