Steal these three growth hacks from our vault (the rest are inside)

You're about to steal three growth plays you can ship this week — dedicated ad domains, competitor keyword bidding, and 14-day raffles — pulled straight from the vault, channels and mechanics and all. Run any one of them and you'll have a measurable lift to point at by next Monday's standup.

The point of the vault is to give operators plays they can run this week, not next quarter. To prove we mean it, here are three hacks pulled straight from the vault — channels, mechanics, the whole thing. Steal them. The other dozens are inside.

1. Buy a domain that finishes your hook

If your product has a strong promise — "2x your gains", "ship faster", "ten-minute legal" — register a domain that says it back. 2xyourgains.com. tenminutelegal.com. Forward it to your landing page and use it as the destination URL in every social ad, billboard, and out-of-home placement you run.

What this costs you: about $10 a year on a .com. Slightly more if you reach for a short alt-TLD like .io or .fit.

What it buys you: a second reinforcement of your hook every time the prospect sees your ad — once in the copy, once in the URL. Your click-through rate jumps because the URL is part of the message. And on print, TV, and OOH placements where there's no link to click, the right domain becomes the call-to-action.

Variants we've seen work:

• A clearer hook than the brand itself (getclearer.email beating getclearer.com on ad copy)
• A claim domain that earns trust at a glance (builtinaweek.app)
• A short alt-TLD that doubles as the in-product brand (2xme.io)

The trap to avoid: don't redirect to a landing page that doesn't repeat the hook. The whole point is consistency between the URL and the destination.

2. Bid on your competitors' brand names

Your competitor's customers are typing your competitor's name into Google right now. Some of them are unhappy. Some of them are price-sensitive. Some of them are just curious.

If you can convert even 1–2% of that traffic, the math is absurdly good — you're paying for clicks from buyers who have already decided they want what you're selling.

The mechanic:

1. Build a competitor-specific landing page that names them and addresses the specific pain point they're known for (slow support, expensive plans, missing feature).
2. Run Google Ads on the competitor brand keyword pointing to that landing page.
3. Cap the budget. You're not trying to outbid the competitor's own brand campaign — you're trying to skim curious clicks.

The receipts: most SaaS companies we've worked with see 4–10x ROAS on this campaign within 30 days. Higher if the competitor has a known weak spot you can credibly fix.

The trap to avoid: don't try to be clever. Don't badmouth them. Name the competitor, name the difference, ship.

3. Run a raffle that doubles as product seeding

People will trade their email for a chance to win something they actually want. The trick is what you raffle off, not whether you raffle.

The rule: raffle a piece of your own product that the winner has to use. Subscription product? Raffle off a free year. Travel consultant? Raffle off a complimentary itinerary. Skincare? Raffle a custom set picked for the winner. The winner experiences your product. The runner-ups stay on your list. Both groups become customers downstream.

How to actually run it:

• Pick a single, specific prize. Don't run "win one of ten gift cards" — run "win a year of MaxRadius Lifetime."
• Cap the duration at 14 days. Urgency converts.
• Make sharing for an extra entry the second-best path. Email subscription is the first path.
• Pick a real platform. Gleam.io is solid even on their lower tiers.

Past results we've seen: 3,000–8,000 new emails from a single 14-day raffle for a B2C product with a $5–20k all-in budget. CAC sits around $1–4/lead, and the conversion-to-paid lift in the 60 days after is the actual prize.

What you don't see

These three are public on purpose — they're a taste, not the menu.

Inside the vault: the funnels we run for each one, the copy that converts, the failure modes we hit so you don't, and a new hack every week as we ship and steal new ones. If the three above earned a click, the rest will earn the membership.

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