@nilanp
Mission Driven
Marketing.
@nilanp
What I’ve
learned
building a
unicorn with
Word of
Mouth.
@nilanp
What I’ve learned ….
1. About getting to traction
2. About marketing
3. About Word of Mouth
@nilanp
What I’ve learned ….
1. About getting to traction
2. About marketing
3. About Word of Mouth
@nilanp
INTROS
Death Zone
Revenue
Revenue
Revenue
Revenue
How do I get
out of the
death zone ?
A typical founder
conversation
Anonymised using
characters from
The Wire
x
GROWTH
Dude - we’re running
outta cash in 6 months
GROWTH
Lets go see the Man -
he can give us funding
Introducing the Man
GROWTH
Come back
when you have
traction…
GROWTH
We need to get
traction, we need to
find customers, you
know what we need ?
GROWTH
Marketing
GROWTH
Word.
Marketing is what we
need… but marketings
expensive. You know
what we need ?
GROWTH
Money… lets go see
the Man.
@nilanp
What I’ve learned ….
1. About getting to traction
2. About marketing
3. About Word of Mouth
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Revenue
Marketing $$$$
Revenue
Marketing $$$$
THE INFINITELY
SCALABLE
MARKETING CHANNEL
DOESN’T EXIST
Revenue
Marketing $$$$
What is the problem
marketing is solving ?
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MARKETINGS JOB IS TO FIX THIS
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Affiliates.
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Viral growth.
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SEO.
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Facebook.
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@nilanp
Lets not building marketing teams
that are focussed on spending
money…
@nilanp
… lets instead build marketing teams
that are better at solving problems
1. Marketing channels are saturated
2. Category defining startups have no
latent demand
3. Alignment between marketing and
product is all important
@nilanp
Marketing channels are saturated.
No margin, No clicks
Category defining startups have no
latent demand
If you are building a category defining
product
No one has been trained to Google you
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Product.
Marketing.
@nilanp
What I’ve learned ….
1. About getting to traction
2. About marketing
3. About Word of Mouth
@nilanp
Would you recommend us to
your friends?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Detractors Neutral Promoters
@nilanp
Would you recommend us to
your friends?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Detractors Neutral Promoters
Total
Promoters - Detractors
= NPS
@nilanp
The NPS Richter scale
@nilanp
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
@nilanp
@nilanp
@nilanp
@nilanp
@nilanp
@nilanp
@nilanp
NPS IS the north star
KPI for growth
@nilanp
If promoters >
detractors you WILL
grow
@nilanp
N.B. This is hard.
It works !
(But barely)
It works !
(But barely)
It works with
no significant
issues !
It works !
(But barely)
It works with
no significant
issues !
It works. Wow
that was slick
It works !
(But barely)
It works with
no significant
issues !
It works. Wow
that was slick
You’ve just blown
my socks off that
was incredible
Every app
on your
phone has
an insanely
high NPS
Systemising Word of Mouth at
TransferWise
TransferWise was started
to solve a problem
@nilanp@nilanp
@nilanp
$100,000 ➤ $1,000,000,000
@nilanp
60 ➤ 700 TransferWisers
@nilanp
Word of Mouth is the biggest
driver of growth
Why do people recommend our
product ?
@nilanp
RATIONalRational Emotional
RATIONalProduct Cause
RATIONal
Speed
Price
Convenience
Cause
To achieve advocacy your product
needs to be an order of magnitude
better than the alternative
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HINT: But don’t do this as “growth
hack”
RATIONal
Speed
Price
Convenience
Cause
Money without borders.
Instant, convenient, transparent
and eventually free
We’re powering money for people and businesses:
to pay, to get paid, to spend, in any currency,
wherever you are, whatever you’re doing
You can’t copy
that !
So…
10x product
+ Cause driven marketing
= Explosive Word of Mouth growth
@nilanp
ONE question:
@nilanp
So how you do build a 10x product ?
@nilanp
Money moves just fine
around the world today
Its just slow, expensive
and hard to use
We’re building an alternate
network that’s faster,
cheaper, easier to use
If we were just a
pretty UX no-one
would use us
@nilanp
Singapore
So how you do build a 10x product ?
Solve really hard problems that
haven’t been solved before
@nilanp
Putting this all together - scaling the
teams…
Autonomous
independent teams that focus
on KPIs that make a
difference to customers and
drive growth
@nilanp
Autonomous
independent teams that focus
on KPIs that make a
difference to customers and
drive growth
@nilanp
Currencies OperationsVerificationConversion Experience ViralityMarketing
Regulated
and
available
Instantly
and almost
zero cost
IdentityOnboarding Worry Evangelism
Problem
awareness
@nilanp
What I’ve learned ….
1. About getting to traction
2. About marketing
3. About Word of Mouth
So…
10x product
+ Cause driven marketing
+ Highly empowered teams
= Explosive Word of Mouth growth
@nilanp
TransferWise
@nilanp

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