Have you ever searched for All the Marketing Tactics known to human kind in one post?

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We curated the best marketing growth strategies from a selection of 2105 articles and the top 100 growth hackers.

All the marketing tactics you’ll ever need are here!

We have tested some of these marketing growth strategies and if executed properly, they have the power to hack, I mean literally hack your business’s growth.

Before you start, make sure to track your progress. Growth hackers eat, breath and love metrics!

Setup (if you haven’t) Google Analytics to track traffic customer activation data. Then we will need Kissmetrics or Mixpanel to gather data about conversion funnel. This is a cool bonus tool called HotJar – if you are in early stage, this tool helps to make video recordings of your customer experience on the page to spot bugs.

Pick one of the marketing growth strategies, execute, measure, improve and automate.

Simple as that.

Along the way test your assumptions based on your data and see how wrong (or right) you actually were.

For easy access, we have divided marketing growth strategies into 5 convenient AARRR sections – pirates and growth hackers love ’em!!

If you are not sure what’s AARRR, Dave Mclure will explain.

Pick a hack!

Acquisition Growth Hacks

Reach the right person every time – the best email hack Cost: 0$ (the good stuff starts at 49$ per month);

0$ (the good stuff starts at 49$ per month); Marketing Tactics type: Small volume but high conversion rate hack;

Small volume but high conversion rate hack; Expected outcome: Increase email amount and reach for email marketing;

Increase email amount and reach for email marketing; Difficulty level: Easy; This is great! With this hack, you can export employee emails created for any company’s domain. You can even see how active the emails are. This tool can do wonders for B2B business sales. Step by step approach: Gather the list of companies that could be your potential customers (& their domain names). Signup to hunter.io. Check on Linkedin to make sure you are reaching out to the right person – in the email, use a personal detail. Depending on your sales cycle you can reach the top decision maker with the first email. Note: this is your chance to create a carefully crafted corporate email campaign – do not spam.

this is your chance to create a carefully crafted corporate email campaign – Credit for this one goes to Vincent Dignan from Magnific.

Get your tool on every Product Hunt alike page Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: High volume & high ROI hack;

High volume & high ROI hack; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic and customer feedback;

Increase in traffic and customer feedback; Difficulty level: Easy; Product Hunt can get you off to a good start. It’s a good one. Here are 14 more product directories where your tool must be. Free and with large audiences – a must try for early stage startups! Step by step approach: Betalist, Designer News, Lifehacker app directory, Chrome Webstore, Hacker News, StumbleUpon, Reddit, GrowthHackers, HackerNews, Inbound.org, BizSugar, Voat.co, Tumblr. Don’t treat this like a 5-minute task – these tools can be extremely powerful. Put some effort into it and ROI can be tremendous. Example: Read how IDoneThis did go from 0 to 5 000 users. To amplify the results remember you have to get as many upvotes as possible in the first 24 hours – share on SM.

Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Low volume but high conversion hack;

Low volume but high conversion hack; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic and trustworthiness;

Increase in traffic and trustworthiness; Difficulty level: Medium (hard to scale); In the realm of Growth Hacking, everyone is familiar with Sujan Patel’s work. This fella was able to generate 513 leads just by commenting on blog posts. Not spamming, nor link building but building credibility and delivering value (so they come back for more). Step by step approach: First of all find the relevant blog posts, Google – “blog posts headline” inurl:blog. Only high-quality blog posts are worth your time – Either check how many comments the post has and if it’s more than 5-10, go ahead and find how you can add value.

Or, use Moz extension to track site’s Domain Authority and comment to sites with DA above 20. You can also comment on the most popular & relevant Slideshare presentations as well as on Amazon book reviews. Here you can learn from Sujan Patel himself.

Tell your story on Podcasts Cost: 0$;

0$; GH type: Medium to high volume;

Medium to high volume; Expected outcome: Increase in awareness and understanding of your product or service OR building your brand image;

Increase in awareness and understanding of your product or service OR building your brand image; Difficulty level: Medium; The Graph was made by the good people of Copyblogger. In the past 2 years the percentage of people listening to Podcasts has rocketed – this is one of the best channels that can help you build your brand or share the “WHY?” of what you sell. Step by step approach: The growth of this storytelling approach has been tremendous. Podcasts are no longer the low-quality basement talks but shows that can influence your career. 1 out of every ~6 people you see on the street is listening to podcasts. Search for “(your industry) inurl:/podcast/” on Google. Start scheduling the podcasts Make sure they mention the company’s name and/or yours in the title and during the podcast. Here‘s everything you should know about the podcast as a hack and how to use it.

