The Challenge of of Startup Growth

What’s good for the user is good for search. The biggest challenge of the SEO audit for On One Studios (and all companies) is maintaining a customer-focused approach when optimizing.

Every action in the audit must answer the question: how does this help the user on your website? Each tweak needed to embody the core drive of the company.

We came up with a human-centric SEO strategy to guide my approach. The web audit was designed to address three critical issues:

Understanding the company’s core value proposition and drive.

Great tactics mean nothing without a proper guiding strategy. Before I started any optimization, I spoke with management on what constituted the company’s core drives. By understanding their unique selling proposition, I could write copy that reflected their goals.

Addressing website architecture problems with user-centric best practices.

The website needed to make sense to customers. From URL structure to homepage navigation, I needed to make sure each click on the website made it easy to get to a sale.

Identify competitor SEO strategies to implement off-page SEO tactics.

A key pillar of getting a site to rank is the number of backlinks pointing to it. I needed to create a comprehensive, white hat backlink strategy to boost the site’s domain authority. By looking at who our competitors were linked (and linking to), I got a sense of the types of backlinks I was looking for.

Zest Dental is one of the largest dental implant manufacturers in the U.S. Their primary audiences are Dentists at offices across the country who perform surgery with dental implants. Some challenges I faced were

• The client is a leader in the space which makes new customer acquisition strategies/expansion more difficult 
• They had no great offers to use in their campaigns 
• Sophisticated B2B audience
• Brand loyalty to competitors in the market

The strategy

I began by leveraging the client’s existing data and Google’s machine learning algorithm to ensure that we’re targeting users most likely to convert. The goal was to feed the algorithm with the best data possible so we could go after new customers searching for non-branded terms.

After sufficiently utilizing campaign structures to segment the customer journey map in Google Ads, I began a substantial increase in ad spend to scale this account while maintaining an optimal ROAS.

Once we established a great search ads structure, we began to move higher in the funnel utilizing Google display, discovery and video campaigns for new customer acquisition.

• Existing agency underperforming
• Transition to in-house marketing team
• High CPA and Low Conversion Rate

In a health conscious world of consumers switching from sugary sodas to water and teas, Mountain Dew has always found ways to grow within the category. However, despite it's growth, Dew has struggled to recruit new drinkers into the brand and specifically having difficulties recruiting multicultural targets, even with a marquee partnership with the NBA. My work as Account Director at Ten35, the Cultural Agency Of Record, helped the brand gain relevance with a revamped recruitment strategy, redefined creative target and developed the creative articulation of new strategic idea.