🎣 Acquisition

Explore 22 proven acquisition growth tactics with real examples and step-by-step ideas you can apply to grow your online business.

Discover actionable strategies, playbooks, and experiments for acquisition across acquisition, activation, retention and revenue. No fluff—just practical tactics that work.

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Turn every customer into an affiliate automatically

Give every customer a referral link at signup and pay only for sales they bring.

Impact high · Effort medium

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How to build in public for marketing

Share your product's progress as you go to earn early users, feedback and trust.

Impact high · Effort low

Use this template

How a cloneable template library brings in users

Ship copy-ready templates that rank for template searches and give new users a working start.

Impact medium · Effort medium

How co-marketing campaigns work with partner brands

Share audiences with a non-competing business through webinars, guides, swaps and joint launches.

Impact medium · Effort medium

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Comment marketing without getting banned

Answer real questions on Reddit, forums and blogs, and follow each community's rules.

Impact medium · Effort medium

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How to write fair competitor comparison pages

Capture people searching for your competitors with fair, current side-by-side pages.

Impact medium · Effort medium

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ConvertKit

Free migration for new customers, and when it pays

Remove the switching effort by migrating a new customer's data from their old tool.

Impact high · Effort high

Free Landing Page Analyzer

Build a free side product that brings in leads

Give away a calculator, grader or quiz that draws your buyers to your main product.

Impact high · Effort high

Giveaway 🎉

How to run a Twitter giveaway within X's rules

Run a prize giveaway on X within its rules and measure what it costs.

Impact medium · Effort low

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How to find high-potential Quora questions

Find popular Quora questions with few answers, then write one useful answer without breaking the rules.

Impact medium · Effort low

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How to help visitors import data from a competitor

Add clear import steps to your comparison page so switching feels safe.

Impact low · Effort low

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Give influencers early access before you launch

Get feedback and shares from the people your audience follows before you publish.

Impact medium · Effort low

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How invite-only sign-ups work and when they pay off

Limit who can join so you can grow in waves and keep early users engaged.

Impact low · Effort medium

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Product Hunt

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How to launch on Product Hunt in 6 steps

Prepare the listing, pick a launch time, and avoid the vote-asking rules that get launches penalized.

Impact high · Effort low

How newsletter advertising works and what it costs

Test paid placements in newsletters your customers read, and measure cost per customer.

Impact medium · Effort low

Earn every month

We send you a 20% commission for every person who signs up for Growth List through your affiliate link -- and you'll get a 20% commission every month for as long as they're a customer

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Your monthly savings

$270

How to run an affiliate program for your startup

Pay partners a commission per customer they refer, with clear terms and disclosure.

Impact high · Effort low

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Shared ads and how to split a campaign with a partner

Run one ad campaign with a complementary company and split cost, creative and leads.

Impact medium · Effort low

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How to find and win your competitors' customers

Reach people already comparing or complaining about a rival, within platform and legal limits.

Impact medium · Effort medium

Feature Request

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Steal your competitors' most requested features

Read rivals' public feedback boards, then ship the request you can solve best.

Impact medium · Effort high

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How to tease each newsletter issue on social media

Post a short preview the day before each send to turn followers into subscribers.

Impact low · Effort low

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Third-party integrations as a growth channel

Connect to tools your customers already use and meet their users in app directories.

Impact high · Effort high

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Invite your friends and move up the waitlist!

Your positon in the waitlist:

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Waiting List

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How a viral waiting list grows by referral

Each signup gets a referral link and moves up the list, as Robinhood's did.

Impact medium · Effort low

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