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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

Well, I think, you know, I think people's perception of what growth hacking is, is is often a little bit flawed.

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 I think to me, it's less about that.

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

slam dunk creative ideas, most things that I think of don't work.

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 the reality.

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 that growth hacking is really more about testing a bunch of stuff and doubling down when something works.

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 it's more about kind of just that rapid testing process.

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 that's the thing with the book sales is that you don't know.

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 can't tell you that awesome thing that I've thought of.

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 big things we're doing right now is a lot of bulk sales.

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've got hundreds of copies going to Microsoft to do a presentation in Microsoft.

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 I do a book signing with pushing 1,000 copies to them.

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've got hundreds of copies to a bunch of other companies.

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

Lots of podcasts.

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 doing...

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 doing bundles with ticket sales for our Growth Hackers Conference in May in Los Angeles.

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 basically every single ticket has a book bundled with 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

Our Growth University is basically this growth master training 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

We're bundling book sales with that to the point where I'm actually running now bundled ads.

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 right before this, I talked to โ€“

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

Talk to my person who's managing that.