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How Audience Research Gave Me a Competitive Edge — And Helped Me Earn Respect From Customers

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
Here’s a confession: I’ve never really understood the whole “SEO-driven content strategy” thing. I mean, yeah, I understood it on an intellectual level. Step 1, go after high-volume keywords. Step 2, rank higher for the Google gods. Step 3, profit. Or something like that. But no one ever becomes a customer from reading a blog post after having Googled, “how…
Marketing

When Attribution Is a Fool’s Errand, Zero-Click Marketing Is the Way

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
“Zero-Click Marketing sounds good and all, but how do I get executive buy-in?” I hear that question a lot. I think it signals a fundamental misunderstanding of what zero-click marketing is. When I first wrote about Zero-Click Content back in July 2022 (whoa, happy 2-year anniversary, I guess?), it came as a reaction to our platform-native world. I pointed out…
Marketing Tactics

The Smarter-Not-Harder Guide to Content Marketing in 2024

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
Classic content marketing is dead. I don’t say that lightly. Most digital marketing techniques don’t truly die, but the old way of doing content marketing–finding high-volume keywords, then writing blog posts that target those keywords and trying to get your post ranking in Google for them; dead. Why? Because Google is no longer the primary or largest source of information…
Marketing Tactics

You Are Your Moat

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
I don’t mind the generative AI craze. While some folks rail about the AI-generated comments that dominate their LinkedIn feed, I say, thank you for the engagement boost. Do these comments make social media a better place? Not really. But neither do the human-written, “Nice post, totally agree,” comments. (Though let’s be clear, I’ll take the harmless AI comments over…
Agencies Marketing SparkToro Tactics

Win the RFP: Nail Your Next Client Pitch With Audience Research

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
Why do in-house teams hire agencies or consultants? It’s almost always for two types of expertise: Tactical: Mastery of a specific tactic in a domain (e.g. handle all the Meta ads for your online shop) Domain: Deep knowledge of a given industry (e.g. PR strategy in the healthcare space) Clients expect these tasks to be done more efficiently and effectively…
Hiring Industry Team

Embrace the High-Level Individual Contributor: How to Hire for This Unconventional Role

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
I’m SparkToro’s VP Marketing and here’s how I spent a recent afternoon: I sifted through our Google Analytics dashboard. I was looking for our most popular pages and copying them into a spreadsheet so that we can keep track of what needs to be updated for the public launch of SparkToro V2. I included the title of the page, link,…

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