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An engaging, result-driven blog has the power to surge your sales and customer loyalty. Are you unlocking its potential? Don’t answer until you read this Top Posts. [GrowthHackers]( [Revenue]  An engaging, result-driven blog has the power to surge your sales and customer loyalty. Are you unlocking its potential? Don’t answer until you read this. Also, check how you can build an effective chatbot Marketing strategy and 19 sales tools for startups --------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming AMAs: Thursday, December 6th, we have Ryan O'Hara, VP of Marketing and Growth at LeadIQ, joining us. You can ask him all your questions [here]( Top posts from the week --------------------------------------------------------------- CRO • 19 upvotes • 1 comment • Posted by Ish Jindal [10 The Secret to an Effective Chatbot Marketing Strategy]( When Facebook released its chatbot platform in 2016, many in the tech world thought that bots would be the next frontier of human-computer interaction. However, as time has passed and the hype around Messenger bots has died down, it has become increasingly clear that bots are not going to supplant apps as the primary way individuals use the internet any time soon. That said, chatbots have found a promising niche in (...) --------------------------------------------------------------- E-commerce • 9 upvotes • 2 comments • Posted by Edward Dennis [9 Direct-to-Consumer Marketing: Lessons From Quill's $1 Billion D2C Strategy]( If you haven’t noticed, the world of commerce has changed drastically over the past few decades - and even the past few years. (...) So, here are 5 direct-to-consumer marketing tips that we learned from Quill. --------------------------------------------------------------- Growth • 14 upvotes • 3 comments • Posted by Masha Maksimava [8 8 Best Online Reputation Management Tools for 2019]( If your brand has an online presence at all, you can’t not worry about its reputation. Today, online reputation management is not only applicable to every business; ignoring it can cost you customers and money. Let’s see which tools can help you facilitate and automate the process. --------------------------------------------------------------- Onboarding • 18 upvotes • 3 comments • Posted by Aazar Shad [7 Which SaaS Companies Have “Swipe Worthy” Onboarding Experiences?]( One of the most frequent questions we consistently get from UX and customer success teams trying to improve their SaaS onboarding experience is: Which software companies have the best user onboarding experiences? Who can we turn to for some inspiration when it comes to providing a delightful user onboarding experience? The answer isn’t always so straightforward. When it comes to (...) --------------------------------------------------------------- E-commerce • 26 upvotes • 1 comment • Posted by Lindsay Kwan [6 6 Marketing trends set to take off in 2019]( The traditional marketing funnel has changed. No longer are marketers focused solely on moving a customer through the funnel. Now, marketers are creating experiences that promote brand affinity — and even advocacy. This year’s marketing trends are all about creating captivating digital experiences. The growing momentum of social e-commerce, inclusive marketing, or brand activism means that (...) --------------------------------------------------------------- Sales • 12 upvotes • 5 comments • Posted by Gigi Rodgers [5 19 Startup Sales Tools That Will Help You Hack Your Growth]( If your company that has a sales team, and they don't ha*ve access to a handful of these tools - do them this favor and at least look this list over. --------------------------------------------------------------- • 16 upvotes • 16 comments • Posted by Derek Andersen [4 AMA with Derek Andersen, co-founder of Startup Grind and Bevy]( Derek Andersen is the co-founder and CEO of Bevy, a customer to customer community tool used by Atlassian, Salesforce, Duolingo, and others to grow their event communities. Bevy has raised $6M in funding from the founders of Qualtrics, Pluralsight, and Upfront Ventures. Derek is a co-founder of Startup Grind, a 500 Chapters community in 150 countries designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. --------------------------------------------------------------- CRO • 20 upvotes • 7 comments • Posted by Mike Rome [3 PODCAST: How to Get 1,617,418 Customers and Build A Growth Team"]( Podcast episode includes: 1) The 5 levers for growth 2) Growth process 3) Looking for growth opportunities 4) Baking growth into your organization 5) The risks of “faking” growth 6) Innovation accounting vs. traditional accounting 7) How to execute the process 8) How to run experiments faster 9) Good enough data 10) Building a growth team 11) Getting developer resources 12) Growth models 13) Creating a growth culture --------------------------------------------------------------- Content Marketing • 12 upvotes • 8 comments • Posted by Taru Bhargava [2 How & Why Every B2B Brand Needs A Content Distribution Plan In 2019]( The amount of content that B2B businesses are creating is massive! There are blogs, videos, webinars, podcast, and much more... Creating content is important BUT... The increase in content has resulted in more noise than a grade 6 classroom with a substitute teacher. Which leads us to a question: Are you sure you are doing enough to get that content seen by the world? Content distribution is the new king and (...) --------------------------------------------------------------- Blogging • 25 upvotes • 27 comments • Posted by Erik Emanuelli [1 3 Smart Blogging Hacks to Boost Revenue & Customer Retention in 2019]( Here are 3 cool blogging hacks that will not only excite you, but continuously squeeze the most out of your content efforts, while ensuring readers are 100% satisfied, enthused and always hungry for more. --------------------------------------------------------------- Like what you've been seeing from GrowthHackers? Know someone who'd like these emails too? 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