Reads, talks and tools By Gino Arendsz Every Thursday reads, talks and tools on growth hacking. 35 subscribers 71 issues Subscribe to my list This thingy has to be empti pwieshh
#68 Jul 19, 2018 Y Combinator’s free online course for startups 🌱 & Bubble 2.0 💧 – Hi you,Every year Y Combinator opens up for new startups, but what if you feel you're not ready yet.
#67 Jul 12, 2018 Google Marketing Platform 🔮& BAMF Bible of tactics – Hi you,You might want to take tomorrow off to read everything in this digest haha! Both Andreessen Ho
#66 Jul 6, 2018 WTF is Product/Market fit 🤨 & Andrew Chen (ex. VP Growth @ Uber) about the pitfalls of A/B testing – Good morning everyone,This week no tools or talks but only articles. A lot of us probably know what D
#65 Jun 28, 2018 New Requirements for Custom Audience Targeting 🎯 & the Growth Handbook by Intercom 📖 – Hi there 👋,Facebook came up with new requirements for uploading Custom Audiences, such as showing peo
#64 Jun 21, 2018 Design better forms ✅ & SaaS product validation techniques 🔍 – Hi you,What are you up to these days? Any good learnings lately? A while ago I worked out a form of s
#63 Jun 14, 2018 The Elements of AI 🤖 (free course) & people who get hired, don't get hired 🤔 – Hi you (new subscriber & LinkedIn readers 😍😍😍),Patrick Layer from Minibrew shared The Elements of
#62 Jun 7, 2018 UseFomo forever free for charities/non-profits 🌱 & don't die from your paid marketing addiction 💉 – Hi all,Social proof, one of Cialdini's principles, is one of the strongest incentives to convert. One
#61 May 31, 2018 No code HTML5 banners 👀 & land this internship 🍻 – Hi you,I'm in the midst of building banners and I want them as light as possible. That's why I decide
#60 May 24, 2018 Mailbook: Collect home addresses in a wink 😉 & why Trello failed to build a $1 billion+ business – Hey you,What are you up to this week? Going to TNW Conference? If you are like me and not going, you
#59 May 17, 2018 Personas by Segment 🔌 & the is-your-SaaS-tool-GDPR-compliant-checklist? 🌱 – Hey you loyal reader,I really appreciate that you keep coming back via LinkedIn, my other socials and
#58 May 10, 2018 Deep learning made simple 🤓 & Google's Consent Tool ✅ – Hi you,This week I spoke to my buddy Beirem and we were talking chatbots. As mentioned earlier I'm a
#57 May 3, 2018 Gave me cookie, got you cookie 🍪 & one of the best GDPR reads so far – Hi you,I'm currently in the midst of mapping out a referral program for our medical specialists at so
#56 Apr 20, 2018 Supersonic 🛸 side projects & listen live to Daniel Gebler (CTO Picnic) – Good morning,It's the last day of the sunniest week we've had so far in 2018. We all know about side
#55 Apr 12, 2018 Mixpanel for marketers (beta) 💥 & Tap Bio - landing pages for Instagram 📸 – Hi there,Last week I got a pop-up in my Mixpanel. They are building something for marketing teams and
#54 Apr 5, 2018 TNW tickets for €0 & Don't make me think 🧠 – Howdy,At the end of May there's TNW Conference, with tickets of a few hundred euro not accessible for
#53 Mar 30, 2018 Zapier: your first intern/employee & how to identify a toxic culture 💣 – Howdy,How are you doing on this sunny Good Friday 🐰? Have you every thought of using Zapier to make y
#52 Mar 23, 2018 Engineered marketing FTW: From Google Sheets to a website or get interactive with Outgrow 🤙🏽 – Hey you creatives,Ever thought of building an engineered marketing project for your target audience?
