Hi there,

I’m Mihai Arsene, Talent Partner and Founder at Valuable Recruitment.

I help ambitious and growing companies hire top talent across Digital Marketing, Software Development, Engineering, and more recently AI Automation and AI Agents.

I specialize in C-level and middle management recruitment for startups and scaling companies, especially those building the future with AI, automation, and digital innovation.

Whether you’re building an AI agent development team or scaling your commercial operations, I help you land the right talent faster and with better decision quality.

Over the years, I kept seeing the same hiring problem repeat itself
Great people making decisions with poor structure.

That’s why I also built Hire Like a Pro, a lightweight hiring platform designed to bring structure into the hiring process.
It helps founders and hiring managers:
Define roles clearly
Create objective scorecards
Assess candidates based on evidence, not gut feel
It’s the same methodology I’ve used for years, now available as a product.

What makes working with me different

Topgrading methodology
I streamline hiring decisions by up to 70% using Topgrading principles. Experience, competency, potential, and culture fit are assessed in a structured way. My shortlists perform.

Global reach, boutique care
Over 70 countries. Built almost entirely on referrals. Valuable Recruitment runs on long-term relationships, not volume or cold outreach.

Deep understanding of AI and tech talent needs
I spend real time understanding AI automation, LLMs, and agent development so conversations go beyond CVs and buzzwords. I stay close to the tools, roles, and trends shaping the next wave of tech.

Diverse industry roots
From pharma to BPOs to eCommerce, I’ve worked across industries and functions. That background helps me match people based on mindset, values, vision, and mission, not just experience.

Diversity and inclusion is a must-have
Great teams are built intentionally. I help companies design inclusive hiring approaches that attract strong talent across backgrounds.

If you want to recruit with more clarity, less bias, and better outcomes, we should talk.

DM me if you want to hire smarter in the AI era and beyond.

Mihai Arsene

Short rant incoming

I’ll never understand this one

A job post is written in English
The company is remote
The working language is clearly English

Yet some candidates still send CVs in their native language…
while listing “English: fluent” in a language I can’t even read.

I’m not questioning skills or experience
I’m questioning judgment!

If communication is core to the role, the application is the first signal!

Am I missing something here, or is this just poor attention to detail?

Executive Recruiter for SaaS, AI, Digital Marketing, & eComm | C-Level & Tech Talent | Topgrading Specialist | Global Reach, Boutique Service

Hiring on gut feel is expensive

I’ve seen too many founders say:
 “Something felt off… but we hired anyway”

So I built a small tool that brings structure into hiring:
- Clear role definition
- Objective scorecards
- Evidence-based interviews

The job description generator is free

 I’m opening it up to founders who are hiring and willing to give feedback.
If that’s you, drop a comment or DM me.

Before you interview anyone, you should be able to answer one thing clearly:

What does success in this role look like in 3 - 6 -  12 months from now?

Not only responsibilities

Not only traits

Actual outcomes that you can track, measure and evaluate against.

If you can’t answer that, great interviews won’t save you.

Holistic email marketing for 6 & 7 fig e-com brands | CEO at GrowthTrigger

Are you a telehealth brand struggling with:

- High and rising customer acquisition costs.
- Low retention rates and declining lifetime value.
- Disconnected patient communication and retention workflows.
- Manual campaign management that drains internal resources.
- Lack of an in-depth retention marketing strategy or automation expertise.

You’ve come to the right place.

We help digital health brands scale profitably through automated, data-driven email & sms systems.

We’re NOT an email marketing agency. We’re your full-stack telehealth retention partner, combining deep technical execution with a performance-first mindset.

The Problem with Most Marketing Agencies

- Don't understand the unique nature or compliance requirements of telehealth.
- Try to apply traditional DTC/Ecom strategies to a telehealth context.
- Focus on front-loaded sales and short-term metrics instead of long-term retention.
- Rely on generic campaign calendars without data or lifecycle insights.
- Deliver “pretty” emails instead of conversion-optimized, personalized journeys.
- Require constant input and hand-holding from your team.

→ At best, leads to boosted attribution numbers on your email dashboard
→ Fails to have a real impact on business growth & profitability


The GrowthTrigger Difference

We guarantee measurable results that go beyond vanity metrics, building automated retention systems that truly move the needle for your business.

