It's Not Techy
Rishabh Sharma
Founder & Strategy Lead

Rishabh Sharma

🇨🇦 Toronto

Rishabh founded It's Not Techy to build the agency he always wanted to hire — senior-led, outcomes-obsessed, and honest about what works. Before that he led growth teams across SaaS and DTC, shipping programs from zero to $100M+ ARR.

B2B GrowthSaaS MarketingMarketing PlatformsFractional CMO

Recent articles by Rishabh

Brand Design

Color Systems That Scale: Beyond the Primary Palette

Most brand color systems stop at 'brand red + black + white'. Here's the full system you need.

Jul 20, 20243 min
B2B Growth

ABM That Isn't Just Spray-and-Pray Outbound in a New Coat

Real account-based marketing: selection, orchestration, and measurement for programs that move pipeline, not impressions.

Jul 15, 20243 min
Social Media

How We Ghost-Produce Founder-Led Content Without Losing the Voice

A repeatable system for turning 30 minutes of founder interview per month into a steady stream of founder-voice content.

Jul 12, 20243 min
Video Production

iPhone vs. Studio: When Phone-Shot Video Outperforms Cinematic

A real breakdown of when iPhone-shot footage wins, when studio footage is worth the money, and how to mix them in one campaign.

Jul 12, 20243 min
Video Production

Motion Graphics in After Effects: The 4 Effects We Use in 90% of Work

Not every effect needs a custom animation. These four cover most needs.

Jul 10, 20243 min
Brand Design

Brand Photography Direction That Actually Gets Followed

Photography direction documents that photographers use vs the 40-slide ones they ignore.

Jul 10, 20243 min
Email & CRM

The 6 Klaviyo Flows That Drive 90% of Lifecycle Revenue

If you're only going to build 6 flows, build these six. Everything else is noise until these are shipping.

Jul 9, 20243 min
CRO

The CRO Research Phase: What We Do Before Any Test

Most CRO programs start with tests. Ours starts with research. Here's the 2-week research sprint we run first.

Jul 9, 20243 min
B2B Growth

The Demand Gen Funnel Report Every CMO Should See Weekly

A one-page weekly demand gen report that stops the 'marketing vs sales' blame game and surfaces real bottlenecks.

Jul 7, 20243 min
Social Media

Why We Stopped Chasing Follower Count (And What We Track Instead)

Follower count is a meaningless goal. The metrics that actually indicate social health are less obvious but far more actionable.

Jul 7, 20243 min
Marketing Platforms

Klaviyo vs Mailchimp vs Customer.io: When Each Wins

Three platforms, three different strengths. The real criteria for choosing.

Jul 7, 20243 min
Video Production

The Testimonial Video Mistakes We Stopped Making

What we learned shooting dozens of testimonials — and why the obvious approach usually fails.

Jul 5, 20243 min
Local SEO

The Google Business Profile Categories That Most Local Businesses Pick Wrong

Category choice is one of the biggest levers in local SEO — and the one most businesses get wrong.

Jul 5, 20243 min
Content Marketing

The Brief-to-Draft Ratio That Separates Good Content Ops from Bad

If your content briefs are shorter than your drafts, you're not briefing. Here's the bar we hold ourselves to.

Jul 4, 20244 min
B2B Growth

The Demo Conversion Trick That Lifted Our Close Rate

A specific framing shift in discovery calls that improved close rates.

Jul 3, 20243 min
CRO

The Mobile-Specific Tests That Win 80% of the Time

Three mobile CRO tests that reliably produce lift across industries.

Jul 2, 20243 min
Paid Marketing

Google Performance Max: When to Use It and When to Avoid It

PMax is polarizing for a reason. Here's our framework for deciding when it's the right channel and when it quietly cannibalizes your other campaigns.

Jul 2, 20243 min
Video Production

YouTube Thumbnail Design: The 3 Rules That Lift CTR

What separates thumbnails that earn clicks from ones that don't.

Jul 1, 20243 min
Paid Marketing

Why We Paused Every Dynamic Retargeting Campaign This Quarter

DPA campaigns used to be a no-brainer. Here's why we've rethought them.

Jul 1, 20243 min
SEO

Core Web Vitals Won't Save Bad Content (But They Can Break Good Content)

The pragmatic take on Core Web Vitals: they're not a ranking rocket fuel, but a site that fails them can't win.

Jun 29, 20243 min
Local SEO

Hyperlocal Backlinks: The Underrated Local SEO Lever

Local links from community-relevant sources lift local rankings faster than generic DR backlinks.

Jun 29, 20243 min
Social Media

The Creator Brief Template We Send Every Influencer

The exact brief format that turns a one-shot influencer post into reusable, high-performing content.

Jun 29, 20243 min
Email & CRM

Deliverability: The Hidden Metrics Your ESP Hides

What your ESP dashboard doesn't tell you about deliverability — and where to look instead.

Jun 29, 20243 min
Paid Marketing

The Frequency Capping Rules Every Meta Account Should Have

Why unchecked frequency burns creative and tanks ROAS — and the caps we set by default.

Jun 28, 20243 min

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