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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

The headline best practice is that your referral program should target new users to refer their friends — this means prompting users during their initial onboarding flows, and adding emails as part of the onboarding, among other surface areas. Why focus on new users? The Payback.

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From Clicks To Converts; Maximise Your Digital Advertisement Outputs In 2020

Vantage Circle

Users generally won’t search your site for the item they’re looking for. A designated landing page will not only increase your chances of conversion but also provides the best user experience. The ad is compelling and motivates the user to click. One way of achieving this is through A/B testing.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

This includes call-outs in the top level nav, in the footer of every screen, and sprinkled throughout the user experience. If your product requires word-of-mouth to convince most people to start using it, you can engineer more growth by building an incentivized referrals program. Promote it throughout the user experience.

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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth

Andrew Chen

For example, the Acquisition Effect is powered by viral growth and the user experience that compels one set of users to invite their others into the network. Or if you just put X engineers on Y product optimizations, then the growth rate increases by Z. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!),

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

This includes call-outs in the top level nav, in the footer of every screen, and sprinkled throughout the user experience. If your product requires word-of-mouth to convince most people to start using it, you can engineer more growth by building an incentivized referrals program. Promote it throughout the user experience.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

Of course, as an investor you can’t run A/B tests or analyze results directly, but you can form hypotheses, ideate, and apply the same type of thinking. Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts. 3) And finally, to prioritize and make decisions that impact the future.

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How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides)

Andrew Chen

Many of the key levers for driving more user acquisition, retention, engagement, can sometimes sit outside the toolkit for most great product leaders. We’ve come to see that “design thinking” and “agile engineering” are their own systems of organizational structures, workflows, philosophies, and skillsets.