Reads, talks and tools By Gino Arendsz Every Thursday reads, talks and tools on growth hacking. 48 subscribers 80 issues Subscribe to my list This thingy has to be empti pwieshh
Browser-based push notifications 🥊 & Typeform got way smarter with Typeform Connect 🔌 #79 Oct 4, 2018
I made it into the national news with growth 🎉 & Skyscanners self-disrupt strategy for growth 🛩 #78 Sep 27, 2018
#77 Sep 20, 2018 Product Hunt's ⛵️ Ship 2.0 & Building 🏢 targeting through Facebook Ads, yes you read it right. – Hi you,What's a smoke test? Set up an ad with a corresponding landing page and try to drive traffic t
#76 Sep 13, 2018 Ad graders for FB and Google 🎛 & how Atlassian maps user intent 🔦 – Hi you,Are you running ads at the moment? One of my go-to graders are the ad graders from Wordstream,
#75 Sep 6, 2018 Improve your dev skills 👍🏽 & subreddits for marketers 👾 – Hi you loyal reader ❤️,Recently I started using Treehouse to up my dev skills, starting with HTML/CSS
#74 Aug 30, 2018 Run growth experiments with Airtable 💪🏽 & a Hubspot personas generator 🤖 – Hi you,If you are running experiments on a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly basis you know how hard it is to
#73 Aug 23, 2018 The High Growth Handbook ✋🏽📗 & ConvertKit's $98k-to-$625k-MRR-150-webinars-strategy 🎥 – Hi you,Thanks for checking in with me again! Yesterday I ordered the High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
#72 Aug 16, 2018 Growth intern @ Mollie 🚀 & Google Academy on Responsive Search Ads (RSA) 🔍 – Hi you,Google is rolling out it's Google Marketing Platform. One of the most promising changes are th
#71 Aug 9, 2018 The Fortnite Hooked ∞ model & the power user curve 💪🏽 – Hi you,How do they do it? How do the Instagrams of today hook us into their product every single time
#70 Aug 2, 2018 Psychology principles & level up your keyword strategy 🚀 – Hi you,We read about psychology principles everywhere and probably have a few we regularly use. Check
#69 Jul 26, 2018 Marketing jobs in Rotterdam 🧠 & get users to your AHA moment 💡 – Hi you,In a few weeks from today I will trade in the office of solvo in Amsterdam for the office of H
#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
