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5 Strategies For Uncommonly Rapid Growth
Can You Finish The Maze In 20 Seconds Using Just Your Eyes?
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Can You Finish The Maze In 20 Seconds Using Just Your Eyes?
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Lateral Thinking:Move outside the implied rules of the system
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What assumptions are impeding your speed right now?
Disruptive Thinking: Make new rules or a new system
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What assumptions are impeding your speed right now?
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#1 Unbox
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Think Laterally• Ask how can I grow 10x… 100x?
• Most people and business focus on Optimization which yields Linear Growth
• We also want to focus on Innovationwhich yields Exponential Growth
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The police receive an anonymous tip and raid a house to arrest a suspected murderer. They don’t know what he looks like but they know his name is John and that he is inside the house.
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The police bust in on a carpenter, a taxi driver, a mechanic and a fireman all playing poker. Without hesitation or communication of any kind, they immediately arrest the fireman. How do they know they've got their man?
Apply Lateral Thinking• What pre-conceptions about your life or
business are currently holding you back?
• What factual assumptions are you making that may not be actual facts?
• What language patterns are you using as you frame possible solutions that may lead you to make incorrect assumptions?
• Frame growth questions in terms of ideal desire + constraint...
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Build A $50k/Month Content Team Generating Organic Traffic
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How Can We Get $18M/Month Of Traffic For Only $50k/Month?
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How Can We Buy A $375k Company For $50k With No Financing?
Their Price, Our Terms / Our Price, Their Terms$375k Price(205k) Carve Out Annual Renewals(120k) Assign MRR For 12 Months( 50k) Cash Payment---------$375k Total Payments
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How Can We Get $1+ Fan Page Likes For < 7 Cents?
Step 1: Topic Feeder Pages > 5-7 Cent Likes
Step 2: Interest Pages > 10-15 Cent Likes
Step 3: Primary Page> 30 Cent To $1+ Likes
Use topic pages to send traffic to Interest pages and multiple
interest pages to prop up primary FB page.
70k+ likes in 30 days on $5k ad spend.
How Can You Raise Email Delivery, Open + Click-Through Rates?
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But Tech Isn’t Enough. So…
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How can we prove the receiver actually wants our emails?
• Order Receipt
• Welcome Email
• Preparing Your Order
• Shipping Confirmation
• Login Info
How can we ensure more people open and click?
• A/B Test Subject (10%)
• A/B/C Test Body (10%)
• Mail Remaining 80%
• Bonus (To Opens Only)
• Close (To Clicks Only)
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People Think In Ordered Lists• On A Scale Of 1 To 10… The Top 3…
• You currently occupy a rung on some ladder
• To move up, you really have only 3 strategies
– Move up the ladder by “paying your dues”
– Hop to a different ladder
– Create a new ladder where you are #1
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Beer
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Imported Beer
Mexican Beer German Beer Japanese Beer
Domestic Beer
#1 In USA #1 In Germany
Lite Beer Craft Beer Beer With An Orange
Brands Find New Categories
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32,000 Types Of Beer In Over 100 Categories
There’s Always A New Category
There Are Over 2,800 Categories + Sub-Categories For Kindle Books
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Ladder Hop By Differentiating Your Value Curve
Step 1: Identify 3 to 7 key value factors for your industry, product or service
Step 2: Which factors should be reduced below industry norms
Step 3: Which factors should be raised above industry standards
Step 4: What new benefits should be created that are not currently offered
Step 5: Which features should be eliminated that the industry offers
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Ladder Hop By Differentiating Your Value Curve
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Key Value Factors
Price
Quality
Package Newness Origin
Service Speed
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Ladder Hop By Differentiating Your Value Curve
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Key Value Factors
Price
Quality
Package Newness Origin
Service Speed
CompetitorYour Product
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Differentiate Your Value Curve
Differentiating To $3.3 Billion
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Amazon• Fixed Price
• FBA
• SEM: $1.35B Spend
• No Acquisition
Jet ($1B @ $50 CPA)• Variable Price: Smart cart lets users pay less
(bundle, no returns, no credit card = pay less)
• No FBA: Bundling = > Retailer Profits
• No SEM: $20M/Month Mass Marketing
• Acquisition: Retailers can get customer info
Differentiating To $2.8 Billion
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Amazon• Warehousing +
Marketplace
• Ads: 3% of Revenue
• Not Industry Specific
• 33% Of Online Sales
Wayfair ($62 CPA $76 ICV)• Storm OMS: Minimizes warehousing,
integrates with 7k suppliers/7M SKUs
• Advertising: 12% of Revenue
• Industry Specific: Carries products Amazon
does not, Investing in AR via WayfairView
• 33% Of Online Home Furnishing Sales
Can You Ladder Hop To A Higher Valuation?
