Oct 28, 2017

#26 - This Week's Top Articles👌🏻for Digital Marketers🕴& Growth Hackers

By Ashokamithiran • Issue #26 • View online

Hi Marketers👏

Here are links I thought were worth sharing this week. SEO Guide 2018 by Brian Dean, Brian Balfour case study on Hubspot, Adam Ludwin CEO - Chain explain cryptocurrency like everyone could understand. Adam Brant summerize interview with CEO for open office. Steve Blank explains the uber’s case where the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. The future according to Elon Musk CEO of Space X. How many of these will be a reality in our lifetime?

Curator's Pick

The Definitive Guide To SEO In 2018

This is the ultimate guide to dominating Google’s search results in 2018. This is NOT a lame “SEO in 2018” predictions post.This is a comprehensive guide covering all the most important SEO techniques.

backlinko.com • Share

The Four Cringe-Worthy Mistakes Too Many Startups Make with Data

If there’s one thing that grinds Amanda Richardson’s gears, it’s fads. As Chief Data and Strategy Officer for HotelTonight (she was previously their VP Product), she oversees 400 to 500 data events for an app with millions of monthly users.

firstround.com • Share

How Money Became the Measure of Everything

Two centuries ago, America pioneered a way of thinking that puts human well-being in economic terms. Money and markets have been around for thousands of years.

www.theatlantic.com • Share

Top Links On Digital Marketing & Growth Hacking

Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have ever seen

Facebook Explore Feed is rolling out globally this week. Most people around the world can see it in their bookmarks and they can discover new content here.

medium.com • Share

21 Customer Acquisition Strategies to Win New Customers

Figuring out how to acquire new customers is difficult. I’ve spend the past few years working with all kinds of different businesses across a range of industries to help them figure this out.

www.matthewbarby.com • Share

Building a Growth Framework Towards a $100 Million Product

This post is the HubSpot Sales case study that illustrates the concepts of the 4-Fits Framework, a 5 post series in which I explain the four frameworks you need to align to grow to a $100M+ company. Subscribe to receive the rest of the series.

brianbalfour.com • Share

Digital Analytics + Marketing Career Advice: Your Now, Next, Long Plan

The rapid pace of innovation and the constantly exploding collection of possibilities is a major contributor to the fun we all have in digital jobs. There is never a boring moment, there is never time when you can’t do something faster or smarter.

www.kaushik.net • Share

Growth Hacking, 2017 Style: How Slack Did It

Back in 2010, Sean Ellis and Andrew Chen popularized the term “growth hacker” to describe a hybrid coder and marketer who eschewed traditional marketing for what is testable, trackable and shareable. Growth hacking was less about branding than pursuing users and growth.

labs.openviewpartners.com • Share

Top Links on Startups

Don’t Build a Startup, Build a Movement

As a startup marketer, spending my lunch break arguing with developers is not my favorite part of the job. But he keeps beating me back with technical explanations I don’t fully get.

growthsupply.com • Share

Why Uber is the Revenge of the Founders

Uber, Zenefits, Tanium, Lending Club CEOs of companies with billion dollar market caps have been in the news — and not in a good way. This seems to be occurring more and more. Why do these founders get to stay around? Here’s why it generates bad CEO behavior.

thinkgrowth.org • Share

Interesting Reads

After the end of the startup era

There’s a weird feeling afoot these days, in the Valley, and in San Francisco.

techcrunch.com • Share

A Letter to Jamie Dimon

My name is Adam Ludwin and I run a company called Chain. I have been working in and around the cryptocurrency market for several years. It’s easy to believe cryptocurrencies have no inherent value. Or that governments will crush them.

blog.chain.com • Share

Infogram Of the Week

The future according to Elon Musk CEO of Space X.How many of these will be a reality in our lifetime?

ibb.co • Share

Links On Productivity

Forget The 10,000-Hour Rule; Edison, Bezos, & Zuckerberg Follow The 10,000-Experiment Rule

Deliberate experimentation is more important than deliberate practice in a rapidly changing world. Most people think that Edison invented the first light bulb.

medium.com • Share

How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them

It started with a simple idea: What if I sat down with chief executives, and never asked them about their companies? The notion occurred to me roughly a decade ago, after spending years as a reporter and interviewing C.E.O.

www.nytimes.com • Share

The Most and Least Productive Hours of the Day

In a perfect world (or, at least a more efficient one), you could be productive whenever you wanted. Just sit down and start typing/put that pen to paper/invent the next app or Fidget Spinner.

blog.evernote.com • Share

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By Ashokamithiran

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