
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers

You want to design smaller scale tests that don’t require much upfront cost or effort.
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares • Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
told us how Unbounce started using their blog as a marketing
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares • Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Phase I – making something people want
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares • Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Social ads, by contrast, work especially well for demand generation,
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares • Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Conversion pages work best when they use the same messaging as the invitations that preceded them. For example, if in the invitation you
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares • Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
With Lean, you figure out the right features to build. With Bullseye, you figure out the right traction channel to pursue.
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares • Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
traction is growth. The pursuit of traction is what defines a startup.
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares • Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
It is very likely that one channel is optimal. Most businesses actually get zero distribution channels to work. Poor distribution—not product—is the number one cause of failure.