Growth // Codex Newsletter
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Produce // Promote // Profit
Better // Smarter
Welcome back Misfit, in this issue, we take another look at a Growth Hackers’ favorite tool, leverage.
What do you consider leverage?
Time, experience, and several people who make pretty damn good power moves have taught us that there are three great levers we’ll explore in this issue
- People
- Capital
- Tech
So let’s get right into it shall we
First things first, taking a look at improving how & what we
Produce //
Pro tip:
People have a strong tendency to go along with the status quo or default option. — Excerpt: Nudge, Improving Decisions // Richard Thaler
Three things kill a company
- Market fit
- Leadership
- Hustle porn
Last week, as I visited a Barnes & Noble for the first time in months, I was reminded why Amazon is eating their lunch — At first glance, they’re doing what textbooks would define as good
But they don’t measure what matters to the customer — prices are higher there than Amazon, selections limited, and that’s before we even get into their Nook tech
What do you measure?
As we speak we’re tackling a cool new project where there was this awesome thing made, but because they went about promoting it the same way as always, it hardly reached anyone
While we are set off on improving how it’s promoted, here what they did right (and why we agreed to work with them)
The creators were awesome at using these questions in their creation process to stay focused (copy and paste them in your notes app 😉 )
- When do your customers reach the end result?
- Does this apply to all our customers?
- Is this moment measurable?
- What’s the best frequency for them? (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)
- Do external factors have an impact?
If you’ve checked out the previous issues, we’ve mentioned that when you’re creating something for customers – it behooves you to put yourself in their shoes, see life through their eyes
You’re selling the transformation, the features, and all that is just the “guts” the “engine” of it all
If it’s a movie, the names might attract them, but how they felt watching it is what makes it a classic, same with food, tech, cars, etc
People aren’t buying your features, they’re buying what your creation does for them
Alright now, save this in your notes app and let’s get moving over to improving how we
Promote //
Pro tip:
Everything.must.be.said.again
and again, and then again, again
Getting found by your people is a whole new game these days and will only keep going this route for the next 5 years minimum
Why?
Because people have fallen into silos, echo chambers and play on an algorithm that rewards the behavior
One of our major goals is to not have to spend any money on IG // FB ads – ZERO
Why?
Cause it’s a fcuking racket! Double dipping
Why it matters
As more and more people pile into social media platforms, it also skews things — here what I mean
Take IG // FB for example, you play and post on a platform
You gain an audience
You hit a wall, so you pay to reach more people
You hit another wall, they’ve now throttled your reach
So you pay to reach more of the people who follow you
But there’s a better way
Explore what you’re people want and why it matters to them. Anything else is hustling backwards
https://twitter.com/nerdgonerogue_/status/1387157877568196612?s=21
What this means for you
Look, it is what it is, for the foreseeable future, these platforms are popular, yes
But the only game in town? Nope
Take content, for example, we pick an evergreen topic, and then it becomes something like a blog or IG post, but then it gets repurposed as a
- Tweetstorm
- YouTube video
- Medium article
- Podcast episode
- Instagram story
- Reddit post
- Quora answer
- LinkedIn article
Create once, distribute as many times as people show interest and need
Get started this week:
Here are some types of posts you can start trying this week
- Debunk a myth
- Meme: if you suck @ memes, share your favorite ones and tag the creator when possible
- Share a behind the scenes look
- Poke a big bear (Growth // Haxx does this with big corps, shitty CEO’s and bullies)
You get the point right?
P.S. We’ve added a whole lot of bells and whistles to what we’re bringing you, including an all-new dashboard that prioritizes
- Connecting with your customers where they are
- Shows you your online reputation
- Helps you track what keywords you rank for (both good and bad)
- Get your product into the right hands
- Oh and before we forget, you can schedule posts to IG, FB Linkedin, and Twitter
Learn more about the upcoming Media // Maven here
Now, let’s move on to improving how we
Profit //
Pro tip:
If there’s anything growing up in certain… elements has taught me, it’s to watch my ass and keep my head on a swivel, but not just for the bad stuff, the great stuff too.
There was this bodega owned by a Dominican dude that was so damn proud of his business. He treated that place like it was his Taj Mahal
He taught us, kids, to start writing out what it looks like to have you want and tell yourself you deserve it
Then, I met a pusher gone legit
It would take years to translate what he meant, but what he learned and applied was the following
- Compartmentalization
- Sales
- Research
- First-principles theory
He owned a pen factory that netted him $1.5mil a year!
Don’t overthink it, just start
Here, for example, is a way one of our colleagues, Orlando Gomez found a cool way to break into tech
I, for example, am expanding on some projects so naturally, have to brush up on some other skills, like SQL, here are some of the free resources I’ve found and am enjoying
Oracle Dev Gym has these online classes (with certificates of completion)
Did I mention it’s free?
Some more for your consideration
Sh*t I Tell Myself I Need:
Hate Podcasts? So do we, here are the ones that made the cut
Want to meet your people halfway? Engage more customers? Advertise with Us
Alright now, this was fun, if you find yourself stuck at any moment, don’t hesitate to let us know on our Twitter or Instagram
Till next time, stay blessed bitchachos, here’s to escaping average
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