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A Glimpse of Growth Hacking

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Posted 2nd June 2014 at 05:06 PM by Nick Logan
Updated 16th December 2014 at 12:11 AM by Nick Logan

While this term sounds recent, the ‘growth hacking’ in fact is quite old technique in use since long. A hack refers to a workaround or shortcut, and a growth hack is just a workaround old-style distribution practices.

The early generation of ‘growth hacks’ focused mainly on consumer acquisition; this involved everything like invites, hyperlinks, shares, and viral growth, etc. such techniques have been and are still incredibly effective, however a basic problem surfaced over and over for the companies exceedingly focused on the consumer acquisition to the disadvantage of other important dimensions of product: you can’t fill a holey bucket.

These growth hacks could take potential consumers to the landing page, but is them performing the buying or other desired action, leave alone remaining and coming back to it once again was a completely other exertion which several startups merely viewed as a link they’ll cross as soon as they stopped there.

The term of hacking also means curiosity, as well as an intense desire to iterate, progress, and learn. The current fad of ‘growth hacking’ is highly product oriented, working up more challenging problems of site visitors’ activation, involvement & retaining.

Rather than simply fetching more and more traffic towards the business, product, the modern approach is trying to develop a viewership of engaging, core users, which consecutively results in high virility and visitor retention.

How Growth Hacking differs from Conventional Marketing?

The ‘Growth Hacking’ is just a more effective and intelligent way of describing how startup marketing is performed. It is not at all a new magical technique; it refers to the tactics which a lot of startup sellers have been exercising for the years.

Nevertheless, two aspects wherein ‘growth hacking’ is different from conventional marketing tactics are: there’s a specific emphasis on how to employ the technology. An expert and experienced growth hacker would always think about how a marketing task could be automated.

There’re some aspects of growth hacking which larger firms can’t evade. A number of growth-hacking strategies play around with the limitations of good citizenship or legality, which are indeed employable only when you’re scrappy, small and forgiven.

Growth hacking also beats the conventional market in another critical respect. A marketing person is not responsible to improve or change on the product. His job is external. He can just change how something would be described. So, the growth hackers have an ability of building virality on the products. Growth hacking

Perfect for startups!

Thus, the growth hacking is just about fetching opportunities. It’s perfect for startups that need a swift access to market, or some existing business wishing to invigorate their lingering sales. Hiring a growth hacker for finding unexploited marketing openings could prove to be a catalyst which brings scalable business growth rate for startups or an enlargement for existing businesses.

It might be what’s required at some time, however it will not bring in maintainable growth which makes companies. Usually, the data & data analytics give inspiration to growth hacking strategies. Creativity and intelligence is needed to discover the data usage options for getting more consumers.

Nick Logan

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