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Hi Catalin - this is a good question because most organization comprise of many different cross-functional teams working help support growth, but are not aligned/incentivized to focus on how their contributions impact business growth.

My thought is to try removing the silos approach by setting up incentives for teams/individuals bonuses to encourage everyone to work well together with share business goals that impact growth. Ultimately, every successful organization has one dedicated team (which is now known famously as the growth team) who are solely responsible for always thinking about growth and working cross-functionally with the different cross-functional teams to help them execute on positively impacting those key growth metrics on the business. This approach works better because they are thinking about growth all time and responsible for the entire customer journey and funnel to have the biggest impact on growing the business.

Lean AI is an innovative process to scale up growth significantly faster when you combine a lean team with the judicious use of artificial intelligence and automation. It enables growth teams to run tens of thousands of simultaneous marketing experiments across all their digital channels with a constant focus on delivering real business value to their organizations—without the overhead of manual processes or intervention—to usher in the new age of Autonomous Marketing. Conducting experiments at scale improves the likelihood of finding successful experiments, some of which you’d never have taken the time to test in a pre-AI world. Incremental experiments that otherwise would have been sidelined for cost or complexity are now valid for observation in the world of autonomous marketing.

Here is an article that you may find useful on Lean AI: https://growthhackers.com/articles/lean-ai-the-secret-to-app-growth

Hi Lily, you're welcome and another good question. We do a lot to foster organic growth as that is a key part of our overall growth strategy. The most important thing is to set the right expectations with the executive team upfront that this is a long game and not to expect immediate return like with paid UA, to ensure you have the runway to successfully execute on it. We provide and share SEO results regularly to the management team so everyone can sees the organic traffic trends moving in the right direction.

The general focus for ASO is always running lots of ASO A/B tests around key components like icons, screenshots, keywords and copy. On SEO, we focus a lot around content creation focused on the most relevant keywords like

In SEO, we primarily leverage a blog to consistently post new regular articles focused around relevant non-branded keywords that perform well for us. We use our paid SEM and Apple Search campaigns to help us continue to identify the right keywords to focus for SEO. Outside of content, we also continue to incorporate other best SEO best practices like faster load times, etc. that Google values. One thing that helps short-term is using paid UA to help amplify our organic content through native placements with partners like Quantcast and Outbrain.

Hi Amey, you're welcome and another good question. We work very closely with the product marketing to help us with developing creative assets for UA and promoting different marketing product features to our customer base. Our best performing ads feature the product experience (e.g. different virtual avatar social shared experiences within the IMVU app). Therefore, PMM and our creative marketing team are key partners in the development of all our different creative assets like videos, images, social media posts, etc.

We love to share the data and insights on how different creatives and product features perform with them and expect them to help us continue to come up with new creative ideas for us to continue to test, iterate and learn from. We have found creatives assets to be a key lever for our AI intelligent machine to leverage for A/B testing to help drive better performance against our KPIs.

Awesomw! Thanks for sharing!

Hi Connie - This is another good question. The first thing is to ensure you have all your data integrated into a centralized place like a CDP, so you're able to provide any AI solution with good data to work with. There are many ad platforms (e.g. Google and Facebook for paid UA) that already have some form of AI built into their platform that you can leverage quickly with the right data setup in place. However, if you're spend more than $200,000 per month on UA and use many different partners for UA, then you should consider leveraging an AI intelligent machine SAAS platform that is more customized to your business to help you manage better scale up your UA growth without the overhead of manual processes or intervention -- to fully tap into Autonomous Marketing.

Here is an article that you might find helpful on the different levels of AI capabilities you can consider:
https://growthhackers.com/articles/lean-ai-the-secret-to-app-growth

Hi Nataly - it's great to be here and another good question. The $100 aov is more of a considered purchase than an impulse buy. The growth key is find the right target audiences most likely to buy that product and test different value propositions to figure out what resonates best with those user segments/personas. You also need to spend more of your budget on retargeting/re-engagement to help you convert more of the prospects who show interest in the product but don't buy right away (which is typical with more considered purchases).

To build a $100M product business is always exciting and challenging. The keys to success include having a great product that has strong product/market fit, hire a great team, raise enough money to support your growth efforts, implement the right customer acquisition, retention and monetization strategy to ensure the business is sustainable for the longterm.

Building a strong community is really important as they become your brand evangelists to help spread the word of mouth for organic growth to integrate with the rest of your growth efforts. The key is to get better at increasing your velocity of learning to figure out what works and doesn't quickly across the entire business functions and customer journey by leveraging data, AI and automation.

Here an article that might be helpful:
https://growthhackers.com/articles/the-age-of-customer-acquisition-3-0

Hiring great talent is always challenging. The best places is to tap into your professional network on LinkedIn to get referrals, post on relevant job sites/message boards or work with recruiters (based on your budget and timelines to fill the role).

Hi Miray - you always have good questions :) This is a challenging time because everyone of us is getting bombarded with notifications and emails. I would recommend not to batch and blast, but use your customer segmentation data wisely as the best engagement strategy to only target your active customers who may find these notifications/emails helpful with only sending relevant personalized messages.

The risk is without using a robust segmentation/personalization engagement strategy, you’re just going to annoy a lot of people who are either going to tune your out or worse turn off your notifications. Either way, you will diminish the effectiveness of leveraging this channel. It's always better to send less relevant need to know messages than too may frequently nice to know messages.