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What is the Launch Mappers’ Methodology?

What is the Launch Mappers’ Methodology? | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
The Launch Sprint is the in-house methodology we built that allows us to create your growth strategy after delving into your product, market, and untapped opportunities that lie ahead.



With our Launch Sprint, we will:

Map your growth journey with marketing channels, funnels and forecasts
Define the targeted audience and build messages they will respond to
Launch our first marketing actions and get initial results in less than 10 working days
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Growth Hacking : Comment Passer à la Vitesse Supérieure

Growth Hacking : Comment Passer à la Vitesse Supérieure | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
En bref, le Growth Hacking est une méthodologie qui fonctionne de la manière suivante : un responsable réunit les représentants de plusieurs services d’une même entreprise pour élaborer une stratégie intelligente destinée à atteindre une cible bien définie appelée « North Star ».
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The First Step To Building A Growth Machine —

The First Step To Building A Growth Machine — | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
When I meet new companies to advise them on growth, the number one question I get is “what tactic should I use to grow my business?”  At first I would try to give an answer.  But it never felt right.  After all, I just met this person and knew next to nothing about their b
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What Works For You, Won’t Work For Others

If you are like me, you probably read a lot of material about what others are doing for growth.  There is one key when doing this.  Take everything you read as inspiration, not prescription.   

Your Audience Is Different
Your Product Is Different
Your Customer Lifecyle Is Different
Your Business Model Is Different

Your BUSINESS is different plain and simple.  

Bottom line:  You need a process that is going to uncover the unique combination of things that works for your product, your audience, and your business model.   

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[500DISTRO] The Scientific Method: How to Design & Track Viral Growth…

Brian Balfour, VP Growth, HubSpot
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Customer Journey - MOOC Modules Entrepreneurship

Customer Journey - MOOC Modules Entrepreneurship | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
In Pitch and Sales we introduce the AIDA sales cycle, which starts which getting attention and creating interest. The customer journey start in a similar way.
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How to Build a Growth Machine

How to Build a Growth Machine | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
There’s one important thing we have to get out of the way:

Growth has nothing to do with tactics; it has everything to do with process.

So says Brian Balfour, former VP of Growth at Hubspot.

You hear all the time about X company tripled their growth by doing X hack. The fact is that it worked for them, and it’s unlikely to work for you.

Balfour spoke at 500 Distro, where he outlined the process he uses for growing companies. Below are the notes from that talk.
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Ma sélection des meilleurs outils de Growth Hacking !

Ma sélection des meilleurs outils de Growth Hacking ! | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Faire du Growth Hacking, c'est certes un état d'esprit (voir ma définition du Growth Hacking), mais ce sont aussi des outils de Growth Hacking pour
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Growth Hacking, pt 1. Know Your Audience | by Invisible Startuper

Growth Hacking, pt 1. Know Your Audience | by Invisible Startuper | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Growth hacking usually refers to a set of strategies focused solely on growth. It normally refers to some creative and low-cost ways to acquire and retain customers. I think of Growth Hacking as a…
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The Complete Guide To Growth Hacking

The Complete Guide To Growth Hacking | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Growth hacking is a method of rapid experimentation, and a process which goes through four key stages of analyzing, ideating, prioritizing and testing. 
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How To Promote a Growth Mindset in the Workplace - DZone Agile

How To Promote a Growth Mindset in the Workplace - DZone Agile | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Main Attributes of a Growth Mindset Workplace

A growth mindset environment in which people can thrive:

Value hard work, determination, and perseverance over talent

Help employees learn new skills

Coach them to develop critical thinking skills to navigate challenging problems

Encourage experimentation to try new ideas

Use failures as valuable learning opportunities

Empower to take responsibility and own up to mistakes

Encourage people to speak up and respect diverse viewpoints

Give feedback that promotes learning and desire to get better
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What is the Buyer Readiness State? - Different Stages Of Buyer Readiness

What is the Buyer Readiness State? - Different Stages Of Buyer Readiness | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Buyer readiness is used to refer to that particular state which denotes the willingness of any individual customer for buying a specific product & service.
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These stages are generally considered to be categories on the basis of psychological behavior rather than just the facts and the figures.  These categories thus depict the thought process of the customers and how he finally gets convinced enough to buy that product finally.

