The Pirate's Log | Killer curated resources to commandeer your startup's growth

Based on Cap'n Dave McClure's Startup Metrics for Pirates

Made with ♥ by the crew at ChargeBee

From Minimum Viable Course to 100,000 Users

Killer Startup Pre-Launch Strategy to Gain Traction

How we went from 0 to 5000 users in just 2 days of our prelaunch without spending a nickle

How Udemy Found Their First 1,000 Instructors…Tips For Building a Marketplace with Gagan Biyani – Founder of Udemy and Sprig

A No-Fail Process For Writing Landing Page Copy That Converts

How to Create a Customer Acquisition Plan for Startups

How To Acquire Your First 500 Users for $0 – Interview with Appcues Founder Jonathan Kim

Places to Start Acquiring Users

How We Created a Product Explainer Video That Actually Got People to Buy

How Close.io Closed $585 in Monthly Revenue from 1 Tweet

3 Tips To Increase Your PPC Click-Through Rate

How to Optimize the Crap Out Of Your Lead Gen Landing Pages

Getting Traction: How to Hook New Users

What are key strategies to acquire first 100K users with zero marketing budget?

How User Growth Really Works

15 Pre-launch Growth Hacking Strategies For Startups

Cracking the SEO Code: Tricks & Tactics To Magnify Search Visibility

The 3 Hacks That Got Springsled 138,790 Users in Less Than 40 Days

23 Campaigns Every Startup Should Run to Gain Immediate Traction

From 0 to 1000 - How to Build Unicorn Partner Ecosystems

Gaining Early Traction By Doing Things That Don’t Scale (Hustling)

How We Got Our First 100 Customers

A Beginner's Guide to Retargeting Campaigns

The Step-by-Step Guide on Improving Your Google Rankings Without Getting Penalized

How Mint Grew to 1.5 Million Users and Sold for $170 Million in Just 2 Years

There’s only a few ways to scale user growth, and here’s the list

User Acquisition, Virality, and Mobile: Notes from our session with Adam Nash

How To Become A Customer Acquisition Expert

Customer Acquisition Resources For Hardware Startups

How Creative Market Grew Organic Traffic 10X

3 Dead-Simple Tactics for a Killer Early-Stage Email List

How Hubspot Turned Twitter Into A Conversion Machine (And Got 55% More Leads In The Process)

Tools and Techniques for Optimizing Your Acquisition Channels

From 0 to 100,000 Users in 4 Months: The Story Behind Productivity Chrome Extension Momentum

The Distribution Hacker’s Mission: Create an Unfair Advantage

How to Write Web Copy that Converts – 8 Simple Techniques Based on 4 Years of Research

21 Welcome Emails to Inspire Your Lifecycle Marketing

3 Lessons Learned From Testing Hundreds Of Onboarding Emails

The Secret to Successful Customer Onboarding

Lifecycle Emails: Magic Pixie Dust for User Onboarding

Concierge Onboarding Doubled Our Conversion Rate to Paid in July

Ditch your WELCOME email

Acquire New Users with Better Activation

5 Steps to Unstick Your Stuck SaaS Onboarding Flow

35 User Onboarding Tools for Web and Mobile Apps

The Best Damn Onboarding Flow I’ve Ever Seen

You Have 30 Days To Win a Customer

How we increased our activation rate from 2% to 30% in 10 steps

14 Resources for User Onboarding and User Interface Inspiration

How we Figured Out What Makes People Love Ghost 1,000% More

Exploring the Pros & Cons of Wizards, Guided Tours & More

6 Advanced Steps for Doubling Your Activation Rate

The Three Must-Have User Onboarding Emails

How HelpScout Achieved A $300,000 Revenue Increase

A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Effective User Journey Maps

Boost Your Email KPIs By Learning The 5 Types of Welcome Emails (hint: first date)

The Myth of Unavoidable Churn

Five Things to Know About Retention Hacking

15 Community Growth Hacks from Polyvore’s CEO, Jess Lee

9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn Today

Customer Retention: Why Your Dog Would Make More Money Than You

Churn, Retention and Reengaging Customers

SaaS Churn Kills growth; Customer Retention is a Growth Accelerator

15 Customer Retention Strategies that Work

5 Surprisingly Common Reasons for Customer Churn

How Mention Reduced Churn by 22% in One Month

Why Negative Churn is Such a Powerful Growth Mechanism

How to Use Text Messages to Retain Users

Customer Health Scoring: Misunderstandings, Myths, and Truths

The 7 Laws of Customer Success

How to Measure and Increase Customer Loyalty

The Data that Drives Customer Support for Over 600,000 Product Use Cases

The 5 Best Ways to Get Feedback from Your Customers

Drive Growth with these “Invite-a-friend” Hacks

These 4 Tips Will Help You Increase Your Referral Program Share Rate By 3.6% Instantly

How to Optimize Referral Programs

6 Seriously Serious Psychology Hacks to Get More Referrals

7 Ways to Energize Your User Referral Program

Referral Marketing 101: 7 Tactics to Launch Your Own Referral Campaign

How We Increased Our Net Promoter Score by 45%

How to Get Referrals

27 Things Your Referral Program Needs To Win

Hacking Word-of-Mouth - Making Referrals Work For AirBnB

An Epic List of 47 Referral Programs

Designing for Word of Mouth

The Scientific Method: How to Design and Track Viral Growth Experiments

Lean Referrals - Using NPS Results to Drive Referral Program Decisions

How We Increased Customer Loyalty by 125% in 6 Hours

4 Common Reasons Your Referral Program Isn’t Working

How to Rev Your Referral Engine

How Dropbox, Uber, Hotel Tonight and WealthFront Leverage Referrals to Create an Army of Growth Agents

My First $100K in Monthly Revenue: An Interview With Hiten Shah

Lessons Learned Growing a Startup From Zero to $100k/month in 2 Years

SaaS Metrics 2.0 - A Guide to Measuring and Improving What Matters

Driving Sustainable and Scalable Growth - @anniecchang @gustaf @sschillace #openair

How to Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value

How 3 Little Changes Increased Average Revenue Per Account (ARPA) by 296%

10 Psychological Triggers to Boost Revenues

4 Ways & 14 Tactics to Drive More Revenue By Listening to Your Customers

Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

How We Got to $1000 in Recurring Revenue

How Yesware Grew Their Revenue 1300% Over a Single Year