Hacking Growth ~ Hardback ~ Sean Ellis

The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond. It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Air Bnb was the best-kept secret known of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pintrest was a niche web site frequented only by bakers and crafters, LinkedIn was an exclusive network for C-suite executives and top-level recruiters, Facebook was My Space s sorry step-brother, and Uber was a scrappy upstart that didn t stand a chance against the Goliath that was New York City Yellow Cabs. So how did these companies grow from these humble beginnings into the powerhouses they are today? Contrary to popular belief, they didn t explode to massive worldwide popularity simply by building a great product then crossing their fingers and hoping it would catch on. There was a studied, carefully implemented methodology behind these companies extraordinary rise. That methodology is called Growth Hacking. Yet despite the popularity of the method whose practitioners include virtually all of today s hottest start-ups, to "traditional" companies like IBM, Walmart, and Microsoft to the millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, managers and executives who have visited the fast-growing community of GrowthHackers.com - there is a void of knowledge about what Growth Hacking is and how to implement it. This book is here to fill that void, walking readers step-by-step through the process of creating and executing a growth hacking strategy, and showing how it can be tailored to any team, product, or company of any shape or size. Doing for market-share growth what Lean Start-Up did for product development, and Scrum did for productivity, Hacking Growth involves cross-functional teams and rapid-tempo testing and iteration. But, the key difference is that it drives rapid growth by focusing on the maximizing the potential of each product by working on just the things that matter to "customers" attaining them, retaining them, engaging them, and motivating them to come back and buy more. An accessible and practical toolkit that that teams and companies in all industries can use to grow their customer base and increase market share, this is a must read for any marketer, entrepreneur, innovator or manger looking to replace wasteful big bets and "spaghetti-on-the-wall" approaches with more consistent, replicable, cost-effective, and data-driven results."Author BiographySean Ellis is CEO and cofounder of GrowthHackers.com, the number one online community built for growth hackers, with 1.8 million global users and over 350,000 new monthly visitors. Sean coined the term "growth hacker" in 2010, and is the producer of the Growth Hackers Conference. He regularly speaks to start-ups and Fortune 100s and has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Fast Company, Inc.com, and TechCrunch. Morgan Brown is a startup-marketing veteran and launched GrowthHackers.com with Sean. Both speak regularly at major conferences including SXSW, TechWeek, HubSpot, and others. Hacking Growth Release Date Australia: April 18th, 2017