The Growth Marketing Writing Contest: Round 5 Results Announced!

Heyo Growth Marketers - The round 5 results of the Growth Marketing Writing Contest by mParticle and HackerNoon are now LIVE!

Here’s a quick reminder on how the contest works - You can win from $12,000 prize pool by writing a story on#growth-marketing. Here are a few topic suggestions shared by mParticle:

• Product Management
• Customer Data Platforms (CDP)
• Growth Marketing
• Data Engineering
• Data Management
  

Submit your #growth-marketing story today!

The Growth Marketing Writing Contest: Round 5 Nominations & Winners

For selecting the top 10 nominations, we picked all the stories with the #growth-marketingtag on HackerNoon, published in January 2022. Then we chose the top stories using 60:30:10 weightage respectively to:

1. Number of hours read
2. The number of people reached
3. The freshness of the content

Here are the top 10 nominations:

1. 6 More Growth Marketing Strategies to 10x Your Startup in 2023 by @mrkrystallis
2. Press Mentions For Your Brand: A Growth Marketer's How-To by @darragh
3. 10 Reasons Why I Sucked At Growth Marketing by @nebojsa.todorovic
4. How to Use No-Code Machine Learning to Optimize your HackerNoon Articles by @giorgiob
5. How to Unlock Product Market Fit and Rapid Growth for Startups by @loringuyen
6. 7 Tips for Product Managers in Web3 by @hunais
7. Behavioral Economics: Growth Hackers' Secret Weapon by @aghafasih
8. How to Achieve 'Product of the Day' on Product Hunt Using a Trello Board by @artkulakov
9. If Growth Marketing Is So Terrible, Why Don't Statistics Show It? by @requiredcrx
10. Why Web3 and NFT Gaming Can Be the Biggest Trend of 2023 by @sergey-baloyan

In the first place, we have:

Quick Tips Building Relationships With Journalists:

1. Add-value: Don’t be self-promotional about ideas for a story; they hate that.
2. Engage online: Follow them on socials and share and interact with content you like and can add value to. It’ll help you stand out.
3. Listen: Find out what they need for their story or story ideas; be helpful and add-value. Listen more than you talk.

Congratulations,@darragh. You have won $1,000!

In the second place, we have:

Lastly, here's an extra Growth Marketing Strategy you should never forget…

Never stop testing!

Constant testing is the backbone of any successful growth marketing strategy.

Just make sure that your analytics are set up right so that you can analyze both your successes & failures equally and it won't be long till you discover a strategy with hockey stick growth potential that's worth doubling down on.

Congratulations, @mrkrystallis. You have won $600!!!

The story scoring the third position is:

I used to be a humble and happy writer who one day had the Gordon Gekko “moment." You know what I'm talking about, don't you?

I thought it was my revelation, but it turned out it was my damnation.

I wanted more, plain and simple. It wasn't enough for me to be just a writer. Oh no, how about a writer-marketer?! More shiny titles, more clients. Sounds like a solid business growth plan. What could possibly go wrong?

Well, it didn't take me too long to realize one simple growth marketing truth:

Every marketer can be a writer; but not every writer can be a marketer.

Marketing takes and asks so much more than just writing. So, I didn't get a dime for my rhyme.

Well-deserved@nebojsa.todorovic! You have won $400.

Congratulations again to all the nominations and winners. Visitcontests.hackernoon.comtoday to view all the current and upcoming contests! These contests are for everyone! Share your stories and win $$$!