IndustryEdu. ServicesPublishingBus. ServicesRE Services
Multiple8.5
10.1812.5216.13
IndustryEntertainmentDiversifiedFinance Serv.Retail Internet
Multiple12.6119.8235.2942.14
A 4X Valuation Bump By Hopping Categories
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How To Hop From 10th Past 1st In Search?
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Skip Right Past #1 - #9 To New Category Space 0
Skip Right Past #1 - #9 To New Category Space 0
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How To Appear In Space 0
• Identify Question Queries (Answer The Public)
• Find Queries That Already Have Answer Box Results
• Make Better Content
• Must Be On Page 1, Not #1
• Format To Match Paragraph, List/Table
• Answer Queries In Title, Caption, Label + Header
• Entice Click-ThroughtUsing 6+ Items In List
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Ladder Hopping Questions…• What ladders and what rung are you on now?
• Can you hop to another ladder to move up faster?
• Are you currently in the right value curve? Category? Industry?
• Could you reposition your model to compete better?
• Can you hop to the top of search with Snippets?
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#3 Model
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Deep Dive Your Competition’s Business Models
• Use the Lean Canvas or Business Model Canvas to clone their business models
• Review these models and design your own based on the best parts of theirs
• Experiment with different variations of business models to find the best path
• Gather ideas for tests, test and optimize
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Disruption = Applying Different Business Models To Your Industry
• Landlord (Physical/IP)
• Affiliate
• Pay As You Go
• Publisher
• Franchise
• Manufacturer/Sales Rep
• Wholesaler
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• Broker
• Reseller/VAR
• Retailer
• Network Marketing
• All you can eat
• Direct Seller
• Subscription
Experiment With Different Pricing Models
• Free (Ad Supported)
• Freemium
• Value Based
• Tiered/Volume
• Feature + Add-Ons
• Low Price
• MSRP/MAP
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• Free + Paid Support
• “Cost +” or “x Cost”
• Portfolio/Suite
• Commodity
• Razor + Blade
• Premium/Luxury
• Discount
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How Can We Quickly Expose New Sites To Existing Traffic?
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Affinity Traffic: SimilarWeb.com
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How Can We Quickly Build A 1 Million Name Mailing List For A New Property?
Modeling Questions…• What business models are your competitors using now?
• How would you change your existing business model knowing what
you know about your competitors?
• Can you apply different business or pricing models to your industry to
disrupt it?
• What’s working for other people in and outside your industry that you
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#4 Iterate
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Product Iteration Should Never StopPSF/PMF + PFM (People + Fun + Money)
Kaizen “ABI” ALWAYS Be Iterating
If you don’t someone else will be…
It’s why AirBnB isn’t Hilton or Marriott
It’s why Newspapers didn’t start Craigslist
It’s why Blockbuster never saw Netflix coming
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Build > Measure > Learn• Shorten the BML loop with Fast Feedback
• Build MVP First OR Start With Your Existing Product/Service, then Test it.
