Hacking Growth
How Today’s Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown
Published By: Currency, 2017
Genre: Nonfiction | Business & Economics
Page Count: 320 (Hardcover)
Audiobook Length: 10 hours and 43 minutes
Audiobook Narrator: Sean Ellis, Morgan Brown
ISBN: 9780451497215
Publisher’s Description
It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Airbnb was the best-kept secret of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pinterest was a niche website frequented only by bakers and crafters, LinkedIn was an exclusive network for C-suite executives and top-level recruiters, Facebook was MySpace’s sorry step-brother, and Uber was a scrappy upstart that didn’t stand a chance against the Goliath that was New York City Yellow Cabs.
So how did these companies grow from these humble beginnings into the powerhouses they are today? Contrary to popular belief, they didn’t explode to massive worldwide popularity simply by building a great product then crossing their fingers and hoping it would catch on. There was a studied, carefully implemented methodology behind these companies’ extraordinary rise. That methodology is called Growth Hacking, and its practitioners include not just today’s hottest start-ups, but also companies like IBM, Walmart, and Microsoft as well as the millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, managers, and executives who make up the community of Growth Hackers.
Think of the Growth Hacking methodology as doing for market-share growth what Lean Start-Up did for product development, and Scrum did for productivity. It involves cross-functional teams and rapid-tempo testing and iteration that focuses on customers: attaining them, retaining them, engaging them, and motivating them to come back and buy more.
An accessible and practical toolkit that teams and companies in all industries can use to increase their customer base and market share, this book walks readers through the process of creating and executing their own custom-made growth hacking strategy. It is a must-read for any marketer, entrepreneur, innovator, or manager looking to replace wasteful big bets and “spaghetti-on-the-wall” approaches with more consistent, replicable, cost-effective, and data-driven results.
About the Author
Sean Ellis is CEO and co-founder of GrowthHackers.com, the #1 online community built for growth hackers, with 1.8 million global users. Sean coined the term “growth hacker” in 2010, and is the producer of the Growth Hacking Conference. He regularly speaks to start-ups and Fortune 100s and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Fast Company, inc.com, and TechCrunch.
Morgan Brown is a startup-marketing veteran, and the co-founder of GrowthHackers.com