The Growth Marketing Writing Contest: Round 1 Results Announced!

Growth marketers - the wait is OVER. The first round results announcement of the Growth Marketing Writing Contest is now LIVE!

For those who are reading about this for the first time - mParticle & HackerNoon are excited to host a Growth Marketing Writing Contest. Here’s your chance to win money from a whopping $12,000 prize pool! It could be any story on #growth-marketing. We highly encourage you to write on Product Management, Customer Data Platforms (CDP), Growth Marketing, Data Engineering, and Data Management.

The Growth Marketing Writing Contest September 2022 Nominations & Winners

For selecting the top 10 nominations, we picked all the stories with the #growth-marketing tag on HackerNoon, published in September 2022. Then we chose the top stories using 60:30:10 weightage respectively to:

1. Number of hours read

2. The number of people reached

3. The freshness of the content

Here are the top 10 nominations:

1. How to Be Systematic When Testing Marketing Hypotheses by @refocus
2. Why Your Business Requires Data Driven Growth-Marketing? by @nemmanuel
3. Here’s Why Your TikTok Marketing is Failing by @Oentoro
4. Top 5 Growth Hacks for Web3 by @annicalin
5. Every Career Starts with a Leap of Faith: Navigating a Career in Content Creation by @scott-d.-clary
6. Has SEO stopped being relevant in 2022 by @minniemururi000
7. Monetization Strategies to Help Your App Weather the Economic Downturn by @lomitpatel
8. Why is the Documentation of Tech Products So Hard to Use? (from the User’s Point of View) by @summerbud
9. No-Code AI In Marketing: A Shift In Mindset? by @viceasytiger
10. Build vs. Buy: The AI Martech Conundrum by @lomitpatel

AND THE WINNERS ARE

In the first place, we have:

https://hackernoon.com/heres-why-your-tiktok-marketing-is-failing?embedable=true

“A very insightful breakdown of what marketers might be doing wrong when approaching TikTok.” - HackerNoon Editor

Congratulations @Oentoro, you have won $1,000!

The second place is won by:

https://hackernoon.com/how-to-be-systematic-when-testing-marketing-hypotheses?embedable=true

“A great post on how marketing is analytical and not all popularity contests and wild ideas that have no way of verifying their efficiency. The writer uses real 1st-hand accounts of their process and how it worked for them.” - HackerNoon Editor

Well-deserved @refocus! You have won $600.

Last but not least, we have the following story in the third place:

https://hackernoon.com/monetization-strategies-to-help-your-app-weather-the-economic-downturn?embedable=true

“A really good breakdown of strategies for app developers in the recession and that's honestly something I’ve never read about anywhere.” - HackerNoon Editor

Congratulations, @lomitpatel, you have won $400 and third place in the growth marketing writing contest!

We will contact all the winners shortly. Want to know more about all the running and upcoming writing contests? Visit contests.hackernoon.com today!

See y’all next month.