Andrew Chen

AUGUST 8, 2022

They have big advantages over paid marketing channels, in that you give your CAC to your users, who then spend it within your product, as opposed to handing it over to Google or Facebook. It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s worth adding to complement other marketing efforts. Target : All Airbnb users.

A/B Testing 94

A/B Testing Marketing B2B ROI 94

Vantage Circle

MARCH 13, 2019

This means you can modify your content in real time and don’t have to create new content from square one if your digital marketing campaign is not driving results. Here’s the golden quote by digital marketing guru Neil Patel, “Don’t optimize for conversations, optimize for revenue.”. One way of achieving this is through A/B testing.

Advertising 40

Advertising A/B Testing Marketing Media 40

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

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. My previous background up to that point was in user acquisition and ad tech, and I was making the pivot to consumer products. There was a lot to learn. This is great.

Metrics 111

Metrics Scaling Marketing Media 111

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Aside from the historically tight labor market for these skills, it’s also tricky to have a simple answer to the question. For example, Zoom’s videoconferencing network can work with just two people, whereas Airbnb’s requires hundreds of active rental listings in a market to become stable. Escape Velocity.

Scaling 82

Scaling Marketing Recruitment B2B 82

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

I’ve had folks over to 1455 Market St, the headquarters of Uber, and I’ve reciprocated with visits to the Airbnb offices too. Importantly, both companies are tremendous growth stories, and have needed to grow both demand but especially supply in all of their markets globally. Promote it throughout the user experience.

User Experience 111

User Experience Retention Marketing Travel 111

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

I’ve had folks over to 1455 Market St, the headquarters of Uber, and I’ve reciprocated with visits to the Airbnb offices too. Importantly, both companies are tremendous growth stories, and have needed to grow both demand but especially supply in all of their markets globally. Promote it throughout the user experience.

User Experience 48

User Experience Retention Marketing Travel 48

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

You have to figure out the macro organizational issues – how it fits in with marketing, product, and other functions – as well as the micro, like how to measure the success of these teams. What’s the difference between growth and marketing/product/whatever? Dear readers, Building a new growth team is hard.

A/B Testing 110

A/B Testing Engineering Marketing User Experience 110