The Growth Letter by Tim Cakir - Issue #1

March 02, 2020

Hi There,

I am excited to start this growth letter, highlighting some updates that might be interesting, growth tips, good reads and sometimes some news from my side.

If you want to discuss any of these topics or you would just like to chat to me don’t hesitate to reply to this email.

Hope you enjoy this first edition!

Highlight

I am super excited to be accepted as a mentor at Growth Mentor.

Providing 1:1 mentoring for entrepreneurs starting and growing their own businesses through GrowthMentor, a curated platform of invite-only startup and growth marketing mentors which have proven experience in their fields. Join to find your next mentor » www.growthmentor.com

Let’s give a big round of applause to these awesome people for agreeing to join GrowthMentor and help people on their growth journeys. Check out the latest growth mentors here!

Good Reads

Everyone knows that we love learning everything we can about growth hacking. We also love sharing this knowledge. So, we put together a list of 10 books that we believe will help you and your business grow.

Do you follow the mantra “move fast and break things” to build your startup? If so, you’re not alone — this way of thinking has driven startup culture for the past decade. However, what worked to build new companies in the 2010’s isn’t necessarily the best course of action in 2020 and beyond.

Today I’ll show you how to build a strong brand awareness on LinkedIn with relevant content, smart engagement and advanced automation. This story is based on our own experience of growing LinkedIn profiles from nothing to 1 million views.

LinkedIn becomes the best place for sales & marketing in 2020😱. There are hundreds of tools for LinkedIn, but I’ll show you 7 top LinkedIn Chrome extensions for 2020 (with detailed use cases on how to use it 🤖).

A great pitch is essential for any startup founder. A pitch isn’t only useful for a pitching competition, it’s how you will get investors, customers, hire rockstars and build a community that will power your startup for years to come.

Tools

Hubspot updates their feature helping AEs, SDRs, AMs, CSMs and any profile using the meeting link feature by providing a new redirect option to a page that you can choose. This is super helpful if you want to redirect the person who have booked a meeting with you to a blog post, reading material or any other resource that would be helpful to read before the booked meeting.

Hubspot Meetings Update

What am I reading right now?

How To Be A Capitalist Without Any Capital Intro 8 Reasons 4 Rules Stories Testimonials Bonus FAQ About Get The Book 10M listen to Nathan’s business podcast: How to Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital The four rules you must break to get rich! Nathan Latka It’s 2019. I’m 29. I’m retired.

My latest blog post

What better way to kick off the first quarter of 2020 than by sharing inspirational quotes and startup wisdom from some of the most influential thought leaders of the past decade?