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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

The headline best practice is that your referral program should target new users to refer their friends — this means prompting users during their initial onboarding flows, and adding emails as part of the onboarding, among other surface areas. Why focus on new users? The Payback.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

This includes call-outs in the top level nav, in the footer of every screen, and sprinkled throughout the user experience. Tips : If most of your supply growth is coming from word-of-mouth, and especially if your users have large social graphs, then a referrals program is going to be huge for you. after a great experience).

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From Clicks To Converts; Maximise Your Digital Advertisement Outputs In 2020

Vantage Circle

Users generally won’t search your site for the item they’re looking for. A designated landing page will not only increase your chances of conversion but also provides the best user experience. The ad is compelling and motivates the user to click. One way of achieving this is through A/B testing.

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A/B Testing and the Benefits of an Experimentation Culture

Harvard Business Review

But the best data-driven companies don’t just passively store and analyze data, they actively generate actionable data by running experiments. The secret to getting value from data is testing, and if you’re looking to grow your online business, implementing well-executed, consistent A/B testing is a necessity.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

This includes call-outs in the top level nav, in the footer of every screen, and sprinkled throughout the user experience. Tips : If most of your supply growth is coming from word-of-mouth, and especially if your users have large social graphs, then a referrals program is going to be huge for you. after a great experience).

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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth

Andrew Chen

For example, the Acquisition Effect is powered by viral growth and the user experience that compels one set of users to invite their others into the network. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!), communication platforms to streamline notifications to users, and much more.

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Instead of Optimizing Processes, Reimagine Them as Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Process optimization can transform user experience. Challenging people to visualize processes as platforms completely changes how trade-offs between innovation, optimization, and user experience are debated and discussed. Not all business processes can – or should – be re-conceptualized as platforms.