In 2014, I co-founded Ladder, inspired by Bryan Balfour's data-driven marketing methods. Now, in 2024, I'm releasing a book on Prompt Engineering for Generative AI. Both fields rely on experimentation, data analysis, creativity, and leveraging technology for optimization. My growth hacking background provides a unique advantage in prompt engineering, a topic I explore in my new book.
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Facebook always wants to make more money off ads. Here’s an insider’s guide on how to advertise on Facebook & drive performance without wasting your budget.
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Ask any self-proclaimed ‘growth hacker’ or ‘data-driven marketer how to achieve your marketing goals, and chances are their growth strategy will involve ICE scoring marketing tactics.
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Growth hackers love to write about their “ultimate growth hack that got 200% ROI”. There’s no need to drop $150k on an MBA or marketing degree, or even $50 on a Udemy course - paradoxically the best content is often free.
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This post on validating a new business idea (or business venture) was inspired by lean methodology books like Lean Startup, Running Lean, 4 Steps to the Epiphany, and Lean Analytics.
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Me: Is your goal to grow sales or decrease costs? Client: Both. Me: *audible sigh whilst shaking head disapprovingly* At Ladder, we use test…
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This document is Ladder’s values statement — the driving force behind everything we do to grow our clients and expand our business. Read on if you want to …
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At Ladder, we use test-driven marketing strategies to help high-potential businesses accelerate their growth. Talk to a Ladder Strategist to see i…
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At Ladder, we believe in transparency as a smart way of doing business. In that vein, we’re open-sourcing our 2017 marketing plan for growing Ladder...
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Any good marketing plan is incomplete without an SEO audit. And as part of our Ladder 2017 Marketing Series, we did just that...
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If you’re launching a new product, you’re probably short on resources and are looking for cost-efficient ways to grow. It’s only a matter of time before...
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In this guide, you’ll learn how to write your own event tracking implementation plan. Yes, actually write the code and instructions that you can pass on to your developer to implement or even implement yourself.
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How do we track a campaign’s performance? We can track how many people click a link to visit our blog, but do you know where they came from, if they visited a specific landing page, if they found our blog from a specific Google Search, if your email campaign worked better than your Facebook ads campaign, or if you generated any revenue for those campaigns. Fortunately, this information is relatively easy to track using Google Analytics, but what isn’t easy is trying to track performance for a client that has an awful event tracking setup.
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Our Growth Analysts at Ladder noted some issues with ‘keyword stuffing’ in a few Google Ads campaigns recently. Initially, several keywords that perfo...
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A/B testing in real life. Every marketer, product manager, or ‘growth hacker’ you’ve ever met has preached to you about the importance of A/B testing ...
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You went to a lot of effort to design your blog and write each blog post, but how much time have you put into promoting it? Sure it’s going out in you...
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“Tell me what’s happening with marketing.” As a junior marketing executive I got cold-called by our CEO late at night with that deceptively simple sou...
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Editor’s Note: Excel in marketing should be a big priority. Are you an excel wizard? You might be a good fit for Ladder! We’re hiring in New York, Aus...
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See the marketing plan template that drives our success. This marketing plan example covers strategy, testing, analytics, performance, budgeting, and ...
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If you’ve ever predicted future growth by dragging across an Excel formula, the Monte-Carlo Simulation is for you. It’s an impossible task: accurately...
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Since 2014 Ladder has worked with over 200 companies to help them grow — from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing startups. Here is the explanation ...
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We’re excited to announce that we have acquired our first growth hacking agency, Growth Engine! This officially makes Ladder one of the biggest growth...
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You may not think of yourself as a master negotiator, but everybody can make use of negotiation skills–even the best negotiators can improve. At Ladde...
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Are you a founder of a startup with fewer than 10 customers? Here’s my advice as founder of a marketing agency: STOP talking to marketers and start ta...
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As a data-driven marketing agency, we get this question a lot. Whilst almost everyone is looking for the best ways to grow a company, they don’t alway...
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As we continue to share our 2017 Market Research document, we move on from audience research to focusing in on the major players in the marketing indu...
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Client: “Why the *#@! are we still losing money?” Two years ago I founded Ladder.io, a growth marketing agency working with startups and large busine...
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Forecasting marketing performance is always difficult. This is particularly true in the noisy world of online marketing, where a million different var...
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I’ve spent over $40m on digital marketing in the past 10 years, and anyone in my position will tell you the same thing: Creative testing is the key t...
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Last week, we introduced you to our new article series: the Ladder 2017 Marketing Plan. We started with an audit of our PPC campaigns Before we dive a...
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Most hiring processes are made up on the spot. For a while, ours was too. Hiring isn’t easy. It’s one of a thousand different things that a manager ha...
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Most marketers rely on what worked for them in the past, or on what they read in a blog post. They go for big, immediate, hacky wins. They either get ...
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So you just finished building a new mobile app. It’s ready to launch. You’re excited. Time to dive in and watch the downloads roll through. Except you...
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We’ll get onto the list of marketing metrics, but first, here’s a story that’ll convince you that Daily Checks are not a chore, but actually a secret ...
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Welcome to Part 3 of the Ladder 2017 Marketing Plan series! One of the easiest ways to find new things to test (or problems to fix) is to put yourself...
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Welcome to Part 4 of the Ladder 2017 Marketing Plan: an audit of our live email marketing campaigns! Below we’ll go through our current campaigns, loo...
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Welcome to Ladder’s Growth Blueprint Template 1.0... it will help ensure your growth strategy hits its ROI targets. This growth strategy template i...
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When you’re writing your marketing plan for a year, quarter, or even month, you’ll need to get started with an analysis of your current marketing stra...
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You know how important A/B testing is — you’ve read all the case studies about millions of dollars made and maybe had shocking results of your own. Yo...
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You may be familiar with statistical significance, but now, we’re here to talk about cascading significance. What is statistical significance in marke...
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