# Topic: Frameworks > Reusable mental models and step-by-step frameworks for diagnosing and driving product growth. - 22 entries - [Fintech User Acquisition Starts Before the Install](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/fintech-ua-trust-before-install) (Oct 20, 2026) — Mobile app user acquisition in fintech only works when the promise, sensitive-data request, verification flow, and first money action form one measurable path. - [Paid User Acquisition for Martech: Prove One Workflow Before You Scale](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/paid-user-acquisition-martech-demo) (Oct 15, 2026) — A martech paid user acquisition playbook for building the demo, qualifying accounts, repairing CRM handoffs, and comparing costs beyond the lead form. - [Customer Acquisition in Financial Services: Cheap Installs Can Cost More](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/fintech-installs-new-customers) (Oct 8, 2026) — Use financial-services customer events to compare acquisition costs. Industry account data and a worked example show why cheap installs can mislead. - [Fintech Mobile App User Acquisition: Prove the Promise Before the Install](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/fintech-mobile-app-user-acquisition) (Oct 1, 2026) — Build a fintech mobile app user acquisition path that makes fees, eligibility and verification clear before install, then measures cost per approved first value. - [Mobile User Acquisition for Workflow AI: Prove the Handoff](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/mobile-user-acquisition-workflow-ai) (Sep 24, 2026) — Choose a mobile workflow worth installing, trace each handoff, run one paid cohort, and learn whether creative, product, reliability, or recurrence needs repair. - [Paid User Acquisition for AI Agents: Pass Five Gates Before You Scale](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/paid-user-acquisition-gate-ai-agent-builders) (Sep 18, 2026) — A five-gate decision guide for AI agent builders who need to know whether paid traffic will create useful evidence or amplify an unfinished product. - [Mobile App User Acquisition for AI Search Apps: Test the Return Loop First](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/mobile-user-acquisition-ai-search-apps) (Sep 17, 2026) — Use this mobile app user acquisition framework to decide whether an AI search app is ready for a paid cohort, what to measure, and when to scale, repair, or stop. - [The Patient GTM Playbook: Start Months Before Launch](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/patient-gtm-playbook) (Sep 16, 2026) — Use Apollo, LinkedIn, and 100 days of useful posts to identify the right buyers, track familiarity, and make an honest launch ask months later. - [Loyalty Programs and Retention: What Transfers to SaaS](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/loyalty-programs-customer-retention) (Aug 8, 2026) — Loyalty programs work conditionally, and the condition that matters most inverts the instinct: they move light and moderate buyers, not your best accounts. - [SaaS Growth Benchmarks: Match the Cohort First](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/saas-growth-benchmarks) (Aug 8, 2026) — SaaS growth benchmarks are comparison protocols, not universal targets. Match a metric's definition, cohort, period, and commercial profile before you act. - [Customer Retention Strategies That Move the Number](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/customer-retention-strategies) (Jun 27, 2026) — Retention plays that move the number: nail activation, build a habit loop, cut time to value, run lifecycle and win-back, and expand the accounts you keep. - [AI SDR: Buy, Pilot, or Wait?](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/the-ai-sdr-playbook-what-actually-works) (Mar 30, 2026) — AI SDRs automate bounded early-funnel work, not sales judgment. Decide whether to buy, pilot, or wait, then run a controlled test that measures lead quality. - [Growth Funnels vs. Growth Loops](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/growth-funnels-vs-growth-loops) (Feb 18, 2026) — Growth funnels add users linearly; growth loops compound them. The math, real loop examples, and a simple test to tell which one your product runs on. - [What are Growth Loops and How to use them.](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/what-are-growth-loops-and-how-to-use-them) (Apr 7, 2025) — Five types of growth loop, and how TikTok, Notion, Miro, Reddit and Revolut use them to compound users instead of buying every one of them. - [5 Product Growth Hacks That Will absolutely Dominate 2025](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/5-product-growth-hacks-that-will) (Feb 20, 2025) — Five product growth tactics for an AI-driven market, and what each one actually takes to run. A field note on making the product its own growth engine. - [how to do marketing research when...](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/how-to-do-marketing-research-when) (Jan 7, 2025) — Five kinds of marketing research and what each is actually good for, so you stop guessing what customers want and start reducing the uncertainty. - [How Ben Horowitz defines Good Product Manager vs Bad Product Manager?](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/how-ben-horowitz-defines-good-pm-vs-bad-pm) (Jul 22, 2024) — Ben Horowitz's split between good and bad product managers, and what it says about market knowledge, ownership, and how a PM is expected to communicate. - [Startup's roadmap to failure: what you must NOT do!](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/startups-roadmap-to-failure-what-you-must-not-do) (Jul 8, 2024) — The pitfalls that kill startups in roughly the same order every time, from tech obsession to premature scaling, and what to do instead of each one. - [Problem Validation vs. Solution Validation vs. Product Validation - Understand the Difference](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/problem-validation-vs-solution-validation) (Jan 2, 2024) — Problem validation proves the need exists. Solution validation tests whether your idea meets it. Product validation checks the built thing actually works. - [Benchmarking and Prioritization in Product Growth](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/benchmarking-and-prioritization-in-product-growth) (Jun 3, 2023) — How to benchmark a product metric against something meaningful, and how to decide which growth work to do first when everything looks equally urgent. - [A Comprehensive Guide to Data-Driven Product Growth Strategies and Cross-Functional Collaboration](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/a-comprehensive-guide-to-data-driven-product-growth-strategies-and-cross-functional-collaboration) (May 27, 2023) — How to run product growth from data rather than opinion, and how to get product, marketing and engineering pulling on the same numbers instead of separate ones. - [Top 10 Product Growth Books every Product Marketer should read.](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/top-10-product-growth-books-every-product-marketer-should-read) (Feb 21, 2022) — Ten books worth a product marketer's time, from Crossing the Chasm and The Lean Startup to The Mom Test, and what each one is actually useful for. --- All posts: https://www.productgrowth.blog/archive · Site: https://www.productgrowth.blog