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Growth Experiment Outline Card

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Growth Experiment Outline Card by Ward van Gasteren

What is the Growth Experiment Outline Card for?

The Growth Experiment Outline Card™ is a template for outlining your growth hacking experiments. This helps growth teams to get all team members and stakeholders aligned on what the experiment will look like, and gives a consistent structure to design every experiment.

This canvas is made to be printed out and helps you to fill in all the steps one-by-one, and translate your creative growth marketing ideas into an actionable experiment.

Get your team together and follow the steps

Get your team together and follow the steps.

Step-by-step instructions

The document mostly speaks for itself, but here you have the steps for yourself. If you want a more in-depth explanation on how to manage your growth experiments, read the ‘Outline your experiments’-step from my G.R.O.W.S.-process explanation blog.

  1. 1

    Describe your growth experiment

    Describe what you'll be doing. Mention the intended duration, techniques, target audience and location (in real life or on the website) of your experiment.

  2. 2

    Visualize what you want (optional)

    It can be hard to understand a visual idea, when you can only use words to describe it. That's why this card gives you a nice box to draw your idea.

  3. 3

    Give context to your research

    Every Growth Experiment is supposed to start from a certain new insight or observation. Share here what has caused you to start this experiment and what you hope to learn.

  4. 4

    Set your goal with a Success / Fail Criteria

    Define your intended result upfront, so that all stakeholders are aligned. Your Success Criterion is the quantifiable goal that shows that your experiment was successful. Defining a Fail Criterion is a great exercise to keep your decision making down-to-earth: a Success-C. is very often too ambitious, while a Fail-C. is your result at which you'd be 'okay'-happy with the outcome and would still continue.

  5. 5

    Make it actionable with first action steps

    By defining concrete steps and assigning them to team members, you can keep your momentum and assure that you're always moving forward.

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