Growth Hacking A Book: Minimum Viable Product to Bestseller

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12-18 months later a book is born… and hopefully it excels. Growth Hacking A Book: Minimum Viable Product to Bestseller

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Based on the book "Growth Hacker Marketing" by Ryan Holiday http://www.amazon.com/Growth-Hacker-Marketing-Primer-Advertising/dp/1591847389/ryanholnet-20

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12-18 months

later a book is born… and hopefully it excels.

Growth Hacking A Book: Minimum Viable Product to Bestseller

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Book publishing

is as old school as it gets. Book publishing is as old school as it gets.

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Editors have hunches and make big bets on proposals.

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12-18 months later a book is born… and hopefully it sells.

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12-18 months

later a book is born… and hopefully it excels.

What if there was a better way ?

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12-18 months

later a book is born… and hopefully it excels.

Growth HACKING

Let me show you how it worked for me. has an ANSWER!

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I wrote an article for Fast Company

In 2012

AKA Minimum Viable Product

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12-18 months

later a book is born… and hopefully it excels.

Then I got an email from my editor.

Would I like to try it as an e-single?

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A few months later GROWTH HACKER MARKETING

came out

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12-18 months

later a book is born… and hopefully it excels.

We kept the price low. !

!

Marketed it with guest posts, podcasts and Slideshare

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12-18 months

later a book is born… and hopefully it excels.

It became a #1 Amazon bestseller.

AKA: Product Market Fit

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Only then did we decide !

to make it physical.

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We improved the book based on feedback, doubled the length,

updated the examples

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We brainstormed how to activate existing fans - how to create a WOW factor

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We created viral tools to spread the book to new groups. !

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Even after giving away all these free copies, pre-orders went way up !

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Now, it’s out and for sale and doing better than ever. I’ve spoken all over the world in support of the book, invested in companies, advised incubators. !

It’s sold tens of thousands of copies across platforms and has more than 300 reviews on Amazon. !

!

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It all started because of a minimum viable product—an article. !

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Book publishing

is as old school as it gets.

Growth Hacking works! Even for something as old school as a book.

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12-18 months

later a book is born… and hopefully it excels.

Why don’t you try it ?

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Just send an e-mail to: growthhackermarketing@

gmail.com

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