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Sean Ellis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
274 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

And there's a lot to learn from Pat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

He's he's awesome.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

Uh, I mean, it's, it's, it's in the price of the ticket.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

So I, I, I wouldn't make my company pay for the, for the book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

to just give away, but if they're paying, if they're paying $300 for a course and the book costs 20 bucks, then, then they're getting the book and the course for the $300.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

It's a, it's a good deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

And our conference is a thousand dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

We're bundling a $20 book with a thousand dollar ticket.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

Now the company's not paying for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

The person's actually buying both the book and the course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

And we're just dividing the, you know, the, the, the two pieces or the book and the conference.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

I think a lot like Ryan Holiday's book was awesome to bring attention to growth hacking and to get people talking about it and thinking about it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

But there hasn't really been that guidebook for what do you do as a team and especially for bigger companies that want to replicate what Facebook has done and what Uber has done and some of these.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

Some of these companies that have taken teams across that full customer journey and are running optimization across that full journey and working all of the levers of growth and the testing process, that stuff is hard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

Marketing as just an acquisition channel,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

That's not that hard, but you actually need cultural change, cross-functional coordination and collaboration.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

And so being able to have a guidebook that shows a company how to latch onto those things and then ultimately guidance around how to work each of those levers effectively.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

So we've got the method building the growth team,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

what what you need foundationally to be able to drive growth and then a lot of stuff on just the tactical of how how to manage different areas of the funnel for growth but uh it's super powerful but i think people people need the help and that's that's what the book does and that's what most of the components of my business do and last difference i want you to point out if you're the young hot shot in growth hacking space you could call jeffrey moore of crossing the chasm the kind of the grandfather a lot of that book is hugely popular what's the main difference between the two

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

I think crossing the chasm is really a, an observation on how it is, you know, that you, you need these early adopters and then you need to get it to mainstream and there's different motivations and,