“Camille also did content marketing at Kiva”
Kiva
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“we added a deadline to Kiva slow for when their borrowers were signing up and we increased their conversion”
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Add a step to your signup flow — a question that makes users think about the benefit — and conversion goes up.
Community as an Economy
Help your fans make a living from your product and their income becomes your distribution
Content Market Fit
Treat content like a product: pick an audience, find their pain, and ship a painkiller
Evidence-First Intervention Design
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Friction Injection for Behavior Suppression
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Right for Wrong
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The Three B's (Behavior, Barriers, Benefits)
Pick an uncomfortably specific behavior, strip its barriers, then engineer an immediate benefit.
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