5 months of collecting the best growth/marketing hacks which actually worked for startups, giving away all 101 of them

My good friend /u/happyaladdin/ spent 5 months collecting the most effective growth hacks which actually worked for startups. He read books, blogs, articles, videos, podcasts, comments and compiled the best material into a newsletterwhich grew to 17K+ subscribers through invite only over this time period.

Today he is giving away all 101 of the best growth hacks, you can download the full list of TOP 101 growth/marketing hacks ebook today for FREE from Amazon

Here is a list of 10 growth hacks from the book:

1. Leveraging dead competitors

• Visit AlternativeTo.net to find a huge list of yourcompetitors.
• Check dead links using browser plugins (Check My Links, Domain Hunter) OR upload a list of URLs to Xenu orScreaming Frog.
• Google "link: deadcompetitor.com".
• Contact every website owner to alert them of a broken link and offer a relevant link of yours to replace it. Source: webris.org

2. Hack Product Hunt

• Do not submit by yourself! Reach out to influencers on PH.
• Make a win-win offer, ask to submit your website and mark you as the Maker. 
• Give a specific offer for PH members. 
• Comment quickly. Comments count as much as upvotes. 
• Notify your community, but do not ASK them to upvote. And do not give them a direct link to your product. Send them to the main page of Product Hunt instead. Otherwise you will be blocked. 
• Source: blog.roverlabs.co

3. The magic of headlines

• Headlines with numbers are 2x more likely to generate clicks vs. "how to" headlines, according to research by Conductor. And a study of 150 000 headlines revealed that odd-numbered headlines have a 20% better CTR than headlines with even numbers.
• In an analysis of over 3 million headlines, Outbrain found using [brackets] in a headline bumped up CTR by 38%.
• Source: backlinko.com

4. Parasite SEO (white hat)

• Mix guest posting + SEO. Authoritative websites can rank for highly competitive keywords much quicker than your low authority site.
• This article was published on Business News Daily. After only a few weeks, it ranked on page 1 (and still does) for the term ‘app maker’ (searched for over 22,000 times per month), amongst a number of other competitive keywords.
• Source: www.matthewbarby.com

5. Turn LinkedIn contacts into a list of emails

• There is a way to download all your LinkedIn contacts — names, email addresses, job titles, and companies — into a spreadsheet: https://www.linkedin.com/people/export-settings
• Yeah, it`s that simple :).
• Source: www.buzzfeed.com

6. How to impress VIP clients, journalists, investors

• Try to do it with super personalized Facebook ads:
• Click Ads tab -> Tools -> Audiences
• Create Audience -> Custom Audience -> Customer List -> Copy and paste your customer list
• Paste the email addresses, listed on their Facebook profiles.
• You need to add at least 30 entries.
• Create new ads, choose your custom audience, Optimize For: "Clicks To Website", Pricing: "Get the most website clicks at the best price". Voila.
• Source:mysocialsherpa.com

7. Hack ideas for the 2nd largest search engine

• Youtube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world. How can you find video ideas for your company and leverage this channel?
• Click "Source" below.
• Click "Find new keywords" - "Search for new keywords".
• Your product or service: [put in anything related to your product: fitness, travel, children, etc.]
• Keywords to include: how to, instruction, review, tutorial
• Press [Get ideas]
• Press [Keyword ideas]
• Rock on!
• Source: adwords.google.com

8. Hack Facebook ads

• First gain “Social proof” (~1000 likes) from Low demand countries (India, Philippines) for $0.005 per post engagement. Then switch target to the high demand, high competition countries.
• Get 64% less cost per engagement, 920% increase click-through rate. Source: www.upwordsem.com

9. Boost your email opt-in rate by 22%

• I tested offering a free eBook and a 30-day course in exchange for an email address. This boosted conversions by 6%.
• By placing a dollar value on the same free information I was offering before, I was able to boost my email opt-in rate by 22%. For example: Free course "..." (valued at $300).
• Source: www.quicksprout.com

10. Increase YouTube subscribers by 400%

• Simply add "?sub_confirmation=1" at the end of your Youtube channel URL. For example:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRHQnN47mcRG7fFr-srUPbQ/feed?sub_confirmation=1 (works only on desktops)
• Link all users from all your videos, website, tweets, blog to this URL. Everybody will see a popup "Confirm Channel Subscription", which increases YouTube subscribers by 400%.
• Source: blog.gleam.io