
Growth differs from marketing by focusing on the bottom line and cross-functional impact. Marketing covers branding and lead generation, while growth spans product strategy, sales enablement, and working across teams.
Define your ideal customer with a vivid persona story, then map the customer journey from problem realization through research and onboarding, including lifecycle and emotional experience.
The funnel concept guides growth by mapping stages from awareness to activation, leads, prospects, and finally customers. It emphasizes high-quality leads and active product usage as drivers of sustainable revenue.
The pirate funnel introduces a five-stage framework of acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue, each with one metric that matters and data-driven indicators to predict future value.
Define branding as a company’s identity—from logo to values—and position your offering to shape how customers perceive it, as shown by Apple, Airbnb, and Louis Vuitton.
Analyze audience types—direct intent, indirect intense, and no-intent audience—based on how ready they are to buy and how easily you reach and persuade them.
Explore marketing channels and how online and offline options vary by product and company, from Google and social ads to direct mail and billboards, plus multipliers.
Master conversion rate optimization by turning traffic into leads and leads into customers through top funnel and final optimization, while refining sign-up forms and flows to boost upgrades.
drive customer activation by coordinating product, growth, and sales teams to launch and promote new features, ensure adoption, and continuously optimize go-to-market and onboarding.
Experimentation drives tests across the funnel, guiding channels for customer acquisition, messaging, and product marketing to activate users, with a permanent beta mindset, embracing failures, one-variable-at-a-time testing, and segment testing.
Explore how psychology drives marketing decisions, from irrational choices and emotional responses to anchoring, context effects, and social norms, with responsible use and practical growth strategies.
Define growth goals and KPIs for the next six to twelve months by mapping the funnel, identifying bottlenecks, and planning paid and organic acquisition experiments with clear action plans.
Explore diverse growth roles in marketing, from organic and paid acquisition to other roles, and learn to choose the right track for your career.
early stage companies demand jack-of-all-trades marketers who use guerrilla marketing for initial traction and broad task exposure, while later stage firms hire more specialized roles.
Growth hackers use nonconventional, low-budget strategies to gain customers quickly, unlike traditional digital marketers who manage standard channels and budgets.
Map growth roles to funnel stages from awareness to conversions, including brand marketing, traffic acquisition, and conversion rate optimization, and learn to prioritize roles by a company’s current needs.
Discover how a search engine optimization manager drives organic traffic and leads through keyword research, on-page and off-page optimization, and technical seo, while balancing acquisition costs.
Aligns company content strategy with CEO, product, and investor goals while protecting brand and SEO, coordinating with writers, design, and sales to ship timely content.
Discover how social media marketing managers drive organic engagement, manage content with the team, address customer interactions, and attract traffic through provocative, original posts on platforms like TikTok and Instagram.
Highlight the email marketing manager role: create campaigns and newsletters, execute cold outreach with consent, run A/B tests on subject lines and content, ensure accuracy under Europe’s data protection laws.
Explore how paid acquisition differs from organic traffic, including paying to drive traffic and running ads across channels, plus KPIs and skills for a business development and partnerships role.
Explore paid acquisition roles and how paid traffic differs from organic traffic. Learn that paid ads require payment and run across different places, while organic traffic comes for free.
Master search engine advertising management, including Google Ads and display campaigns, by optimizing keywords, ad copy, and landing pages, and tracking KPIs like cost per customer and quality score.
Manage paid social campaigns across networks to attract customers with ad copy and visuals that resonate with personas. Track cost per lead and cost per click to optimize budgets.
Learn how influencer managers identify and recruit influencers, build relationships, plan budgets, and craft campaigns that shape brand messaging and perception across platforms like Instagram and TikTok.
Learn how affiliate marketing managers buy traffic, recruit and manage publishers, and optimize campaigns with tracking and KPIs. Develop skills in relationship building, network management, and cost-efficient, diversified performance.
