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Has the word \u201cgrowth\u201d lost its meaning?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a label slapped on everything, from growth hacking to growth PR. What started as a model that prioritized product and experimentation has turned into a synonym for performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean it no longer has value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morgan Brown has gone from working at agencies during the evolution of digital marketing to leading product management at Facebook. Today, he\u2019s the VP of Growth at Shopify. He\u2019s even written a book on the topic called Hacking Growth<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He sat down with me to share his early introduction to growth, the career lessons he\u2019s learned, and the successful tactics employed by his team at Shopify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look beyond textbook marketing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Morgan can trace his first introduction to what would become known as growth to his time at a digital marketing agency in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building forums and interactive website tools led him to think beyond the traditional marketing approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was my first exposure to this idea that you could build stuff that led to better outcomes in terms of digital marketing and success than just use the traditional advertising model of I’m going to buy banner ads, I’m going to spend on pay-per-click,\u201d Morgan said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It made him realize that there were things that could be done outside of the MBA definition of marketing that would drive engagement and traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are real drivers of success in terms of digital marketing and hitting digital goals and that type of thing,\u201d he said. \u201cI really started to lean into what are the things we could build, whether it was a blog or a calculator or a community forum or that type of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quickly Morgan began to focus on innovative areas like viral content, testing, and measuring performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was true in the early 2000s remains true today: with technology innovating at a breakneck pace, there\u2019s no such thing as a textbook approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Test often and iterate quickly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For Morgan, business growth lies in constant testing and iterating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While working for a startup incubator in L.A., James Currier came to Morgan\u2019s office and talked about the minute-by-minute customer acquisition testing they were doing using Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe described a situation where their team was just sitting around in a circle testing different friend invite prompts,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cSeeing which ones drove the most virality and literally every few minutes testing a new one and then doing the same thing with their ad copy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The notion of software as leverage, figuring out what makes a channel work, rapid optimization, and testing in real-time was a new piece to the puzzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In those days, marketing was rooted in quarterly planning cycles. Rapid iteration was a whole new world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Determine who owns outcomes <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Modern growth teams have flourished because of the gap that often exists between marketing and product. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morgan says a growth team itself is of little importance; what is important is to assign clear ownership to the business outcomes that get lost in the middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe thing that happened was that marketing didn’t have ownership of the end outcomes,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cSo they only focused on the things that they could influence, which were top of the funnel stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Product teams focused on building products and their vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt left you with this chasm in the middle of who actually owns the outcomes of the business, and the answer was really no one,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether a growth team is necessary depends on what stage the company is in and what game they\u2019re playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think growth teams overall have had a pretty spotty track record to date in terms of their success and longevity,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cI think ultimately it is that mental model of who owns the things that matter the most in your business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bring content and business goals together<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now that Morgan is at Shopify, he\u2019s learned some lessons about what works in a company that is scaling quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to content, it\u2019s having a team that focuses on how it ties into business outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a team called channel acceleration, and they’re really focused on taking the largest surfaces of our customer acquisition apparatus and helping to experiment on those and identify opportunities to improve business outcomes,\u201d Morgan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That team helps the editorial team at Shopify to figure out the right articles to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey partner with SEO to identify net new areas to go into, cross-linking opportunities, keywords we want to go after, so on and so forth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use a cross-functional model to reach goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Morgan likes to think of teams playing in a jazz band together, not swimming in their own lanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey’re playing the same game, playing the same song, but you have the autonomy and opportunity to be creative and apply that and to create something that\u2019s new,\u201d Morgan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shopify used to have single-function teams. In other words, content and SEO teams operated separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, they\u2019ve learned that they\u2019re much more effective if they integrate functions to achieve business objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the things we’ve done over the last year is to get them into a true cross-functional operating model,\u201d he said, \u201cwhich bring all of these collective strengths together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Define a north star to work toward<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The hardest part of having cross-functional teams is deciding on the shared goals that everyone will pursue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Shopify, that north star is increasing the number of active merchants on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything rolls up into that,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then you have operational metrics which help people do their jobs, but the operational metrics kind of ladder up into this overall north star.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea is to standardize the way people think about the potential opportunities they have to work toward that goal, so that everyone’s speaking the same language and prioritizing the same things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting all the teams to work in harmony is hard work, but it\u2019s central to the growth model Morgan is leading at Shopify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growth may have become a messy term, but when applied as a mental model against clear business goals at the heart of cross-functional teams, it can have a big impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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