AMAKA Studio

SaaS Content Strategist

Lisa Steingold

I've always been obsessed with behavior change and unlocking human potential! This is my personal contribution to the world as I write on all things resilience and performance in a constantly changing world.

Books authored include 
- "Cut the Crap: The Power of Brand Authencticy" 
- "El Amor de Lisa"
- "Change for Good""

I also spent 2 years creating, producing and hosting "Velo Dulce" - a podcast featuring the world's leading women in their respective fields to yield 'the secret' behind high performance.

I've been privileged to speak on the subject of human behaviour and wellness
- Key Note speaker at GIBS Women in Leadership Conference 2013
- Presenter at the GIBS Accelerate Programme for high performance individuals 2013 & 2014 
- Chosen speaker for 2013 Innovation Summit 
- Speaker for 2014 Association of Change Management Professionals Conference 2014 
- Deloitte Women's Day Key Note Speaker 2012

Wellness expert, resilience specialist and writer

Whale (usewhale.io)

Whale (SaaS) is an online knowledge-sharing and training software solution that replaces outdated learning methods, enabling teams to unlock their next level of growth. 

My role is designing a strategy that attracts, delights, and inspires our audience. This involves partnership marketing, digital and content, including social media, email communications, our podcast, thought leadership, and sales-specific content.

Key Results
Successful partnerships with Hubspot, EOS and G2.
25% of all leads generated from organic content
Organic traffic increased 1900% over 3 years
26% average email open rate with 5.9% click-through rate
Creation of the Unlocking Growth podcast featured on Spotify's top 30% of business podcasts
Increased Google Authority from 14 to 51
Gated content and webinars to drive MQL's

We're excited to continue to deliver value content to the world's entrepreneurs and Google thinks we're doing something right as we saw our Google authority ranking double in just one year.

I am grateful to work with the best.

Head of Content Marketing

10x for Brands

I've always been passionate about growing world-changing brands and I founded 10x4 Brands to translate the vision of entrepreneurs into reality through authentic brand narratives combined with growth hacking tools.
10x4 Brands was my growth agency where I utilized a specific framework to help grow brands. My work included strategy, marketing campaigns, paid marketing, social media marketing and growth campaigns. 
Clients have included
BIA Cycling
Novus Global
Teams & Beyond
ASSECO
LaForma
Curtains2Fit
Discovery Limited

Chief Growth Officer

METACO 

A globally connected consultancy, Metaco is the recognised leader in Systemic Leadership Team solutions in Africa with a strong track record for delivering transformational results across a range of industries and contexts.

My responsibility includes
● Development of the growth strategy with integrated brand and digital strategy
● Google, LinkedIn and Facebook campaigns to deliver content and generate leads with development of CPA on digital channels.
● Development and management of events to press, partners and potential clients
● Development of corporate identity in line with strategy requirements
● Alignment of stakeholders from Comair and external agencies to ensure brand and business consistency in communications
● Writing and publishing of relevant articles in the media
● Development of Metrics and Reporting dashboard to ensure delivery of relevant metrics including revenue, traffic, proposals and ROAS for both Google and LinkedIn campaigns
● Mentorship of junior team members

Head Of Marketing

ChewyMoon

ChewyMoon is an eCommerce brand powering a future generation of super heroes through convenient healthy nutrition for kids.

With a belief that nutrition is fundamental to powering healthy happy growing humans and that producing great products that kids love instils healthy eating habits early on, ChewyMoon is giving more traditional kids food brands a run for their money. 

As Marketing Director, my role was to deliver on the brand mission, ensure growth and ensure LTV.

Marketing Director

Popimedia

Global Ad-tech platform and Facebook Marketing Partner #BuildingBusinessOnSocial

Using their proprietary platform, meedee8, Popimedia offers brands maximised and scalable social media exposure through targeted campaigns that offer campaign management, lead generation and reporting through Facebook, Instagram and the Facebook Audience network.

As Head of Marketing at Popimedia, my role included the brand and marketing strategy leveraging PR, sales collateral, cross channel digital campaigns, events, thought leadership (in the form of downloads, blogs and mailers), product and partner marketing to deliver of client acquisition and retention across a range of territories. This included all communication and measurement platforms including the website, MailChimp, Google Analytics, Google Data Studio and our own CRM system. As an essential part of brand I was additionally responsible for internal culture.

I was fortunate to oversee the marketing department including two direct reports and a number of agencies including the PR agency, web and social.

