Content Marketing Case Studies

Learn how we’ve applied our thinking, frameworks, and strategies to drive massive growth for startups, scaleups, and even ourselves. Combining decades of experience in content marketing and SEO, we’ve been lucky to work with some amazing clients over the past few years.

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    1,308% Organic Growth in 17 Months

    Leading up to their acquisition by DropBox, our team helped HelloSign massively scale inbound traffic and leads.

    “We’ve seen major growth in our organic blog traffic and a steep uptick in engagement. Bringing on Optimist has without a doubt allowed us to scale successful content efforts at HelloSign.”

    – Claire Murdough, Content Marketing Manager, HelloSign

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    +1,270% Organic Blog Traffic
    +1,367% Sign-ups from Blog

    Over 12 months, we kickstarted content marketing for Glide and turned their blog into a source of qualified traffic and user sign ups.

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    +400% Organic Conversions
    +2,000% Organic Traffic Value

    We helped Stampli dominate the SERPs for high-impact, business-critical keywords that generate traffic and consistently drive direct sales leads and revenue.

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    +2,961% Organic Traffic
    +4,200% Organic Sign Ups

    Our team helped Kubera carve out a high-growth niche in the ultra-competitive world of personal financial software in just 15 months.

    +571% SaaS Leads

    SaaS lead generation strategy for driving rankings and traffic with a focus on conversion rates.

    “‘Blog and pray’ wasn’t going to be a good approach when I had to talk to the board of directors and investors.”

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    +145% Blog Traffic

    As Submittable pursued an aggressive growth strategy in the publishing, higher education, and CSR verticals, they worked with our team to build a comprehensive content marketing and SEO plan & doubled traffic in less than 6 months.

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    +757% Blog Traffic

    Working with Plytix, we’ve been able to nearly 10x their blog traffic in just 20 months. Content marketing and SEO is now their #1 channel for growth.

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    +454% Organic Traffic

    Optimist worked as part of FairShake’s integrated content, SEO, and linkbuilding strategy to help drive exponential growth and help thousands of consumers navigate the arbitration process.

    Zero to 100k Organic/Month (In About 1 Year)

    Learn how we helped an ed-tech startup scale from 0 traffic to over 100,000 organic visits per month—in about 1 year!

    “‘Blog and pray’ wasn’t going to be a good approach when I had to talk to the board of directors and investors.”

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    +6,719% Organic Traffic

    Optimist built a content marketing strategy from the ground up for this D2C retailer that’s been operating for over 40 years. In just 20 months, we scaled traffic and conversions 70X.

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    +100% Organic Traffic

    We helped Contentstack become a leader in the Content Experience vertical as the de facto headless CMS for ambitious enterprises.

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