Optimized | Growth Marketing Agency

Founder

UPTHRUST | Growth Marketing & Digital Product Studio

Digital Marketeer

We help ambitious DTC & SaaS brands​ grow by pairing our proven growth systems with performance creative and landing page testing.

We work with 25+ 6 to 8 figure brands. Some of our success stories:
✅ Helped a subscription baby brand launch and scale to $250k/month in 12 months
✅ Reduced MER by 60% for a CPG brand in the first 90 days
✅ Helped a fashion DTC brand cut CPA by 43% through structured creative testing and UGC

Here's how we help you scale your brand:
👉 Performance creative: a consistent inflow of high-performing ad creative built around consumer psychology.
👉 Landing page testing: we design and build landing pages that match ad intent, messaging and customer pain points.
👉 Influencer & creator whitelisting: tap into trust and leveraging authentic creators that help increase brand awareness and social proof through .


If you’re a 6 to 8-figure DTC brand looking to break through a growth plateau or scale profitably, DM me “𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗪” to learn more.

Alexander Pauwelyn

The Creative Strategy Lab

Brighter Click

Head of Creative

Webtopia - eCommerce Scaling Experts

Head of Paid Social Strategy & Creative 

Head of Paid Social Strategy

Senior Campaign Manager

Digital Campaign Manager

Brand Central Marketing

Media Buyer

DCS Social Media Advertising

Working with business coaches, life coaches, clothing brands and more - I'm the one stop shop for your advertising needs. 

Key responsibilities:
Defining the client's ideal personas
Creating audiences for targeting
Test all ad elements to find the winning ad combination
Writing the strategy from start to finish for and end-to-end marketing funnel
Designing and choosing imagery and video for the best click through rates
Writing ad copy that converts
Creating landing pages to send paid traffic to
Designing and writing email nurture sequences
Reviewing results and optimising campaigns for performance

Key achievements:
Return on adverting spend - 49x (£49 revenue earned for every £1 spent on ads)
Cost per email subscription with cold audiences - £0.62
Click through rates with cold audiences - 7.59%
Cost per click with cold audiences - £0.05

Freelance Facebook Advertising Consultant

British Gas

Crafted and executed content strategies and tactics to influence significant traffic growth, SEO performance and sales.

Key achievements and responsibilities:
•	Created detailed content calendar based on internal and external factors to plan and schedule content marketing
•	Undertook analysis across entire website to increase sales by identifying opportunities for SEO development
•	Supported integrated planning and delivery of digital content campaigns
•	Managed agency partners (creative, production, media) deliver campaigns against objectives, budgets, KPIs
•	Commissioned, edited, published engaging content, internally and externally, across range of digital media
•	Advocated SEO across all teams in the business to maximise its importance and performance
•	Optimised PPC and SEO mix
•	Kept abreast of content and SEO developments, technology, creative, media and platforms / channels. 
•	Continuously executed test and learn, embedded best practice to drive continuous performance improvements

Content and SEO Assistant Manager

Reporting into the senior marketing manager, I’m responsible for the strategy and delivery of campaigns driving uptake of smart meters to existing customers. The business has a mandate to install smart meters into all customers’ homes by 2020, and so this role is crucial in contributing installations to the target.

Key responsibilities:
•	Lead the development and implementation of marketing strategies
•	Create test and learn plans for both messaging and contact strategy to increase conversion, using MI and segmentation
•	Manage and deliver several multi-channel weekly campaigns simultaneously focussing on direct mail, email, SMS and outbound dialling
•	Brief and liaise with agencies to deliver creative excellence 
•	Ensure robust reporting and measurement is in place for all campaigns 
•	Communicate results across relevant teams, to share learnings and maximise return on marketing investment
•	Act as central point of coordination for campaigns between commercial, contact centre, data team, print services, email team and senior marketing stakeholders
•	Interface with and influence multiple stakeholders to ensure effective end to end delivery of campaigns
•	Align all customer touch points (online and offline), ensuring a consistent and smooth customer journey
•	Own and monitor budget 
•	Ensure adherence to marketing governance processes

Assistant Marketing Manager

Responsible for acquisition and retention of Sainsbury’s Energy customers – the white label partner of British Gas. Effective stakeholder management and campaign planning and implementation were key for success in this role.

