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How to Build a Beloved Product Without Email Marketing

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But when we took a closer look, we discovered that, even if we scaled our email campaigns, the users who received our emails represented a measly 1% of our overall revenue. We launched our second campaign a week later, and the story got worse. have built products they think people want before they test that assumption.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

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Growth hacking is how Slack went from 15,000 to half a million daily users in its first year. It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. One year later, it had 500,000 daily users. via Observer ]. Image source.

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How to Model Your Marketing Against the Product Lifecycle

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Depending on its complexity, new product development can last for years, accruing research, prototyping, and production costs without bringing in revenue. For this reason, it could be a good idea to get a minimum viable product (MVP) as early as possible to show how your product will work to investors and customers.

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