Growth strategy

Run quarterly business reviews that assess current state, set ambitious but realistic goals, build actionable roadmaps, and define key results that keep everyone aligned.

Growth strategy

Introduction

one coherent system. It defines who you're for, where they are, what problem you solve, and how each touchpoint moves them closer to buying.

Most companies guess at their ICP, spray tactics across channels, and wonder why nothing compounds.

Get this right and growth becomes predictable. Get it wrong and you're constantly firefighting.

Chapters

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Growth motions

Most B2B companies pick a growth motion by accident and wonder why scaling feels so hard. Learn how to deliberately choose between founder-led

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ICP and persona

Vague targeting wastes budget and confuses your team. Get specific about which companies to pursue and who within them actually makes buying decisions so every growth activity has a clear target.

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Positioning

Your prospects compare you to alternatives whether you like it or not. Control that comparison by deliberately choosing your category and articulating why you win against the options they are already considering.

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Unit economics targets

Growth without guardrails burns cash. Set the CAC to LTV ratio and payback period that determines how aggressively you can scale and what constraints your growth engines need to operate within.

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tools

Notion

Notion

Flexible workspace for docs, wikis, and lightweight databases ideal when you need custom systems without heavy project management overhead.

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Google Sheets

Google Sheets

Google Sheets is a cloud-based spreadsheet tool for data analysis, collaboration, and automation. It's free, works in your browser, and integrates with the entire Google Workspace ecosystem.

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Books

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Richard Rumelt

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Good Strategy Bad Strategy

A sharp test for strategy quality. Diagnose, choose guiding policies and design actions that compound over quarters.

Disciplined Entrepreneurship

Bill Aulet

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Disciplined Entrepreneurship

Step by step approach to define customers, test value and design a go to market path that leads to repeatable revenue.

Lean Analytics

Alistair Croll

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Lean Analytics

Pick the One Metric that Matters for your stage. Build lean dashboards and use data to decide the next best move.

Measure What Matters

John Doerr

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Measure What Matters

A clear guide to OKRs for growth teams. Write good objectives, choose key results and run cadences that stick.

The One Thing

Gary Keller

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The One Thing

A method for ruthless focus. Ask the focusing question, block time and protect momentum on the work that matters most.

The 80/20 Principle

Richard Koch

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The 80/20 Principle

Use Pareto thinking to pick channels, ideas and customers. Cut the long tail and double down on what works.

Wiki

Buyer persona

Document your ideal customer's role, goals, and challenges to tailor messaging and prioritise features that solve real problems they actually pay for.

Competitive advantage

Identify what you do better or differently that competitors can't easily copy to defend margins and win customers consistently over time.

Go-to-market strategy

Plan how you'll reach customers and generate revenue by choosing channels, pricing, and sales models that match your product and market reality.

Positioning statement

Define how you're different from alternatives in a way that matters to customers to guide all messaging and ensure consistent market perception.

Value proposition

Articulate the specific outcome customers get from your solution to communicate why they should choose you over doing nothing or using alternatives.

Total Addressable Market (TAM)

Estimate the maximum revenue opportunity if you captured 100% market share to size your opportunity and prioritise which markets to enter first.

Growth marketing

Apply disciplined experimentation across the entire customer lifecycle, optimising every stage through rapid testing and data-driven iteration.

Product-market fit

Achieve the state where your product solves a genuine, urgent problem for a defined market that's willing to pay and actively pulling your solution in.

Inbound Marketing

Attract prospects through valuable content that solves real problems, building trust and generating qualified leads who approach you.

Referral marketing

Turn satisfied customers into active promoters who systematically bring qualified prospects into your pipeline at near-zero acquisition cost.

Related topic

Growth orchestration

Get a grip on what's actually working and what needs course correction. Use data and experiments to make decisions instead of opinions. See how changes in one part of the system affect everything else. Random tactics don't compound, coordinated ones do.

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Other playbooks

Hubspot for managers

Hubspot for managers

This playbook is for sales and marketing managers who need to monitor team performance, set goals, track progress, and forecast revenue. Learn how to use HubSpot's reporting and dashboard capabilities to understand what your team is doing.

Hubspot configuration

Hubspot configuration

This playbook is for HubSpot administrators and account owners who are setting up a new HubSpot account or migrating from another platform.

LinkedIn advertising

LinkedIn advertising

Calculate lifetime value

Calculate lifetime value

Automation

Automation

Identify repetitive tasks draining time and build workflows that run without you. Use HubSpot and Zapier to automate lead routing, follow-ups, notifications, and data entry.

Stages of awareness

Stages of awareness

Stop guessing what messages will resonate. Map the beliefs people need to hold at each stage of their journey from unaware to ready-to-buy.

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