Vin Clancy

"My own first visit was to the sort of event WeWork is known for: hundreds of young people turning out for growth hacker Vin Clancy who delivered a turbo-charged talk wrapped in an American flag (in spite of the fact he’s British), shod in boots with wings, and jumping around like a grasshopper as he delivered his ‘how to get noticed in an overcrowded digital world’ spiel. The audience was learning useful tips and tricks, but they also got a convivial after-6pm atmosphere, which got strangers… Mehr zeigen

"My own first visit was to the sort of event WeWork is known for: hundreds of young people turning out for growth hacker Vin Clancy who delivered a turbo-charged talk wrapped in an American flag (in spite of the fact he’s British), shod in boots with wings, and jumping around like a grasshopper as he delivered his ‘how to get noticed in an overcrowded digital world’ spiel. The audience was learning useful tips and tricks, but they also got a convivial after-6pm atmosphere, which got strangers talking to each other." Weniger anzeigen

Profiled in Forbes as an entrepreneur:

"Vin Clancy, online entrepreneur and influencer who recently released a new eBook, Ace the Game. His book includes online marketing strategies that entrepreneurs at all levels can digest and easily implement."

Legendary entrepreneur Jay Samit challenged me to make a million dollars in my first year in America.
He wanted to prove that *anyone* could make a million dollars - that the American dream is still alive.

He wrote a bestselling book about my journey.

Check out "Future Proofing You" by Jay Samit to read how I did it!

The book became a bestseller and has been translated into multiple other languages.

So how did it happen?

Jay saw me give a talk on marketing… Mehr zeigen

Legendary entrepreneur Jay Samit challenged me to make a million dollars in my first year in America.
He wanted to prove that *anyone* could make a million dollars - that the American dream is still alive.

He wrote a bestselling book about my journey.

Check out "Future Proofing You" by Jay Samit to read how I did it!

The book became a bestseller and has been translated into multiple other languages.

So how did it happen?

Jay saw me give a talk on marketing and told me:

"I'm not going to get you clients.

I'm not going to introduce you to anyone, in fact.

I will mentor you.

You have to do the work"

The goal seemed impossible...and yet...I had made over a million dollars within 11 months,with one month to spare!

How I did it:

60% of revenue came from creating and managing a marketing agency with 10 employees, working in the fields of marketing/content/community management. Our clients made over $150 million thanks to our activities.

35% of revenue came from my personal brand. I ran group mentoring programs, sold marketing courses, released my second marketing/growth hacking book, and coached other entrepreneurs.

This money was 99% organic (i.e. we didn't pay anything to make this money)

My content got millions of impressions based on it's relevance and value to my core audience.

These impressions converted to revenue every time I made an offer, including a $30,000+ group coaching launch, making $10,000 in the first hour of my book launch, and much more

5% of revenue in this million came from affiliates (Sending other people clients and taking a %)

Making a million dollars helped me see that anything is possible, and taught me skillsets that would serve me as I worked with other clients.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk ;) Weniger anzeigen

"UK based growth hacker and digital punk, Vincent Dignan, is making it easier for individuals to better understand how to amass the one commodity everyone wants: traffic.

Scrappy and resourceful, Vincent knows too well the struggles of being broke while trying to launch a business.

That is why he spent countless hours researching and investigating the most effective techniques at breaking through those social barriers to entry.

Now as a successful author and public… Mehr zeigen

"UK based growth hacker and digital punk, Vincent Dignan, is making it easier for individuals to better understand how to amass the one commodity everyone wants: traffic.

Scrappy and resourceful, Vincent knows too well the struggles of being broke while trying to launch a business.

That is why he spent countless hours researching and investigating the most effective techniques at breaking through those social barriers to entry.

Now as a successful author and public speaker, Vincent has come out of the digital shadow and is touring the globe sharing his “Secret Sauce” – a phrase that represents the method behind his madness, and which also happens to be the title of his latest book.

“Vincent and his team of writers dominated the online content space.”

“he applied to give a talk at SXSW V2V on growth hacking and was offered the opportunity. To his surprise, he won Best Speech, and as a result, ended up receiving a ton of new business. “That speech made me tens of thousands of dollars,” he adds."

“Vincent has an uncanny ability to feed his audience with all the sites he uses to amass a large following within an hour, while offering strategy on how to do it!”

“As someone who has reached all levels of success in multiple industries, Vincent reminds us when one door closes another opens. He is the living embodiment of the power of adaptation.” Weniger anzeigen

Article promoting a viral marketing event I organised.

"Trading on the hugely popular Harambe memes, Vin wants to hold an event for "Harambe fanatics".

