Darkcore Studio

I’m pouring my 10+ years of experience in graphic design into building personal brands for motivated people with a strong vision for their future.

You’ll love working with me if you’re a fan of a collaborative approach instead of giving orders. You’ll be thrilled with the result if you’re highly motivated and also tired of the bullshit in your industry. 

The entrepreneurship road is rocky. Anyone telling you something else is most likely lying.

Working with me will get you closer to your goals in a fraction of the time you’d spend learning skills you don’t need and spending time you don’t have. Because you’ll know – and experience – what it’s like to have someone with experience build you a brand that helps you succeed.

Founder

Instapage

Instapage is the leader in post-click-optimization ™. 

Our solution helps marketing teams increase advertising conversions through the building, personalizing, and optimizing of landing page experiences at scale. 

With over two million landing pages converting above 22%, Instapage is helping 15,000+ customers across 100 countries capture more value from their campaigns.

A Leader in G2Crowd’s Conversion Rate Optimization, A/B Testing, and Landing Page Software grids, Instapage is ranked #1 in customer satisfaction.

Affiliate Program Manager

Ensuring the customers have the best experience possible when contacting Instapage Support. Providing help via email & livechat and maintaining constant contact with our clients.

Customer Success Agent

Freelancer

Graphic Designer

Continental

My main responsibilities as a traffic planner included organizing tire transports to assigned countries, checking and optimizing delivery flow. Other daily tasks included forecasting the loading plan for the following days, offering support in occurring problems related to missing tires and solving issues like shipment delays.

Traffic Planner

Regional Department of Statistics

As an operator during the 2011 Population & Housing Census, my main tasks were to identify any errors that could have occurred in the questionnaires, correct these errors and then introduce the correct data in the system. Good communication between co-workers and attention to detail were vital as any wrong information introduced in the system would have affected the overall result.

PC Operator

The era of swanky brands & websites devoid of substance and differentiation is long gone. 
Personal branding means highlighting not just what you can do, but also how you think and why.

Let's work together to attract your ideal clients through psychology and conversion-oriented design. 
You don’t need to be an expert designer to get it done. You just need to work with one.

I help those transitioning from the corporate world to entrepreneurship to show up with confidence 
and clarity in front of their ideal clients. Let me turn the idea you’ve been sitting on for years into an 
asset that builds your business. 

Work with me to avoid:
❌   wasting time & money on scraping together your own brand
❌   being stuck in a loop & never shipping what you need 
❌   having an “all show and no substance” brand

I know how to get you on the fast track to achieving your goals because I've been where you are.

I moved away from corporate to start my own business in 2019. And I never looked back!

Work with me to:
✅ Give your work a palpable form which elevates your know-how and approach
✅ Build a coherent brand you can use, repurpose, and extend across channels
✅ Get assets that are uniquely yours and which support your professional stance


We'll work together to build you a solid personal brand that serves you for years to come. 
It will be natural, it will feel like YOU and it will tell your story in a way that gets you noticed 
by those you want to work with. 

Working with me means having a partner you can count on. 
I'm in it for the long-term, so my clients feel comfortable leaving creative decision-making to me. 

Contact me to see why: lucian@darkcore.studio 📧

Good things take time, but it’s easier to get there when someone's got your back!

Lucian-Alin Grofsorean

ZINEB L.

RAISE THE RUNWAY

Ready-to-post videos from relaxed and fun conversations where a real Marketer (moi) gets you talking about what matters to your audience. All you have to do is show up!

PitchSLAP

Private pitch mentoring for tech startups to nail their pitch. Too many good businesses go unfunded just because their pitch sucks...and the founders aren’t even aware of it. Now you know, get your pitch checked: 👉 www.pitchslap.live

Co-Founder

RevGenius

Proud Member

Mavens of Merch

Ready to rock your own merch? For your super fans, clients and prospects to be rocking your merch too?→ mavensofmerch.com

Examples of client creators will merch stores hosted by us: 
→ mavensofmerch.com/merch-by-hosted-creators

Co-founder & Maven

FemGems Club

Mentor

SEAL Metrics

TRACK PAGE VIEWS, NOT PEOPLE.
100% of your conversions per UTM parameter without cookies | SEAL Metrics is a Cookieless Conversion Tracking tool for SEM managers who need to see all conversions per source, campaign, medium, keyword to optimize their campaigns.

Highest level of privacy compliance: ePrivacy - Privacy Shield - GDPR doesn't even apply - EU Company - Servers in the EU

Brand Champion

Barcelona Tech City

Member

Demium

Startup Marketing Mentor

CMO in Residence @ Incubated Startups

emotionsAR

Board Member

- Inbound marketing: Social media and SEO
- Lead generation
- Business model development and reiteration

Business Developer/Product Manager

Adinton Technologies

CMO in Residence

Yes, you can do video without losing your charisma and influence 😜 Ready-to-post videos from relaxed conversations where I pull out your brilliance | Tend to think in GIFs and Tees

Real unscripted video content that does you justice,
gets your people pumped to do business with you,
refer business to you, invite you on coffee chats, podcasts, talks
...and all for the right reasons.


⭕️ You believe in video. You do video, BUT:
Your charisma and influence goes down the drain.
You sound like... let's just say it’s not you.
You create a few here and there without consistency.

🟢 LET ME PULL OUT YOUR BRILLIANCE

Ready-to-post videos from relaxed and fun conversations where a real Marketer (moi) gets busy entrepreneurs talking about what matters to your audience.

With each Golden Snippets for Social Session, you get:

- At least 25 Videos that practically write your posts for you.
- A creative and fun entrepreneur with 10+ years of Marketing experience fully focused on you and your audience.

All you have to do is show up!


"It's so much quicker and easier to create high-impact and engaging video content using Zineb's system." - Andy Kovacs, Co-Founder & Corporate Learning Director


🟢 READY TO SHOW YOUR AUDIENCE THE UNSCRIPTED YOU?

Not spill-your-guts-on-social you, just natural you.

You that knows their stuff.
You that captures attention.
You that has stories for days.


This way please 👉 raisetherunway.co




🟢 A LITTLE ABOUT ME

A born Connector. I might know just the person for that!
Always looking for something fun to print on a T. 
Love binging on comedy!


🟢 WANT TO STANDOUT EVEN MORE?

→ DIY GIF Training: Learn how to use GIFs to your advantage on LI.

“It's bursting with energy and practical help to help transform your LinkedIn self from blah text to full, living colour. Let's make LinkedIN fun again :D”

"This is really fun :) I love that it's actually a course about branding...that's about GIFs and brand touchpoints."

This way please 👉 raisetherunway.co/diy-gif-training

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Lucian-Alin Grofsorean

ZINEB L.

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