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Digital marketing that
actually drives revenue

I help ambitious brands grow through performance marketing, SEO, and creator partnerships. Every decision traces back to a number your business actually cares about.

Trusted by D2C, SaaS, and ecommerce teams across India

120+
Campaigns shipped

Across paid search, paid social, and creator programmes

8.4 Cr
Ad spend managed

Lifetime managed budget across every channel

4.6x
Median blended ROAS

Trailing twelve months across active accounts

190%
Avg. organic lift

Median non-brand traffic growth over twelve months

Services

Every channel that moves a number that matters

Twelve service areas, each with a defined scope and a metric it is accountable to. Most engagements combine three or four.

  • Core

    Search Engine Optimisation

    Organic growth that compounds, built on solid technical foundations, real topical authority, and pages that earn their rankings honestly.

    • Non-brand traffic that builds instead of resetting
    • Blended CAC falls as organic share grows
    • Rankings that survive the next core update
    • Technical SEO
    • Local SEO
    • Programmatic SEO
    • Content SEO
    • Digital PR & links
    Discuss search
  • Core

    PPC & Performance Marketing

    Paid acquisition built around contribution margin rather than vanity ROAS. Clean account structure, honest measurement, and constant iteration.

    • Profitable scale, not just cheaper clicks
    • Creative testing baked into the account structure
    • Incrementality checked before you scale spend
    • Google Ads
    • Meta Ads
    • Performance Max
    • Retargeting
    • Marketplace ads
    Discuss ppc
  • Core

    Influencer & Affiliate

    Creator programmes that behave like a performance channel. Sourced on audience fit, negotiated against real rate cards, measured on tracked outcomes.

    • Creator fit scored before outreach, not after
    • Rates benchmarked against actual deliverables
    • Attribution through codes, links, and lift tests
    • Creator discovery
    • Outreach & negotiation
    • Campaign management
    • Affiliate programmes
    • Performance tracking
    Discuss influencer
  • Email & Lifecycle

    Owned-channel revenue from flows that keep running whether or not you are at your desk. Welcome, browse, cart, win-back, retention.

    • Revenue per subscriber, not just open rates
    • Deliverability protected by real list hygiene
    • Flows that pay for the rest of the stack
    • Lifecycle flows
    • Campaign calendar
    • Segmentation
    • Deliverability
    • A/B testing
    Discuss email
  • Content Marketing

    Content built against real search demand and the questions buyers actually ask, then distributed deliberately instead of published and forgotten.

    • Briefs grounded in what the SERP is really rewarding
    • Assets that earn links, not just impressions
    • A distribution plan attached to every piece
    • Content strategy
    • Editorial calendar
    • Briefs & production
    • Refresh programme
    Discuss content
  • Social Media Marketing

    Organic social with an actual job to do: building the recognition and trust that make every paid impression cheaper to convert.

    • A brand voice people start to recognise
    • Formats matched to how each platform ranks things
    • Community signal that compounds your reach
    • Channel strategy
    • Content systems
    • Community
    • Social listening
    Discuss social
  • Mobile & App Growth

    Growth from install through to retention: store presence, paid user acquisition, and the post-install events that decide whether the spend was worth it.

    • Lower cost per retained user
    • Store listings that convert traffic you already pay for
    • Event tracking wired up for real LTV
    • App store optimisation
    • Paid user acquisition
    • Push & in-app
    • Retention loops
    Discuss mobile
  • Video Marketing

    Short-form and YouTube built around the hook, the hold, and the handoff, which is where video revenue is won or lost.

    • Hooks tested before production scales up
    • Creative that survives the algorithm's cold start
    • A clear path from view to visit
    • YouTube strategy
    • Short-form systems
    • Creative testing
    • Video SEO
    Discuss video
  • Core

    Growth Strategy

    The plan that sits above the channels: positioning, channel-market fit, where the budget goes, and what order to do it all in.

    • Budget pointed at the highest-leverage channel
    • A roadmap sequenced by constraint, not by fashion
    • Forecasts you can hold a team to
    • Market & competitor research
    • Channel mix modelling
    • Budget planning
    • Roadmapping
    Discuss growth
  • Marketing Automation

    The plumbing behind the growth: CRM, lead routing, scoring, and the integrations that stop leads leaking between tools.

    • Leads routed in minutes rather than days
    • Manual handoffs replaced by triggers
    • One source of truth across the stack
    • CRM setup
    • Lead scoring & routing
    • Workflow automation
    • Integrations
    Discuss marketing
  • Conversion Optimisation

    Turning the traffic you already pay for into revenue. Research first, hypotheses second, and tests only where the maths supports running one.

    • More revenue without spending more on media
    • Decisions from evidence rather than opinion
    • Gains that compound across the funnel
    • Funnel analysis
    • Landing page CRO
    • A/B testing
    • Session & heatmap research
    Discuss conversion
  • Analytics & Reporting

    Measurement you can defend in a board meeting: clean tracking, honest attribution, and dashboards where each one answers a single question.

