Growing Your Business Through a Recession with Rand Fishkin of SparkToro

Rand Fishkin is the co-founder and CEO of SparkToro, a company that helps marketers, PR folks, entrepreneurs, and product builders to get audience intelligence without the need for expensive, time-consuming, inaccurate surveys.

Before co-founding SparkToro, Rand is also the co-founder and former CEO of Moz, a company he founded with his mother after dropping out of the University of Washington 2 classes away from completing his degree. The company, which started as a blog called SEOmoz, attracted 30 million visitors annually and grew into a consulting business and now a software company. 

He is the author of the book Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World.

In this episode…

When the name Rand Fishkin comes up, many are quick to think him as the co-founder and former CEO of Moz, the multimillion-dollar software business. But what you may not be too familiar with is that Moz was built during a recession. Having come through the trenches, Rand knows all too well what it’s like to grow a company in the middle of a recession. And with the increasingly negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy, businesses are also facing the same challenging times as Rand did when he started Moz.

Rand has learned many things during his time with Moz and one of them is how to best handle the direct and indirect impacts of building at a time of recession. He has since sold Moz and he founded and is currently the CEO of SparkToro.

In this episode of INspiredINsider, Dr. Jeremy Weisz interviews Rand Fishkin about behind the scene stories of building Moz through a recession, why he had to step down as CEO of Moz, and the new challenges that he faced while building SparkToro. He also talks about what makes SparkToro unique in the industry and what it can do for businesses that no one else can. Stay tuned.