Key responsibilities:
•	Aligning strategic objectives across the partnership
•	Advancing the customer journey and experience across all channels
•	Management of external marketing and printing agencies
•	Market research to assess effectiveness of our communications, competitor marketing and trends
•	Reporting to business heads across the partnership on marketing led sales
•	Acted as brand ambassador for Sainsbury’s within British Gas for consistency across all touch points and channels
•	Budget and deadline management, including measurement and return on investment
•	Engaging and managing all stakeholders across the partnership including pricing, propositions, digital and inbound contact centres 
•	Coordinating information from the customer call centre to identify trends in customer feedback
•	Project managing fixes for any process and system problems

Assistant Commercial and Marketing Manager

Dixons Retail

I worked within the commercial team supporting the category for all computing hardware and accessories. Workload management skills were essential in this role due to the busy and fast-paced nature of retail, with upwards management being a key factor. 

Key responsibilities:
•	Product range strategy building to drive sales and deliver targets
•	Briefing marketing agencies and teams to deliver marketing plans for product launches in line with scoping and market behaviour
•	Creating BAU promotions and designing the point of sale to support
•	Identifying potential new products based on consumer demand and trends
•	Supplier negotiation and influence
•	Product placement and merchandising on the shop floor
•	Mentoring and training the department’s intern

Assistant Category Manager - Computing

Intel Corporation

Worked in Reseller Channel Operations for EMEA, within a team of approximately 250 people. The role had a balance of both operational and strategic objectives and developed commercial awareness enormously. Accountability and the ability to work within a team alongside owning and executing projects independently were vital for success within this role. 

Key responsibilities:
•	Involved in the development, launch and coordination of an intricate new CRM tool
•	Supported and trained EMEA wide field and outsource teams, which required the understanding of country and regional variations in approach as well as the challenges of cascading information articulately
•	Improved existing membership program processes
•	Created new processes and developed best practices by sharing experiences from other teams
•	Solely responsible for entire customer base’s account upgrades, downgrades and renewals, for which I received a recognition award
•	Collated data from multiple reporting suites in order to update the team regularly on membership numbers, tracking to sales and member statuses
•	Aided broad channel program and sales objectives alongside membership program development

Marketing and Events Intern

Esprit Holidays Ltd

Worked and lived in the French Alps, solely responsible for running a chalet for sixteen people. Prepared breakfast, afternoon tea and a four course meal, as well as cleaning the rooms daily with the help of an assistant. Working in a team in this way required a high level of communication, co-operation and delegation; accountability and organisational skills were also essential.

Chalet Host

Head of Creative · Expert Paid Social & Creative Strategist · Delivering results from conversion-optimised strategies · Data & efficient workflows non-negotiable

Most ad accounts don’t fail because of bad media buying. They fail because the creative isn’t backed by real customer insight, structure, or data.

Too often, ads are built on guesswork:
❌ A generic hook
❌ A borrowed concept
❌ A vague sense of what might work

I help agencies, freelancers, and advertisers improve creative results using a repeatable, insight-led system that consistently drives performance.

👉 That’s where the ACES Method comes in - a proven process to build creative that performs.

A - audience insights before ANYTHING else
C- concepts that are tried & tested
E - executing an insight-led brief
S - systematically test using real data

The result? On average -
✅ CPA down by 30%
✅ CVR up by 39%
✅ CTR up by 45%

I use the ACES Method to help:
👉 Agencies install a system for better performance, improved client relationships & reduced churn
👉 Freelancers apply a proven workflow to get better results & win client trust (without being "creative")
👉 Brands unlock strategic learnings & creative clarity to bring long-term results.

Whether you need a plug-and-play system, team training, or hands-on strategy... The ACES Method plugs into your world and makes performance creative… actually perform.

📩 DM me to find out how I can help your business grow.

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