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Boil everything in marketing down and it's ALL content. Every Adword ad you write, every LinkedIn post you craft, every email you send - it's content. So to say I've been doing "content" marketing for 10 years is a bit of a farce. I've been doing content since I fell in love with writing when I was in elementary school. Want to chat about your content strategy? I'm all ears.
Austin Mullins
Enterprise SEO & Content Marketer With a Passion for SaaS, eLearning, eCommerce | Founder @ Conversion Media
There's no more scalable & profitable channel long-term than content marketing. If you can produce best-in-class assets that are relevant to your offerings and distribute that content to your target audience, the results can be quite dramatic. I'm here to help - let's chat!
Building a sustainable content strategy that drives results is no easy feat, but I've helped dozens of companies do just that. Together we can discuss your target audience, build your personas, and use smart ways to find the right content topics, formats, and channels. Once the plan is there, I can give you battle-tested advice on long-form copywriting, optimization, reusing content, distribution, and measurement.
How can you use content to deliver results? Use social media, email, website, app and UI to deliver the best experience to your customers and prospects. Find out what they are looking for and from that create new products and services with such probability of success.
I can help you with copywriting, blog post ideas, how to do research to determine what content to write, where to expose and post your content, auditing your content marketing
Daniil Kopilevych
B2B SaaS Sales Mentor and Cold Calling Partner. I help Pre-PMF Startups and Scaleups Book More Meetings with their ICPs.
If you're a relatively small/young company, you need to focus on producing decision-stage content first to quickly acquire competitor's customers as they're the optimal source of leads for you at the start. I'll show why and how to do that.
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"Twice-weekly posts, traffic flat."
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"Update three old posts before you write anything new."
04:26 / 30:00
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What a content mentor does
A content marketing mentor has already built the content and SEO engine you are trying to stand up. You get a 1:1 call with someone who has earned organic traffic and knows which moves matter at your stage and which waste months.
Most calls do some version of five things:
- Rethink how content works. The biggest win is rarely more posts. It is seeing how content and SEO fit together so each piece supports the next instead of standing alone.
- Name the gap you've ignored. A mentor names the content or SEO gap you have been working around, often the thing holding everything back.
- Find what to fix first. You leave knowing which single part of the funnel to fix first, instead of optimizing ten things that barely move the number.
- Narrow who you write for. Writing for everyone is the most common mistake. A mentor helps you pick the audience worth winning and the topics they search for.
- Sequence the work. You probably know the playbooks already. The value is order and conviction: what to do this month, and what to ignore until later.
The value is direction: what to write, in what order, and what to stop.
You also leave with a record. After each call, the takeaways are written down for you, ready to keep or skip:
Vassilena ValchanovaContent strategy reviewGroup the next ten posts into two clusters that link to each other, not ten one-offs.
Write for the one buyer who searches near a decision, drop the high-volume terms they never type.
KeepSkipFix site structure and internal links first, they move rankings more than another month of posts.
KeepSkipPublish the bottom-of-funnel comparison pages this quarter, the awareness explainers can wait.
KeepSkipBuilding content from scratch
The most common reader on this page has decided content and SEO are the way to grow and is building the system for the first time. You have committed to the channel. You have not yet built the engine that makes it pay off.
A mentor helps you stand it up in the right order instead of guessing for six months:
- Start from the buyer, not the blog. the topics worth writing come from what your buyers search for and decide on, not from a content calendar filled to look busy.
- Build clusters, not one-offs. a set of posts that support one another ranks far better than scattered articles that never connect.
- Get the foundation right early. site structure, internal links, and a few core pages do more than a pile of posts on a shaky base.
- Pick a realistic first win. go after terms you can rank for now, then use that authority to reach for the competitive ones later.
Most readers here are founders, not specialists
The person on this page is usually a founder or operator who picked content as the channel, often without a dedicated team. You do not need a content marketing title to get value from a call. You need a specific problem and the will to act on the plan.
