My 12 Most Favourite Growth Hacking Blogs
Marketing is so much bigger than just advertising and promotion, yet, this is what many of us still think.
The other day, I was picking up my bike after school during heavy rain, when I saw that all bike seats had waterproof covers from a pizza restaurant in town. Those covers had a promotion for a special offer. That little move pushed the trigger, how did they think about it? Did they really wait for the rain to do the move? Anyway, believe it or not, I had that pizza the next day. Since then I have a special interest in marketing and growth strategies.
Just like the rain in the story, I believe every problem can be an opportunity. Today I am writing to show that there are many chances to drive your business up between the cracks and learn from the experiences of others.
“An obstacle often is a stepping stone” — Prescott Bush
Recently I started researching more into the world of growth hacking. No matter if you have a big or a small business, these 12 growth hacking blogs will undeniably help you grow your marketing efforts.
1. Growth Tribe
Growth Tribe is Europe’s first growth academy. They help individuals and organizations gain tech skills and stay in the lead of innovation. Growth Tribe provides great videos, articles, and e-Books to educate marketers about the concept of growth hacking. Here’s one of my favorite resources:
2. CXL
CXL is an institution for digital majors, such as analytics, content marketing, growth, and more. It is full of well-researched and highly actionable content. Their tutorials include detailed lessons for both, an early career profession and a managerial role. Read on their blog:
3. MARKETTAP
If you have a small to medium-sized business, MARKETTAP can provide you with all kinds of tips and hacks you need to grow your business and turn it into profit. It’s a unique platform where articles cover a wide range of topics, it is simplified and mostly supported with infographics. You can find a full guide to start a blog or manage your clients. Much of tips and tricks for a variety of topics such as Instagram marketing or gaining more traffic. One of the most reviewed article on MARKETTAP:
4. Growth Hackers
I must talk about Growth Hackers, it is one of the best growth hacking blogs, it has the answer for every question related to business development, entrepreneurship, and startup growth. A great number of experts write and share experiences in Growth Hackers, covering a wide range of topics in different categories, branding, social media, and way more. When I started reading their blog, I could not miss how they cover all possible categories you might need help with. Here is one of their blog posts:
5. MOZ
Are we talking about SEO? Then MOZ is the milestone we’ll stop at. It’s baked with the largest SEO community on earth! Lucky for us, it provides free SEO tools and a range of educational materials, and articles to help marketers grow and be more reachable online.
A cool article caught my attention at MOZ recently, it doesn’t have much of actionable hacks, but quite nice insights, especially if kids are included in your target segment.
6. Hubspot
A lot of us might need some guidance when it comes to writing a marketing strategy, loads of questions will pop up, where to start? and how to implement it? Hubspot is the blog to go. It is one of my favorites, here is an example I enjoyed about Instagram marketing tips:
7. Quicksprout
If you are driven with a great business idea, but you have no clue where to start, how to make a website, and most importantly, how to reach out to your audience! These days this is not a problem, a blog like Quicksprout is made for those who want to start from scratch. This blog is full of tips for every step of your journey to a successful business. Here are two articles for anyone looking to start a business.
8. Marketing Examples
Examples, stories, and great insightful ideas of how companies and startups all over the world are executing extraordinary marketing campaigns. Marketing Examples has plenty of interesting articles varying between pricing, conversion, sales, SEO, and more. With an example like Surprising a customer with a birthday cake, you can not only read the story, but you can see it as well, all the articles are supported with pictures or videos, making their newsletter my favorite on the internet. Here are a few other picks:
9. Growth.Design
Beyond visuals with each article, Growth Design takes us to a completely new level, it is an actual comic book just for marketers, full of stories and hacks for growth and UX, and all in a COMIC BOOK style. So smooth, you cannot miss the point with the graphs and illustrations used in their stories. Learning from big players’ strategies in a comic style cannot be boring! Uber, Airbnb, Amazon, and more companies have a lesson for you in Growth Design’s blog. Check these case studies:
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So far so good? Growth Marketing blogs are way too much to fit in one place. Now, I will take a slight turn and introduce you to a few of the world’s most famous marketers and what we can find inside their blogs. Ready?
10. Niel Patel
Niel Patel is one of the top marketers in the world, this is not a personal opinion, he is a New York Times bestselling author, a top influencer as The Wall Street Journal calls him, and more of countless successes he gained in the digital marketing field. His website analyzes your web presence too! No doubt his blog is not less attractive than his website, there you can find tricks and hacks to help your website get more traffic, a nice trick caught my interest:
11. Seth Godin
The blog of one of the greatest thinkers in the field, Seth Godin has a great mind, and his articles are short and right to the point. Not all the content is about marketing, but it is definitely related to your growing business. It is interesting to see a short article with some sentences that have big concepts behind it, or hidden points you did think about. Some of the nice articles I loved in Seth’s blog:
12. Brian Dean
Brian’s blog does not hold his name, but a cool one as backlinko.com, the blog shows you that Brian breathes, eats, and drinks SEO. It is the next level of SEO training and hack and more advanced tips of link-building. Not only SEO hacking tips what catches Brian’s interest, but everything related to that world (SEO), with rich educational articles that will definitely help you grow and expand your growth by learning from a professional who really knows what he is talking about. Here are some of his interesting studies:
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BONUS: Growth Channel Blog
Growth Channel mission is to inspire startups and marketers for creativity and innovation, by doing so through AI, automation and machine learning. Growth Channel blog covers some of the best case studies on startup growth, AI marketing technology, and growth marketing principles that most of us will find applicable for each of our business models. These are some of my favorite posts:
In the end, there are enormous amounts of growth hacking blogs, websites, tools, and communities. These are the ones I started reading and exploring, and now it is your turn to share! What are your favorite growth hacking resources? 💬👇
Peace! 😉