Be part of a Youtube channel (SEO tips included) Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Low to high volume and eventually high ROI;

Low to high volume and eventually high ROI; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic and trustworthiness;

Increase in traffic and trustworthiness; Difficulty level: Easy; What’s the main difference between video creation on Youtube and blogging? Videos gain popularity over time but blog posts lose it. Moreover, Youtube is the world’s 2nd largest search engine and you are not there.? Step by step approach: One tip I have heard pretty much summarizes the “Youtube success” (if you can follow it 99.99% of the time you will succeed): “Keep uploading!” – CaseyNeistat. Before he reached 3M subscribers, he uploaded a video for EVERY SINGLE DAY. For 3 years straight. That’s hustling. Gather a group of 3-5 friends and make it happen: There are 5 types of videos you can choose between – tips, product demos, testimonials, webinars & vlogs.

Having a video in your newsletter, blog post or facebook post facilitates engagement and CTR.

FYI: time spent on your page is an SEO ranking factor and videos usually increase that. Ultimate guide how to create successful Youtube channel here but Youtube SEO is summarized in this Slideshare (the good stuff starts from slide 16).

Brag when your customers love you Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Low volume/low cost;

Low volume/low cost; Expected outcome: Increase in trustworthiness;

Increase in trustworthiness; Difficulty level: Easy; Got a good review, share it! Make it part of your SM strategy. Note: bad reviews will be part of your life – what matters is how you handle them, not how angry is the customer. Step by step approach: Put your page on one of the review pages: For local businesses: Yelp or Google my business;

For products: Amazon reviews, Which, Facebook reviews and Trustpilot; Get the review listing in front of your users and share your “fame”.

Create a daily challenge Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Low volume/low cost;

Low volume/low cost; Expected outcome: Increase in trustworthiness and builds your brand;

Increase in trustworthiness and builds your brand; Difficulty level: Medium; I read about a designer, fresh off the college, with very little experience who started creating Logo a day for big brands. Mark Cuban was one of his first targets. Each day the logo price grew by 1$ (1st day = 1$, etc.) soon reaching solid pay per hour. Step by step approach: Figure out what will create value for others. Create clever GIFs, add a backlink a day, landing pages, newsletters, infographics with great design– pick one! Come up with a time-frame and easy to understand pricing mechanism. Show what you have to offer to the most important influencers in the selected industry. Start free. Keep creating until it takes off and don’t give up. To get started join this daily logo challenge or any other on the WWW.

Create a research of why your product works Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Low volume and high conversion hack;

Low volume and high conversion hack; Expected outcome: Shows the need for your product;

Shows the need for your product; Difficulty level: Medium; Create a painkiller – pour some salt in the wound and then show you are the cure. Step by step approach: Take your product and actually prove that it can do the stuff you are promising. Get social proof from other customers and put it in numbers. Show what improved, by how much, and how your product helped. Put the findings on one easy to understand A4. Share it, email it, print it, distribute it. Make sure to get it in front of your target audience. These papers are called whitepapers and they are the best sales decks. Here‘s a Wiki-how approach for creating a whitepaper.

Build your brand with PR Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Potentially high volume;

Potentially high volume; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic, and build your brand image;

Increase in traffic, and build your brand image; Difficulty level: Medium; For bloggers and journalists, their name is one of the most precious assets. Whenever you get a smaller publication to write for you, your brand gains recognition and you can aim for bigger & bigger publications. Step by step approach: Start by pitching your service or product to publicists in your field with 3-5k followers and each time you get a publication – double the follower count. To get in touch with influencers you can use tools like Ninjaoutreach or Headreach. Prepare a great “WHY?” someone should write about you before reaching out – you beat the odds, great track record, offer a freebie if they write about you, etc.

Get free PR – make others write for you Cost: 0$ (Yes, it can be free);

0$ (Yes, it can be free); Marketing Tactics type: Low to high volume;

Low to high volume; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic and brand awareness;

Increase in traffic and brand awareness; Difficulty level: Medium; Help a reporter out – get them a story. It’s a win-win: you, an interesting and charismatic entrepreneur (sell yourself), he/she, a reporter looking for a story. It’s a perfect match. I was surprised but most of the time demand is higher than supply. Step by step approach: There must be something that can WOW a reader and thus be a reason for someone to write about you. Figure out what is this 1 thing. When you are starting out, it’s a numbers game – bigger outreach scope can produce better results and there are a lot of free sites that want your story: HARO – this is a classic one. It’s free but for 19$/month gives you better visibility.

