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Aakash

Growth Marketer / Creative Director / Paid Social Marketer
La Jolla, CA

20-40 /hr(s) per week

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About

Full-time freelance performance marketing consultant since 2012.

Deep experience with DTC brands, subscription box co's, venture-backed e-commerce household names... as well as affiliate marketing (BH and WH), lead gen, nutra, pay-per-call models. Well-connected in both worlds.

Uncommon combination of quantitative (former PhD statistics student) and creative thinking. That said, my belief is that the most important skill for a marketer is empathy and excellent (not "good") communication ability.

Obsessed with storytelling using performance creative in novel ways to trigger psychological pain point --> solution combinations, which unlocks scale through direct-response advertising.

Spent >$450m advertising for unicorn startups, leading mobile apps, public companies & too many e-commerce brands Case-studied by Top 5 MBA professors. Ads under purview featured on both Facebook and TikTok official ad leaderboards. Developed custom bidding algorithm responsible for optimizing 9 figs of ad spend Direct video editing teams Own ad buying, copywriting (ad copy, LP headlines, LP leads, long-form sales pages), and creative strategy Lead paid acquisition lifecycle. Equally analytical & creative, worked with multiple billion-dollar brands

Previous Clients (partial list) - - Cisco - - Ford Motor Company - - Credit Karma ($8 billion acquisition) - - HelloFresh (IPO) - - Grove Collaborative (IPO) - - Brigit ($100m+ funding) - - Sun Basket ($1b+ unicorn) - - Anova Culinary (Acquired $250m) - - Shopkick (Acquired $200m) - - Machine Zone (#1 iOS app globally) - - Insomniac (#1 music festival promoter globally) - - Forward Health (>$250m VC funding) - - Perpay (#5 Inc 5000) - - Danielle Leslie - - Backbone - - Oats Overnight - - Splendid Spoon - - Jumpcut (YC) - - Metadata (500 Startups)

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Paid Consulting Call
$
500
Hourly Freelance Work
Hourly rate for ad-hoc freelance work
Per hour
$
170
Monthly Retainer
Performance creative infrastructure for paid social (research, brief writing, content scripting, UGC/onscreen talent sourcing, video production systemization, leading video editing teams, planning creative test calendar). Performance marketing (building bidding algorithms, implementing SOPs for media buying, supervising/training junior media buyers for FB, TT and non-Google platforms)
Starting at
$
5000
Creative Strategy Audit
Evaluating current creative production infrastructure and prescribing systems to accelerate production, testing and iterative learning processes.
Starting at
$
10000
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Hire Aakash for...

Paid Consulting Call
$
500
Hourly Freelance Work
Hourly rate for ad-hoc freelance work
Per hour
$
170
Monthly Retainer
Performance creative infrastructure for paid social (research, brief writing, content scripting, UGC/onscreen talent sourcing, video production systemization, leading video editing teams, planning creative test calendar). Performance marketing (building bidding algorithms, implementing SOPs for media buying, supervising/training junior media buyers for FB, TT and non-Google platforms)
Starting at
$
5000
Creative Strategy Audit
Evaluating current creative production infrastructure and prescribing systems to accelerate production, testing and iterative learning processes.
Starting at
$
10000
Starting at
$
Starting at
$

Skills

A/B Testing
Ad Design
Affiliate Marketing
Audience Segmentation
Video Scripting
UGC Sourcing
Campaign Management
Copywriting
Creative Briefing
Creative Direction
Creative Production
Content Strategy
Creative Testing
Creative Strategy
Growth Strategy
Paid Social
TikTok Ads
Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram)
Performance Creative
Performance Marketing

Tools

Heatmap
The first revenue based heatmap that helps e-commerce brands uncover what users interactions actually lead to sales and optimize from there.
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30% off for 3 Months
Asana
Hyros
Triple Whale
Monday
ClickUp

Industry Experience

Apparel & Accessories
Food & Beverage
Health & Beauty
Toys & Games
Books & Music & Movies
Agency
Digital Products
Subscription Boxes
B2B SaaS
Consumer Technology

Brand Experience

Brigit / Sun Basket / Grove Collaborative

Case Studies

Brigit: $0 to $475k monthly spend on TikTok Ads (www.hellobrigit.com)
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Scaling Sun Basket ad spend 5x with 70% reduction in CPA
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Grove Collaborative
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Brigit: $0 to $475k monthly spend on TikTok Ads (www.hellobrigit.com)
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Scaling Sun Basket ad spend 5x with 70% reduction in CPA
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Grove Collaborative
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