AAARRR, A Pirate Funnel For Growth Marketing Strategy

AAARRR is a funneling framework to help guiding us deciding effective growth marketing strategy.

Restu Arif Priyono
suarsocial
2 min readOct 10, 2023

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AAARRR consists of Awareness → Acquisition → Activation → Retention → Revenue → Referral. Any brand owner must aware of this funnel, such that they can treat leads according to their level and herd them to be loyal eventually. This metric can be applied in both digital or non-digital marketing.

AAARRR funneling

In this article, there will be explanation about each metric, and how we usually quantify those.

Awareness

This metric concerns about how well your brand is known by your target market.

Quantification: web traffic

Acquisition

This metric concerns about interest of your target market to your brand after it is known.

Quantification: new lead, new download

Activation

This metric concerns about how your target market willing to try your products or services.

Quantification: sign up for trial

Revenue

This metric concerns about converting your current leads to actually buy your products or services.

Quantification: cash in

Retention

This metric concerns about recurring transaction that happens to your active customer.

Quantification: repeat orders or transactions

Referral

This metric concern about how well your current customer willingly to promote your products or services.

Quantification: organic growth, referral code

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Restu Arif Priyono
suarsocial

A tech enthusiast with background in Software Engineering and Business. Currently as a CEO of Techlab.