The Startup Content Marketing Agency You’ve Been Looking For
Startups need growth to survive.
Most importantly, they need consistent, sustainable, and predictable growth.
We help make that happen.
We’re a startup content marketing agency operating at the intersection of storytelling and SEO. We help startups build a consistent pipeline of relevant traffic and fill the funnel with qualified leads and prospects.
We’ve worked with dozens of startups and growth-stage companies to build a sustainable organic growth engine. Our expertise comes from decades of experience in strategic content marketing and no-bullshit, content-driven SEO.
“Optimist understands content marketing like no other agency. They’re our long-term partner for building effective content campaigns at Promo.com.”
Hila Shitrit Nissim
VP of Communications, Promo.com
The Startup Content Marketing Agency for (Almost) Any Vertical
Our agency team has decades of combined experience in building and growing startups. We’ve helped companies in a huge range of industries and verticals, including:
- Sales technology
- Support automation/AI
- Consumer financial tech
- Healthcare
- Digital transformation and workflow automation
- Operations and productivity
+1,308% Organic Traffic
Proven framework for driving organic growth for B2B SaaS companies.
+1,270% Organic Traffic +1,367% Sign Ups
Exponential growth in traffic to the blog and conversions from content.
+100k/mo organic traffic
Content marketing to massively scale search engine traffic in 12 months.
Content &
SEO Strategies Crafted by Startup Experts
Optimist is a startup content marketing agency. We believe in the power of kick-ass content and smart strategy to help the world’s best companies get the attention they deserve. Our approach is a mix of content marketing and SEO—building a compounding, organic growth engine.
We don’t believe in the “blog and pray” model.
We believe in building a sustainable strategy for maximizing the value of every piece of content. Using a combination of on-page SEO, content marketing, targeted linkbuilding, and ongoing optimization, we deliver proven results for clients.
Content that Works (Hard)
We go beyond just creating great content—we put it to work. Our comprehensive strategies focus on turning every page, post, and article into an engine that drives traffic and conversions every day.
You won’t find any black-hat “SEO stuff” here.
We focus on building topical and domain authority for the keywords and topics that matter most to your audience—and your business.
Working Together to Achieve Sustainable Startup Growth
We can’t achieve 10x your traffic overnight. So we’re focused on building a long-term relationship based on mutual trust and respect, repeatable processes, scalable strategies, and consistent results.
We work as an extension of your startup team, bringing a full range of skills and experience.
Scope of Work Zen
Every client is unique. Every engagement is purpose-built.
We build bespoke teams of top-tier talent for every client project, marrying experience, expertise, and your team’s specific needs.
Our team provides end-to-end content support, including:
- Research
- Content strategy
- Content planning
- Content management
- Writing and editing
- Custom design and graphics
- Social content design
- Data visualization
- Editorial design
- Sourced photography
- Operations and project management
- Content repurposing
We plug into your existing content operation and work with your systems and processes.
Is Optimist the Content Marketing Agency for Your Startup?
Have you ever worked with someone and things just weren’t going right? Maybe the communication wasn’t working or you didn’t feel like you were in sync about what you’re actually trying to accomplish?
Yeah, we hate that feeling.
Our entire company is built around our values–finding a good fit and doing right by the people we work with. Because of that, we value our client relationships above all else. We come into every engagement wanting to know first and foremost if there’s a fit, and secondly if it makes sense to move forward.
How to know if your startup is a good fit for our content marketing services:
We Could Be a Fit
- You’re looking for a long-term content partner
- You have existing strategy in place and need support scaling or executing
- You have content guidelines to help our team learn your style, voice, and tone
- Your team can dedicate one or two stakeholders to be our main touchpoint(s)
We're Probably Not a Fit
- You want quick, overnight results
- You’re shopping for low-quality, mass-produced, cheap content
- You haven't quite figured out your ICP, USP, and messaging
Does this seem like a fit for your growth goals? Let’s connect and discuss how we can help your startup build a smart and sustainable growth strategy.
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Flexible engagements for projects, retainers, and everything in between.
