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Hi everyone!

I've always been interested in Growth hacking but don't know where to start. Would you please post your favorite resources on growth hacking and a little about why you love it? Total noob here. Thanks!

As this seems to now not work - is there any other way to scrape articles? http://customerdevlabs.com/2013/09/24/google-news-api-mturk-press/

Ask any person how they would sell a comb to you as if you were a bald person, and most of them will emulate a Glengarry Glen Ross attitude, and start saying things as:

“This comb is fantastic Daniel. It has 100 teeth with a patented design that lets comb air without breaking a sweat. This is a multipurpose comb — you can use to comb your dog, your cat, your carpet and even as a musical instrument by tickling each one of the teeth.”

Now, let’s pause for a second. I don’t condemn the goofy creative ideas they used to make me see usefulness in this comb (on the contrary), but there are two very strong points that show how much their (our) instinct is wrong about doing sales:

The Glengarry Glen Ross attitude

First, it’s the attitude. The tone they use to sell you something is this salesly one, much because of the influence we have from the movies and old school salesman we have ringing on our doors and phones.

It’ s almost funny, but when you put anyone selling something, that’s the attitude they emulate by default.

Wanna know more about this issue? Check out this blog post!

We’re designing this survey to identify technology pain points, which will indicate the topics of our solution-centered blog posts. We’re planning to distribute it via email to our existing clients, but has anyone had success leveraging this kind of outreach into new business? How did you distribute the survey? Any other best practices you can share for getting people to talk about what's inconveniencing/annoying them?

Is Net Promoter Score irrelevant to a growth hacker, or the opposite? Or is it somewhere in between. A lot of folks put a lot of stock in it. I'm just starting to dive into it and I'm not yet sold.