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Build a Customer Acquisition Engine

Design a repeatable acquisition system instead of relying on one-off bursts of attention or random channels.

Best fit for startup founders, growth marketers, and solo operators..

What you will work on

Select one traction channel, one test, and one success metric you can review within two weeks.

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Your goal

Readers trying to find acquisition frameworks that turn into repeatable growth experiments.

Completion time

2-3 weeks

Skills you will build

channel selection
growth experiments
behavior design
traction planning

Topics in this plan

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Recommended reading order

1

Traction

Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares

Starts with a practical map of traction channels and testing logic.

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2

Hooked

Nir Eyal with Ryan Hoover

Adds a retention and product-behavior layer so acquisition compounds.

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3

The Diary of a CEO

Steven Bartlett

Adds founder-style pattern recognition around visibility, growth, and execution.

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Check your progress

After each book, write its main idea in your own words.

Answer a recall question without looking at your notes.

Try the application checkpoint and record what happened.

Application checkpoint

Select one traction channel, one test, and one success metric you can review within two weeks.

Review schedule

Day 1: write or answer one recall prompt immediately after the book.

Day 3: revisit the main idea and explain it without looking.

Day 7: review the summary and one action you can apply now.

Day 14: reconnect the book to a live project, decision, or conversation.

Day 30: keep only the ideas still proving useful.

Available publicly

The complete reading order and application checkpoint on this page.

Public book summaries and free reading tools.

A suggested review schedule you can copy into your calendar.

Follow the reading order at your own pace. The application checkpoint is a suggested exercise.

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Generate new study material and use summary quizzes.

Listen to available audio summaries and download PDFs.

Keep saved books in your account library.

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Completion reward

Completing this path should unlock a visible reward, a stronger sense of progress, and the next-best reading path.

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Turn Reading Into Recall

Use one real path before paying for a larger reading system.

The strongest test for a learning path is whether it helps you make a better decision, finish stronger work, or remember more later without adding much friction.

Start with the first book and one real bottleneck you already have.
Use the review schedule while the ideas are still close enough to retrieve.
Upgrade when saved continuity and stronger recall clearly earn their place.
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