• Measure Results
• Learn What To Test Next From Data Analysis
• Create Product Iteration that better solves the customer’s problem. Verify leaps of faith, value hypothesis + growth hypothesis
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Accelerate Feedback With…
• Mentors: Virtual (Videos, Books, Etc.) + Live (Unpaid Deep Relationships)
• Masterminds: Paid formal + Unpaid informal
• Strategic Partners: From your network, mentors and masterminds
• Fans: Your early adopters and best customers are okay with flawed MVPs. Genchi Genbutsu + Sakichi Toyoda’s 5 Whys
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Business Model PivotsZoom-In
Zoom-Out
Technology
Platform
Channel
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Value Capture
Growth Engine
Customer Need
Customer Segment
Business Architecture
Iteration Questions…• Do you currently have a BML Loop to continually improve PMF
• Are you working with people you like, have fun and make $ with?
• What can you do to accelerate feedback and iterate better + faster?
• How can you best engage your biggest fans in the BML loop?
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#5 Leverage
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Leverage “TIME COP DOC”
• Trends
• IT
• Momentum
• Employees
• Customers
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• Ops
• Platforms
• Distribution
• Overstocks
• Content
Trendwatching.com is an excellent source of info on innovations and trends across all industries
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Ebrace Marketing Trends
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• Audio Personal Assistants (Siri, Alexa, Google Now, Cortana)
• Conversational Commerce (Chatbots)
• Messaging App API Integrations
• Unified Commerce
• Augmented + Virtual Reality
Leverage Momentum
• Objects in motion tend to stay in motion.
• Chunk for tiny wins
• Leverage people + businesses that alreadyhave momentum
• OSP = Your super power + others’ superpowers means no still starts
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OPP = Other People’s Platforms
How Can You Create $50k/Month Of Branded Content For $3k Per Month With No Contractors Or Employees?
Reduce Inventory Costs
Leverage Other Relationships
Access Sales Rep Networks
Tap A Customer Base
Add Brand Affinity Credibility
Leverage Celebrity
How Can You Leverage Strategic Partnerships To…
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Viral: Viral Coefficient > 1.0Stick: Acquisition > Churn.Paid: Marginal Revenue > COCA
How To Amplify Growth?
How will your existing customers help you to get more customers?
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The Growth Grid
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Product Leads Acquisition Activation Retention Referrals (Per Activation) Total Revenue DPL LTV
# # % # % # % # % $ $ $
Product 1 1,000 100 10.00% 10 10.00% 1 10.00% 2 0.2 $1,000 $1 $1,000
Product 2 1,000 100 10.00% 10 10.00% 1 10.00% 2 0.2 $1,000 $1 $1,000
Product 3 1,000 100 10.00% 10 10.00% 1 10.00% 2 0.2 $1,000 $1 $1,000
Product 4 1,000 100 10.00% 10 10.00% 1 10.00% 2 0.2 $1,000 $1 $1,000
Product 5 1,000 100 10.00% 10 10.00% 1 10.00% 2 0.2 $1,000 $1 $1,000
Product 6 1,000 100 10.00% 10 10.00% 1 10.00% 2 0.2 $1,000 $1 $1,000
Product 7 1,000 100 10.00% 10 10.00% 1 10.00% 2 0.2 $1,000 $1 $1,000
Product 8 1,000 100 10.00% 10 10.00% 1 10.00% 2 0.2 $1,000 $1 $1,000
Product 9 1,000 100 10.00% 10 10.00% 1 10.00% 2 0.2 $1,000 $1 $1,000
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Can You Find The Constraint?
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How To Remove Constraints?
# Of VisitorsPer Week
# Of Leads Per Week
# Of Trials/Renewals
# Of ReferralsPer Week
Revenue
# Of Leads Per Week
# Of Customers Per Week
Goal
Successful Leverage Plays…• Dropbox, Uber, Harry’s, Groupon, Blue Apron =
Bribes
• One Plus, Naked Wines + Gmail = Waiting List + Invites
• Etsy, Udemy, Tinder = Live Events
• Facebook, Lyft + Yelp = Geo Launch
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