Now those six stages are

  1. Awareness of the existence of the product
  2. Knowledge related to the benefits of the particular product
  3. Initial factors of the interest of the customer in that product
  4. A preference that is given to that particular product over the others in the competitive market
  5. Conviction of that specific product in terms of its suitability and also its purchasing power
  6. Purchasing the product
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Finding Early Adopters: The Mechanical Pencil Challenge

Entrepreneurship activities to find early adopters are central to any entrepreneurship curriculum. This exercise demonstrates where and how to find a business model’s Early Adopters
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Entrepreneurship students often struggle getting their first customers interviews because they lack a functional definition of Early Adopters.

This exercise uses mechanical pencils, and a 10-minute competition between students, to introduce Early Adopters in a way that not only contrasts them with Early Majority and Late Majority customers, but also demonstrates where and how to find a business model’s Early Adopters.

We are very proud that this exercise was a finalist in the prestigious USASBE 3E Competition, which recognizes the best experiential entrepreneurship exercises at the USASBE 2019 Conference!

The key questions this lesson plan answers are:

  1. Who is the target for our customer interviews?
  2. How and where do we find people for our customer interviews?
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Nine Simple Strategy Frameworks To Grow Your Business

Nine Simple Strategy Frameworks To Grow Your Business | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
ContentsPorter’s Five ForcesAnsoff MatrixBlitzscaling CanvasBusiness Analysis FrameworkGap AnalysisBusiness Model CanvasLean Startup CanvasDigital Marketing CircleBlue Ocean StrategyOther strategy toolsBCG MatrixBalanced ScorecardPEST AnalysisScenario PlanningSWOT AnalysisGrowth MatrixComparable Analysis Framework Porter’s Five Forces Ansoff Matrix Blitzscaling Canvas Business Analysis Framework Gap Analysis Business Model Canvas Lean Startup Canvas Digital Marketing Circle Blue Ocean Strategy Read next: Successful Business Models … Continue reading Nine Simple Strategy Frameworks To Grow Your Business
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What can Launch Mappers achieve in 3 months?

What can Launch Mappers achieve in 3 months? | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Once we finalise our Launch Sprint together, we’ve got a growth strategy that’s ready to be tested. The strategy phase is over. Now is the time to implement it.

With any strategy, you never know what will be the outcome until you've deployed it, and that's what we want to achieve in 3 months: set up any required infrastructure (CRM, Data Management, Analytics, Marketing Automation...) and validate the hypotheses we've formulated in the Launch Sprint.
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How to Design and Track Viral Growth Experiments | Brian Balfour | by Minh Thu Saggers | Upscope

How to Design and Track Viral Growth Experiments | Brian Balfour | by Minh Thu Saggers | Upscope | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
This article is part of the Content Distribution series by Upscope: “Click to see their browser, click to take control.” Finally, the screen sharing that sales and support wished for. The first part…
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Pitch and sales - MOOC Modules Entrepreneurship

Pitch and sales - MOOC Modules Entrepreneurship | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it


You can Force people to do something for you, but you need a strong power base to do so and forcing people will not build a lasting relationship. You can Pay people to do things for you. It's nicer than forcing but it still doesn't build loyalty and you'll run out of money in no time. You can Beg or Nag people to do things for you but you can guess what that will do for your reputation and I wonder if is actually is a strategy. The last strategy is Charm. It's the only real option for starting entrepreneurs and as long as you keep your promises, charming is good for your reputation and gets things done.
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Building A Growth Machine —

Building A Growth Machine — | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Table of Contents

AUTHENTIC GROWTH | GROWTH PRINCIPLES | GROWTH PROCESS OVERVIEW | ZOOM OUT | ZOOM IN

INTEGRATING INTO YOUR COMPANY | OPTIMIZING THE PROCESS | BUILDING YOUR GROWTH TEAM
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How to keep track of your growth experiments with Google Sheets | by Sjoerd Handgraaf

How to keep track of your growth experiments with Google Sheets | by Sjoerd Handgraaf | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
This post describes a way of tracking growth experiments using Google Sheets.

