How Paid Marketing Can Be A Waste Of Money -- Alexander De Ridder, Co-Founder at INK
Mindful B2B Marketing | Business Growth and Social Impact (Former: Forward Launch Your SaaS)
Mindful B2B Marketing | Business Growth and Social Impact (Former: Forward Launch Your SaaS)
How Paid Marketing Can Be A Waste Of Money -- Alexander De Ridder, Co-Founder at INK
Oct 10, 2022 Episode 21
Keirra Woodard

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Introduction

00:42 - How the company started

02:05 - Truth discovered is more powerful than truth revealed

04:02 - Earned Insight into being an SEO Expert

09:00 - Concept of Art of War in marketing campaign

13:40 - SEOs are different from writers

16:00 - How SEO can scale up traffic to your website

19:30 - Implementing Organic Content Strategy successfully

28:28 - Conversion rate optimization

GUEST BACKGROUND

Alexander De Ridder is the Co-Founder, CTO, and Creator of the INK Editor, a new AI content performance optimization platform. Ink’s award-winning technology has helped deliver over 1 million more organic visitors per month for Fortune 100 companies and freelance content creators alike.

MORE FROM INK

INK was founded in 2017 by leaders in search marketing optimization. They are on a mission to help the world communicate with purpose and craft Natural Language Optimization AI models to understand the meaning of content and uncover the nuances of what makes it perform.

INK helps your content to be found, to engage and to convert – so that you and your business can rise above the noise.

Learn more at inkforall.com

MAIN INSIGHT

Paid marketing can be a waste of money if your organic marketing is not yet established.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  1. Earned insights are some of the most valuable things you could have in your business
  2. Truth discovered is more powerful than truth revealed
  3. Paid marketing can be used to A/B test marketing channels
  4. Create and write content with a purpose
  5. Content that once ranked and became popular may drop off

PRACTICAL STEPS

  1. Analyze your product and understand what problems need to be solved
  2. Ask yourself who is suffering from that problem the most (target market)
  3. Ask that group of people, “what are they looking for online to solve their problem’
  4. Collect all the terms related to it and keywords around it
  5. Pick one type of audience
  6. Hire someone expert to go and help create a content plan
  7. Start executing and creating that content

TIPS FOR SUCCESS

  1. Optimize your content for a good user experience
  2. Make good use of tools relevant to SEO/optimization
  3. Google values trust, so keep on creating content on the same topic
  4. Not all SEOs are good writers, and good writers are not all SEOs

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