The “content intelligence” strategy that got 50% more leads
ISSUE #56
Was Batman a fraud?
A “superhero” without superpowers…
No.
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Was Batman a fraud?
A “superhero” without superpowers…
No.
In fact, he’s a testament to the supernatural power of tools.
When we use heroic strategy with a nuclear-powered tool in our marketing, we become the superhero for our clients!
And we’ve got a superhero story for you today…
In today’s Deep Dive, we follow the story of Foundation, a content agency that combined a tool with a “content intelligence” strategy to pre-calculate results and…
Get 50% more leads than their client’s existing paid campaigns
Serve more clients in less time
Close more deals
(Foundation isn’t any ordinary agency… it has a “CDaaS” business model…)
Let’s dive in!
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DEEP DIVE –
How Foundation Closes Deals, Serves Clients & Makes Ad Spend More Efficient With SparkToro
Foundation is a content distribution as a service (CDaaS) marketing agency. Ever heard of that before? Neither had we.
Basically, where most agencies stop at creating the content, they distribute it to highly-targeted audiences.
By using Sparktoro to find those audiences, they got a client 50% more qualified leads (as you’ll soon see).
To find the most-profitable audiences for their content, they used to do manual search. They’d look through communities and read social media posts of big influencers, which took a ton of time…
Enter Sparktoro.
Your Audience Tells Lies
One of the old ways Foundation found audiences was through Twitter Advanced Search. They’d find a big personality profile in a niche. Then, they’d look at their most-liked Tweets to see which content topics and formats performed best.
When they asked the audience a question like, “What podcasts help you stay up-to-date in your industry?” the people would say one thing, but actually do another.
This peculiarity was once summed up perfectly by the legendary David Olgivy:
“Consumers don’t think how they feel. They don’t say what they think. And they don’t do what they say.”
Turns out asking audiences what they want or do isn’t as good of a research strategy as we’d might think.
That’s where an analytics tool that shows us what people do and like comes in handy.
So You Need To Spy On Them To Find The Truth
Rather than relying on (unreliable) self-reported data, SparkToro crawls billions of web and social profiles. It maps the data so you can see which
Social accounts
Podcasts
Websites
Media
& YouTube channels people of an audience follow.
Instead of manually searching through communities, the Foundation team used a simple keyword search bar to scan through billions of data points in seconds…
Quick Use Case Example
One of Foundation’s clients was a leading internet infrastructure company. They wanted to increase awareness in a niche developer community.
So Foundation got to work in Sparktoro and they…
Searched the niche’s most popular “go-to” places online
Found organic influencers and analyzed their followers
Uncovered accounts with high-value audiences
Found the podcasts…
That the audience said they don’t listen to, but they actually do…
48,548 people whose profiles include software engineer engage most with these podcasts
By using this “content marketing intelligence,” Foundation calculated that sponsoring these podcasts would be better targeting than if they ran Facebook ads!
The client bought in. With $50K spend, they got 50% more qualified leads than from their other digital advertising.
They Use Sparktoro To Get Clients, Too
Foundation uses Sparktoro to develop pitches for new clients.
They close more deals, deliver better insights, and manage projects more quickly.
“The velocity of deal closes increased because we’re able to pull data quickly. A lot of agencies use legacy tools that take weeks to gather meaningful insights. At Foundation, we can turn things around in a day. Combine that with the fact that SparkToro can help us uncover innovative opportunities to drive ROI and it’s no wonder SparkToro has helped us close and retain some of the fastest growing SaaS brands in the world.”— Ross Simmonds, Founder & CEO of Foundation Inc.
Inspiration for today’s Deep Dive from Sparktoro.
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