Python for Entrepreneurs Transcripts
Chapter: Growth hacking basics
Lecture: Turkey carving
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When you're trying to generate traffic for your application,
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specifically at the top of the funnel where you want awareness and interest in your product, it can be really time consuming to create all the content.
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And that's why growth hackers and marketers use a term called turkey carving when they think about how to package up that content in different ways.
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Think about when you're creating an application, the hard part is coming up with an idea, and then coding the whole thing,
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what if you could take bits and pieces of that code and then repurpose them to create traffic.
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You minimize the really hard part that's most time consuming and you generate more traffic because you make the content or useful to more audiences
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based on the way that they want to consume it. Let's take a look at an example.
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One of my colleagues at Twilio was building a Python application with Flask,
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and decided to use google spreadsheets essentially as the back end database. There were already a bunch of spreadsheets that he was working with,
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and so he started using this Python library known as g spread, google spreadsheets Python API
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in order to programatically interact with google spreadsheets.
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He found that he spent a lot of time writing the code, making sure that everything worked,
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and he realized this could be really useful information for other people
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because there weren't enough great tutorials out there for using google spreadsheets. So we wrote this blog post, Google Spreadsheets In Python,
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he told a little story about what led him to create this application, and then he gave all the code that someone would need
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in order to use the g spread Python code library. And that's where most people would stop, they would say
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cool, I wrote a blog post, this blog post did really well, I got a lot of traffic from it. But how can we take this content and repurpose it
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for either slightly different audiences or ways that other people would want to consume it?
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Well, you could take the exact same code and repurpose it as part of a tutorial. So one of my other colleagues created this video tutorial on YouTube.
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So the hard part of coding and coming up with the idea of what should be written about, was already done, but its repurposed because some people
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prefer to watch videos rather than just reading a blog post, and we can take this idea one step further-
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how about another slice that helps an audience that's not Python developers- PHP developers, this is a blog post that essentially does the same thing,
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where a PHP developer said hey I use google sheets all the time, how can I interact with google spreadsheets programmatically just using PHP code?
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Or how about the Ruby developers? So instead of just getting a single blog post, Google Spreadsheets In Python,
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which to be fair did really well as far as the traffic, you can generate far more traffic in much less time
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simply by repackaging a lot of the content in slightly different ways.
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Now of course, you're not going to copy the exact same text into a new blog post, but there should be less concerns about the creativity
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and more just sitting down getting the work done, doing it, rewriting the same code on a different programming language
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or generating a video that uses that same code, there's three different blog posts, consider those three different slices of a turkey;
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you've got a whole turkey and it's just a matter of how you slice that up into different blog posts, videos,
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you can even use this with technical talks, workshops. Turkey carving is really useful for saying what's the hard part
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and how do I do the hard part and then repackage it in many different ways for many different audiences,
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which should be easier than coming up with a brand new idea and writing an entirely new code base,
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every single time you want to write another blog post. So that is turkey carving, and you may want to try that for your own application
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when you're thinking about how to market it.