What are growthhacking techniques?

Nice share man, nice share. Let me chime in with my two cents, I love the growth hacking subject so much that this reply may get a little long, so forgive me.

Before you can ever even consider growth hacking, you need to have a clear understanding of who your target audience is and what the hell they want. If you dont know that then you're going to be wasting your energy on things that aren't going to move the needle for you.

for example, the growth hacking tactics a SaaS company would use would be completely different from the growth hacks that a Service business would be.

Now, lets get to it, I'm going to assume you have a blog because well, I'm just going to assume that.

First, you need to go out and determine your niche, saying I want to target internet marketers isn't good enough by far. Are you targeting internet marketers in US, are you targeting IM that work with small businesses, are you targeting internet marketers that serve the real estate industry? Are you targeting older internet marketers or the ones just starting their journey?

Once you have your niche, you can start to create growth hacking strategies that will appeal to them specifically.

For any hacking strategy to work, you need to get in front of the right eyeballs. For instance, Warrior forum is a great place to find and interact with IM while the Fast Lane Forum would be more geared towards entrepreneurs.

Once you've gotten these two out of the way, defining your audience and figuring where the hell they are, you can then start to growth hack.

Here are a few techniques you can actually start using right now to get a decided advantage.

1. Network

Growth hacking is always more powerful when you have a strong network to help promote the hell out of your product, content, and landing pages. Networking is actually very simple, comment on blogs in your niche (real comments, not nice post). Tweet and share their posts on social media and make sure to tag them. Finally, email them and let them know how much you appreciate their content.

2. Create courses

If you've got a decent amount of content on your website, you can repurpose a lot of it into courses and share it on places like Udemy and Skillshare. With Udemy, you can set the pricing to free to allow more users to sign up, from that point on, you can email them through the platform with more offers and upsells. Take advantage of other people networks and build your authority at the same time.

3. Integrate

If you have a Saas product EG dropbox, integrate with as many different platforms as possible. have you noticed that almost anywhere you go you can log in with Facebook, Google+, and Twitter. If for some reason your still living under a rock and don't have an account these platforms, you may sign up just so it'll be easier to move around the internet.

4.Quora and Forums

Use high traffic forums related to your niche to give in-depth answers to questions that users publish. all too often, people will just reply with one or two words and don't really get into the meat of the matter. When you answer in depth, like this one, it helps build your authority. Quora on the other hand, draws about 80 million monthly users from literally every background imaginable asking questions. Look for unanswered questions related to your niche and has a lot of people waitng for an answer. at the end of your answer drop a link back to your website or article. Also, answer product comparison questions on Quora which will drive some major traffic back to your site.

5.Ethical Bribes

When people optin to your list, or otherwise interact with your content, give them a reason to share some more. Use an ethical bribe. This is basically a content upgrade on top of whatever it is that caused them to engage with you in the first place. Here's an example



You can find some more growth hacking tips in this infographic 11 Growth Hacking Tactics you can start using today (infographic) - The Experiment