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THE STORYTELLING HACK FOR 10X BUZZ ON REDDIT

A founder orchestrated a Reddit post to promote his startup using clever storytelling, which spiked his company’s website traffic for a few days. To do this, write a story where your product is the solution that could have solved everything—but don’t mention it in the post. After the post gets some attention, post a comment from a different account that casually suggests your product. Finally, edit the original post to mention the product. For this tactic to succeed, it’s critical to avoid making it sound promotional.

THE SMART MARKETER’S GUIDE TO ACCURATE LEAD SCORING

By helping prioritize quality leads over cold ones, a good lead scoring model can improve sales productivity, increase conversions, and promote better alignment between marketing and sales. This guide uses website activity, campaign responses, and demographics/firmographics to build a scoring model. It recommends capturing website activity through first-party cookies, scoring diverse campaign responses, and gathering crucial demographic and firmographic details to continuously refine the model and improve accuracy.

HOW TO FIND HIDDEN HIGH-CONVERTING KEYWORDS IN YOUR SEARCH CONSOLE DATA

This guide walks through how to identify lower-funnel keywords in GSC to create or optimize content for. First, add a Regex query filter for all the lower-funnel keyword modifiers you can think of, such as “alternatives” or “solution.” Next, filter the data to the last 28 days and only positions greater than 25. Review this list to identify keywords that are highly relevant to your product/services and check to see which pages are receiving the impressions. Plug these keywords into a tool like Ahrefs or Semrush to get the difficulty and review the current SERP. Use this data to prioritize the keyword list.

HOW BEEHIIV GROWS: BECOMING THE SWEETEST NEWSLETTER PLATFORM

beehiiv is an all-in-one platform for newsletter creators that has now reached $6.5M ARR since launching in 2021. The brand entered a very saturated market but set itself apart with a better subscription model and a set of features than its competition. beehiiv's team focused its MVP initially around 2 critical and unique features, rather than doing everything from day one. This enabled beehiiv to hone its positioning and find its wedge in the market. The company continues to succeed due to how quickly it builds and ships, as well as its excellent prioritization framework for what to build.

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