Growth Marketing vs Digital Marketing: What’s the Difference?

New marketing concepts keep on emerging nowadays.
And it's getting harder and harder to differentiate between "this" and "that" term.
Hey, guys, my name is Alain and I'm a Growth Marketing Trainer and Coach here at Growth Tribe.
In this video, we're going to show you how to unravel the gap
that is between two major concepts
Digital Marketing and Growth Marketing,
And why it's important to know how they differ.
Disclaimer: The purpose of this video is not to show that one way is better than the other,
but rather to showcase the difference between the two and how they can be used together.
So stay tuned, and let's do this.
So let's start with some simplified definitions.
Growth Marketing is a strategic approach to achieving growth goals in a few steps.
One, you begin by identifying opportunities for experimentation from existing data.
Next, you match those experimentation opportunities to proven Growth Marketing frameworks.
Then you're set up to experiment with the help of your Digital Marketing toolkit,
which you've probably heard of before, through the following terms Pay-Per-Click Advertising, Content Marketing,
Social Media Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Search Engine Optimization,
influencer Marketing, the list goes on and on.
Now, how do we identify those opportunities?
Let's go back to the fundamentals to understand how those activities can be used.
And before we start exploring the Digital Marketing toolkit,
we have to make sure that we've defined every stage of the pirate funnel, a.k.a.
the customer journey and how it's measured.
This will help us pinpoint the available growth opportunities, then dig into our toolkit
to run the required digital tasks that will tackle those opportunities.
Sure can, let's start with Dropbox.
Who leveraged the advantage of virality
Once Dropbox had established a foothold in the market.
The team launched a series of features that gave users even more reasons
and ways to share the product with colleagues and basically their network.
Shared folders let users sync documents
from multiple sources to one cloud location.
This enables teams to use Dropbox to collaborate online,
prompting each member to sign up and to become a member.
In 2008, the company launched a referral program in which existing users could invite new people
to join the service and receive an additional 500 megabytes of free space for each referral.
The program was wildly successful, bringing in many new users
who had not previously heard about the service, including myself.
The results a whopping 3900% growth in 15 months.
This referral program was a Growth Marketing idea
that served the referral stage of the Pirate Funnel
and then was executed via the Digital Marketing activities.
Email marketing, social media marketing and etc.
Another great example would be the Dollar Shave Club,
According to Feedough.com
The company, positioned as men's lifestyle club,
communicated about their products being f**king great and economical
and offered a subscription-based plan which initiated automatic repeated sales.
The customers can buy any product for the first time at the minimal cost of $1, which makes them a member of the club.
Their positioning, product market fit check, and sales model were part of the Growth Marketing strategy.
Now, content video marketing was the digital activity
they decided to use to communicate this strategy with their audience.
It was part of their awareness building stage of the funnel.
Not the last, but not least case study that I'd like to share with you today
is the one from Airbnb
and A genius growth hack was their feature that allowed users
to post on their biggest competitor's website,
Craigslist
Now Craigslist already had a large number of customer base,
whereas Airbnb was new in the market, and so Airbnb grew through their very own power users
by sending them this email.
The goal was to increase the level of awareness via
the digital marketing activity, which was email marketing.
That said, I hope this video will give you a clearer view on
what is the difference between digital marketing and growth marketing.
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And check out all the extra case studies and resources mentioned in the description below.
See you next time!