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The fault in our Starbucks
Instead of the usual buy 1 get one offer, they encouraged people to bring a friend along. But I wasn't sure if they'd retain new users.

How we got influencers to share our product without paying them
Influencers that took no sponsors promoted us for free. And I didn't even have to reach out to them. It worked at scale.


How marketing to designers is different?
Lessons learned over 2 years of marketing to designers.

Netflix onboarding: growth design
Netflix's onboarding: screenshots and comic book style analysis from a growth design POV. It's a vibe.

Duolingo's onboarding in a comic style.
Balancing acquisition needs, design decisions, and retention tradeoffs.

We piggybacked on memes and went viral
Piggybacking on memes. Front page on Hacker News, and getting a ton of earned media from top influencers.

How Lyft piggybacked to launch in 24 markets in a single day
Piggyback on the marketplace instead of relying on external sources.

Oreo Piggybacked on Got Milk?
Oreo piggybacked twice. Once with their "Milk's Favorite Cookie" slogan. Then on the entire desserts menu.


Piggybacking marketing. It's silly to market alone.
The best marketing strategy is the lazy man's marketing strategy. When you're broke, need 10x results, in one-tenth the time.

Piggybacking on a fruit? 🥭
She created a series and ate her way through the alphabet in India.

Using Stripe Sigma and ChatGPT to analyze cancellation data and improve retention.
Use Stripe's built in cancellation reasons field, analyse in Stripe Sigma, and take next steps with an churn retention tool.

Never market alone — Gmail's growth strategy
The Market Gmail didn't really have a first mover advantage, and yet, it holds the majority of the market share today. How? Monetization...

Love Bombing ft. marketing
The opportunity cost was wild. But she still chooses. And she chooses death and bankruptcy

Brand positioning templates — from legendary marketers
Perceptual Mapping, Types of Positioning, Storybrand framework. Brand Equity Model, April Dunford's Positioning Framework, 3Cs of Positionin

Small bug reporting startup is making big moves with growth loops 🍓
This app capitalizes on your hate for reporting bugs, and makes all the right product moves to get you to share.

Hagoromo — Positioning an expensive product in a commoditized environment
Chalk is a highly commoditized product. The industry is saturated. There's no first mover advantage. But have you heard of Hagoromo...

I'm the problem, it's me — User Research
User research is a sweet pain. Almost addicting? 🙁 Over the past few months, I've conducted hundreds of user research interviews. For...

Create a Natural Usage Frequency Histogram in Mixpanel
If you want to create this natural frequency identification graph in Mixpanel , I have step-by-step instructions below. 1- If you want to...

The only right answer to "Check your inbox and confirm your email"
All it took was 3 clicks and I was back in the app. That's it!

What religion, terrorism and veganism have in common?
Changing consumer behavior is recklessly hard but some tribes get it?
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