In my time with Popimedia I founded the CMO2020, Ad-tech Academy and SHiFT initiatives which were indicative of brand thinking and acted as PR and lead generation platforms.

The team at Popimedia were incredible and it was a blessed two years that I was able to spend with them.

Head Of Marketing, EMEA

Vega School

Responsibilities included
Development of marketing plans including objectives, brand positioning, channels, SWOT, calendar and budget in line with business and brand objectives
Spearheading market research to ensure that marketing decisions are aligned with the market and support the business objectives
Monitoring of field information and trends in and trends in the markets, customers, prices, channels and competition
Preparation of competitor pricing analysis reports
Identification of value enhancing opportunities for the brand
Employee and internal communications initiatives
Agency management to ensure delivery of tactical projects; PR agency, digital agency and ATL agency
Development of copy for all marketing material including the website, presentations and sales collateral for the student relationship team
Promotional planning (ATL & BTL) and development of promotional items (including collateral) and creative concepts. This included website, collateral for student relationship centers, presentations, school expos and external events presentations
Partnership marketing including maintaining inclusion at various awards including The Loeries and other prominent South African awards
Direction of marketing and recruitment team and processes to support the marketing function
Budget preparation and management to ensure ROI of marketing spend and achievement of weekly targets including preparation of weekly sales reports
Analysis of the business, evaluation of competitive challenges and identifies opportunities for growth
Management of marketing staff to ensure that the marketing function delivered on objectives at events 
Served on national marketing committee across other company brands within the master group
Presentations to Exco and (internal and external) stakeholders
Monitoring of field information and market trends
Reporting including sales reports, digital analytics and budgets into Exco

National marketing manager

Zodiac Pool Deutschland GmbH

•	Strategic brand plan incorporating market analysis, brand proposition, promotions plan, budget & time plan.  
•	Promotional planning incl. ATL & BTL (packaging, POS, CRM, direct marketing, relationship marketing) project implementation.
•	Corporate social investment program. 
•	Communications with external agencies (ATL, BTL, activation and media)  and internal business units e.g. sales. 
•	Trade marketing including implementation of loyalty program, trade road show and joint advertising.
•	Competitor analysis & tracking
•	Product packaging and new product launches.
•	New product development with R&D
•	Pricing analysis & and margin management.

Brand Manager

Growth obsessed • Strategic Thinker • People Focused • Girl on Wheels • Collaborator • Results-Driven  • Learner for life • Investor in people & brands • Reslience

What else?
I've authored three books, 
I'm the podcast host of 3 podcasts
I once wrote for Oprah Magazine, 
And I spend my weekends on 2 wheels 🏍️

Lisa Steingold 🇿🇦 🇪🇸

GTM for Early Stage SaaS | Co-founder @ Datapad | SaaS Growth Advisor | Reforge | 1x Exit |

I’m a marketer, 2x entrepreneur with 1x exit, and helped companies to go from 0 to 8 figures.

My achievements:

- Built 2 VC backed startups with one exit

- Built a 7 figure productized marketing agency

- Became a mentor in top accelerators such as: 500, Plug and Play, Techstars

- Got to work with the portfolio companies of amazing investors such as A16z, Craft Ventures, YC

- Built a podcast with 20k downloads in a year-figure

- Transformed my body more times than Christian Bale ☺️

John Ozuysal

Hiring Alert: I am looking for a GTM engineer (contactor)

This is not a client-facing role; you will not be running campaigns for clients, but you will be helping me run internal fun experiments. No middleman, just 1-1 with me.

You have to be good at: Clay, Smartlead, Instantly, Trigify, etc...

Your main responsibility will be to run internal campaigns with me to test different offers

Most importantly, you should be able to catch up with my tempo :) 

I will be in Dubai for the next couple of months, and ideally, you should be in a similar time zone.

If you want to learn from someone who has built and exited SaaS companies and scaled agencies to 7 figures, DM me and I will send you more info.

Generate Pipeline from AI Search | 1x Exit

I would rather start LinkedIn commenting as a service, rather than content writing.

I am not sure if it’s just me but comments are getting much better engagement then posts.

Even my mum is not seeing my posts anymore 😀

Every time I open LinkedIn, I see less expertise and more theatrics. 

And now it is all boosted around the clock.

