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Beyond The Blog Growth Hacking Tactics for Dev-Facing Startups Hiten Shah [email protected]

Hiten Shah on Growth Hacking and Developer Marketing

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KISSMetrics cofounder Hiten Shah is known as a content marketer and growth hacker. At a recent Heavybit Speaker Series, Hiten offered some interesting insights into how entrepreneurs can best engage developers. Rather than creating more traditional assets like blog posts or white papers, Shah tells founders to let the type of product lead the tactics you choose. This Heavybit Speaker Series presentation highlights a number of Github-centric tactics. Video available here: http://www.heavybit.com/library/developer-marketing/video/2014-09-23-hiten-shah

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Beyond The Blog Growth Hacking Tactics for Dev-Facing Startups !

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Hiten Shah [email protected]

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DOING  BUSINESS  ON  THE  WEB  FOR  

11  YEARS

FINDING  AND  SOLVING  MARKETING  PROBLEMS

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My  B2B  Businesses  Have  Had  

41,525,103  Visits  Since  2003

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MarkeBng  Was  a  Silo

2008

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Started  in  2008

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SEO  and  SEM  (Search  MarkeBng)

HTTP://KISS.LY/NRSEARCH

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Blogging

HTTP://BLOG.NEWRELIC.COM

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Resources

HTTP://NEWRELIC.COM/RESOURCES

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Partners

HTTP://KISS.LY/NRPAGERDUTY

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Banner  Ads  and  Free  Stuff

HTTP://KISS.LY/NRDATANERD

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Product + Marketing =

Growth

Today

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HTTP://WWW.COELEVATE.COM/ESSAYS/GROWTH-VS-MARKETING-VS-PRODUCT

Growth  influences  all  layers  of  the  funnel

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HTTP://WWW.COELEVATE.COM/ESSAYS/GROWTH-VS-MARKETING-VS-PRODUCT

Focus  is  on  growth  rate

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HTTP://WWW.COELEVATE.COM/ESSAYS/GROWTH-VS-MARKETING-VS-PRODUCT

Growth  vs.  Product

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HTTP://SURVEY.IO

Find  your  product’s  core  value

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Growth  Strategy

Content  MarkeBng  and  Freemium  are  the  best  B2B  strategies  that  keep  on  giving.

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Show,  Don’t  Tell.

Growth  Strategy

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Repeatable  and  Scalable

Growth  Strategy

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Content  Marke7ng

Where  do  your  developers  hangout?

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Meetups

HTTP://MEETUP.COM

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Hackathons

HTTP://KISS.LY/HACKATHONS

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Hacker  News

HTTP://NEWS.YCOMBINATOR.COM

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Stack  Overflow

HTTP://STACKOVERFLOW.COM

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GitHub

HTTP://GITHUB.COM

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GitHub  has  over  10  million  repositories!

HTTP://KISS.LY/GITHUB10MM

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GitHub  Archive

HTTP://WWW.GITHUBARCHIVE.ORG/

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GitHub  +  Google  BigQuery

HTTP://KISS.LY/GHBIGQUERY

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✓    Guides  ★  GitHub  Guides  

✓    Courses  ★  Segment.io’s  Analy6cs  Academy  

✓  Calculators  ★  Pardot’s  ROI  Calculator  

✓    Quizzes  ★  Crew’s  HowMuchToMakeAnApp.com  

✓    Analyzers  ★  QuickSprout  Website  Analyzer

Rich  content  examples

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Product  Type  Influences  MarkeBng

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 Infrastructure    Allows  developers  to  get  apps  into  produc6on  !

 Plaaorm    Enables  developers  to  create  faster        Tool    Helps  developers  do  their  jobs

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Infrastructure  Allows  developers  to  get  apps  into  produc6on

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Infrastructure

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Subdomains  &  Tutorials

Infrastructure

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Parse  Tutorials

HTTP://PARSE.COM/TUTORIALS

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Parse  on  Github

HTTP://GITHUB.COM/PARSEPLATFORM

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Anypic  -­‐  800+  stars  /  400+  forks

HTTP://GITHUB.COM/PARSEPLATFORM/ANYPIC

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AnyWall  -­‐  200+  stars  /  150+  forks

HTTP://GITHUB.COM/PARSEPLATFORM/ANYWALL

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Todo  -­‐  150+  stars  /  150+  forks

HTTP://GITHUB.COM/PARSEPLATFORM/TODO

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Plaaorm  Enables  developers  to  create  faster

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Pla?orm

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Speed  of  Use  &  IntegraBons

Pla?orm

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Stripe  Checkout

HTTPS://STRIPE.COM/CHECKOUT

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Moar  Libraries

HTTPS://WWW.TWILIO.COM/DOCS/LIBRARIES

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Open  Sourced  Use  Cases

HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/KEENLABS/DASHBOARD-STARTER-KIT

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API-­‐Based  Use  Cases

HTTP://KISS.LY/SENDKEEN

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RubyGems

HTTP://KISS.LY/STARTINTERCOM

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Tool  Helps  developers  do  their  jobs

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Tool

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Onboarding  and  Ease  of  Use

Tool

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User  Onboarding

HTTPS://WWW.USERONBOARD.COM

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Sign  up  with  GitHub…

HTTP://CODECLIMATE.COM

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Sign  in  with  Google…

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URL  First

HTTP://HELLOBAR.COM

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KISSmetrics  Case  Study

HTTP://KISSMETRICS.COM

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Winning  A/B  Test  VariaBons

HTTP://KISSMETRICS.COM

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HTTP://WWW.USERONBOARD.COM/FEATURES-VS-BENEFITS/

People  don't  buy  products;    they  buy  beier  versions  of  themselves.

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Conclusion

Make  it  as  easy  as  possible  for  people  to  use  your  product.

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Hiten  Shah  [email protected]  

@hnshah  !

How  can  I  help  you?