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Growth Hacker is a leading podcast series where we explore the latest trends and strategies in growth hacking and marketing. In each episode, we share insights and tips on how to grow your business, audience, and brand. Whether you are a startup founder, a marketer, or a curious learner, this podcast will help you discover new ways to optimize your growth and achieve your goals. Growth Hacker is brought to you by Growth Hacker Inc, which is the brainchild of Aditya Basu. Blog: https://growth.adityabasu.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/growthhacker-inc

Episodes

  1. The Ultimate Guide to Building High-Converting Growth Loops

    JUL 15

    The Ultimate Guide to Building High-Converting Growth Loops

    How to Build High-Converting Growth Loops Stop pouring money into the leaky bucket of marketing funnels. Learn how to build sustainable, compounding growth loops that turn your existing users into your primary acquisition channel. For decades, the marketing funnel has been the dominant metaphor for growth. You pour prospects in the top, and after a series of steps—Awareness, Interest, Decision, Action—a customer trickles out the bottom. The problem? The process is a leaky bucket. You spend money to acquire a user, and then they're gone. To grow, you must constantly spend more to fill the bucket again. But what if your users weren't the output of your process, but the fuel for it? What if every new user brought you the next cohort of users, creating a self-sustaining, compounding growth engine? This is the fundamental mindset shift from funnels to loops. While funnels produce linear, depleting returns, growth loops are closed systems that generate exponential, compounding growth. They are the hidden engines behind the fastest-growing products in the world, from TikTok to Pinterest to Slack. Companies that successfully engineer growth loops into their products don't just grow faster; they build a sustainable, defensible competitive advantage because their growth is an output of user engagement, not marketing spend. Many founders and marketers think of growth in linear terms, missing the opportunity to build these powerful systems. This guide will deconstruct that thinking. We will dissect the core components of any successful loop, analyze the different types with real-world examples from tech giants, provide a step-by-step framework for designing your own, and show you precisely how to measure and optimize its performance. Go to Article: ⁠The Ultimate Guide to Building High-Converting Growth Loops Growth Hacker: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Growth Hacker⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn Home: ⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠ Aditya Basu: ⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠ : ⁠⁠⁠⁠Thought Collective⁠⁠ : ⁠⁠Profile⁠

    26 min
  2. A Deep Dive Beyond Performance Marketing Vanity Metrics

    JUL 11

    A Deep Dive Beyond Performance Marketing Vanity Metrics

    Performance Marketing Attribution Models Still using Last-Click attribution? You're making budget decisions with flawed data. This deep dive explores advanced attribution models that reveal your true marketing ROI and prepare you for a cookieless world. More than a century ago, department store pioneer John Wanamaker famously lamented, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." In an age of unprecedented data, we should have solved his problem. We have the tools to track every click, view, and conversion. Yet, for a vast number of marketers, Wanamaker's dilemma is as real today as it was in the 1800s. The culprit is a flawed, outdated, yet stubbornly persistent measurement model: Last-Click attribution. Most marketing analytics platforms, including older versions of Google Analytics, defaulted to this model, which gives 100% of the credit for a conversion to the final touchpoint in a customer's journey. This is like watching a full season of football and giving the Super Bowl trophy only to the player who scored the final touchdown, ignoring the quarterback's passes, the offensive line's blocking, and the defense's critical stops. It's a gross oversimplification. Modern customer journeys are complex, meandering paths, not straight lines. Research from Google shows that some purchase journeys can involve over 500 digital touchpoints. By only measuring the last one, marketers are systematically overvaluing bottom-of-the-funnel channels (like branded search) and undervaluing the crucial top-of-funnel work (like content, social media, and video ads) that initiated the journey in the first place. This isn't just an academic issue; it leads to disastrous budget allocation, penalizing the very channels that create new demand. This article will demystify the world of marketing attribution. We will expose the multi-billion dollar lie of Last-Click, provide a clear, jargon-free breakdown of the six most important attribution models, guide you on how to choose and implement the right one for your business, and arm you with the strategies needed to maintain accurate measurement in a privacy-first, cookieless future. Go to Article: A Deep Dive Beyond Performance Marketing Vanity Metrics Growth Hacker: ⁠⁠⁠Growth Hacker⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn Home: ⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠ Aditya Basu: ⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠ : ⁠⁠⁠Thought Collective⁠ : ⁠Profile⁠

    31 min
  3. The Product-Led Growth (PLG) Playbook [GrowthHacker]