Our strategies focus on more than just revenue. We:

- Leverage 0-party data to personalize communication across every customer lifecycle stage.
- Capture more UGC to enhance your omnichannel experience.
- Automate customer support for improved loyalty and efficiency.
- Integrate education and compliance content to improve adherence and patient satisfaction.
- Drive retention with empowering onboarding sequences.
- Enable founders and clinical teams to focus on care delivery, not campaign execution.

→ The Result: Real, Business-Wide Impact

- Lower acquisition costs and higher marketing efficiency.
- Stronger patient retention and lifetime value.
- 25–50% increase in email-driven revenue within 30–90 days.
- Hands-free, automated retention systems running 24/7.
- Ultimately, a more scalable and profitable telehealth business.

Ready to grow profitably through automated retention systems?

We’re here to help.

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Want a free consultation?

👉 Book a call from: https://calendly.com/verneri-growthtrigger/audit
👉 Visit our website: https://growthtrigger.xyz/

Or contact me via:

📧 Email: verneri@growthtrigger.xyz
💬 LinkedIn DMs

Verneri Brander

I used to think networking was stupid.
 
I saw it as purely transactional -
people meeting each other for the sole purpose of getting something from the other person.
 
That mindset stuck with me for a long time.
 
Then I moved to Barcelona.
When I arrived, I knew two people.
 
In 2025, I started going to a few business and networking events.
 
Not because I had some grand strategy -
mostly just to meet people and get out of my comfort zone.
 
Without those events, settling in would’ve been way harder.
 
Making friends.
Finding my people.
Building any kind of social life from scratch.
 
Fast forward to now.
A big part of my social circle consists of people I met at those events.
 
Founders. Operators. Builders.
People with similar mindsets, ambitions, and lifestyles.
 
Spending time together is genuinely fun.
And genuinely inspiring.
 
And today, I finally see it.
 
Networking doesn’t have to be that inauthentic, exploitative thing you imagine when you hear the word.
 
It can simply be about putting yourself in rooms with people you respect -
and seeing what happens when real relationships form.
 
Sometimes that leads to friendships.
Sometimes to business.
Sometimes to nothing at all.
 
And that’s okay.
 
As my business keeps evolving, so does my role.
 
2026 will likely mean more travel.
 
More time in places like Dubai, the US, and other hubs where the concentration of ambitious people in my niche is much higher.
 
Not to “network” in the traditional sense -
but to stay close to the kind of people and environments that raise your standards without saying a word.
 
Funny how something I once dismissed is now becoming a bigger and bigger part of the journey.
 
What do you think about networking? 💬

The Only Email & SMS Marketing Partner for Telehealth Companies | #1 Klaviyo & Customer.io Partner from Finland | CEO at GrowthTrigger

Every international email & sms marketing agency is going after the same crown.
 
They all focus on serving: 
- DTC brands
- Shopify brands
- Brands using Klaviyo
- Brands selling 6-8 figures
- English-speaking businesses
 
This market is already a red ocean, and the competition will only get bloodier.
 
Right now, these agencies are fighting against:
- A handful of high-level, established agencies
- Hundreds of ”email bros” dragging down the reputation of the whole business model
- Up-and-coming AI tools that will start replacing agencies in a lot of the repeatable, mechanical work.
 
Now, my point is not to say this isn’t a good market.
 
But to win in a red ocean, you need to outwork, outsmart, or outbid everyone.
 
And in the past 1.5 years, we decided to take a different approach at GrowthTrigger:
 
→ We searched and found the blue ocean where demand is higher than supply
→ We built a unique skillset and expertise in serving that hyper-specific niche
→ We repeated that in both the international and Finnish-speaking markets.
 
This has turned out to be the best decision we’ve ever made for the business.
 
In just about 1.5 years, we’ve become the best and the only email & sms marketing specialist for telehealth businesses in the US.
↪ Serving this market requires a level of understanding about compliance, telehealth funnel, and custom backend that takes 1000s of hours to garner
↪ After building this expertise, we have literally no competition that would be able to match our level of service
 
Meanwhile in the Finnish-speaking market, Olli Aaltonen has led the team in becoming the most trusted and reputable provider of lifecycle marketing for brands ranging from DTC brands to SaaS and service businesses & more.
↪ In Finland, simply our lifecycle marketing focus and expertise is unbeatable by anyone in the country.
 
