Feb 26, 2018Every Amazon Shareholder Letter in a Single Downloadable PDFWe draw a lot of inspiration from Amazon at Lambda School — its methodology of building a business and way of thinking are worthy of admiration. As a part of that, I have compiled every Amazon shareholder letter (1997 to 2017) in one downloadable PDF. You can download it here.Amazon1 min readAmazon1 min read
Published in Startup Grind·Mar 2, 2017There are no rules anymore.I had a few interesting conversations today with people who are deeply involved in the book publishing scene. Having recently published my own book, I’m always curious to chat with these folks, as I feel like a permanent outsider in those circles. I’m not a very good writer, I have…Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
Published in User Acquisition for Hackers·Mar 2, 2017Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide, is Finally AvailableI had no idea how much work goes into publishing a book. We started off almost a few months ago with a couple blog posts that people really seemed to like and an aspiration to create that style of in-depth, step-by-step writing for the entire gamut of Internet marketing. And…Growth Hacking2 min readGrowth Hacking2 min read
Published in Austen Allred’s Blog·Sep 12, 2016Using Medium like TwitterAs Twitter looks at rolling out longer tweets, it made me realize how much Medium is becoming like Twitter (or what Twitter should be). What would it take to use Medium almost exactly like you use Twitter? Really just letting the confidence to let a post be shorter, not burying the lede, and a chronological, updating feed.Twitter1 min readTwitter1 min read
Published in Austen Allred’s Blog·Sep 8, 2016Medium just became the best SEO platform of all-timeI’m not sure if anyone has put this together yet, but I’m pretty convinced Medium just became the world’s best platform for SEO, opening up a huge loophole for generating backlinks. Content Management System 2.0 For a long time most of the web was dominated by Wordpress — most of the Internet, as a…Medium2 min readMedium2 min read
Published in Austen Allred’s Blog·Sep 6, 2016How to Growth Hack PinterestNote: This is one of the chapters of Secret Sauce: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growth Hacking. If you find this valuable, please check it out — we have dissected every network and platform the same way you see Pinterest dissected here. Pinterest is Different Pinterest is a little bit unlike the other networks…Pinterest8 min readPinterest8 min read
Published in Austen Allred’s Blog·Aug 31, 2016When The Switch FlippedWhat it’s like finding product-market fit after three years of struggle — When the startup I co-founded, Grasswire, failed to raise a round at the last minute, I found myself floating the company’s last expenses personally as I learned we had officially failed. Doing so left me in debt, unemployed, and living in the middle of nowhere with a newborn baby. …5 min read5 min read
Published in Startup Grind·Aug 5, 2016SEO is Not Hard — A step-by-step SEO Tutorial for beginners that will get you ranked every single timeNote: This one of one of the chapters of Secret Sauce: A step-by-step growth hacking guide. Secret Sauce breaks down every channel just like this one, so if you think this is valuable check it out. It’s for sale now. SEO In One Day SEO is simply not as hard as people pretend like…SEO26 min readSEO26 min read
Published in Austen Allred’s Blog·Jul 5, 2016Growth Hacking InstagramNote: This is the first chapter of Secret Sauce: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growth Hacking, available for purchase as a book and video course now. This chapter, which covers growth hacking Instagram, is one of the dozens of chapters. Imagine this scenario: A friend had just come out with a…Marketing23 min readMarketing23 min read
Published in Austen Allred’s Blog·Jun 26, 2016The single spam comment blanketing the Internet“I’ve been surfing online more than three hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.” I see references to this spam comment all over the Internet, but I haven’t yet seen one track it back to its source. Searching for this exact comment on Google appears to…9 min read9 min read
