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Why Most Businesses Will Fail Without AI Marketing | Ep. 204 with Raza Sheikh Founder & CEO of Identable

2025/4/23
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Raza Sheikh: 我创建Identable的灵感来自于我观察到的有机营销团队在日常生活中面临的问题:他们需要同时使用各种零散的AI工具、免费实用程序和传统平台,导致团队浪费大量时间在技术问题上,而不是营销本身。Identable的使命是帮助企业节省时间,将精力放在战略制定上,而不是内容创作、排程和技术SEO优化等琐碎事务上。我认为,一个伟大的创始人能够首先解决自身问题,然后将解决方案推向市场。通过与Antler VC的52位创始人互动,我意识到许多科技创业者都面临着产品推广的难题。之前,我需要分别雇佣内容撰写人员、SEO专家和社交媒体代理机构,这导致营销效率低下且耗时。我之前使用的营销方法缺乏对潜在客户的有效捕捉和转化。Identable是一个整合了网站优化、内容创作、社交媒体发布和潜在客户追踪的平台,旨在实现营销流程的全面整合。 SEO并没有过时,但生成式搜索优化(GSO)是SEO的下一步发展,它更注重内容的结构和语义。Identable能够提高团队效率,使团队成员能够承担更多任务,从而可能导致团队规模的调整或产出的增加。我认为在未来,情商和其他的能力将比智商更重要,因为我们无法与AI的智商相匹敌。元宇宙让我最担忧,因为我的孩子们花费大量时间在屏幕上,这让我担心他们对元宇宙的准备。 Identable帮助客户简化了内容创作和分发流程,并提升了潜在客户的捕捉能力。Identable客户对平台的邮箱发现功能表示肯定,并期待未来能够集成邮件营销功能。 Daniel: Identable帮助企业提高了团队效率,使单个团队成员能够胜任更多工作,从而提升了整体工作效率。

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In this episode of Founder's Story, Raza Sheikh, Founder & CEO of Identable), explains how he distilled his own frustration with fragmented SEO, content, and social tools into Identable—“one platform, zero fragmentation.” Designed for businesses of every size, Identable combines AI-powered SEO, content creation, social scheduling, and lead capture into a single dashboard. Raza describes how his technologist roots and Antler VC experience revealed a universal pain point: marketing teams wasted hours wrestling with disconnected systems instead of crafting strategy.

Key Discussion Points:

  • Inspiration & Problem: Juggling multiple free AI utilities, legacy SEO tools, and agencies left teams burned out.
  • Founder’s Path: Solving his own go-to-market struggles led to a platform that any entrepreneur can use.
  • Core Features: Unified website optimization, AI-driven content generation, social posting, and real-time lead tracking.
  • SEO Meets GSO: Integrating traditional backlink SEO with generative search optimization for structured, AI-aware content.
  • AI’s Role: Speed and scale—using AI to handle repetitive tasks so humans can focus on strategy and creativity.

Takeaways:

  • Fragmented marketing stacks cost time and talent; consolidation boosts both productivity and results.
  • Generative Search Optimization (GSO) is the next evolution of SEO—structure and semantics matter.
  • AI tools amplify human insight but must be steered by clear strategy and intent.

Closing Thoughts:

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