Short Bio
After spending the first decade of his professional career as a high school teacher (and assistant principal), Brendan led the SEO team at two agencies, later leading growth marketing efforts at ActiveCampaign. In 2021, he founded Growth Sprints where he works with SaaS companies, helping them scale from $10M to $100M ARR.
Long(er) Bio
While teaching full-time for over a decade, Brendan Hufford built and sold two online businesses. Frustrated at the state of SEO education, he created and launched SEO for the Rest of Us in 2019. Since then he’s helped over 6k subscribers and 1k customers navigate the world of SEO.
He’s worked with enterprise SaaS and software companies (leading the SEO team at two agencies), and growth at ActiveCampaign.
Most recently ActiveCampaign, Brendan:
- Grew traffic to revenue-focused content +245%
- Increased glossary page traffic +308%
- Millions in revenue directly attributed to his work, including building 70+ free tools and templates
- Revised all core product pages and pushing (for the first time in company history) to rank for email marketing, marketing automation and CRM.
Again, frustrated with the state of SaaS marketing agencies, he launched Growth Sprints in 2021 to help SaaS companies navigate the new game of content and SEO.
Those clients have seen results such as:
- SaaS company added a HALF-MILLION users after a year of failed content efforts
- SaaS company added 50,000 new users in six months
- SaaS company went from 0 → 518+ referring domains (with ZERO outreach)
- SaaS company added $1.6M in annual traffic value
- After historically flat performance, this SaaS client 4Xed traffic and increased MQLs by 2,750%
Brendan currently runs Growth sprints (agency), ALL IN (community) and Growing Up (newsletter)
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Some of My Best LinkedIn posts
Why SaaS companies need Content IP
How to develop Content IP for your SaaS
Never miss your MQL target again: The SaaS growth framework
Why “pain point” marketing doesn’t work
10x your leads with these 5 questions
Explaining SEO to your CEO (I AM SEO framework)
297,000 visits to one article? How to create transformational SEO content
How AirBNB became the SEO monster they are today
SaaS company increased MQLs by +2,750%