Explore a range of growth and marketing roles beyond the digital marketer, highlighting generalist pathways and opportunities in roles like conversion rate optimization to boost job prospects.
CRO managers optimize the funnel to raise conversion rates by analyzing traffic quality, landing pages, and onboarding, while running experiments and UX tests to improve key KPIs.
Copywriters define a brand’s tone of voice and craft website, blog, and product copy to ensure consistent, high-conversion language. They collaborate with CMOs and often work freelance or in-house.
Brand marketing managers push the brand across ads, PR, events, and partnerships, align with the brand book, and develop positioning and tone of voice through market research.
Build a PR manager strategy by networking with journalists and influencers to position the company in the media, secure press coverage, and shape public opinion.
Lead product marketing manager drives activation and adoption, upgrades users from free to paid, analyzes behavior with analytics tools, builds automation and campaigns, and tracks KPIs to boost revenue.
Explore the t-shaped marketer, who combines deep expertise in content marketing with broad knowledge of behavioral psychology, branding and positioning. This blend increases job flexibility and supports career upgrades.
Explore how different marketing and growth roles—social media marketing, conversion rate optimization, and product marketing management—fit your growth career and help you become qualified for junior roles.
Discover how growth works in real life, from business models and the OIKAWA structure to cross-functional teamwork and the North Star Metric and EROI.
Explore what a business model means for money making, outlining revenue streams, costs, and unit economics. Apply cohorts, lifetime value, ROIC, and runway to assess growth, funding, and marketing budgets.
Explore the north star metric as the single guiding metric a company optimizes, with examples like Airbnb nights stayed, Facebook daily active users, Quora questions, and WhatsApp messages.
Learn to analyze CAC, LTV, and ROIC to guide high-level marketing decisions and growth planning. Assess channel mix, cohort LTV differences, and how scalable budgets rely on solid ROIC.
Understand how company, team, and product goals can diverge and create misalignment, with bubbles and wrong assumptions. Learn to navigate by building data-driven cases, communicating clearly, and aligning with leadership.
Leverage the OKRs framework to align company, team, and individual goals with short cycles, and design initiatives that prioritize outcomes contributing to the company agenda.
Understand the real company context by talking to people and identifying priorities. Ask follow-up questions, adapt your work to the agenda, and add value by aligning with leadership aims.
Practice module introduces essential marketing skills and hands-on exercises with tools like Google Ads and Facebook Ads, starting from personal profiling to analytics and growth channels.
Create actionable personas through a collaborative workshop, document final profiles, and validate with interviews. Map the journey with problem scenarios and alternatives, then align teams around a clear value proposition.
Map the customer journey to visualize how users move from problem to solution, blending team workshops, user interviews, and data insights to optimize acquisition, onboarding, and conversion.
Define positioning and messaging by studying your persona, market context, and competition; test headlines and tone across channels to create a unique, consistent value proposition.
An introduction to analytics using web analytics, Google Analytics, app analytics, and business intelligence tools to understand user behavior, extract insights, and identify opportunities for improvement.
Discover how Google Analytics reveals traffic sources, how visitors behave on your site, and how they convert, with a focus on channel categorization and behavioral insights.
Explore how Google Analytics classifies traffic sources—organic, direct, referral, social, and other—and how UTM tags and Google Ads counting shape insights for digital marketing.
Master custom utm parameters in Google Analytics to attribute traffic from campaigns and affiliates by defining utm source, utm medium, and utm campaign, and test links to ensure accurate reporting.
Discover how to track campaign success in Google Analytics with destination goals, funnels, and multi-language tracking, using regular expressions and Google Tag Manager, then verify goals.
Analyze Google Analytics channels reports and set up goals using Google Tag Manager. Create custom reports to compare campaigns, assess conversions, pages, and traffic from organic, blog, and Google Ads.