Today, we still serve the traditional DTC brands just like we used to, but finding our unique advantages has completely changed the game, and is bringing +80% of our total revenue these days.
 
So if you’re...
1. A telehealth brand
2. A Finnish business looking for lifecycle marketing
... I can guarantee our expertise is unmatched.
 
📲 DM me or Olli Aaltonen and let’s chat!

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How We Helped a Telehealth Brand Gain an Extra $205K in Sales in 15 Days

Find the video walkthrough of the whole strategy in the pinned comments 💬

Extra $205K in Sales in 15 Days for a Telehealth Brand

Your order confirmation email is wasted real estate.

It has 80–90% open rates on AVG.

And still... most order confirmation emails are just:

“Thanks for your order” + Logo + Receipt.

If you’re running a telehealth brand, here’s how to turn that first email into a high-retention touchpoint:

→  𝐀𝐝𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞
Give clear next steps based on what they just purchased.
Why? To reduce post-purchase anxiety and cut support tickets.

→ 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐂𝐓𝐀 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭, 𝐨𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬, 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬
Reinforce that they’re not alone in this journey.
Why? You’ll earn trust and cut churn, straight from the get go.

→ 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Ask a question. Invite replies.
Why? Build relationships & prime inbox engagement for future emails.

That one simple order confirmation email?
It’s your highest visibility real estate.
Don’t waste it.

90% of brands put their email CTAs in this one spot because it "looks good." 

But on mobile, it's literally unreachable. 

Here's the placement mistake costing you clicks:

Some years give you numbers.
Others give you answers.

I’ve had both.

And here’s one thing I keep learning:
Nothing is good or bad by default.
Nothing is a failure or a win in isolation.

It’s just... data.

It’s what you decide to do with it that defines the story.

You can call the last 12 months a loss.
Or you can call it a live-fire test of what doesn’t work...
so you're one iteration closer to the thing that will.

Because the truth is:

→ A year “wasted” on the wrong biz might be the only reason you recognize the right one.
→ A failed launch might give you the clarity that years of theory never could.
→ And the thing that broke you might be the thing that builds the next version of you.

Perspective is the real leverage.

You can’t always control what happens.
But you can always choose what it means.

And that choice?
That’s the difference between quitting at chapter two…
or writing a story worth telling.

Most telehealth emails are still stuck in “generic + boring” mode.

But they don’t have to be.

Even a basic product showcase becomes 10x more engaging when you match the season, moment, or mindset your audience is in.

In these two recent campaigns, we:
 → Used generative AI to make the design timely
 → Aligned copy with cold season + post-holiday reset mindset
 → Turned boring emails into something people actually want to engage with

Same product.
Way better delivery.

Stop sending emails that look like everyone else's.

Most ecom brands kill their email conversions with this one design element. 

They think they're being helpful by adding it at the top. But it's tanking click rates by 20-50%. 

Here's the counterintuitive fix:

There's a psychology trick hiding in every product photo you use. 

Most brands never think about it. The ones who do see instant click rate improvements.

Here's the detail making or breaking your conversions:

If your telehealth brand only captures emails and phone numbers after someone starts your health questionnaire...
You're leaving tens or hundreds of thousands in revenue on the table, every month.

Here’s why:
→ The questionnaire takes minutes to complete.
→ It filters in only the 𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭, most sales-ready traffic.
→ Everyone else? They bounce. And you never see them again.

Which is wild when you think about it - because you paid to get them there.

Most of them 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 to fill out a multi-step form on the first visit.

But they might be ready to:
→ See how it works
→ Hear from a real patient
→ Learn more about the results
→ Get a limited-time offer or incentive

All you need is a low-friction, high-converting email & SMS popup.

Not some generic “10% off” banner.

But something designed to:
✅ Speak to the core desire (weight loss, longevity, better hair/skin...)
✅ Offer real value or insight
✅ Give you a second chance to build trust and retarget

That’s how you grow a 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 of warm, owned leads - instead of paying $X per click just to lose them forever.

And when done right?

We’ve seen this one change add 6 figures in monthly revenue by turning cold traffic into high-intent flows that nurture, educate, and convert.

Stop chasing only the 1% ready to convert today.
Start capturing the 99% who just need a bit more time.

The Only Email & SMS Marketing Partner for Telehealth Companies | #1 Klaviyo & Customer.io Partner | CEO at GrowthTrigger

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