Growth
Monetization model that aided virality helped Fornite grow faster
20VC Newsletter - May 12th 2024
20vc.substack.comVideo to substack, nice format
Pierre Herubel on LinkedIn: - "People don't consume long content" - "Their attention span has reduced"… | 92 comments
linkedin.comProgressive content delivery
“We thought about pricing from the earliest days. Even during our alpha with our first pockets of users, we had a pricing page with a few different plans. It mostly described features we hadn't built yet, but we at least wanted to frame that this is a product we're going to charge for,” says Ofstad.
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First Round Capital • Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit
First, they did not target any particular audience. When you try to be all things to everyone, you end up being nothing to anyone.
Second, they did not follow the simple principle of show, don’t tell. Even in the simple image above, you can tell Zapier helps apps talk to one another.... See more
Product marketing and storytelling
How Airtable discovered its early adopters is a great example of Product Led Sales
The challenge with Airtable is that it's incredibly versatile—you can use it for virtually anything. It's applicable in every department within an organization and even for personal projects. Essentially, you're building your own software, which can be tailored for
How Airtable used Swag to drive micro-virality, focused on their early adopters or what they called champions
the other one that we did was dated to this Champions at scale was we spent a hilarious amount of money on really fancy swag I know this sounds silly but like branded airpods level of fancy swag admittedly more people are in the office back then now they are more remote and this would not work as well but back in the day if you gave people something really good like not a pen or a sticker really good they would show enough to absolutely everyone that they talked to because they were so excited they got branded airpods people would ask about it walking by their desks it sounds so like trivial but for that like you know a couple hundred bucks that we spent knowing like hey this person's already a champion and if someone asks them they're going to give a really good pitch totally worth it sometimes better to not skimp on swag hard to measure very effective
And the Valenceeffect is our tendency to overestimate the likelihood of positive things happening and, in return, underestimate the probability of negative consequences.
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3 examples of how to use it in marketing
Duolingo’s $6-Billion Growth Marketing Case Study: Guilt, Memes, & Engagement Strategy
chantellemarcelle.comBack in the day, we at Airtable were kind of roasted on Twitter for our billboards, which weren't super specific about a particular problem; they were just there. Everyone was questioning the sense in it, wondering why we would do this if it wasn't clear. However, those billboards were actually super effective for us, but for a different reason
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