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Tommy Walker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
145 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

We still talk to each other.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

It's really interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

At the time, the company was so scrappy at the time that it was like, let's produce content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

Let's get traffic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

Let's just get a foothold and establish a foothold as a thought leader in this space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

So when I was there...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

especially when I got into the marketing on the Shopify plus side, it was let's create content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

Let's make a splash.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

Like let's, the whole thing was breaking down the enterprise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

Um, so really at the time it wasn't as metrics focused as it is now most likely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

Um, but it certainly was like, let's make our impact and make our presence known within the space, which is like kind of hard to quantify at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

But, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

certainly, I mean, I was there for the first 1500 customers, the only marketing hire until the first 1500 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

So we did something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

So the metric that I care the most about is return visitors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

And the overall content plan, we had a few different things that we were looking at.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

Primarily, we were doing some SEO focused stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders

We were doing a lot more thought leadership pieces.