How to Unify Your Marketing Department for Effective Content Collaboration With Lindsay McGuire from Formstack

- Formstack: Helps organizations take manual- and paper-based processes online to make their work more effective and efficient
- Two sides to her job: Content and SEO for Formstack’s blog, podcast, Website, and Webinars
- Golden Equation = Appeal to search engines + high ranking + appeal to people
- Marketing Department Structure: Formstack values marketing and understands its benefits
- Sprints: Lack of scope, clarity, and communications means switching from shorter to longer sprints to remain agile with extended qualities
- Planning Priorities: “Needs” are must-have projects, and “Ideas” are fun and creative projects
- Content Creation Process: Starts with SEO and includes trending keywords, search history, traffic, email statistics, and ranking content
- SEO and Content Challenges: Connect with audience to close a sale
- How does Lindsay stay organized to be successful? Calendars, To Do lists, and brain breaks
- “Our focus is really to try to help organizations take manual- and paper-based processes online to make their work more effective and efficient.”
- “Things are both equally distributed between being appealing to Google and being appealing to humans.”
- “I love the content creation process...that is just my cup of tea. Coming up with new content ideas can be really, really fun.”
- “Everything starts with SEO.”
How to Unify Your Marketing Department for Effective Content Collaboration With Lindsay McGuire from @Formstack
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You're listening to the Actionable Marketing Podcast, powered by CoSchedule. The only way to organize your marketing in one place, helping marketers stay focused, deliver projects on time, and keep their entire marketing team happy. Ben: Hi there and welcome to the latest episode of the Actionable Marketing Podcast. My name is Ben Sailer. I’m the Inbound Marketing Director here at CoSchedule and the new host for this show. Long time listeners will know my colleague, Nathan Ellering, and our good friend, Eric Piela, have done a fantastic job of getting this show to its 167th episode. Now, I’ve been entrusted with bringing you insightful interviews each week from some of the industry's brightest minds. Without further ado, on this week’s show, we have Lindsay McGuire from Formstack. She’s their Digital Content SEO Specialist where she’s involved in all kinds of projects related to the worlds of content and SEO, which happen to be two of my personal favorite subjects. We had a great conversation not only about what her day to day looks like, but how to implement effective processes to make collaboration around content and SEO work. Also, there’s sure to be something that you can take away and start applying with your own team too. Hope you enjoy the episode and as always, don’t forget to subscribe and review the show on Apple podcast. The first question I have for you, what can you tell me about Formstack and what your team does there? Lindsay: Formstack began 13 years ago as an online form builder, but we’ve really grown to be so much more than that. Our focus is really to try to help organizations take manual and paper-based processes online to make their work more effective and efficient. Really just helping people figure out what processes are slowing them down and keeping them from achieving their goals and how we can help them through the use of our products to improve these processes, make them more efficient, and automate them. Recent customers said something about it’s not really about taking things off people’s plates, it’s more of automating to enable them to do more things, which I thought was a really great way to say that.