In reality, though, it’s Vin's way of getting publicity and funding for a course he wants to run on how to create viral content.”

Launched on Kickstarter in June 2016, my first book, “Secret Sauce: A Growth Hacking Playbook” has made nearly $250,000 in sales,and is the biggest selling growth hacking book ever on a crowdfunding platform.

It was co-written with Austen Allred, who has gone on to found a startup called Bloomtech, which has a nine-figure valuation.

The book began life on Kickstarter, before moving to Indiegog once the Kickstarter campaign ended, and then Gumroad.

We made $250,000… Mehr zeigen

Launched on Kickstarter in June 2016, my first book, “Secret Sauce: A Growth Hacking Playbook” has made nearly $250,000 in sales,and is the biggest selling growth hacking book ever on a crowdfunding platform.

It was co-written with Austen Allred, who has gone on to found a startup called Bloomtech, which has a nine-figure valuation.

The book began life on Kickstarter, before moving to Indiegog once the Kickstarter campaign ended, and then Gumroad.

We made $250,000 completely organically (zero spend on paid ads) as an experiment into the power of creating a viral launch campaign (where people get points/prizes for inviting friends to signup to the waitlist for the book) and organic content to our followers.

We included bonuses such as marketing video course for those who bought the bigger package.

This was the beginning of me selling information and getting into coaching/consulting, which has earned me seven figures since.

Knowledge is power. Weniger anzeigen

Conference attendees were asked to vote for their favorite speaker at SXSW V2V, giving points out of 5 in three main areas. I was voted best speaker for my marketing talk with a near perfect 5.0, 5.0, 4.9 score.

Review of Techstars demo day and I had a short chat with the TechCrunch journalist.

I wrote for Huffington Post as a featured columnist (had my work edited and green-lit for main huffingtonpost.co.uk) on the old version of the site, having multiple articles published. Link is my writers page from this time.

Writing on my site (the online magazine I ran, Planet Ivy) was so good that Huffington Post republished our best articles on their main site.

Link is some of the best pieces, still live on the site now.

“Under the mantra "don't publish anything boring", Planet Ivy has grown into a site with a network of more than 150 young writers publishing around 80 articles a week between them and reaching up to 400,000 unique users a month.

The idea for the site, which provides original opinion pieces and features on gaming, tech, film, and 'weird' news, came from founder Vincent Dignan, who had the idea last summer.

The team has already formed a relationship with The Huffington Post UK… Mehr zeigen

“Under the mantra "don't publish anything boring", Planet Ivy has grown into a site with a network of more than 150 young writers publishing around 80 articles a week between them and reaching up to 400,000 unique users a month.

The idea for the site, which provides original opinion pieces and features on gaming, tech, film, and 'weird' news, came from founder Vincent Dignan, who had the idea last summer.

The team has already formed a relationship with The Huffington Post UK, sending in the best opinion pieces. In return Planet Ivy gets a byline and the author gets a link back to their page on Planet Ivy.

Planet Ivy has secured investment from an investment group headed up by Sanjay Wadhwani and Jean de Fougerolles of Ascension Ventures and an 'angel' investor.”

"Because we are young and we have had no money and worked for free for six months before we got investment, we had to invent all our own systems," Dignan said. “(Site editor) Barney Guitar invented an ecosystem for writers so we could have 150 people potentially writing at once.

They are getting towards the target – and recently had 35,000 site requests (people trying to hit the website at once) in one minute, from an article going viral, Dignan explained." Weniger anzeigen

Planetivy.com featured as front page, main article on prestigous site journalism.co.uk
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/planet-ivy-s-mantra-don-t-publish-anything-boring-/s2/a553009/

In case you missed it, Vin's discussion of "growth hacking" was voted the best talk on the subject at this year's South by Southwest V2V conference in Las Vegas.

Now, on September 23, he's raising the bar at the Secret Sauce Conference in London, alongside some top entrepreneurs, for a no BS approach to hacking your business to success.

“Anyone who has attended a session with Vincent Dignan knows that it's a lean-in experience.

This is about practical action steps that… Mehr zeigen

In case you missed it, Vin's discussion of "growth hacking" was voted the best talk on the subject at this year's South by Southwest V2V conference in Las Vegas.

Now, on September 23, he's raising the bar at the Secret Sauce Conference in London, alongside some top entrepreneurs, for a no BS approach to hacking your business to success.

“Anyone who has attended a session with Vincent Dignan knows that it's a lean-in experience.

This is about practical action steps that you (and any highly motivated entrepreneur) can take to growth hack your business.” Weniger anzeigen