Why Fully Outsourcing Blog Writing to Freelance Writers is Flawed

In our sales calls with many companies and on Twitter, we’ve heard a common complaint that it’s hard to find high quality blog writers. I have been trying to hire a content person for months now. 100s of applicants. All suck. People have portfolios with lame ass mediocre articles. Is it that the average writer just sucks – or no one has asked...

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Grow and Convert Course Review: How I Grew Keeper Tax’s Pageviews By 400% In 3.5 Months

Note from Devesh: Brandon is a member of our content marketing course (and community). He applied the process we teach to one of his clients, showed up to our monthly Live Q&As, shared his plans, got our feedback, applied it, and got amazing results. So we asked him to write about them in this post. Enjoy and ask us any questions below in the comments...

Dec 2020

SaaS Content Marketing: Why You Should Focus on Bottom of the Funnel First to Drive Signups

If you talk to content marketers at SaaS companies (both in-house and other agencies), almost everyone will tell you that you need to focus on top of the funnel content first. Why? Because most marketers assume everyone starts at the top of the funnel and slowly makes their way down the funnel via nurturing and more content. The logic typically sounds...

Sep 2020

B2C Content Marketing: How We Grew a B2C Blog to 70,000 Pageviews in 14 Months

When CognitiveFX (a concussion treatment center based in Provo, Utah) reached out to us last year to do their content marketing, we were unsure if we’d be able to help them. There were a number of reasons why we thought that they might not be a good fit for us or our process: They were a B2C (business to consumer) company and historically we’d...

Jul 2020

Scaling a Digital Agency: The Tactics CPC Strategy Used to Grow During an Economic Downturn

For most people, scaling a digital agency in the late 2000s was a fool’s errand. Due to the Great Recession, the economy had tanked and the future looked bleak. But for Nii Ahene and his partners, 2007 turned out to be a perfect time. Nii was in the midst of a promising new career with eBay. He was content with his first gig right out of UC Berkeley....

Apr 2020

SaaS Content Strategy: How We Scaled Leadfeeder’s Signups to Over 200/month

In September of 2017, a few months after announcing we were starting our agency, Leadfeeder signed with us as our fourth client. At the time, our content marketing strategy was heavily based on stories. These were growth stories, marketing stories, business stories and narratives where people had done things of interest to the target customer. Here’s...

Mar 2020

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 companies. We define...

Feb 2020

Content Distribution Strategy: Why We’re Doubling Down on Paid Promotion and SEO

Our content distribution strategy has always been the same: know who your customers are, find out where they hang out online and get the content in front of them. However the tactics that we use to accomplish this have changed a ton since we’ve started our site and our agency. When we started our site back in 2015, the main distribution channel that...

Jan 2020

The Detail Principle for Writing Good Blog Posts

Lately I’ve been evaluating tons of freelance writers, reading more portfolio pieces than I can count, editing a bunch of client pieces, and helping multiple new writers understand how to write a good blog post. This means I’ve been reading a lot of blog posts in the past few months. First, I read candidates portfolio pieces. Then for writers who...

Oct 2019

How Long Does It Take for Content Marketing to Work? A Case Study.

One of the top questions we get asked on our sales calls is “how long does content marketing take to work?” Most people have probably read answers online, or heard from agencies or in-house marketers something like: “it takes 3 months, 6 months or even a year before content marketing will work.” The truth is: you shouldn’t listen to some random figure...

Sep 2019