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The growth marketing blog

Long-form, practical articles for founders and growth teams. Each one walks through a method step by step, with templates, pitfalls and related reading.

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LaunchCommunity

Launching on Product Hunt: A Calm, Practical Plan

A practical plan for launching a SaaS product on Product Hunt: preparation, assets, launch-day workflow, community etiquette and turning attention into activated users.

October 8, 20266 min read
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RetentionLifecycle

Churn Reduction Messaging: What to Say Before Customers Leave

A guide to churn reduction messaging for SaaS: spotting risk signals, writing re-engagement emails, designing a fair cancellation flow and handling failed payments.

September 24, 20266 min read
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AutomationTools

Building a No-Code Marketing Automation Stack for a Small Team

How small SaaS teams can assemble a reliable no-code marketing automation stack: data capture, a source of truth, messaging, workflow glue, monitoring and governance.

September 10, 20266 min read
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Growth loopsReferral

Referral Loops: Designing Growth That Compounds

How SaaS referral and invitation loops work, the levers that make them compound, how to design incentives responsibly and how to measure loop health.

August 27, 20266 min read
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AnalyticsRetention

Cohort Analysis Basics for Growth Marketers

Learn how to build and read a retention cohort table, choose the right cohort definition and use cohorts to judge onboarding, channels and pricing changes.

August 13, 20266 min read
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AnalyticsAttribution

Attribution Models Explained Without the Hype

A plain-language guide to marketing attribution models: first-touch, last-touch, linear, time-decay, position-based and data-driven, plus their limits.

July 30, 20266 min read
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CROPricing

Pricing Page CRO: A Practical Checklist for SaaS Teams

A checklist for improving SaaS pricing page conversion: plan structure, clarity of value metrics, risk reducers, comparison tables and research methods.

July 16, 20266 min read
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Product-led growthAnalytics

Activation Metrics: Finding the Moment New Users Get Value

What activation means for SaaS products, how to choose and validate an activation metric, and how to use it to focus onboarding and growth work.

July 2, 20266 min read
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LifecycleEmail

Designing an Onboarding Email Sequence for SaaS Trials

How to plan, write and trigger a SaaS onboarding email sequence that guides trial users to their first meaningful outcome instead of flooding their inbox.

June 18, 20266 min read
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ExperimentationA/B testing

How to Write an Experiment Hypothesis That Actually Teaches You Something

A practical template for writing growth experiment hypotheses: the observation, the change, the expected effect, the metric and the reasoning that makes a test worth running.

June 4, 20267 min read
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