10 ways to growth hack your startup in singapore

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Ways to Growth Hack Your Startup in Singapore10

1. Build relations with influencers

So how do you win over influencers?

Help them before you ask for their help. ✘ Connect them with potential clients ✘ Share valuable content with them✘ Share your thoughts on their articles✘ Share their pieces with your community✘ Offer to fix a problem on their site

2. Focus on SEO

At Happy Marketer, we use our KARATE approach to SEO.

3. Guest blog

How to get started guest blogging?

✘ Identify blogs your audience would read ✘ Check out what kind of articles those blogs

post ✘ Pitch 1-3 topic blog post ideas relevant to

their audience ✘ Write high-quality content with 1-3

strategic backlinks to your site

Sites like Hiverhq.com offer free guest post opportunities.

4. Write expert roundup posts

How to develop a popular round-up post

✘ Identify a list of prominent startup founders

✘ Shortlist 1-3 meaningful questions related to their field

✘ Reach out to the founders and collect their responses

✘ Combine best responses in a blog post

✘ Encourage them to share the finished blog post with their community

5. Co-promote with partners

How to effectively co-promote your offerings

✘ Collaborate on a webinar series ✘ Create how-to videos to post on

their websites ✘ Create online communities to

discuss and organize co-promotional events

6. Answer queries on platforms like Quora

How to effectively use Quora

✘ Find questions relevant to your business

✘ Keep your answers brief and to the point

✘ If you need to provide a detailed explanation, number your points

✘ Provide a link to your website (if applicable)

7. Get featured in startup communities

Here’s a great list of online resources for startups:

✘ Foundedx.com✘ Growthhackers.com✘ Inbound.org✘ Moz.com/community✘ Marketing.happymarketer.com✘ Hiverhq.com/blog

8. Share your startup story in the press

Reach out to media who cover startups

In your pitch, answer the following questions:✘ “Why is my startup different?”✘ “What inspired me to start my

business?” ✘ “Are there any client success

stories that I can share?” ✘ “Did I include a link to the

product page on our website?”

9. Sprinkle in some social proof

Back up your story with proof

Feature these proof points throughout your website: ✘ Testimonials ✘ Client logos ✘ Media logos (if featured in the press)✘ Case studies

10. Networking

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know

Get off the computer and attend networking events where your customers, partners or media might be.

Google offers a great list of startup events in your area:

https://www.googleforentrepreneurs.com/startup-communities/

Want to growth hack your startup?Check out our Growth Hacking with Digital Masterclass:www.futuremarketer.co/growth-hacking-with-digital

Or drop me a line at: ✘ [email protected] ✘ www.happymarketer.com

Credits

Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free:✘ Original blog post by Niraj Ranjan Rout, Co-

founder and CEO of Hiver✘ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival✘ Photographs by Unsplash