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GCS CREDIT COMMUNITY CONFERENCE OCTOBER 16 2017
Growth Hacking
Master Class
Dani Hart
@dahartattack
GrowthHackers, Inc.
Today’s Agenda
● Today’s landscape
● What is Growth Hacking?
● The North Star Metric
● Growth Process
● Q&A
Background
Growth Hacking Master Class
Dutch FinTech Ecosystem
Dutch FinTech Ecosystem
Dutch FinTech Ecosystem
Marketing Channel Evolution
Marketing Channel Evolution
Growth Hacking
Taking a product that
provides real value to
customers and using a highly
iterative experimentation
process working across the
full customer journey to
identify the biggest
opportunities for
improvement.
Growth Hacking Core Elements
● Cross-functional teams across
marketing & product
● Use of qualitative research &
quantitative data analysis
● Rapid generation and testing of
ideas
Growth Mindset
Goal: To become the world’s favourite way to buy.
Analyzed current state of the market
Asked “what are the fundamental truths?”
Tested hypothesis
Result: A new way for consumers to purchase, mitigating risk to buyer and
seller
Growth Hacking Principles
● Product Market Fit - must-have product
● North Star Metric - value creation & expansion
● Growth Model - variables that move NSM
● Leverage - best opportunities for impact
● Testing - discovery & optimization of growth drivers
North Star Metric
● Quantification of the value customers receive
● Focal point of fast growing companies
● All important metrics stem off the NSM
● Measures sustainable growth
● Aligns teams across the company in shared mission
Growth Model
Setting Growth Objectives
● Support North Star Metric growth
● Identify leverage in growth model
● Set baseline & target
● Set timeframe for achieving
● Empower the team to test
Impact of the right objective
● Objective:
Decrease abandonment rate for
approved customers
● Cross-functional team approach
● Results:
○ Doubled approved > funded ratio
○ Cut acquisition cost in half
Growth Process
Step 1: Analyze
1. What are you best customers’
behaviors?
2. What are the characteristics of your
best customers?
3. What events cause users to abandon
the product?
Step 2: Ideate
● Name
● Description
● Hypothesis
● Metrics to be measured
● ICE Score
○ Impact
○ Confidence
○ Ease
Step 3: Prioritize
● Current objective
● ICE score
● Available resources
● Minimal viable tests
Step 4: Test
● Implement tests with clear hypothesis
● Ensure measurement is in place
● Assign a test owner
● Communicate to team
REPEAT
Weekly Growth Meeting
● Monitor North Star Metric
● Track progress on key objectives
● Status on new tests
● Discuss learnings from tests
● Determine next tests to implement
● Improve testing throughput
More Tests = More Learning
Chase Debt Collections
Why was the Tampa team so successful?
● Highest performance debt collection
● Highest employee satisfaction
Objective: Get people to pay their debt
● Team proposed new ideas
● Tested theories - 1 variable at a time
● Daily analysis of results
● Repeat
Applying the Process
● Identify a North Star Metric
● Determine growth variables
● Set first growth objective
● Invite others to add ideas
● Make testing habitual
● Create a culture of learning
GCS CREDIT COMMUNITY CONFERENCE OCTOBER 16 2017
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Growth Hacking Master Class

  • 1. GCS CREDIT COMMUNITY CONFERENCE OCTOBER 16 2017 Growth Hacking Master Class Dani Hart @dahartattack GrowthHackers, Inc.
  • 2. Today’s Agenda ● Today’s landscape ● What is Growth Hacking? ● The North Star Metric ● Growth Process ● Q&A
  • 10. Growth Hacking Taking a product that provides real value to customers and using a highly iterative experimentation process working across the full customer journey to identify the biggest opportunities for improvement.
  • 11. Growth Hacking Core Elements ● Cross-functional teams across marketing & product ● Use of qualitative research & quantitative data analysis ● Rapid generation and testing of ideas
  • 13. Goal: To become the world’s favourite way to buy. Analyzed current state of the market Asked “what are the fundamental truths?” Tested hypothesis Result: A new way for consumers to purchase, mitigating risk to buyer and seller
  • 14. Growth Hacking Principles ● Product Market Fit - must-have product ● North Star Metric - value creation & expansion ● Growth Model - variables that move NSM ● Leverage - best opportunities for impact ● Testing - discovery & optimization of growth drivers
  • 15. North Star Metric ● Quantification of the value customers receive ● Focal point of fast growing companies ● All important metrics stem off the NSM ● Measures sustainable growth ● Aligns teams across the company in shared mission
  • 17. Setting Growth Objectives ● Support North Star Metric growth ● Identify leverage in growth model ● Set baseline & target ● Set timeframe for achieving ● Empower the team to test
  • 18. Impact of the right objective ● Objective: Decrease abandonment rate for approved customers ● Cross-functional team approach ● Results: ○ Doubled approved > funded ratio ○ Cut acquisition cost in half
  • 20. Step 1: Analyze 1. What are you best customers’ behaviors? 2. What are the characteristics of your best customers? 3. What events cause users to abandon the product?
  • 21. Step 2: Ideate ● Name ● Description ● Hypothesis ● Metrics to be measured ● ICE Score ○ Impact ○ Confidence ○ Ease
  • 22. Step 3: Prioritize ● Current objective ● ICE score ● Available resources ● Minimal viable tests
  • 23. Step 4: Test ● Implement tests with clear hypothesis ● Ensure measurement is in place ● Assign a test owner ● Communicate to team
  • 25. Weekly Growth Meeting ● Monitor North Star Metric ● Track progress on key objectives ● Status on new tests ● Discuss learnings from tests ● Determine next tests to implement ● Improve testing throughput
  • 26. More Tests = More Learning
  • 27. Chase Debt Collections Why was the Tampa team so successful? ● Highest performance debt collection ● Highest employee satisfaction Objective: Get people to pay their debt ● Team proposed new ideas ● Tested theories - 1 variable at a time ● Daily analysis of results ● Repeat
  • 28. Applying the Process ● Identify a North Star Metric ● Determine growth variables ● Set first growth objective ● Invite others to add ideas ● Make testing habitual ● Create a culture of learning
  • 29. GCS CREDIT COMMUNITY CONFERENCE OCTOBER 16 2017 Q&A