# Topic: Resources > Tools, templates, and reference material worth bookmarking. The working library behind the teardowns and playbooks. - 20 entries - [Hiring a Customer Acquisition Consultant: Costs and Traps](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/customer-acquisition-services) (Aug 7, 2026) — What a customer acquisition consultant or agency really costs, how to scope an engagement you can judge, and when the right answer is to hire nobody at all. - [Customer Retention Software: How to Pick (and When Not To)](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/customer-retention-software) (Aug 7, 2026) — Retention software is not one category, it is eight. How to tell which job you are buying for, the number to check first, and when you need no platform at all. - [Credits Are the New Seats (And They'll Die the Same Way)](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/ai-pricing-credits-vs-seats-vs-outcomes) (Mar 23, 2026) — Seats, credits and outcomes compared. Why credits are seats in a new costume, when outcome pricing actually works, and how to pick the model that fits. - [7 AI Video Tools for Business (2026)](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/7-ai-video-tools-for-business-2026) (Feb 25, 2026) — A hands-on comparison of seven AI video platforms for demos, onboarding and training, and which ones earn a place in a real business workflow. - [For Founders: How a GTM Engineer Can Unblock Your Revenue Engine.](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/how-a-gtm-engineer-can-unblock-your-revenue-engine) (Oct 16, 2025) — The GTM engineer joins data plumbing to revenue obsession: internal tooling, fast experiments, less friction in the funnel. What they do and how to hire one. - [Start Here: Choose Your Product Growth Job](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/start-here) (Sep 17, 2025) — Choose a growth resource: test a mechanism, decide on an AI SDR pilot, set a benchmark, calculate retention, or inspect a completed raw-event cohort table. - [10 things that helped us with acquiring more customers.](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/10-things-that-helped-us-in-acquiring-more-users) (Aug 25, 2025) — 10 low hanging, low-effort, fast to ship, easy to measure hacks/tactics/moves that helped us in acquiring more users/customers. - [ai toolkit of a growth hacker & gtm engineer](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/ai-toolkit-of-a-growth-hacker-and-a-gtm-engineer) (Aug 18, 2025) — my 10x productivity boosters. my growth/tech stack. what makes the best of a growth hacker and a gtm engineer. it is his tech stack. and here's mine. - [Hacking Growth with GPT-5](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/gpt-5-and-growth-hacking) (Aug 11, 2025) — Turning GPT-5 into a repeatable growth engine: reliable agent workflows for research, programmatic SEO and onboarding that cut CAC and lift activation. - [How Replit Hacked Its Growth - Everything that you can adopt.](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/how-replit-hacked-its-growth) (Apr 29, 2025) — How Replit took a browser IDE to 30 million users: viral loops, a community flywheel, programmatic SEO and classroom adoption, on little marketing spend. - [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. - [So, You're Thinking About Product-Led Growth (PLG), Huh?](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/so-youre-thinking-about-product-led) (Jun 17, 2024) — Whether product-led growth suits you comes down to who you sell to, how easily the product is adopted, and your pricing. A straight assessment before you commit. - [The PLG Framework: Your hands-on Guide to Product-Led Growth](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/the-plg-framework-your-hands-on-guide) (Jun 3, 2024) — A hands-on product-led growth framework: the five stages, the team behind them, the experiment engine, and ten PLG companies with the mechanism shown. - [Netflix's Product-Led Growth - All You Need to Know](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/netflix-product-led-growth-all-you-need-to-know) (Apr 29, 2024) — Netflix's acquisition strategy is the product itself: frictionless sign-up, recommendations that learn, and originals that give subscribers a reason to stay. - [7 Hidden Secrets to PRODUCT MARKETING Success You Never Knew!](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/7-hidden-secrets-to-product-marketing-success-you-never-knew) (Aug 8, 2023) — Seven things product marketing gets wrong, from buyer personas that describe nobody to storytelling nobody asked for, and what earns attention instead. - [Product Market Fit: Everything You Need To Know.](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/product-market-fit-everything-you-need-to-know) (Jun 28, 2023) — What product-market fit actually is, how to tell when you have it, the target market question that comes first, and the engagement signals that confirm it. - [Exploring the Rise of Product-Led Growth: A Brief History and Methodology](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/exploring-the-rise-of-product-led-growth-a-brief-history-and-methodology) (Apr 8, 2023) — Product-led growth traced from 1980s door-to-door selling through telesales, outbound and content marketing, to the era where the product does the selling. - [Who are Product Marketing Managers? What does a product marketing manager do?](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/who-are-product-marketing-managers-what-does-a-product-marketing-manager-do) (Mar 25, 2023) — What a product marketing manager actually does day to day, why tech companies compete so hard for good ones, and how the role differs from marketing. - [Top 5 free User Behavior Tracking Tools](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/top-5-free-user-behavior-tracking-tools) (Jan 19, 2023) — Learn about the top free website tracking tools in our latest blog post! We cover Google Analytics, Hotjar, Google Optimize, Google Search Console, and Mixpanel. - [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