$1.6M to $17M annual revenue in 16 months 🤯 SEO certainly can generate demand | Aditya Vempaty
Dec 4, 2023
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Aditya Vempaty, VP of Marketing at MoEngage, shares his success story of growing revenue from $1.6M to $17M in just 16 months by leveraging SEO and understanding customer needs. They discuss the importance of ignoring competitors, making SEO a demand creation channel, and becoming a 'no-brainer' brand. The role of AI in SEO and the potential of networking with validation companies is also explored.
Aditya Vempaty shares how to use SEO to build demand for a brand new product category.
Understanding the customer's pain points and providing solutions through product analytics platform is key to building demand and establishing leadership in a category.
Deep dives
Creating Demand for a New Product Category
In this episode, Aditya Venpatty shares the story of Amplitude Analytics and how they grew from 1.6 million to 17 million in revenue in 16 months. They achieved this by executing a holistic growth strategy that focused on creating demand for a brand new product category. Aditya and his team identified the need behind the need for product managers who were struggling with retention and developed content that addressed their pain points. They used SEO to rank for key terms like 'mobile analytics' and 'retention' and provided valuable, educational content that engaged the target audience. By understanding the audience's problems and delivering solutions, they were able to build demand and accelerate growth.
The Power of Understanding the Customer's Pain
The success of Amplitude Analytics can be attributed to their deep understanding of the customer's pain points. They conducted surveys to identify the need behind the need and discovered that product managers were struggling with retention. By focusing on this pain point and providing solutions through their product analytics platform, they were able to resonate with the target audience and create demand. The key was to not simply talk about what they were selling, but to address the underlying need and demonstrate how their solution could solve it. This customer-centric approach allowed them to build trust and establish themselves as leaders in the product analytics category.
The Importance of Quality and Creativity in Content
Aditya emphasizes the importance of producing high-quality and creative content to stand out in the competitive SEO landscape. While AI can offer assistance in generating ideas and refining content, it is the human touch that adds the emotion and experiential elements that resonate with readers. The cream will rise to the top, and those who go beyond regurgitating information and deliver engaging, creative, and unique content will be rewarded by search engines. Additionally, as AI continues to evolve, search engines may prioritize expert insights, leading to a shift towards rewarding content that offers genuine expertise and valuable perspectives.
The Role of AI in Marketing and SEO
AI is already playing a significant role in marketing and SEO, and it will continue to evolve. Aditya stresses the importance of leveraging AI tools for brainstorming, generating content ideas, and refining content. AI can provide a starting point and save time, but it cannot replicate the experiential and creative elements that humans bring to the table. As AI becomes more advanced, search engines may become smarter in identifying AI-generated content and may raise the bar for quality and creativity. Nevertheless, AI will remain a powerful tool, and marketers who effectively use AI in combination with their unique insights and expertise will gain a competitive edge.
"There's no search volume for what we do"—okay, well do THIS instead.
In this case study, Aditya Vempaty (ex-Amplitude, current MoEngage VP of Marketing) shares his story of identifying an underserved segment of a competitive industry and building an SEO-led content strategy to capture it.
In this conversation, we discuss:
Why you should ignore your competitors.
Pain points and ‘the need behind the need’.
How to make SEO a demand creation channel.
How to tell if your product marketing is focusing on the wrong problem.
The trick to becoming a ‘no-brainer’ brand.
The role of AI in SEO
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