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Kasey created the first Accountant Channel at FreshBooks, growing it 50% in the first 3 months and driving 20% of FreshBooks revenue from this new channel.

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Alex launched MeUndies on Reddit with a bespoke creative strategy and successfully drove incremental purchases with key performance indicators exceeding platform benchmarks.

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What is growth marketing?

Growth marketing is a data-driven, channel-agnostic discipline. It’s all about running tests and finding the highest-impact, lowest-lift growth opportunities, wherever they are.

That means growth marketers are often marketing generalists, with deep expertise in a single channel. At Marketers Finder, we call this role a “CMO lite” because of their breadth of experience and capabilities.

They’re often experts in…

  • Optimizing landing pages and email funnels by running A/B tests
  • Exploring new marketing channels
  • Scaling paid digital spend efficiently

Growth marketers can work independently, but also work well with other marketing specialists in fields like email marketing, lifecycle marketing, content marketing, social media marketing and brand marketing.

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Growth marketing does what “set it and forget it” tactics can’t.

Growth marketing has become increasingly popular over the last decade, and rightly so. Traditional “set it and forget it” marketing tactics no longer work. Neither does focusing exclusively on awareness and acquisition, as many marketers once did.

Today, only building brand awareness and putting campaigns on autopilot won’t get you far. Success requires a strategy — and an expert —that takes the entire funnel into account.

Enter: the growth marketer.

True growth marketing experts – once known as growth hackers – know how to optimize the entire marketing funnel for maximum growth, from awareness all the way through to retention. In this way, they are essential players on any digital marketing team, whether it’s at a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

Finding that skillset is increasingly hard, though. As the demand for growth marketing experts increases, so does the number of marketers who claim they can do the job.

Growth marketers are the most hired role at Marketers Finder, and they’re in demand across the marketing industry — for good reason.

Often considered modern marketing managers, they can strategize across all marketing channels, from paid digital campaigns and new customer onboarding to retention marketing and loyalty programs.

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Growth marketers can scale product-market fit.

If you launch a product and people like it, that’s great! You’ve found some level of product-market fit. Scaling that initial success is another beast, though, and it’s essential for your business’s longevity.
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That’s what growth marketers specialize in. With their data-driven approach to marketing, they help businesses hone in on the specific tactics that will grow revenue in their niche — rather than repeating overly general (and often dated) marketing platitudes.
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There’s no advice that’s right for everyone, and no one marketing effort that will lift every business’s North Star metrics. There’s only one universal when it comes to growth: Every company has limited bandwidth and needs smart priorities to succeed.

Growth marketers come in handy here, too, helping their clients prioritize the marketing channels and opportunities that will unlock growth the fastest. For one company, that might be social media marketing or influencer marketing; for another, it might be PPC advertising, or a referral program.

A growth marketer builds out a custom growth strategy just for you. They’ll look at your website or product and work to create relevant “pushes” — whether that’s an email marketing effort, a paid social media ad, or SEO updates — geared towards increasing conversion at every stage of your funnel.

For SaaS companies, that might mean boosting new users’ signup rates; for startup e-commerce businesses, it could mean laser-focusing on customer retention.

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A true growth marketer has these 8 skills.

Sean Ellis, former head of growth at Dropbox, once said: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth.”
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It’s true — but how do you find a person who not only cares about growth, but can engineer it from scratch? You look for key, omni-channel skills that they can use whether they’re lifting activation rates or tackling a churn problem.
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Here are some of the top skills every growth marketer should have:

  • Data analysis: Growth marketers know how to glean actionable insights from data, and combine those insights into cohesive growth strategies. They can think critically about data, use it for strategic decision-making, and clearly communicate their findings across an organization.
  • Quantitative modeling: Not only can growth marketers analyze data, but they can look at historical numbers, like organic traffic volume over time, and build a model that forecasts future growth.
  • Cross-channel strategy: Growth marketing managers know how to use multiple channels — including organic and paid social, PPC advertising, email marketing and more — to drive quality traffic to landing pages, case studies and other key pieces of content. Their goal here is typically to drive more traffic into the top of the funnel, convert visitors into subscribers, move them down a marketing funnel, and increase the lifetime value of existing customers.
  • Channel and website conversion rate optimization (CRO): Growth marketers are experts in the entire customer journey, and can identify specific hurdles within it that cause customers to lose interest. With this knowledge, they’re able to test different tactics, sometimes called “growth hacks,” or run specific marketing campaigns to lift conversion rates throughout your funnel, until it runs like a well-oiled machine.
  • Customer segmentation: Successful growth marketers are experts in customer segmentation and personalization. They can help your business optimize the user experience throughout your funnel, with automations based on behavior and psychographic data points.
  • Testing: Growth marketers treat marketing like a science — and that means they use the scientific method. They come up with a hypothesis, test it, review their results and determine next steps. This is A/B testing, taken to the expert level.
  • Martech selection: Growth marketers are curious, engaged, and always looking for new tools that could level up their data analytics and testing functionality. They will have opinions on your CRM, ESP, e-commerce platform and more. And that’s a good thing.
  • Channel resource management: Ultimately, growth marketers are experts in managing budgets across channels to hit lofty goals. They keep track of metrics including return on ad spend (ROAS), customer acquisition costs (CAC) and average customer lifetime value (LTV).
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Hire a growth marketer to hit your goals — or invent new ones.

If you have serious growth goals but can’t tell if your current marketing strategy and tactics are setting you up to reach them, it’s time to hire a growth marketing expert. With their expertise, growth marketers help you figure out what to stop, tweak, or double down on.
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Alternatively, if you’re looking for new creative marketing strategies to test, growth marketers excel at that, too. Hiring them as strategic partners to help shape, inform, or level up your marketing strategy is a surefire way to improve your conversion rate and bottom line.

True growth marketers are ninjas at leveraging data to make strategic decisions. They’re hyper-focused on attracting and converting customers – typically with a conversion rate optimization (CRO) angle.
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They dig deep to find the exact target audience they need, going beyond traditional demographics. Their job is to think outside the box, finding overlooked distribution channels or strategies that set you apart from your competition.

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Here’s a list of the most critical skills every great Amazon marketer should have (all of which MarketerHire vets for):

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A freelance growth marketer is your best bet.

Making a full-time growth marketing hire is risky and time-consuming. You can spend hours on LinkedIn combing through profiles. If you’re not a growth marketing expert yourself, you can easily make the wrong hire and cost your business thousands.
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To avoid this issue, some people look to digital marketing agencies’ growth marketing teams. Yet agencies often hire freelancers themselves to meet client demands.

By hiring a freelance growth marketing expert, you get the best of both worlds –– the expertise you might find at an agency, but now, you get to work directly with that person rather than talk to them through an account manager.

This can save you time and money –– not to mention the benefit of no long-term contracts. With a growth marketing freelancer, you can spin them up to accelerate growth, or let them know it isn’t working out. There are no long-term contracts or fees for needing to go in another direction.

The best growth marketers know they’re amazing at what they do and value the flexibility and autonomy of freelance work, anyway. That’s why the top freelance growth marketers are in MarketerHire’s network.

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