viral growth. • Only 70 Million internets users in the World (1996) • Hotmail grew its user base to 12 million before being acquired. • Email signature • PS: I Love You. Get Your Free Email at Hotmail “Just six words at the bottom of every Hotmail email sent, the product itself became Hotmail’s promotion and distribution channel. “
installation. Pricing? Pitch Copy? • Pricing and onboarding steps needed to be tweaked to reduce churn (losing users during the sign up process). • Solution: Reverse engineer other onboarding processing of other popular software products. (skype,
post for sharing later. • Buffer acquired their first 50,000 users via content marketing. • Founders starting writing quality blog posts on social media, startups, and life hacking. • Part of their success was due to producing great content that gets gets shared and creating a loyal following (Brand Building).