    JUL 5

    The Product-Led Growth (PLG) Playbook [GrowthHacker]

    How to Turn Your Product into Your Primary Acquisition Channel Ditch the expensive, outdated sales-led model. This playbook provides a step-by-step framework for implementing Product-Led Growth (PLG), turning your product into a sustainable, high-converting acquisition engine. In the relentless world of SaaS, a single metric is beginning to cast a long shadow over boardrooms and budget meetings: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). For years, the default playbook has been to spend more on sales and marketing. But as channels become more saturated and expensive, this sales-led growth (SLG) model is showing its age. Companies are spending more to acquire each new customer, a trend that puts a dangerous strain on capital and stifles growth. However, a new class of high-growth companies has shattered this paradigm. Businesses like Slack, Calendly, and Dropbox have achieved massive scale not by outspending the competition, but by building a growth engine directly into their product. They belong to the school of Product-Led Growth (PLG), a go-to-market strategy that leverages the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion. The results speak for themselves. According to a 2023 report from OpenView Partners, PLG companies exhibit a median annual growth rate of 35% compared to just 26% for their non-PLG counterparts, all while spending significantly less on traditional sales and marketing. The transition to PLG is more than just offering a free trial; it requires a fundamental shift in mindset, metrics, and team structure. It's about systematically engineering an experience where users can discover value on their own terms, turning engagement into advocacy. This episode will serve as your comprehensive playbook for making that shift. We will deconstruct the PLG model, identify the core metrics you must track to measure success, and detail how to engineer the critical "Aha!" moments that turn casual users into devoted fans. We will also break down successful case studies from PLG titans and provide a framework for building a growth team that is oriented around the product, not just the funnel. Go to Article: The Product-Led Growth (PLG) Playbook Growth Hacker: ⁠⁠Growth Hacker⁠⁠ LinkedIn Home: ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ Aditya Basu: ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ : ⁠⁠Thought Collective : Profile

    17 min
  4. Using Gamification and Rewards to Increase User Engagement

    05/21/2023

    Using Gamification and Rewards to Increase User Engagement

    Learn to design effective and engaging gamification elements for your website or app. Gamification is the use of game-like elements in non-game contexts. It can be used to engage users, motivate them to take action, and make them feel like they are part of something bigger. Gamification can be used in a variety of settings, including marketing, education, and healthcare. Go to Article: Using Gamification and Rewards to Increase User Engagement Growth Hacker: ⁠Growth Hacker⁠ LinkedIn Home: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Aditya Basu: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ : ⁠Thought Collective

    27 min
  5. Using Webinars and Podcasts to Increase Sales

    05/18/2023

    Using Webinars and Podcasts to Increase Sales

    Tips and tricks for engaging your audience with webinars and podcasts. Webinars and podcasts are two powerful tools that businesses can use to generate leads and sales. By producing and promoting high-quality niche webinars and podcasts on their area of expertise and operations, businesses can reach a wider audience, establish themselves as thought leaders in their industry, and build relationships with potential customers. Go to Article: Using Webinars and Podcasts to Increase SalesGrowth Hacker: ⁠Growth Hacker⁠ LinkedIn Home: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Aditya Basu: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ : ⁠Thought Collective⁠

    14 min
  6. Demystifying ATL, BTL and TTL Marketing

    05/17/2023

    Demystifying ATL, BTL and TTL Marketing

    What are the various types of marketing activities and how do they relate to each other? When it comes to Advertising and Marketing you must have come across the terms ATL, BTL and TTL and wondered what the terms actually mean? So, let's try to understand what these Marketing Terms stand for and how they are different from each other. Go to Article: Demystifying ATL, BTL and TTL Marketing Growth Hacker: Growth Hacker LinkedIn Home: LinkedIn Aditya Basu: LinkedIn : Thought Collective

    22 min
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Growth Hacker is a leading podcast series where we explore the latest trends and strategies in growth hacking and marketing. In each episode, we share insights and tips on how to grow your business, audience, and brand. Whether you are a startup founder, a marketer, or a curious learner, this podcast will help you discover new ways to optimize your growth and achieve your goals. Growth Hacker is brought to you by Growth Hacker Inc, which is the brainchild of Aditya Basu. Blog: https://growth.adityabasu.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/growthhacker-inc

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  • Creator
    Growth Hacker Inc
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    6
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    Clean
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