-People “proving” AI search visibility by posting… their Google Search Console
 
- Others claiming they “ranked in AI in 14 days,” but all they show is a Google SERP and a couple of AI overview citations

 - Tombstone hobbyists declaring a new marketing channel dead every single week

 - Creators making cringy YouTube skits hoping it magically turns them into experts

 - Founders flexing “10M ARR in 5 months” — in what currency, nobody knows

 -Endless fake social proof screenshots that fall apart the moment you zoom in

 And now… boosted posts from these same people flooding our feeds 24 hours a day

For anyone who understands basic marketing, LinkedIn has become a loop of fake promises, fake authority, and zero practical value.

The platform used to be where real operators shared what actually works.

Now it's mostly noise amplified with ad spend.

Is it just me feeling like this ?

I am looking for a GTM engineer a part-time or project basis

This is not a client-facing role; you will not be running campaigns for clients, but you will be helping me run internal fun experiments

You have to be good at: Clay, Smartlead, Instantly, Trigify, etc...

Most importantly, you should be able to catch up with my tempo :)

Listicles help with getting AI search visibility or no?

Here is the research 👇

Ahrefs have just done and published a research piece on AEO that all of us knew but couldn't prove:

Self-promotional listicles (best X software/agencies) are one of the best ways, if not the best way, to be the #1 recommendation spot for a solution comparison.

According to Glen Allsopp's research that analyzed 26,283 source URLs on AI search:- “Best X” blog lists represented 43.8% of all page types.

- Placing higher on multiple comparison lists likely increases your chances of being recommended by ChatGPT (which is why I've started doing outreach to get mentions).

- Across 1,100 blog lists used as research sources, 79.1% were updated in 2025 (which only confirms how important content freshness is).AI search for SaaS brands and agencies, put in the most simple way possible, consists of 3 core pillars:- Owned content, which covers comparison guides, where you explain what makes you the #1 option in the industry or for a specific use case.

- Mentions, which covers having visibility on other comparison lists, review platforms (e.g., Clutch and G2), and community forums like Reddit.

- Content freshness, which I think is AI search engine's ''sanity check'' if your content is outdated or recent.Here are a few examples of owned content:

- Top 10 [Competitor] Alternatives For ITSM In 2026.

- Top 10 Project Management Software For Start-Ups In 2026.

- 10 Best Marketing Agencies In Dubai For SaaS Brands In 2026.

And then positioning your solution or service as the #1 choice, clearly explaining why, and then covering other competitors in the space.

Glen's research also found something I have been thinking about for some time but could not prove:''35% of cited best lists were published on low authority domains.''Start-ups and low domain authority domains CAN WIN in AI search, and should not be scared of competing against established players on the market.

This research confirms the trends we have been seeing with the portfolio companies of House of Growth - AEO Agency

Link to research under comments

We helped Juma close 6-figure deals from AI search

Get the playbook for free (no need to comment) 👇

This is the same playbook we used to create a pipeline for all of our clients. You can take it and implement it in your business straight away.

Our AEO playbook includes:

- Everything we know about AI models' recommendation algorithms

- Differences between Google and AI search behavior 

- How to ensure models can properly access and read your content

- Best practices to get recommended on AI models (including brand mentions, BOFU content creation, and more)

- Real examples of content that works (and what fails)

👉Grab the playbook from here:https://tally.so/r/jaDPl9

Reading too many SaaS trends and predictions by people who have built or worked inside a SaaS company 😅 

I don't understand why people try to fake authority to gain likes.

Don't listen to everything you see here. Always rely on your own playbooks and keep testing!

Someone told me LinkedIn is the "fastest way to find message-market fit."

I almost spit out my coffee.

Here is the logic of finding message market fit on LinkedIn in 2 days:

Post content for 2 days. See what gets engagement. Add DMs on top. Boom.
 
Message-market fit.

Let's break down why this is insane.

Problem #1: You have zero control over who sees your post (exclude TL ads).

Your ICP could be following you and never see a single thing you write.

The algorithm decides. Not you.

Problem #2: Sample size.

Let's say 3 people from your ICP like your post.

Congrats?

That's not data. That's noise.

You wouldn't make a product decision based on 3 survey responses.

Why would you bet your entire go-to-market on it?

Problem #3: LinkedIn DM limits.

How many DMs can you actually send per day without getting restricted?

So you send 100 DMs. You get 5 positive responses. And now you've "found" message-market fit?

No. You found 5 people who were polite.

Here's the uncomfortable truth:

If you want real message-market fit, you need volume.

You need to reach 500 to 1000 people in your ICP.

One-to-one.

With the same message.

And measure actual response rates.

Email lets you do this.

LinkedIn is great, but it's not a place to test MMF as fast as possible

Stop believing everything you read on this platform.