Learn core Google Analytics metrics—users, sessions, unique page views, page views, bounce rate, exits, and conversions—and how time on page, session duration, and pages per session reveal engagement.
Analyze the all pages report in Google Analytics to evaluate page views, bounce and exit rates, and identify organic landing pages and conversion gaps using traffic segments.
Learn to analyze traffic sources with Google Analytics dashboards and custom segments to optimize conversions. Create precise reports, tailor segments for social ads, and share insights across your team.
Learn to use analytics tools like Google Analytics and Hotjar heatmaps, polls, and recordings to analyze user behavior, optimize pages, and improve conversions.
Learn the basics of seo and search engine optimization, explore on-page and a touch of technical basics, and see how organic traffic lowers acquisition costs.
Optimize your site to rank in search results by aligning content relevance with active demand, prioritizing local search queries, quality content, and mobile-first UX.
Compare white hat and black hat strategies for search engine optimization, highlight the risks of black hat methods, and promote white hat mastery with guideline-based experimentation.
Explore the three SEO types—on-page, off-page, and technical—and learn how keyword research, schema markup, and site speed affect Google rankings and backlink strategies.
Analyze what people search for in your area of interest to identify low-competition, high-volume queries that generate organic leads and guide SEO strategy around keyword clusters, content, and on-page optimization.
Develop keyword research skills through a practical exercise using Atrius and Google Keywords Blackner, building keyword clusters from a persona and product to inform competitive analysis and keyword blueprints.
Learn practical SEO keyword research using Google Ads keyword planner to generate dozens of keyword ideas and apply geographic targeting.
Learn to build keyword clusters around short-term rental management, select primary keywords, align content with user intent, and optimize landing pages and blog posts for local and service queries.
Analyze organic competition using incognito search to obtain objective rankings, assess content quality and domain authority, and prioritize keyword clusters for effective digital marketing.
Develop a content calendar to publish two to three blog posts weekly and landing pages, guided by keyword research, on-page optimization, and continuous optimization analytics to boost conversions.
Learn how to optimize on-page SEO for WordPress sites, focusing on Airbnb rental management keywords, meta titles, headings, image alt text, and internal and external links.
Discover how to build high-quality off-page SEO through relevant do follow backlinks from sites with high domain rating, avoid spammy links, and leverage PR and partnerships to boost rankings.
Analyze competitors to identify where their backlinks come from, assess link quality with tools, spot content opportunities, and build outreach with value in exchange for guest posts to earn backlinks.
Analyze website speed with Google speed insights to see how Google views your site, and improve mobile and desktop performance through schema markup and technology, including http vs https differences.
This 5 in 1 growth hacking course is all you need to become a digital marketer and land a job you're dreaming of. I am sharing all I learned in my 10+ years of experience to help you succeed in your growth career.
It explains the basics of digital marketing, covers dozens of growth roles you could pick, gives you hands-on practice with SEO, performance marketing, and other things. It also has full guidance on optimizing your resume, searching for jobs, applying and passing the interviews well. To top it all up, it explains how to actually succeed in the growth job and get promoted fast - I explain how you need to work with business model, OKRs, North Star metric and C-level context to achieve that.
The course has 5 main components
Basic digital marketing & growth concepts - to lay the foundation for your learning
Growth roles - to help you understand what type of job is more appealing for you
How to succeed in a job - navigating politics, understanding company context, OKRs, North Star, handling conflicts
Practice module - hands-on practice SEO, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Hotjar, Facebook & LinkedIn Ads
Landing a job - choosing the role & company size, polishing your profile, applying, nailing the interview
Designed to make you top 1%
This course is designed for folks who are serious about exploring a career in marketing and want to be top 1%, not an average 50%. It is not a short digital marketing course where you learn shallow basics in a few hours. I believe that if you want to start a stellar growth career and earn a big buck, you need to learn more than just a few basic things - adopting the growth mindset, T-shaped skills, and navigating politics are critical for your success.