Personal details

Carolina - Remote paid acquisition specialist

Carolina

Based in: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Timezone: London (UTC+1)

Summary

I am a results-oriented professional with over a decade of experience in digital marketing strategies. Passionate about driving positive change, I thrive on making meaningful impacts wherever I go. My objective is to contribute my expertise to an organization that champions quality, integrity, and innovation while continually enhancing my skills and knowledge base. Proficient in a wide array of tools and platforms including Google Ads, Bing Ads, social media marketing, conversion analysis, and CRM systems such as HubSpot, Salesforce, and Zoho, I am well-versed in PPC, paid social, SEO, and various analytics tools including SEMRush, Google Analytics, and Search Console. With expertise in JavaScript for Google Ads, programmatic advertising, remarketing, audience-based bidding, and native advertising, I excel in crafting comprehensive digital marketing strategies. Additionally, my proficiency in WordPress, Excel, and the Google suite complements my strategic approach, ensuring successful campaign execution and optimization.

Work Experience

HEAD OF PERFORMANCE MARKETING |
SILVERTIP DIGITAL | Oct 2022 - Present
Facebook Advertising
PPC
Google ads
Performance marketing

A full-stack digital marketing agency, servicing businesses across DTC, B2C and B2B Key achievements:

· Contributed to the strategy across several client businesses to grow their brand, drive quality website traffic and increase conversions YoY

- Ecommerce retailer:

o Grew the revenue coming from middle of funnel generic campaigns by 61%, after employing a full funnel strategy

o Drove higher volume of quality traffic to the website, growing users by 25% and sessions by 24%, whilst growing revenue during sale bottom of funnel activity by 6%

o Achieved an MER of 7% vs benchmark of 5% for H1 2023

· During my first 4 months in the business, I designed and implemented the progression framework to be used for appraisals and career growth

· Introduced the MER metric as a means to educate clients on the importance of looking at the wider marketing mix when thinking about marketing investment and the need to move away from ROAS dependency

Responsibilities:

· Improving the quality that paid marketing at Silvertip offers to their clients

· Working with clients to understand their business goals, and work alongside them to devise intelligent strategies based on data-driven results

· Achieving agreed growth targets for clients

· Organising and leading regular communications with clients and delivering clear and consistent results: bi-weekly, weekly, quarterly

· Developing & communicating the best practice for the client services team

· Researching current best practices from external sources/newsletters/LinkedIn across: paid social, PPC, other performance marketing channels

· Development of team: training and 1-2-1s with direct reports, setting high expectations of performance

· Developing and ensuring client roadmaps are in place

· Aligning the companies product strategy with the overall business strategy

PERFORMANCE MARKETING LEAD
CYBERSMART | | Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Facebook Advertising
Google ads
Paid social
Performance marketing

Cybersecurity SaaS, B2B go-to-market approach focusing on the SME space Key achievements: · Whilst managing a budget of nearly £750k per year, I drove all the activities that support brand awareness and demand generation, across paid search and paid social.

· During my first 6 months in the business, I managed to reduce the CAC from £800 to £276, bringing the CAC:LTV ratio to 1:13

· With a mix of increasing budgets, account optimisation and channel experimentation, the company revenue grew by around 26% per quarter, primarily from direct customer acquisition via paid channels, at the height of the pandemic

Responsibilities:

· Working directly with C-suite level (CGO and CEO) · Developing a performance marketing strategy that drives growth

· Working with all paid media channels (PPC, display, paid social) to acquire new customers

· Managing paid media budgets to maximise commercial impact

· Monitoring results of campaigns against defined company objectives in line with unit economics

· Defining a clear roadmap for optimisation and growth long term across our GTM channels

· Leading all B2B demand generation marketing activities

· Analysing effectiveness of CRO testing and A/B testing to inform copywriting and landing page strategies

· Developing a scalable and highly automated set-up for further investment in performance marketing

· Working cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Content and Marketing Operations to drive overall team performance and maximising impact on the business

· Leading a demand generation team, consisting of a paid social specialist and senior copywriter

· Optimising the CyberSmart website to improve the user journey and engagement

Education

James Madison University
Bachelor's degree・ Integrated Science and Technology, Biotechnology
Sep 2001 - Dec 2005