You can find all of the templates in this Google Folder. The growth experiments belong to a method that is strongly based on Brian Balfour’s “How to build a Growth Machine” article. The original on www.coelevate.com no longer exists but this one KissMetrics article seems to contain most of the important points. In my opinion, Balfour’s writing and thinking is some of the smartest in the business.
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Growth is about process, not tactics

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Metrics-driven product development is hard. | by Daniel Schmidt | DoubleLoop | Dec, 2021

Metrics-driven product development is hard. | by Daniel Schmidt | DoubleLoop | Dec, 2021 | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
The way that the FAANG companies use metrics to build products is vital to their success. They invest an army of people and homegrown tools to pull it off. My last article, Balancing short-term and…
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How to Acquire Customers: 19 "Traction" Channels to Start Testing Today

How to Acquire Customers: 19 "Traction" Channels to Start Testing Today | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
How much of your time as an entrepreneur or member of a young company should be focused on acquiring customers versus developing your product or service?
According to Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares, the answer is 50%—split time evenly between building your product or service and bringing i
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How to grow sales with early adopters - $10 million in annual sales before you scale

How to grow sales with early adopters - $10 million in annual sales before you scale | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
If you want to learn why and how to grow sales with early adopters as customers, before you cross the chasm, you’ve come to the right place
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Crossing the Chasm Summary - Updated for 2021

Crossing the Chasm Summary - Updated for 2021 | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
The original Chasm concept was first recognized and described by Lee James and his colleagues, all of whom worked for Regis McKenna Inc. in the Pacific Northwest.
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The chasm model fails in the area entrepreneurs and product leaders need most

Using a “D-Day analogy” Crossing the Chasm tells managers to marshal all available resources in collaboration with selected partners/allies and create a minimum viable [whole] product that meets the target customer’s compelling reason to buy, thereby establishing a foothold in a niche segment of the mainstream market.

Unfortunately this prescription does not help address the number one challenge faced by most emerging high tech companies. For entrepreneurs and managers alike, the primary question to answer is: how much of our limited resources should be allocated to the products/services we offer today, and how much should be allocated to the products/services we want to offer in the future?

Obviously, this is not a critical question for startups with just one product. But managers of companies with an existing product recognize that every resource allocated to a new product could, in the short term, be allocated to the success of an existing product. And for new products or innovations there is no real way to predict return on investment. Crossing the Chasm does not provide a useful answer to this fundamental question….or even worse, it encourages managers to wait until the chasm to truly invest in the needs of mainstream customers.

Conclusion

Together this means Crossing the Chasm is not a model that an uninitiated entrepreneur can take and “run with.” A lot of experience and high-tech business acumen is required to use it properly…at selected times. Unfortunately, there is widespread misunderstanding and misapplication of the chasm model.

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Book summary - Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

Book summary - Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
In this Crossing the Chasm summary, we'll briefly explain the strategies for launching a high-tech product, with decision-making guidelines for investors, engineers, marketers and managers in the high-tech community.
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Growth and Competitive Strategy in 3 Circles

Growth and Competitive Strategy in 3 Circles | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
The 3-Circle model was developed over the past several years, initially in strategic planning for a university graduate program and in an executive MBA course designed to integrate the concepts of marketing and competitive strategy. Over the course of time, the 3-Circle model has been successfully used by hundreds of organizations throughout the world in establishing and growing their market positions. Many of the case examples in this book demonstrating applications of the 3-Circle model applications are from executives who have attended executive education training at the University of Notre Dame.

The development of competitive strategy is difficult because there are a lot of moving parts, as well as hundreds of frameworks, that might potentially guide the effort. Executives appreciate how the 3-Circle model simplifies the integration of customer, firm, and competitor analysis to generate growth strategies. It also provides a common language and process for understanding and explaining competitive advantage and for identifying profitable growth strategy.
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Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1: The Challenges of Growth
  • Chapter 2: Introduction to 3-Circle Analysis
  • Chapter 3: Defining the Context
  • Chapter 4: The Meaning of Value
  • Chapter 5: Sorting Value
  • Chapter 6: Growth Strategy
  • Chapter 7: Implementation: An Inside View of the Organization
  • Chapter 8: Dynamic Aspects of Markets
  • Chapter 9: Summary: Growth Strategy in 10 Steps
  • References
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Idea Pad: Guest starring customer templates

Idea Pad: Guest starring customer templates | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Basically every product should have a “cool ways our customers are using our product” blog. Customer development (product) + best customers feel special (retention) + those customers share to their audience (growth) + best practices shared to new/all customers (onboarding)

— Tyler Tringas (@tylertringas) December 21, 2018
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