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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Growth hacking is a practice that aims to acquire as many customers as possible while spending as little money as possible. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing. What is growth hacking?

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How to Use Smoke Tests to Validate Your Product or Feature Ideas

ConversionXL

There, a smoke test is the process of running test cases involving the “important functionality of a component or system, to ascertain if crucial functions of the software work correctly” Using this definition, smoke tests address questions like… Does the program run? Does clicking the key functionality do anything?

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How to Become an Entrepreneur With No Money or Experience

Hubspot

If you can offer an existing product at a lower price point, better quality, or ideally, both, you'll have plenty of customers. Ask everyone to come prepared to discuss a certain product category or question, such as, "What's your favorite type of X and why?" Doing interviews with potential customers is another option.