#51 Mar 15, 2018 Chat rate is the new CTR & GDPR tools from MailChimp 🐒 – Hey you,AdWords is rolling out a new type of reporting for it's message extension. Within a few weeks
#50 Mar 9, 2018 Holy shit, issue #50❗️& what's your metric⁉️ – Hey you,I never thought that I would send out 50 issues when I send out issue #1 twelve months ago. J
#49 Mar 1, 2018 The state of freemium in SaaS & drip it like it's hot 🔥 – Hi there,This week an article on what to think about when freemium is part of your business model. It
#48 Feb 23, 2018 The new UsabilityHub & how to acquire users 💡 – Hi you,UsabilityHub, the only place on the internet where you can launch a five second test and get r
#47 Feb 15, 2018 Minimize your time to product/market fit ⚖️ & never had I ever – Hi you,Never had I ever used a famous company's onboarding process as a prime example of how I'd like
#46 Feb 8, 2018 Intercom just hugged Slack 💏 & Unbounce released #️⃣ Slack-ish templates – Hi winners!It's a Thursday afternoon, you've worked hard in the last couple of days and could use som
#45 Feb 1, 2018 Brian Balfour VS. Sean Ellis. Ding Ding Ding! 🥊 🥊 🥊 – Howdy!How's your week going so far? Last week I started using SKAG's and I'm already seeing the resul
#44 Jan 25, 2018 SKAGs 🤘🏽 (Single Keyword Ad Groups) & GDPR for marketers – Hi you!I've started to experiment with several ad channels a while ago, to figure out which ad channe
#43 Jan 19, 2018 What design trends to expect in 2018 & your LinkedIn Social Selling index 🗝 – Howdy,Curious what 2018 is going to bring us in webdesign trends and how you can apply them into your
#42 Dec 30, 2017 180 days of growth and funnel attention for a good cause – Good morning from Llandudno, Cape Town 🇿🇦,This digest with a few medium stories, such as the winners
#41 Dec 21, 2017 Build a SaaS platform 3rd party devs love 😍 & CTA = BOB – Haai from Cape Town 🇿🇦!I’m in South Africa for the next few weeks, but that doesn’t mean I can’t send
#40 Dec 14, 2017 SimilarWeb on steroids💪🏽 & no-code Bubble templates – Howdy,Last week I found Serpstat, an alternative to SimilarWeb that's really powerful! They show more
#39 Dec 7, 2017 Land #0 organically in Google for free & WTF 😫 is rapid experimentation? – Howdy!Have you ever asked a question on Google (no? You are weird 😝) and wondered why there's this fe
#38 Dec 1, 2017 Continuous customer discovery & Facebook Ads in 2018 🥂 – Howdy! The man himself, Steve Blank, wrote an article on the importance of continuous customer discov
#37 Nov 23, 2017 Get into T-shape 🏋🏽 before summer '18 & conversion centered design – Howdy!Yes, I'm also giving recommendations on your health as of today. Get into that T-shape! No, I'm
#36 Nov 16, 2017 Analyze your landing page & move slowly 🐌 and fix things – Howdy!Unbounce released a nifty tool this week to analyze your landing page. I've tested it today wit
#35 Nov 9, 2017 Really good emails 💌 & tiny hacks to sparkle your creativity 💥 – Howdy!This week in tools, two directories for inspiration. I'm currently writing a lot of emails. Nex
#34 Nov 2, 2017 LinkedIn lead generation & all you need to know about SEO for 2018 – Hi you,You might have seen this guide being spread around the interwebs, it's a piece of content abou
#33 Oct 25, 2017 Get these 544 tools & join Product Hunts global hackathon – Hi there,From next week on you are going to receive this newsletter on Thursday afternoons instead of
#32 Oct 18, 2017 How to get the press to love you in a creative way & LinkedIn hacks – Hi there,This week i'm sharing an old spreadsheet made by Marc Köhlbrugge of BetaList, it's a list wi
#31 Oct 11, 2017 Five second tests FTW 💡 & how to onboard users through email – Hi you,Think of a website you recently built or the website of the company you are working at. Imagin
#30 Oct 4, 2017 Spy at your competitors🕵🏼 & implement systems for growth – Hi there,It's our job to constantly come up with an endless list of ideas, since ideas are the rocket