Keyword research and a plan
Keyword research is where most content strategies fall apart before they start. People either write what they wish buyers searched for, or chase terms they have no chance of ranking for, or let their own pages compete for the same word.
A mentor helps you build a keyword and content plan that can rank:
- Find terms with buyer intent. the goal is words a buyer types when they are close to a decision, not the highest-volume term you can find.
- Match difficulty to your authority. a small site wins on specific, lower-competition terms first, then earns the right to chase the head terms.
- Group into clusters. a pillar plus supporting posts that link to each other beats the same number of disconnected articles.
- Avoid cannibalization. stop two of your own pages fighting for the same keyword, which holds both of them down.
- Sequence what to write first. the order you publish in matters as much as the list itself, and a mentor helps you pick the first ten posts.
a keyword plan, x-rayed
Ten comparison terms a buyer types near a decision1. Grouped under one pillar, each supporting post linking back2. Difficulty capped where a small site can still rank3. The first three published in buyer-intent order4.
The intent
Terms a buyer types near a decision, not the biggest volume in the tool.
The cluster
A pillar plus supporting posts that link to each other, so the group ranks together.
The difficulty
Matched to the authority you have. A small site wins the specific terms first.
The order
Publish in intent order. The sequence earns the authority to chase the head terms later.
Four choices on one page. A mentor who has ranked a site knows which one comes first.
When SEO traffic drops
"I spent months on SEO and nothing ranked" and "my traffic was fine and then it fell" are two of the most common things people bring to a content call. The panic usually melts once you find the one thing that moved.
A mentor walks the site with you and finds the cause, usually one of these:
- An algorithm or ranking shift. the terms you ranked for moved, and the fix is a content or relevance change, not a panic rewrite of everything.
- A technical break. a broken redirect, an indexing problem, or a slow page is costing you traffic you already earned, without any obvious sign.
- A migration gone wrong. a redesign, rebrand, or domain move dropped the equity you spent years building, and it can often be recovered.
- A measurement glitch. sometimes the rankings are fine and your tracking is just hiding it, which is the best problem to find.
- Architecture built backwards. the site was structured in a way that was always going to cap how far the content could climb.
Talk to a mentor before you migrate, not after
If you are about to redesign, rebrand, or move a site that ranks, a 30-minute call to map redirects and consolidate cleanly is far cheaper than recovering the traffic you lose by touching it blind.
Content that converts
Plenty of people publish steadily and get almost nothing back. It is rarely a volume problem. The pieces are not connected, they target the wrong reader, or they were never built to earn trust and lead anywhere.
The most useful reframe most people get on a call is to stop treating blog posts as standalone plays:
- Build for distribution. a post nobody sees does not count. Plan how each piece gets in front of people before you write it, not after.
- Earn authority on a topic. depth on the subjects your buyers care about builds the trust that makes both readers and search engines take you seriously.
- Connect content to the funnel. the best content answers the questions buyers ask on the way to a decision, so traffic becomes pipeline, not just pageviews.
- Repurpose, don't just publish. one strong idea can become a post, a thread, a video, and an email, which is cheaper than always starting from nothing.
The goal is content that ranks and converts, not a higher post count.
two moves, in order
Connect the posts
standalone articles that each start over
a cluster that answers one buyer's decision
Plan the distribution first
publish and hope someone finds it
decide where each piece lands before you write it
Traffic that becomes pipeline
Each post earns trust on the topic and points to the next step, so readers convert instead of leaving.
The order matters: connect the content before you chase the distribution.
Using AI, getting found by AI
Two AI questions come up on almost every content call now. The first is how to use AI to make content faster without it reading like everyone else's. The second is newer and rising fast: how to get your content cited by AI assistants when buyers ask them for recommendations.
A mentor who works in this daily can give you a straight read on both:
- Is blogging still worth it. written content still earns rankings and citations, but the bar for usefulness is higher now, and a mentor tells you what clears it.
- Use AI without sounding generic. where AI speeds up research and drafting, and where a human angle and lived experience are the only thing that ranks.
