Case Study

Scaling High-Quality Link Building

Learn how Hive19, a Brighton-based link building agency, grew their outreach capacity 12X

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SumUp
The Challenge

Finding a Cornerstone Outreach Platform While Bootstrapping a Young Agency

Hive19 is a Brighton-based link building agency with a strong reputation for high quality results. For companies in need of specialized link building services, Hive19 has quickly established itself as a major player in the industry. Their expertise, particularly in Fintech and SaaS, and their unique creativity and analytical approach set them apart from other SEO agencies.

Founded in 2020, right in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, Hive19 faced multiple challenges in addition to the usual uphill battle of bootstrapping a young agency. Despite the challenges, Managing Director Aaron Thomas knew that bespoke, quality link building was valuable, and with the right tools and processes, could be scalable.

With nearly 15 years of industry experience, including first-hand experience with link building outreach, Aaron had a full sense of the reasons many agencies struggle with link building or choose to outsource it altogether. Without the right tools and processes, link building is too labor-intensive and time-consuming.

“We knew that we needed to make the right decisions early. We knew Pitchbox was going to be the core of how we run our product delivery.”
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Aaron Thomas
Managing Director
The Solution

Complete Process Management With Pitchbox

By choosing Pitchbox as their link building platform from day one, Hive19 established a scalable and efficient process immediately. With Pitchbox handling the heavy lifting involved with prospecting, contact discovery, outreach, and follow-up, the Hive19 team could focus more time on quality review.

That quality review process helped the team make sure the websites they reached out to had the right metrics and content relevancy for each client.

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“We’re doing 12x the volume of outreach now than we were this time last year. We’ve built links on household brands, on globally recognized companies.”
— Maxine Bremner
Head of Content & Outreach at Hive19

Clear Oversight Across the Full Outreach Lifecycle

By having a full lifecycle link building platform and CRM, Hive19 has been able to measure success, extract key insights, and leverage important data from their outreach campaigns.

It’s all about the process, software, and data. With Pitchbox, we have a top overview and the ability to manage a pipeline. Having clear oversight for our campaigns has really helped us.
“On average, for our clients, we’ve managed to raise DR by 20% and increase their organic traffic by 36%.”
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Aaron Thomas
Managing Director
The Bottom Line

Happy Clients and Scalable Growth

In just two short years since coming into being, Hive19 earned a strong reputation for high quality links and saw significant growth.

20%
Higher DR

Average client domain rating increase

36%
More Traffic

Average client organic traffic increase

8-10
Hires Saved

Estimated full-time headcount saved by Pitchbox

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Outcome

Data-Driven Growth With a Lean Team

By taking a data-driven approach and focusing on software and processes, Hive19 has been able to take on more clients, deliver consistent results, and raise the bar for quality of placements.

Hive19 is proof that with the right systems in place, a small but dedicated team with expertise can compete with larger teams with greater resources.

“Pitchbox has saved us between eight and ten full time employees.”
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Louisa Delpy
Operation Director

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