- How to Hire an SEO: Agencies vs. Freelancers vs. In-House Learn how to hire an SEO beyond the surface-level advice that most articles discuss.
- Is SEO Worth It? An In-Depth Breakdown of the Costs and Benefits Search engine optimization (SEO) is a uniquely valuable channel for many businesses because it offers two key benefits that many other marketing channels lack: 1. The results are evergreen. When SEO is done well, once you rank for keywords that bring in traffic, leads, and customers, they continue generating this “free” organic traffic and leads […]
- 5 Factors to Consider When Choosing an SEO Agency Over the last 5+ years running our content-focused SEO agency, we’ve worked with dozens of brands including SaaS, B2B, and B2C. From these experiences, as well as countless conversations with other businesses about their experiences working with SEO agencies, we’ve developed a deep understanding of: What businesses are looking for when they hire an SEO […]
- Why We’re Repositioning G&C as an SEO Agency From the very first day Benji and I founded Grow and Convert (G&C), we have associated the entire brand with the term “content marketing.” We initially started G&C as a content marketing educational site. We tried — and failed — to sell corporate content marketing training, which led us to eventually launch the content marketing […]
- How to Evaluate the Best SaaS Content Marketing Agencies in 2024 We’ve been running our content marketing agency, Grow and Convert, for over 5 years now. In that time, we’ve worked with dozens of SaaS clients and talked to countless more. From these conversations, we now have a good sense of what SaaS companies are looking for in content marketing agencies, what they’re disappointed by in […]
- How to Create a Keyword Strategy for a New, Innovative Product We’ve talked in many of our past articles about the core of our content marketing philosophy: Target bottom of the funnel keywords — the terms people who are actively shopping for your product are already Googling — because those lead to more demos, trials, and form submissions than your typical top of the funnel, “awareness” […]
- Best B2B Content Marketing Courses: Our Detailed Analysis In our experience, if you’re searching for a B2B content marketing course, there are three key questions you should be asking: 1. Is there ample evidence that shows the course creators have direct experience doing B2B content marketing (or is the course all theory)? Not all content marketing is the same, and content marketing for B2B companies […]
- Content Marketing Attribution: How to Measure Content Performance Most blog readers don't convert on their first visit, so we've utilized GA in specific ways to measure lead generation and conversion rates from content.
- 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 […]
- B2C Content Marketing Example: How We Grew Cognitive FX to 70,000 Pageviews in 14 Months (Updated) When Cognitive FX (a concussion treatment center based in Provo, Utah) reached out to us in early 2019 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 […]
