- Bad Marketers Have Shiny Object Syndrome I’ve noticed something funny about marketers. Most of them have what I like to call “shiny object syndrome.” They get an idea, test it, and before they’ve given it enough time to work, they hear of another idea, and decide to test that instead. The cycle repeats. Instead of ending up with marketing channels that […]
- Underdog SEO: How to Beat Your Competition at Search There are many companies that wrongly assume that: If competitors with a huge marketing budget already rank for many keywords in their space, they have no shot in organic search. There are a few reasons why they have this defeatist view of SEO: They assume that bigger budgets mean better results They assume it’s nearly […]
- Companies Want Thought Leadership Content, But Can’t Produce It. Here’s Why. We’ve noticed a trend on Twitter and in some of our lead forms that a lot of companies are wanting to produce “thought leadership content.” What is that? Everyone throws that term around but what does it actually mean? We think what most people mean is simply: content that stands out and sets them apart from […]
- Scaling SEO traffic from 920 to 14,577 Sessions in 6 months: Circuit Case Study Over the last year, we’ve worked with some companies that have younger domains, and we’ve come up against some challenges that we hadn’t had before with previous clients. Specifically: It’s taken longer to get blog posts ranking anywhere on the first 10 pages of Google (we normally see rankings within the first few months) As […]
- Bottom-up Content Strategy: Why You Should Focus on Bottom of the Funnel First If you're a SaaS company looking to drive signups from content marketing, here's why you should focus on bottom of the funnel first.
- Content Marketing Case Study: How We Scaled Leadfeeder’s Signups to Over 200/month We share how shifting strategies from top of funnel stories to pain-point SEO helped Leadfeeder scale to over 220 trial signups/month.
- Does Content Marketing Make Sense for Early Stage Companies? Our Thoughts. We often get asked the question, “When doesn’t content marketing work for your clients?” Devesh and I have been thinking about this question a lot lately and having looked back through all of the clients that were challenging to work with (or didn’t lead to successful outcomes), the common theme is that they’re always early stage […]
- Content Distribution Strategy: Why We’re Doubling Down on Paid Promotion and SEO We share how we distribute content using a combination of paid Facebook advertising and SEO (both on-page optimization and link building).
- How Long Does It Take for Content Marketing to Work? A Case Study. In this case study, we show you real data from our client engagements and cover how long it takes to see results from content marketing.
- Positioning Case Study: How We Created a Premium Content Marketing Service Several months ago, we published an article titled “Positioning Is the Part of Product Market Fit You’re Likely Ignoring”. It was motivated by our feeling that our work was heavily dependent on clients getting their positioning right. We define positioning as the “market fit” part of “product-market fit”: If your positioning isn’t dialed in, it […]
