High Tempo Testing - Building a Scalable Growth Process

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High Tempo TestingBuilding a scalable growth process

“The founders acknowledge they made mistakes along the way. They spent too much time on the product and not enough time on growth and distribution.”

—TheVerge.com

Buzzfeed Content ViewsReported by Jonah Peretti on Re/Code Decode Aug 2015

Sites & Apps 23% YouTube 14% Google 2% Facebook Traffic 6% Facebook Video 27% Snapchat 21% Facebook Images 4% Pinterest/Twitter 4%

*Adds up to more than 100%


How Do They Do It?

Punchline:

Rapid experimentation is the key to driving fast growth


Testing Drives GrowthSatya Patel, 2014 Agile Marketing Meetup

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Faster Tempo = More LearningMore Learning = More Growth

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The Growth Team• PM Growth

• Analyst

• Growth Engineer

• Digital marketers

• Specialist(s)

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Growth ProcessIdeate

Prioritize

Test

Analyze

Unbridled Ideation

Focus Prioritization

Rapid Testing of Promising Ideas

Analysis Learning


Ideas = Fuel for Growth

• Full team participation (engineering, marketing, ops, etc.)

• All funnel elements (AARRRR)

• Ideas written as hypotheses


Focus & Prioritization

• Growth lead owns focus (North Star, OKR, etc.)

• Hypotheses are scored and sized

• Growth team nominates experiments for testing


Disciplined Tempo

• Commit to weekly testing velocity (start small)

• Weekly growth meeting to plan and launch ‘sprints’

• Right-size tests to hit desired tempo

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Must learn something from every test.

Learning must be accessible.

Process in Action

Moved Email collector from bottom to top

Result: 700% Increase in collected emails

It’s hard to predict test quality


Process in ActionRun double-down tests

+22.1% sign ups +44.5% sign ups


High Tempo Drives Growth

Started high tempo testing


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