VP Marketing at SparkToro | Can keep hydrangeas alive in a vase for 10 days

I'm currently VP Marketing for audience research startup, SparkToro. I also co-host the Meme Team podcast, where Sonia Baschez and I discuss the marketing logic behind viral moments.

I've spoken at conferences like AdWorld, MozCon, and SaaStock. I've guest lectured at Columbia Business School, Cornell University, Stanford University, and University of Washington. In my spare time, I teach Content Marketing 201 which I host on Maven. I'm also a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, and a former journalist.

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Amanda Natividad

If you need something uncontroversial to discuss with your relatives at Thanksgiving dinner... you could always talk about B2B sales.

VP Marketing at SparkToro | Originator of "Zero-Click Content"

Good news: you don’t need a 40-page audience research deck to pick your next content channel.

You can "guess and test" your way there. Here are two paths marketers can take:

1) Use tools (like SparkToro) to see where your audience actually hangs out

2) Or, when you don’t have budget/access, run a thoughtful guess-and-test experiment instead.

What “guess and test” looks like in practice:

Step 1: Make a reasonable guess.
In B2B, assuming your audience is on LinkedIn is usually a safe starting point.

Step 2: Start tiny.
Record a short, limited-series podcast in a meeting room. Spin up a short LinkedIn series. Run a scrappy webinar. Nothing that needs a studio or a 3-month plan.

Step 3: Watch for directional signals.
Are the right people engaging? Do guests/partners share it? Is sales hearing “I saw your post/podcast…” on calls?

Step 4: Decide.
If you see traction, then invest more deeply. If you don’t, kill it without guilt and try a different format or channel.

Your job isn’t to be perfectly right upfront. Your job is to learn quickly enough that you know where to be excellent. (Of course... a tool like SparkToro can help you do all this a heckuva lot faster. 🙃)

I recently joined Dreamdata's Attributed podcast where we got into how Dreamdata did exactly this with their podcast and other “un-attributable” stunts that still clearly moved the needle. Link below.

Aazar Ali Shad

The Performers

Paid social mastermind group where you'll find answers to the most challenging questions that no one else could help you with.

Gain access to the network of media buyers you've always craved, and uncover the secrets of the digital advertising elite.

Founder

Shad Venture UG

Providing growth marketing consultancy and advisory services with:

- Paid Social
- Paid Search


Current & old clients: The Perfect Jean, Hello Fresh, Science&Humans, Moonbird, Curious Cardinals, Synthesis, Kinedu, Plei App and more.

Paid Social Ads & Creative Strategist Consultant

Synthesis

Weekly, 1-hour simulations that fuel innovative thinking and challenge kids to collaborate in complex environments.
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Join our community to get early access:
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Growth Marketing Lead

Userpilot

Growth Advisor

Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.

Head of Growth

Growth Marketing Stories

Growth Marketing Stories is a podcast for marketers & founders who are in the messy middle. 

It's raw. It's actionable. It's honest.

Growth Marketing Stories Podcast will:
- Inspire you to become better version 
- Share mental models and frameworks to apply
- Discuss Lessons & mistakes so you improve
- Go deep more than just tips and tactics
- Focus on strategy, flywheels and mindset

Some of our guests were: April Dunford, Amanda Natividad, Rand Fishkin, Peep Laja, Andrew Capland, Harry Dry and more.

Some of the brands these marketers are from: CXL, Buffer, Google, Groove, Obvi, Wistia, Postscript, Careem, Panda Doc, Animalz, Airtable, Truebill and more.

Proudly sponsored by: Growth Mentor and Ahrefs

Podcast Host

VITALS

Vitals is a single lightweight shopify app that generates sales and replaces 40+ commonly used apps.

The app will help you with:
- Increase conversions
- Boost revenue
- Build more trust
- Improve stores' user experience

ECOMPLY.io

ECOMPLY.io offers a SaaS privacy management system in compliance with the GDPR.

We provide a GDPR solution for the Records of Processing Activities, DPIA, Vendor Risk Management, Data Subject Rights, and the GDPR Audit. 

Get in touch with us at contact@ecomply.io

Cofounder & CMO

Accredible

Accredible is a Certificate Management System designed to make the entire certification pipeline easier and cheaper. Issue the most advanced digital certificates in the world, update and revoke live certificates and view analytics on how your recipients use them.

Sales & Growth Manager

Lieferoo UG

Lieferoo is a community of trusted travelers & senders. We facilitate express & normal delivery of items which you are unable to send through traditional courier system. We help you send stuff along with the travelers who are going in the same direction anyway.

We are exploiting existing transportation of people traveling via cars, trains & buses. You can request a traveler to deliver an (awkward) item/s – things like furniture, bikes, Ski or Snowboard equipment etc. for you (Obviously if it aligns with their travel plan)

Co-Founder

matchinguu UG

AdTech Company Providing Programmatic Mobile Push Sales & Marketing Infrastructure.
Helping apps and advertisers to activate, engage, grow and monetize their existing user base and new target groups.

Strategy Business Development Manager

Grown several tech companies from 0 to 8 figures I Paid Social Growth Marketer I I deconstruct paid marketing so you can level up.

After 5 years in sales, I moved to marketing.

Frankly, I love it. I learned marketing by starting 2 startups and side hustles. 

Then, I found my Ikagai: Growth Marketing. I became Head of Growth at Userpilot (Grew it to 7-figures and beyond). And then, I moved to become an advisor.

Now, I have grown several tech/SaaS companies from 0 to 8 figures. Currently, I lead paid social and growth initiatives at 3 different D2C tech companies. 


❇️ Paid Growth Marketing Newsletter:
Get smarter about paid growth marketing in 5 minutes. I analyze the best brands on paid social to give you insights to level up your marketing: https://theperformers.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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❇️ Podcast: Growth Marketing Stories
I deconstruct how companies grow with marketing and share learnings along the way. Folks from Wistia, Postscript, Buffer, Truebill, Airtable, Oribi, Attentive, PandaDoc, Baremetrics, CXL, and many others have joined. Give it a listen here: https://pod.co/growth-marketing-stories/

Thank you for visiting my profile. Feel free to reach out at aazar@aazarshad.com.

Growth Marketing Consultant

Providing growth marketing consultancy and advisory services with:

- Paid Social
- Paid Search
- Content Marketing & SEO
- Conversion Rate Optimization

Invested in: Maven, Gumroad, Vuvei Ventures, Synthesis, Userpilot, Breshna and more.

Current clients: MakerKids and Prequel.

Dear Internet, steal my ugly ads with pride.

Scaling Brands from $1Mn to $10Mn with Meta Ads — Ads Nerd — I Create Un-Ignorable Ads To Reduce CAC

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