Including this post.

Go test it yourself 😀

If I were an early-stage SaaS and wanted visibility in AI search engines, 

Here is exactly what I would do without creating content.

( I am not saying you don't need to create content, but most startups don't have the resources)

First, I would pick 10 prompts I actually want to win.

These prompts would be either:

competitor comparisons

category definitions

“best X for Y” type questions

Then I would track those prompts.

You can use tools like Scrunch AI, to make it easier for you

The next step is the most important one.

I would look at what sources the model is pulling from.

In most cases, you will see one of four things:

a YouTube video

a Reddit thread

a third-party publisher or review site

increasingly, a LinkedIn article

Now the play is simple.

I would make sure my company name appears in those exact sources.
If it is a Reddit thread, I would participate with a real account and add value.
 If it is a third-party publisher, I would reach out and secure a mention.
 If it is a YouTube video, I would record a simple Loom or phone video talking about the topic. No production, no studio.

Long term, the only way to truly control how AI systems describe your company is to answer every important question on your own domain.

Your product.
 Your category.
 Your competitors.
 Your positioning.

Your blog, your pages, your source of truth.

That is how you actually train AI correctly.

But most early-stage companies do not have the budget, time, or content muscle to do this properly from day one.

So instead of waiting and being invisible, this is what you do first.

You place your brand inside the sources that AI systems are already pulling from

Stop letting your competitors control the narratives inside ChatGPT

👇

ChatGPT isn’t "hallucinating" about your SaaS. It’s improvising because your website is a ghost town. You are not training AI with your own story.

Here’s the harsh reality:

LLMs are prediction engines. When you leave gaps in your digital footprint, the models fill them with whatever they can find: competitor comparison pages, angry Reddit threads, or 3-year-old press releases.

If you want to control the narrative in the age of AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), you need to spoon-feed the models.

You need to move beyond marketing fluff and build a "Source of Truth" architecture.

Here are the 3 types of pages I would build today:

- About us: Make sure that it's very clear on what your company is doing, who is your ideal ICP etc. Avoid using fancy language to impress your investors.

- Comparison pages: Control the narrative by owning the comparison-related queries. If you don't do this, someone else will do it, and AI will spit out the wrong information about your company.

- Integrations page: People don't just search "best project management software anymore; they search " best project management software with integrations to x". It's time to surface your integration docs and make them visible to search

If you don't provide the language, the model will generate its own. And I guarantee you won't like the version it writes.

Warmly, ($5m +ARR ) generates ~25% of its pipeline from AI search.

We have been running their SEO / AEO, and here is the playbook 👇


1. What we've been doing so far: Large-scale BOFU content creation:

- Competitor alternatives content: [Competitor] Alternatives
- Category keywords: Best [Category] Software
- 3-way comparisons: [Competitor] vs. [Competitor] vs. Warmly
- Pricing guides: [Competitor] Pricing (These guides work wonders for competitors that do not disclose their pricing on their website).

Covering the same competitors in these 4 formats allows us to build what I call competitor topical authority to help us rank better for competitor-related keywords.

Plus 

I am still a big fan of focusing on "information gain score," so we always aim to create content with more relevant information than competing pages.

2. What we've been focusing on in Q3 2025: 

Vertical comparisons + Reputation management/building + Adding schema markup + Updating BOFU pages that rank lower than position #3 on Google

VERTICAL COMPARISONS

Focusing on creating highly-specific BOFU content for certain ICPs (e.g., marketing agencies).

Example: [Competitor] Alternatives for Marketing Agencies. 

I know this does not have a reasonable search demand to go after it. But our big bet here is that users are going to provide context about their solutions when evaluating alternatives and solutions on the market.

Especially when using ChatGPT's ''Deep Research'' I've seen from user interviews (yes, I actually ask people we work with to share their prompts) that they share information about their industry or profession so they can get a more tailored answer.

Hence, why we're going to give them the answer to what is the best competitor alternative is for each persona we go after

REPUTATION MANAGEMENT & BUILDING

With OpenAI making deals with Reddit and mentioning Quora or other media publishers in its sources section, we cannot sit idle and expect people to happily discuss us.

This is why we'll be doubling down on these 4 channels

- Reddit.
- Quora.
- YouTube.
- Media publishers.

The goal will be to get mentioned there and explain what makes us stand out from our competitors.

SCHEMA MARKUP

We're planning on implementing schema markup on our website on our existing and future content to better explain our organization and product to both Google and AI search engines.