- Get cited by LLMs. much of what earns search rankings already earns AI citations, so a mentor shows you the few extra moves that help models quote you.
Choosing your channels
Once the content exists, the question is where it lives. LinkedIn, short-form video, Instagram, TikTok, a newsletter, your own blog. The instinct is to be everywhere. The fix is almost always the opposite.
A mentor looks at your buyer, your format strengths, and your time, then helps you pick the one or two channels worth your focus and drop the rest:
- LinkedIn for B2B. where many B2B buyers spend attention, strong for founder-led content and outbound that compounds.
- Short-form video. reach and discovery, but only worth it if you can sustain the format and your buyer is watching.
- Search and your blog. the channel that keeps paying off long after you publish, built around what buyers search for.
- Email and newsletter. the audience you own, the cheapest place to convert and keep the people your content already earned.
Almost nobody runs too few channels. The move is subtraction, and a mentor who has run these knows which to keep.
When nothing converts
"We get traffic but nothing converts" is one of the most common things people bring to a content call. The traffic is rarely the problem. Something after the click is leaking.
A mentor walks the path from visitor to customer with you and finds the bottleneck, usually one of these:
- The landing page. readers who came for one post land somewhere that ignores why they showed up and never asks them to do the next thing.
- The offer. what you are asking people to do next is too big, too vague, or not worth it yet for someone who just read a post.
- The website itself. the site is the bottleneck, not the ads or the traffic, and a few structural changes unlock the conversions you earned.
- The nurture. people who are not ready to buy leave and never hear from you again, when email could bring them back.
- The activation step. if you have a product, people sign up and never reach the moment it clicks, so they drift off.
Fixing the right one is worth more than tweaking all of them at once.
Mentors start diagnosing before the call. A typical first exchange after you book:
Eden BidaniWhat a mentor can help with
Content marketing is broad, and so is the network. The mentors who take these calls are strong on the whole organic and lifecycle funnel, not just blog writing. You can find someone who has done the specific thing you are stuck on:
- Content strategy. What to write, for whom, and how it connects into an engine that compounds.
- SEO. Keyword research, technical setup, site architecture, and recovering lost traffic.
- Link building. Earning the backlinks that still matter, and knowing when they do not.
- Conversion and CRO. Turning organic traffic into signups and customers, not just pageviews.
- Email and lifecycle. Newsletters, nurture, and the lists that convert the audience you earned.
- Copywriting. Writing that earns trust and gets read, on the page and in the post.
- Distribution and social. Getting content seen on LinkedIn, video, and the channels your buyers use.
- Branding and positioning. Who you are for and why your content is worth reading over everyone else's.
Match the mentor to the part of the funnel that is stuck, whether that is rankings, conversion, or distribution.
You can also run it in reverse: post what you are stuck on as a help request, and mentors raise their hands to take it.
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When to book a call
You do not need a giant question. Bring the one thing about your content or rankings you keep going back and forth on. The most useful moments to book:
- You spent months and nothing ranked. you have put in the work and have nothing to show, and you cannot tell what is wrong.
- You are standing up the engine. you picked content as the channel and want someone to help you build the system in the right order.
- Your traffic dropped. rankings fell or a migration went sideways, and you need to find the cause before you panic-rewrite.
- You can't tell what's working. you are publishing but unsure any of it matters, and you want a second opinion before another quarter.
- You are doing this alone. you own content without a senior person to sanity-check the plan or tell you what to ignore.
Every mentor on GrowthMentor is vetted before they are accepted. Fewer than 5% of applicants get in. They are operators and advisors who do this work daily, not influencers selling a course.
One membership, unlimited calls
Membership gives you unlimited access to the whole network across the entire organic and lifecycle funnel. Browse by what you are stuck on, read real reviews, and book directly on a mentor's calendar.
What people book content marketing calls about
Rarely what they end up solving. The ask on the booking form is usually a symptom, and a mentor who has done this work recognizes the pattern underneath it. Three that come up again and again:
walked in as, walked out as
Walked in as
A volume problem
We need to publish more posts.
