Growth Hacker Marketing

Isolating who your customers are, figuring out their needs, designing a product that will blow their

Product Market

As Larissa Macfarquhar wrote in her New Yorker profile of him, “[Aaron] had previously believed that if you came up with a great idea people would use it. But he realized now that you couldn’t expect people to come to you; you had to pull them in.”9 The growth hacker’s job—like we marketers have always done—is to do that pulling. But how? Certainly

minds—these are marketing decisions, not just development and design choices.

The role of the growth hacker is to ruthlessly optimize incoming traffic for success. As Eric Ries explains in The Lean Startup, “the focus needs to be on improving customer retention.” Forget the conventional wisdom that says if a company lacks growth, it should invest more in sales and marketing. Instead, it should invest in refining and improvin