CONTENT FRESHNESS

After a bit of experimenting, I've noticed that AI search engines really like to favor fresh, up-to-date content that's been updated recently.

The same goes for Google nowadays as well. The more we update our content and keep up with the latest information (e.g., updated pricing, new features, new competitors), the more likely crawlers are to pick up our content and recommend it.

Generate Pipeline from AI Search | Founder @ House of Growth | 1x Exit

Here is why SaaS companies losing clients to competitors on AI search

Your competitor just taught ChatGPT what to say about you.

And you weren't even in the room.

Here's what happened:

Last week, a prospect searched "best email marketing tools" in ChatGPT. Your product didn't show up. Your competitor's did.

Not because their product is better.

Because they own the pages about their category and competitor review content. You didn't.

I see this constantly with early stage B2B SaaS. They spend six figures on ads and PR, then wonder why AI is recommending their competitors.

The answer is brutal: you left the door open.

LLMs are scraping everything right now. Every product page. Every comparison chart. Every "X vs Y" article on your site (or your competitor's site).

If you're not publishing this content, you're not in the conversation.

Here's what you should do:

Write a "best [category] tools" article

Create comparison pages for every competitor. 

Don't forget to add three-way comparisons, too

Done? Go and turn these into videos and publish on YT as well.

Because if you don't explain what you do and how you are different than competitors, someone else will write that and control the narrative.

It's about being present when the buying decision happens.

My clients start seeing traffic from AI sources within weeks. Not months. Weeks.

The best part? Your competitors probably aren't doing this yet. They're still waiting for someone to write about them.

Control your narrative, or watch someone else write it for you

I watched a $50M company disappear from AI search in 90 days.

Not because they got penalized. Not because their SEO team quit.

They just hit pause.

Three months later, their biggest competitor owned every ChatGPT answer in their category.

The company that paused? They're still trying to catch up.

And here's the part that keeps me up at night:

They thought pausing was the safe move. Budget cuts. Uncertain ROI. Let's wait and see.

But in AI search, there is no neutral.

Every day you're not feeding the machine, your competitor is.

Every article they publish trains ChatGPT to recognize THEM as the authority.

Every brand mention compounds their lead.

Every Reddit thread you miss is an opportunity for a competitor

And the gap doesn't just grow. It accelerates.

Because freshness wins now. And whoever shows up consistently becomes the default answer.

Your buyers only used Google to start their searches, not that they are switching to LLMs

And if you're not in that conversation, you don't exist.

Standing still isn't playing it safe. It's surrender.

The companies winning right now aren't the ones with the biggest budgets.

They're the ones who understood 6 months ago that AI search isn't coming.

It's already here.

You killed your content program 2 years ago.

Because everyone started to declare that search is dead

But it's still generating pipeline today

Let me explain.

Back then, the narrative was everywhere:

"Content is dead." "SEO is over." "Google doesn't matter anymore."

So you did what felt right.

Cut all the content budget and jumped on the next shiny channel

Now, with the rise of AEO, search has started to be trendy again

Those blog posts you wrote? They didn't disappear.

They sat there. Quietly indexing. Building authority. Getting you accidental visibility on AI search

Why?

ChatGPT is citing them. Perplexity is pulling from them. Claude is referencing them.

Your old content is showing up in AI search results. Giving you visibility

Booking demos.

And you have no idea where they're coming from.

Because in your mind, that program died years ago.

The companies that kept publishing? They're everywhere now.

Not because they predicted AI search. But because they understood something simple: channels don't die that quickly, they evolve

The corner of marketing you abandoned is now the one keeping your competitors visible.

So here's the uncomfortable question:

What would your pipeline look like today if you never hit pause?

Your competitors are guessing AI search prompts. You could just ask.

Here is how 👇

No tool is going to hand you the exact prompts your customers are typing into search.

But you can figure it out without paying for a single piece of software.

Looking back, my best keyword ideas did not come from keyword research tools. 

They came from customer interviews and simply asking, “How did you find us?”

Right now, everyone is trying to hack their way into uncovering the most valuable LLM search prompts.

Go back to the fundamentals.

Here is what I tell my own companies:

 1️⃣ Ask every new customer if they found you through an AI search engine.
 2️⃣ If yes, ask exactly how their search started.
 3️⃣ Repeat this for your last 100 prospects.

You will start spotting patterns and those patterns are your high intent prompts.

Once you have that list, track your visibility for those prompts and work to win those spots.

This is how I am doing it. You should try it before your competitors figure it

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