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Rytis Lauris

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
237 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

Now it's 120,000 organic visits every month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

That's what we get just purely SEO activities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

And you see how did we achieve this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

Yeah, so today I'm going to focus like three things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

So a little bit overview of the market, competition, and the team, who actually are those people who do the SEO inside Omnisend.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

I will share lessons from the first three years, as I mentioned, like we started in 2019.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

So there are two stages, first initial three years, and then other two years, so what we have accomplished.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

So basically, those are three parts of my presentation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

And starting with a general intro and general environment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

So what do we operate like competition is really tough and I will show you why and then what does that mean for us and I will share key principles what do we apply when we think about SEO and a little bit overview of our team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

So yeah, so competition, so Omnisend operates in really email marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

I mean, we call ourselves and we are marketing automation platform, but everyone, everyone, every search, I mean, 90% of searches still starts with very basic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

People are looking for email marketing for SMS marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

Although we think and we are way more robust platform as our competitors are, but actually everybody starts searching from very basic keywords.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

So actually our direct competitor number one is Klaviyo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

Yes, they are bigger than us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

They are like 10, 11 times bigger than us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

They are very big in Shopify ecosystem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

We're number two, 10 times smaller, but still number two in the Shopify ecosystem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

And they are a very public company, and they invested hundreds of millions of dollars in their go-to-market activities, including SEO, et cetera.