solve your attribution problems
Scale your paid media
solve your attribution problems
Scale your paid media
Nick
Growth Marketer / Paid Social Marketer / Influencer Marketer
Costa Mesa, CA
All Star
Free Consulting Calls
Full Time
Nick Bauer - Growth Marketing Strategist / Forecast Builder
Acquiring Customers for DTC Brands Ranging from $1MM to $150MM through a clear financial forecast that connects to marketing efforts to financial outcomes.
With over five years of experience in the digital marketing landscape, I specialize in crafting and executing growth strategies for direct-to-consumer brands like Purdy & Figg, Create Wellness, Simple Modern, Traeger, & Corkcicle.
As a Growth Strategy Manager at Kynship, I've helped brands scale their customer acquisition efforts through targeted paid social campaigns, innovative creative strategies, impactful influencer marketing, and precise forecasting.
Expertise:
- Forecasting & Analytics: Creating accurate forecasts for e-commerce brands to set channel-specific targets across all marketing efforts.
- Facebook Marketing: Developing and managing campaigns that drive conversions.
- TikTok Marketing: Leveraging TikTok's dynamic platform to reach and engage younger demographics.
- Digital Strategy: Crafting comprehensive digital plans that align with your business goals.
- Creative Strategy: Developing compelling content that resonates with your target audience.
- Growth Strategies: Implementing data-driven tactics to accelerate business growth.
If you're looking for a dedicated marketing professional who excels in forecasting and growth strategies to help increase cash for your business, let's connect
Paid Consulting Call
$
150
Hourly Freelance Work
Hourly rate for ad-hoc freelance work
Per hour
$
75
Monthly Retainer
P&L Analysis, 24 month cohort specific financial forecast, execution against the forecast as it relates to new customer acquisition and consultation on returning customer revenue
Starting at
$
3500
Marketing Strategy Audit
Audit your strategy to help construct a system for achieving profitable scale. This involves connecting your marketing efforts directly to specific financial outcomes through the use of a forecast that ties all marketing directly to landed profit. From here, we can set channel specific targets to ensure ever dollar accounts for profitable contribution margin.
Starting at
$
2000
Paid Social Audit
Connect paid social marketing efforts to specific financial outcomes within your business. We will go through this detailed checklist to unearth the most common mistakes holding brands back from scaling — as well as the biggest opportunities. Campaign Structure and BiddingCorrect, Pixel function and Catalog Manager set-up for ecommerce, Campaign Structure: CBO, cost controls set by AOV, budget-to-ad-set ratio, DPAs, and overall spend mix by audience, Targeting: Prospecting vs remarketing, proper exclusions, automatic placements, plus international and demographic testing, Optimization: Conversion campaigns optimized for purchase, bidding aligned with the funnel, landing pages, and profitability, Attribution: Click vs view deltas alongside determining your account’s delayed attribution multiplier (DAM), Creative: Diversity, Copy, content, ad format, and sizing; plus, baseline AIDA metrics to establish effectiveness stage-by-stage
Starting at
$
500
Starting at
$
Paid Consulting Call
$
150
Hourly Freelance Work
Hourly rate for ad-hoc freelance work
Per hour
$
75
Monthly Retainer
P&L Analysis, 24 month cohort specific financial forecast, execution against the forecast as it relates to new customer acquisition and consultation on returning customer revenue
Starting at
$
3500
Marketing Strategy Audit
Audit your strategy to help construct a system for achieving profitable scale. This involves connecting your marketing efforts directly to specific financial outcomes through the use of a forecast that ties all marketing directly to landed profit. From here, we can set channel specific targets to ensure ever dollar accounts for profitable contribution margin.
Starting at
$
2000
Paid Social Audit
Connect paid social marketing efforts to specific financial outcomes within your business. We will go through this detailed checklist to unearth the most common mistakes holding brands back from scaling — as well as the biggest opportunities. Campaign Structure and BiddingCorrect, Pixel function and Catalog Manager set-up for ecommerce, Campaign Structure: CBO, cost controls set by AOV, budget-to-ad-set ratio, DPAs, and overall spend mix by audience, Targeting: Prospecting vs remarketing, proper exclusions, automatic placements, plus international and demographic testing, Optimization: Conversion campaigns optimized for purchase, bidding aligned with the funnel, landing pages, and profitability, Attribution: Click vs view deltas alongside determining your account’s delayed attribution multiplier (DAM), Creative: Diversity, Copy, content, ad format, and sizing; plus, baseline AIDA metrics to establish effectiveness stage-by-stage
Starting at
$
500
Starting at
$
Skills
Account Management
Attribution Modeling
Business Strategy
Campaign Strategy
Campaign Management
Creative Strategy
Creative Testing
Customer Acquisition Strategy
Cohort Analysis
Digital Strategy
Growth Strategy
Influencer Marketing
Marketing Strategy
Media Attribution
Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram)
Paid Social
Performance Marketing
Performance Creative
UGC Sourcing
Tools
Amazon Seller Central
Aspire
ClickUp
Klaviyo
Marpipe
Meta Business Suite
Motion
Shopify
Shopify Plus
Social Snowball
Triple Whale
Industry Experience
Apparel & Accessories
Food & Beverage
Health & Beauty
Home & Garden
Sports & Outdoor Equipment
Agency
Baby & Kids Products
Mental Health & Wellness
Brand Experience
Simple Modern / Purdy & Figg / Create Wellness Creatine
Case Studies
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