Growth – Groove Blog https://www.groovehq.com/blog Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:27:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 E-commerce Entrepreneur: How One Wedding DJ Started One of the Fastest Growing Businesses in Texas https://www.groovehq.com/blog/ecommerce-entrepreneur Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=10174 Whenever we get a chance to talk to a customer here at Groove, we take it. So when Josh Pather of Photo Booth International dropped this line in a conversation with Erika from our support team… We knew we had to reach out. We thought we’d talk to Josh about Groove and maybe write up […]

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]]> How to Connect with Influencers and VIPs: The Exact Email Scripts I Use https://www.groovehq.com/blog/vip-email-scripts https://www.groovehq.com/blog/vip-email-scripts#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:00:48 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=1056 Want to know how to connect with influencers and VIPs? Here are two word-for-word email scripts you can use in your outreach. “How did you connect with ____?” It’s a question that I get all the time. Whether it’s a VIP that we published an interview with, a publisher whose blog we guest posted on, […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/vip-email-scripts/feed 11 Business Networking: 5 Proven Strategies to Win in Business and in Life https://www.groovehq.com/blog/networking-tips https://www.groovehq.com/blog/networking-tips#comments Thu, 21 May 2020 15:06:47 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=1971 Our best tips and tricks for using business networking to connect with VIPs. Learning how to network and build relationships with smart, successful people is one of the most valuable things I’ve done in my career. But I know that for many, it doesn’t come easily. It certainly didn’t come easily for me when I […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/networking-tips/feed 5 5 Easy Growth Hacks You Can Implement Today Without a Developer https://www.groovehq.com/blog/growth-hacks-that-dont-require-a-developer https://www.groovehq.com/blog/growth-hacks-that-dont-require-a-developer#comments Mon, 18 May 2020 15:54:50 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=2788 You don’t need dedicated resources or a team of engineers to execute growth hacks. Here are 5 you can implement on your own. I had been emailing back and forth with a reader. He asked me for advice about getting traffic, and I suggested he start a blog to attract readers. His immediate reaction was […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/growth-hacks-that-dont-require-a-developer/feed 11 How to Grow Your Business: 15 Steps We Actually Took Growing to $3.5M/Year https://www.groovehq.com/blog/grow-your-business https://www.groovehq.com/blog/grow-your-business#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:33:52 +0000 https://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=8264 After seven years, 2,000+ customers, and growing from $0 to $290K+ in monthly revenue, I want to pull back the curtain on exactly what it takes to grow a business. Good, bad, and ugly. I almost shut the whole thing down. It was two years ago. Our business had stagnated. My head of marketing had […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/grow-your-business/feed 14 This Easy Customer Retention Strategy Increased Our Annual Subscribers by 10% https://www.groovehq.com/blog/customer-retention Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:00:03 +0000 https://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=8736 How we executed a super simple customer retention strategy to retain 10% more customers.

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]]> Our Marketing Style Guide Is Just 658 Words. We Love It. And You Can Steal It https://www.groovehq.com/blog/marketing-style-guide Mon, 09 Mar 2020 14:00:09 +0000 https://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=8373 You do not need a 50-page document for your marketing style guide. Ours is less than 1,000 words. I once spent three days locked in a room with three other writers arguing about style and grammar as we tried to develop rules for our style guide. Em dashes. En dashes. Bullet points. Oxford commas. It […]

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]]> Getting Rid of the Bullsh*t Performance Review: This 4 Step Checklist Saves Us 40+ Hours Each Quarter https://www.groovehq.com/blog/performance-review Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:00:52 +0000 https://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=8135 How we eliminated awkward performance review meetings and improved team-wide productivity.

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]]> Google Data Studio Examples: These 5 Reports Save Me a Full Day of Work Every Month https://www.groovehq.com/blog/google-data-studio-examples Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:50:34 +0000 https://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=8163 KPI reports used to take me 2 hours a week to prepare. Now I do it in 5 minutes. These Google Data Studio examples will show you how. Not long ago, we had a manual, spreadsheet-based KPI reporting process. Every week, I would review numerous tabs across a couple of Google Sheets files, compile the […]

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]]> Our Customer Onboarding Process: How We Customize Onboarding for 10,000+ Customers https://www.groovehq.com/blog/customer-onboarding Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:00:40 +0000 https://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=8109 Here’s how we optimize our customer onboarding process to cater to all our customers’ needs.

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]]> Steal Our Marketing Persona Template (And the Customer Research Process That Goes With It) https://www.groovehq.com/blog/marketing-persona-template Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:04:24 +0000 https://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=8011 A marketing persona template and research process to help your business grow. Before coming to Groove, I worked as a full-time freelance writer and marketing consultant, mostly working in the B2B space. Many of the companies I worked with sent me their marketing personas (sometimes called “customer avatars”) as we started working together. Most (almost […]

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