#29 Sep 27, 2017 Spotify audio ads are here & how to build a career in tech! – Hi ,'Marketers ruin everything' is what Gary Vaynerchuk says regularly. It’s our job as marketers to
#28 Sep 20, 2017 1000 free Slack communities & A.I. for marketing and growth 🔥 – Hey you loyal reader,Do you have any idea how much I appreciate you for reading this email every sing
#27 Sep 13, 2017 Ideas are the rocket fuel of growth 🚀 & how to measure habits – Hi there,This week I finished Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown about everything you ne
#26 Sep 6, 2017 My first Medium blog & an YC alumni on their winning iterative process – Hi hackers,This week I wrote my first Medium blogpost, baby steps! Check it out below and let me know
#25 Aug 30, 2017 Gary Vee on how to start building yesterday & Nir Eyal on terrible life choices – Hi hustlers 💪🏽,It's Wednesday, this means new articles to get your blood flowing. One of my heroes Ga
#24 Aug 23, 2017 What tools do growth hackers use & five growth strategies according to Forbes – Hi!Back again with a few articles, a tool and a new video by Growth Tribe. If you haven't checked the
#23 Aug 16, 2017 Sean Ellis about the North Star Metric and distraction vs. focus – Hi there,Back this week with a few reads, such as a strong short article by Sean Ellis on the North S
#22 Aug 9, 2017 Lead Score by Zapier & don't be a Concierge of Oz. Wait! What? – Hey there,This week an update from Zapier, they created a new app to enhance customer data. Start zap
#21 Aug 3, 2017 A free automated chatbot for your landing page & how to unlearn – Hi, For once on a thursday, but back next week on a wednesday. We've got a simple tool to create an a
#20 Jul 26, 2017 Introducing Spotify.me & a peek inside Slack's growth strategy – Hiyaah,Back again with a lot of in-dept reads this week. Also a cool new Spotify feature and an onlin
#19 Jul 19, 2017 How to start with Facebook Ads & an extensive guide to analytics – Hi you,Last week I discovered the Facebook Ads genius Dennis Yu through a video of Growth Tribe. He's
#17 Jul 5, 2017 Organise your sales funnel, draw flowcharts & automate the customer journey – Hi there,How are you doing? I'm trying out different formats for my digest. What I found helpful when
#15 Jun 21, 2017 18 hrs of free Stanford startup lectures & Dollar Shave Club's $1B success – Waddup!Another week another digest. This one with eighteen hours of Stanford startup school lectures
#14 Jun 14, 2017 Acquisition is easy, retention is hard & a conversion checklist ✅ – Hello world!Back again with short reads, a browser plugin and a nifty conversion checklist. See you n
#13 Jun 7, 2017 PACKED digest & I spend a few hours on Startup Grind, this is what I dug up – Hey there,Back in your inbox with a few awesome articles and tools. I spend a few hours on Startup Gr
#12 May 31, 2017 Where do I find my inspiration 🤘🏽 & companies to follow – Waddup!I don't know about you, but I'm following several companies and interesting founders on all my
#11 May 24, 2017 I'm building a chatbot 🤖 & how to help the tech addicts 💉 – Hi!Last week author Nir Eyal gave a talk during The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam. I watched it li
#7 Apr 26, 2017 New: CTA units for FB instant articles ⚡️ & a lot about side projects 😍 – Hey you, do you like my weekly digests? Click on 👍🏽/👎🏽 on the bottom of this digest and help me make
#3 Mar 29, 2017 🔥 Meetup with Ryan Hoover (Product Hunt), get your vision/strategy/product aligned & more! – I live on the internet and just like you, I’d like to educate myself through the best articles, tools
#2 Mar 22, 2017 What one learned after guiding 50 growth hacking trainees & follow Brian – I live on the internet and just like you, I’d like to educate myself through the best articles, tools
#1 Mar 15, 2017 Who to follow❓& how to ignite a culture of innovators – I live on the internet and just like you, I'd like to educate myself through the best articles, tools
