Tim Soulo

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States21 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Grew Ahrefs to $100M+ ARR without outside funding.
Published widely cited SEO research studies.
Created a marketing course watched by nearly 100k people.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a MarTech expert with a strong focus on SEO and digital marketing strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Search Engine Optimization (seo)Digital MarketingContent StrategyContent MarketingSeoMarketing StrategyProject ManagementClient Communication

Other Skills

AhrefsCustomer AcquisitionSocial Media MarketingOnline MarketingSEMWeb AnalyticsPodcastingInterviewingContent CreationWordPressBloggingConversion OptimizationSMMTechnical SupportLink Building

About

CMO & Product Advisor at Ahrefs. Joined in 2015 as employee #16 and helped grow it to $100M+ ARR (with zero outside funding). Along the way, I published some of the most widely cited research studies in SEO, created a marketing course that nearly 100k people watched, and spoke at dozens of marketing conferences around the globe. Host of the Ahrefs Podcast, where I interview top CMOs, founders, and marketing leaders. Outside of Ahrefs, I'm an angel investor and advisor to early-stage MarTech startups, helping founders with brand and go-to-market strategy. A bit more about me: - timsoulo.com

Experience

21 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

11 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Ahrefs

CMO

Apr 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 1 mo · Singapore

Ahrefs.com is a very powerful toolset for SEOs and online marketers. I'm super excited to be in charge of marketing as well as help brainstorm & develop new tools and features to be added.

AhrefsSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)Project ManagementCustomer AcquisitionSocial Media MarketingOnline Marketing+4

Bloggerjet

Founder

Jun 2011 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs 7 mos

BloggerJet.com - this was my personal blog, where I blogged about my learnings in online marketing, blogging, SEO, CRO and such.
While running this blog I launched (and later sold) two profitable premium plugins for Wordpress:
1. TweetDis.com - a plugin for creating eye-catchy click-to-tweet quotes;
2. ContentUpgradesPRO.com - a plugin for creating "content upgrades" that had up to 60% conversion rate.

WordPressSEOBloggingCustomer AcquisitionContent Marketing

Templatemonster.com

Marketing Director

Nov 2010 – Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos

At TemplateMonster I was in charge of marketing for a variety of standalone projects: Site2You.com, MotoCMS.com, Webdesign.org, Photodoto.com, etc.

Marketing StrategyProject ManagementSEO

Flashmint

SEO/SMM & Project Manager

Oct 2009 – Aug 2010 · 10 mos

Flashmint.com is where I got my first experience being a marketer. I joined a small marketing team and was challenged to learn a ton of different marketing-related things - from copywriting and up to product launches.

SEOSMMProject Management

Hostopia

Technical Support Specialist

Jun 2004 – Oct 2009 · 5 yrs 4 mos

Hostopia was my very first job. I was just an ordinary technical support guy, but this is where I got tons of experience on communicating with clients and sorting out all kinds of issues.

Technical SupportClient Communication