Growth Hacking for Testing Business Models
Being a tech startup means you’ve just started and most likely don’t know what your business model is yet! So that’s why you need to do growth hacking!
Written by Søren Aldenryd // Also shared on Startups.co.
Ever heard from investors to stay focused and know what your business model is? Being a tech startup means you’ve just started and most likely don’t know what your business model is yet! So that’s why you need to do growth hacking!
WHAT’S YOUR BUSINESS MODEL?
Back in the days, we had 30 page business plans. Then came more lean concepts, e.g. capturing your business models in a compact one-page canvas format. Whatever format, the business model describes
- What your offering is
- To whom you’re delivering this and
- How you monetize this
However, many tech startups have a vision of what they’re building and the benefits the product brings to the world. If not, that’s something you should be figuring out. But there might be several audiences / markets for the product and most likely several ways per audience to monetize it.
WHAT IS GROWTH HACKING?
The interaction by innovative marketing techniques and product features have lead to high growth for many tech startups in the past. The term Growth hacking was coined by Sean Ellis (first marketer at Dropbox) and is today often defined as
Growth hacking is a process of rapid experimentation across marketing channels and product development to identify the most effective, efficient ways to grow a business.
GROWTH HACKING IS NOT JUST MARKETING
I attended a seminar last week about growth hacking, and noted the Growth Hacking definition during a presentation by Thomas Madsen-Mygdal (founder of Podio). Growth Hacking a mix of marketing and product that suddenly generates high growth, a mix that’s unique for every tech startup.
Many blog posts about growth hacking focus on how to use marketing tools or PR stunts to get the attention of media resulting in user growth. What they are missing is that experimenting with your product is just as important. Maybe the feature set needs twisting yet again for it to encourage spreading your product and get user growth.
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