MyBlogU – Contribute to a story, share a quote or help journalists to brainstorm. Easy to contribute & for most parts it’s free.

PRnewswire – Put your press release up for grabs. Top site.

More sites – Source Bottle, Muck Rack, Media Kitty, and Journo Requests.

Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: High volume and medium CR;

High volume and medium CR; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic, customer satisfaction and social proof;

Increase in traffic, customer satisfaction and social proof; Difficulty level: Hard; Imagine if Salesforce, Evernote or other cloud tools would offer integration with your tool. That would be pretty neat, right? That would get your tool in front of their customers and the other way around. Step by step approach: Think from the customer’s point of view and try to imagine what service could add to your company. Let’s say you have an SEO keyword research tool, integration with on-page SEO analysis tool would makes a lot of sense, right? A huge gain for your customers. Follow the sales basics, reach out to decision makers, schedule meetings, negotiate and hopefully in a couple of months you will have a deal.

Invest in video marketing – “why?” will surprise you Cost: 0$ if you re-post – 10$++ if you create;

0$ if you re-post – 10$++ if you create; Marketing Tactics type: Low to high volume and high CR;

Low to high volume and high CR; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic and customer engagement;

Increase in traffic and customer engagement; Difficulty level: Medium to hard; This hack explains why you are making a mistake by not putting a bigger focus on video marketing. Why? Data published by Adelie Studies is mind blowing: Social video generates 1200% more shares than text and images combined ;

; Having a video on the landing page increases conversion rate by 80%;

Sharing a video on Facebook directly instead of through Youtube will have 10x the reach.

62% of Google searches include videos and videos give 157% increase in organic traffic.

Start your own Meetup – interactive way to get emails Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Low volume but high CR;

Low volume but high CR; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic and create personal connections;

Increase in traffic and create personal connections; Difficulty level: Keep it simple; Meetups are a great way to interact with others who love the activities you enjoy. Moreover, friends come and go but meetup groups stay (as well as their emails). Step by step approach: Figure out how your brand, company or tool can benefit from a meetup: Knowledge sharing, informal promotion campaign or a case study with meetup that’s quick and most probably in a bar with a beer in your hand. You can keep it simple and informal or use meetup as your platform for organizing a decent event. Later on, you get attendee emails to further engage with them.

Here‘s an ok guide that covers the basics.

Group your content into a book and sell it Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Medium to high volume;

Medium to high volume; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic;

Increase in traffic; Difficulty level: Easy; If content creation is a large part of your customer acquisition strategy there are high chances that you blog about different niches that are part of one bigger segment.? Step by step approach: Let’s say you are an accountant who posts about tax returns, preparing annual reports and invoicing. Most probably only accountants would ever consider reading your posts. But if you group them into an e-book and call it “Startup Accounting for Dummies” – you suddenly target much larger group of people. Group your posts, find which customer segment would be interested to read about it and market the content. Publish it (figure out if you can charge $$ or use it as a tool to get emails). Amazon Kindle offers great publishing tool. And here are 20 more publishing tools.

Create fun to do Surveys Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Low to medium volume and medium CR;

Low to medium volume and medium CR; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic, customer engagement and learn more about your customers;

Increase in traffic, customer engagement and learn more about your customers; Difficulty level: Easy to Medium; Everyone loves fun surveys. I have always wondered “Which GOT character” I am! With this marketing Marketing Tactics, you can learn more about your customers, create fun to do activity for them and generate quite a bit of a traffic while you are at it. Step by step approach: You will need a free online quiz and survey tool, such as LeadQuizzes, to engage your potential customers. They also have a free quiz maker guide to get you started. Involve celebrities and influencers – “see who else was a Jon Snow”, etc. Design for mobile first (71% participants come from mobile phones), pick a couple of acquisition marketing growth strategies and hack the quiz. Credit goes to Andrew Michael, full post here.

