Growth with Matt Bilotti

Setting goals is hard. And setting goals for your growth team is no exception. So on this episode, Matt shares an inside look at how Drift's growth team thinks about goal setting – including why it's important to get alignment on strategy, how to measure the actual impact of a team, and the role failure plays in goal setting.

When you’ve already unlocked growth in the enterprise, the only thing to do is to keep going upmarket, right? Wrong. So when Travis Kaufman's (VP of Product Growth at Gainsight) team noticed their data showed a huge drop off (read: huge potential) in the small business segment of their lead funnel, they decided to make their first attempt to go downmarket with a free offering...

With customer acquisition costs creeping up higher and higher, a new go-to-market strategy has emerged: product-led growth. In this episode, Matt sits down with Wes Bush – the guy who wrote the book on the subject. Together, Matt and Wes talk about the three things that have contributed to the popularity of product-led growth, examples of SaaS companies that have successfully implemented product-led growth tactics, and why you should think about adding a free trial to your current model...

On today's episode of #Growth, host Matt Bilotti and Drift's VP of Growth, Guillaume Cabane, answer the million dollar question – when to make your first growth hire (and how). Here are a few hints: Make sure you've found product-market fit, a proven way for people to buy your product and a true customer base. Growth teams are the most effective when they're able to reduce friction in your acquisition funnel. If there's no funnel...you don't need a growth person...

On this episode of #Growth, host Matt Bilotti dives deep into the product onboarding experience of Superhuman, an email client and the "fastest email experience ever made." No matter if you're in B2B or B2C this episode and Superhuman's unique, 1:1 onboarding experience is full of lessons you should steal for your own. Why? Because without stellar onboarding and activation, users will never pay you, stick around or tell their friends about your product...

This week on #Growth, host Matt Bilotti is talking all about data – space data, agriculture data, data science – with the self-proclaimed "data queen" herself, Lauren Moores, VP Data Strategy and Data Sciences at Indigo. Lauren has spent her whole career chasing data and finding answers to the toughest questions for industries that have undergone significant transformation. Matt and Lauren talk about the evolution of data science and how much it's all changed in just 20 years...

This week on #Growth host Matt Bilotti sits down with G aka Guillaume Cabane aka the Mad Scientist and Drift's VP of Growth (and Matt's boss – no pressure).  Today they're talking all about tools – how to use them to accomplish tasks that others might do for 10x the cost or 4x the time. G talks through how he finds new tools (and why always being on the look out for new ones gives him and Drift a competitive edge) plus favorites in his stack and much more in this episode of #Growth.

What's most important when running any growth experiment? Establishing a control group! Sounds simple, but if you've ever conducted any kind of experiment, you know it's easy to mess up. After all, without a control, you have no way of knowing if your experiment actually made an impact. In this episode, host Matt Bilotti runs through how to set control groups and why they matter. Plus how to accurately measure your experiments without getting lost in a web of intertwining growth hacks.

On this episode of #Growth, host Matt Bilotti walks us through how to pick, plan and execute a growth experiment. Most crucial to getting started? Make sure the experiment you choose gives you a statistically significant dataset from which to start, run your experiment off of and ultimately base your conclusions on. This experiment framework can apply to all parts of your business. Ready to get started with your own growth experiment? Tune into #Growth now.

Welcome to #Growth, a brand new podcast from Seeking Wisdom hosted by Matt Bilotti, Senior Product Manager on Drift's Growth team. On our first episode, Matt digs into choosing the metric that matters. Plus, Pirate Metrics, mapping out your funnel and more. In this season you can expect to learn how to run growth experiments, get exclusive interviews from growth leaders and everything else you need to run a successful growth team.