Kris Hughes 🪓

Social Media Content Creator

Zanate Marketing

* Fractional marketing for growth-stage companies that drives revenue.
* B2B focus, but we're chameleons -- we meet you where you are.
* Focus areas: cold and warm outreach, organic traffic engines, thought leadership, social media management and company story development.

Founder | Fractional Marketer

Gallium Solutions

* Fractional marketing director for a rapidly-growing government grants consulting company.
* Building out a warm and cold outreach engine to consistently drive leads.
* Executing a content strategy to consistently increase organic traffic and niche authority.
* Developing the company's social media presence to amplify thought leadership.

Fractional Marketing Director

Prospology

Working with Prospology.com as a fractional brand strategy coach to help the medical writing community's students develop a strong presence on LinkedIn and a storytelling strategy that supports the growth of their freelance medical writing businesses.

Brand Strategy Coach

Several Clients

* I'm a LinkedIn ghostwriter for 3 founders: The owner of a CRO consultancy, the owner/CEO of a SaaS company, and my friend who runs an eCommerce growth consulting company.
* As a ghostwriter, I publish a total of 36 posts per month on these accounts and do 30 hours a month of community cultivation work to help drive more interest for my clients with their ideal clients.
* The goals are to increase profile views, attention on content, and cultivate leads for my client's business.
* LinkedIn Ghostwriting has been a core service offering of Zanate Ventures since I founded the company in March 2020.

LinkedIn Ghostwriter 👻

Point One Navigation

Helping to develop and manage the content pipeline operations for a major precision navigation company with clients across industries like agriculture, drones, and self-driving cars.

Content Operations Consultant

Optimist

Fractional managing editor for Optimist's link building project, Juice.

Responsible for progression of articles through developmental funnel from topic generation to writer assignment, to the final product that's ready to be pitched to guest post websites to land links for our clients.

To date:
* Overseen hundreds of articles through the editorial and publishing process, all of which required my topic generation and editorial touch
* Managed a team of writers across timezones and around the world which has helped Juice become profitable in less than a year and maintain that level of profitability to date

Managing Editor

Mayple

* Working as a freelance email marketing consultant for Mayple via their contract with MailChimp/Intuit. 
* Audit MailChimp client email accounts to find areas for improvement through health checks. 
* Present on findings and implementations to solve gaps in use.
* Conduct implementations based on these identified gaps and report to clients.
* Occassionally continue with Mailchimp clients following process as an email consultant.

Email Marketing Consultant

CB Company

Social media ghostwriting and niche community building for the CEO of a series of cannabis industry events held each year in Switzerland.

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Member

DataHawk

Content Creator

Coaching ambitious freelancers to build better businesses.

Developing a strong marketing program isn't easy.
A couple of roadblocks stand in the way.
Some have to do with time, and others, resourcing.

Here's the typical scenario for many companies:
* They're doing some marketing content and storytelling now and then.
* They may occasionally fire off a cold campaign, or run some ads.
* Their marketing is 'good enough,' but they know it could be better.
* Marketing responsibilities are split between several different people.
* Who check the 'task boxes' begrudgingly.
* And the resulting work is disjointed at best, or confusing at worst.

For these companies, marketing is anything but strategic. Or the strategy is made of sticks and string when it should be concrete.

Things can be different, though.

Our work as Fractional Marketers helps these companies:
* Tell a more cohesive and powerful story
* Identify their core audience and create a marketing narrative that resonates
* Find the right channels to develop so effort isn't wasted
* Execute quickly on short-term opportunities and lay the foundation for long-term growth and sustainability 
* Install and execute on repeatable, predictable processes & strategies that continue to move the needle

We offer three options for engagement:

* It all begins with our Marketing Tune-Up. Over 30 days we'll take a 'look under the hood' of your current marketing and find 2-3 opportunities for quick wins that we can work on together. 
* Your investment for the Marketing Tune-Up is directly applied, to one of two monthly retainer options if you choose to keep working with us, the Scale plan and the Soar plan.
* Under the Scale plan we're developing warm and cold email outreach, an organic traffic engine, social media marketing, and thought leadership content to have things firing on all cylinders.
* Under the Soar plan, we become your marketing team, hiring freelancers from our network and going full-speed ahead to help you pour fuel on the fire of your marketing momentum.

You get two of us at Zanate—me and my wife Julie—who bring a combined 30+ years of experience in content, marketing, and storytelling to the table to help your portfolio companies custom-craft and execute a content strategy that's right for their unique situation and niche.

The cost?
Less than half the annualized cost of a typical full time Chief Marketing Officer, on the high end.

Interested to learn more?
It all starts with a free Marketing Strategy Call to set the table.

DM me or book 30 minutes here:
https://savvycal.com/krishughes/marketing-strategy-call

Founder --> Ghostwriter & Content Creator for Growing Coaches & Solopreneurs

vzblt Marketing & Communications

- Supporting personnel in all internal tasks (Creative, technical, operational)
- Leading the creative department concerning content, campaigns, and all media
- Handling communications with key clients and stakeholders
- Managing talent to execute specific projects and campaigns

Head of Operations

Lebanon Networking Hub

Lebanon networking hub is a high performing community connecting entrepreneurs, freelancers and professionals. Operating with high standards, the LNH team is constantly working towards creating the leading networking community in Lebanon and the MENA region.

Founder

HelloTree

Community Lead

BAD Marketing

Coordinating Influencer campaigns
Researching location specific influencers for various marketing strategies
Working with MultiMillionaire entreprneurs on content distribution

Social outreach manager

The JK Show

Independent Entrepreneur

AcesOfVentures

Lead podcaster

Nest arcade

NEST arcade is a blockchain app that enables users to take full ownership of every aspect of the game by integrating NFTs in their technology.

Operations Manager

BHIVE Workspace

Lead Podcaster

Lebanese American University

Undergraduate Student

I Co-Founded the event planning club along with my business partner, we won “best training” at Lau

Event planning club vice president 

Hult Prize Foundation

Campus Director

I help solopreneurs & Executives build their personal brands on LinkedIn. Dm me to book a 1:1 Consultation.

Adventure seeker by nature, community builder by heart!

When I’m not scaling cliffs, tossing a frisbee on the ultimate field, or chasing the next adrenaline rush, you’ll find me connecting people and creating opportunities. As a rock climber, hiker, and ultimate frisbee player, I thrive on challenges—whether they’re in the great outdoors or in the professional world.

With 6 years of experience in community building, event creation, and client communications, I’ve had the privilege of fostering growth and connection. I founded the Lebanon Networking Hub, bringing together over 1,000 entrepreneurs, hosting 100+ events, and helping ideas turn into opportunities.

I’m also an avid public speaker, having delivered over 100 talks, workshops, and trainings across Lebanon to more than 3,000 attendees. I’m passionate about sharing insights on growth, business, and content creation while inspiring others to reach their potential.

My superpower? Networking. I connect people to people, ideas to execution, and dreams to reality.

Looking ahead, I’m eager to dive into the networking field in 2025, learn new skills, and join a dynamic, fast-growing company where I can make an impact. If you share a passion for growth, connection, or the thrill of new opportunities, let’s connect—I’d love to chat!

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