Free social media growth hacks

Use influencer marketing Cost: 0-50$ per post (discounts and freebies work the best);

0-50$ per post (discounts and freebies work the best); Marketing Tactics type: High volume and high CR;

High volume and high CR; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic and social proof;

Increase in traffic and social proof; Difficulty level: Easy; Social proof for us is a HUGE thing. When “important” person in our field will promote a product or service that often converts with ROI that’s well above 200%. Step by step approach: Go through Instagram and search for popular influencers in your industry. See what hashtags “belong” to the group you want to target.

Make sure to build your profile to be “one of them” and use “4-1-1” marketing technique to attract their attention. More often than not influencers will make it easy for you to contact them. There are also a couple of tools that can be used to find influencers: Fiverr, Boomopolis, Triberr and Ninjaoutreach (pricey but good). Here‘s a guide on Influencer marketing that made 4 000$ on the 1st day.

And here‘s how to use the Ninja tool for that purpose.

Sell on Pinterest with Rich Pins Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: High volume and low cost;

High volume and low cost; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic and sales;

Increase in traffic and sales; Difficulty level: Medium (Easy if you know the basics of CSS and HTML); Pinterest has 110 million active users and ~100 billion pins, moreover 71% users are female (more here). Pretty neat stats if your target group mainly consisting of women. Step by step approach: Rich Pins provides readers with an option to buy or see your product without even leaving Pinterest. You can even do the checkout within Pinterest.

Here‘s all the info you might need. The process of setting up Rich Pins might be a bit more technical if you are not familiar with HTML but thankfully now there are extensions that will do it for you: In WordPress Yoast SEO will do it for you and here‘s the video guide.

Yoast SEO will do it for you and here‘s the video guide. If your sales platform is Shopify this video is everything you need.

Help (never Spam) people on social media groups Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Low volume and high conversion hack;

Low volume and high conversion hack; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic and trustworthiness;

Increase in traffic and trustworthiness; Difficulty level: Medium (hard to scale); Imagine if instead of spamming people on social media groups you would help them! Matthew Woodward in his first year was able to make 76 000$. Step by step approach: Start by selecting the focus social media network (here‘s the age distribution between social media platforms). Find the relevant groups in your industry and add them to this sheet. Write down the problems these people are having, create tutorials and guide them to the solution (here‘s how Matthew did it).

Use social media 4-1-1 Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Medium volume and low conversion hack;

Medium volume and low conversion hack; Expected outcome: Increase social proof and traffic, if you play your cards right, you can go viral;

Increase social proof and traffic, if you play your cards right, you can go viral; Difficulty level: Easy; Give a meaning to your social media posts. According to Andrew Davis your social media routine should follow 4-1-1 principle. Step by step approach: Every 6 posts you post on social media should look exactly like this: 4 posts should be pieces of content targeting the influencers in your fields – re-posts or with tagging the influencers.

1 post should include original, educational content that you have created.

The last one should be sales oriented – discount coupons, cool deals, etc. Use Buffer or HootSuite to post the content. Or if you can afford Edgar (starts at 49€ per month), a couple of days ago invitation only policy were lifted.

Engage with Linkedin group users – that’s your golden goose of the feedback sessions Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Medium to high volume;

Medium to high volume; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic and social proof as well as an opportunity to engage to get constructive feedback;

Increase in traffic and social proof as well as an opportunity to engage to get constructive feedback; Difficulty level: Easy; There are more than 2.1m. groups on Linkedin with professionals who have several years of experience in their fields – they are eager to share their opinion, try new tools and some of those groups are “elite clubs”. All of these groups can be found in Linkedin by clicking Work icon, selecting Groups, and scrolling down to a Search bar to write relevant keywords. The active group members more often than not will also have their email address for your inquiries. These groups should not be spammed because ~50% of the professionals will share their opinion or test your tool, so don’t advertise but engage.

Benefit from WhatsApp’s 1 billion users Cost: 0$;

0$; Marketing Tactics type: Low to medium volume;

Low to medium volume; Expected outcome: Increase in traffic and customer engagement;

Increase in traffic and customer engagement; Difficulty level: Easy to Medium; WhatsApp has 1 billion active users and I am sure you are not advertising there. Time to change that. Step by step approach: First of all, Facebook doesn’t want you to advertise on WhatsApp so there is not an easy to set up solution. Create WhatsApp account, add all your customer mobile numbers to Google Contacts, Sync with your phone, head over to web.WhatsApp & create new broadcast (or a group). Check this infographic to avoid these 5 mistakes and an interesting article on WhatsApp advertising – here.

There are also bulk messaging options that I’m currently testing to see if they can be recommended.