Walked out as
A cluster problem
Scattered posts that never reinforce each other.
Walked in as
A traffic problem
Rankings fell, rewrite everything in panic.
Walked out as
A migration problem
A redirect broke. The equity leaked.
Walked in as
A conversion problem
Traffic is fine, nobody converts.
Walked out as
A next-step problem
The post ends. It asks for nothing.
Three calls, one mechanic. The problem that leaves the room is never the one that walked in.
Why GrowthMentor
Every mentor on GrowthMentor is vetted before they are accepted. Fewer than 5% of applicants get in. They are operators who have built real content and SEO engines, not influencers selling a course.
Because the network is broad, you are not stuck with one specialist when your problem spans the whole organic funnel. You can pressure-test a keyword plan with one mentor this week, then bring the conversion leak to a different person the week after.
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Hamel Shah · Co-Founder
Read Hamel's storyKnowing I can always book a call to help me clarify what I'm doing is the best feeling in the world.
Lena Sesardic · Product Manager
Read Lena's storyI like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the right track.
Minh · Solo Founder
Read Minh's storyIt gave me fast access to expert-level insights that I couldn't get from academic research or user surveys alone.
Nicola Rubino · Growth Marketing Consultant
Read Nicola's storySometimes I'm stuck at one step and all I need is someone who can share experiences of what they did when they were in my situation.
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What people ask before their first call.
Start from your buyers, not a content calendar. Find the topics they search for and decide on, group them into clusters that support each other, and get the site foundation right before you chase volume. A mentor who has built this engine can help you sequence the first ten posts so each one pulls its weight.
Look for terms with buying intent, not just high volume, and match difficulty to the authority you have. A small site should win on specific, lower-competition terms first. A mentor can help you build the cluster, avoid your own pages competing for the same word, and pick what to publish first.
The cause is usually one thing: an algorithm shift, a technical break, a migration gone wrong, or a tracking glitch. A mentor can walk your site with you, find which one moved, and tell you whether to rewrite, fix the tech, or rule out a reporting issue, instead of changing everything at once.
Yes, but the bar for usefulness is higher. Written content still earns rankings and AI citations when it carries real experience and a clear point of view. A mentor can tell you what clears that bar for your topic and where AI helps you produce faster without sounding like everyone else.
Buyers are asking AI assistants for recommendations, and getting cited is becoming a referral source of its own. The good news is that much of what earns search rankings already earns AI citations. A mentor who works in this daily can show you the few extra moves that help models quote you.
Stop treating posts as standalone plays. Build depth on the topics your buyers care about, connect each piece to the questions they ask on the way to a decision, and plan distribution before you write. A mentor helps you turn traffic into pipeline instead of pageviews.
It depends on where your buyer spends attention and which formats you can sustain. The most common fix is subtraction: pick one or two channels, go deep, and drop the rest. A mentor can look at your buyer and your strengths and tell you whether to lean on LinkedIn, video, search, or email.
The traffic is rarely the problem. It is usually the landing page, the offer, the website itself, or the lack of nurture. A mentor can walk the path from visitor to customer with you and find the one bottleneck worth fixing first, so the organic readers you earned become customers.
This is exactly who most people on this page are. A mentor gives you the senior second opinion you do not have in-house: someone to sanity-check your plan, sequence your week, and tell you what to ignore so you stop guessing alone.
Yes. You do not need a content marketing title to get value from a call. Most people who book are founders and operators who picked content as the channel without a dedicated team. Bring a specific problem and you will leave with a plan.
An agency runs the work and a course teaches the theory. A mentor gives you a practitioner's straight opinion on your specific site and situation, in real time, with no upsell. It is the fastest way to get unstuck on one decision, like a keyword plan, a traffic drop, or a channel choice.
Bring one specific problem and any context that helps: your traffic, your top pages, the decision you are weighing. GrowthMentor is a membership, and once you are a member, calls are included and most mentors offer their time for free. Browse the mentors above, read their reviews, and book a 30-minute video call directly on their calendar.
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