    • Numbers that reconcile across your tools
    • Attribution that holds up to a hard question
    • Reporting that actually drives a decision
    • GA4 & GTM
    • Server-side tracking
    • Looker Studio dashboards
    • Attribution modelling
    Discuss analytics

Why work with me

Senior attention, honest numbers

What you're actually buying when you hire a consultant instead of an agency.

  • 1 point of contact

    Senior attention, always

    You work with me directly. Nothing gets quietly handed to a junior once the contract is signed, and the person who builds the strategy is the person who runs it.

  • Evidence-led

    Data over instinct

    Every recommendation traces back to a number: a query, a cohort, a margin. Where the data cannot support a call yet, I say so instead of guessing confidently.

  • ROI focused

    Margin, not vanity metrics

    Impressions and follower counts do not pay salaries. Targets get set on contribution margin and payback period, and the reporting rolls up to those.

  • Full transparency

    Reporting you can audit

    You get the dashboards, the accounts, and the raw data, all under your own logins. No black box, no dependency, and nothing held hostage at renewal.

  • No templates

    Built for your constraints

    A ₹2L a month D2C brand and a Series-B SaaS company need very different playbooks. Strategy starts with your margins, your sales cycle, and your team's capacity.

  • Always testing

    Current, not cached

    Search and social shift every month. Some of the budget goes to testing new surfaces and formats continuously, so the playbook does not quietly go stale.

Capability depth

Relative depth across the channels I work in, a map of where I'm strongest, not a claim of perfection.

  • SEO100
  • Google Ads95
  • Meta Ads95
  • Performance Marketing95
  • Analytics & Measurement95
  • Email Marketing90
  • Influencer & Affiliate92
  • Conversion Optimisation88

Certifications

Platform credentials kept current, because the platforms change the rules more often than the certificates suggest.

  • Google AdsSearch, Display, Shopping, Video
  • Google Analytics 4GA4 certified
  • Meta BlueprintMedia buying
  • HubSpotInbound & email marketing
  • SemrushSEO toolkit
  • AhrefsSite & content audit
  • MailchimpEmail marketing
  • Google Tag ManagerMeasurement

Process

From first call to compounding growth

Eight stages, run in order. The early ones are unglamorous and they are the reason the later ones work.

  1. Discover

    Week 1

    Business model, margins, and goals before tactics. I need to know what a customer is worth before I can tell you what one should cost.

    • Goal & KPI definition
    • Margin and unit-economics review
    • Stakeholder interviews
  2. Research

    Week 1 to 2

    Where the demand actually lives: search volume, competitor positioning, channel saturation, and the gaps nobody is covering properly.

    • Keyword & demand map
    • Competitor teardown
    • Channel opportunity sizing
  3. Planning

    Week 2 to 3

    A sequenced roadmap with budget allocation and forecasts, plus a clear statement of what we are deliberately not doing this quarter.

    • Channel strategy
    • Budget allocation
    • Forecast & milestones
  4. Execution

    Week 3 onwards

    Build and launch: account structures, tracking, landing pages, creative, content. Shipped in priority order rather than all at once.

    • Campaign build
    • Tracking implementation
    • Creative & content production
  5. Optimisation

    Ongoing

    Weekly iteration against the numbers. Cut what is underperforming, double down where payback is fastest, and keep a live queue of things to test.

    • Weekly optimisation cycles
    • Creative & bid testing
    • Landing page experiments
  6. Scaling

    Month 3 onwards

    Once a channel proves it pays back, scale it deliberately, watching for the point where efficiency breaks instead of spending until it does.

    • Budget scaling plan
    • New channel expansion
    • Incrementality testing
  7. Reporting

    Monthly

    One dashboard, one narrative, one set of decisions. What happened, why, what it cost, and what changes next month.

    • Live dashboards
    • Monthly business review
    • Decision log
  8. Automation

    Month 4 onwards

    Systematise whatever is proven: alerting, reporting, lead routing, lifecycle flows. Growth should not depend on anyone remembering to do something.

    • Automated reporting
    • Alerting & anomaly detection
    • Lifecycle automation

Performance

What good looks like on a chart

Representative shapes from live engagements, with organic compounding and paid efficiency improving as the account matures.

Organic sessions, indexed

+411% over 12 months

  • M1
  • M3
  • M6
  • M9
  • M12

94%

Client retention

87%

Campaigns hitting target ROAS

63%

Avg. conversion-rate lift

Blended ROAS by quarter

Median across active paid accounts

Industries

Sectors I know well enough to argue about

Each has its own economics. The metric that matters is listed next to it.

  • Ecommerce & D2C

    AOV, repeat rate, and contribution margin

  • SaaS

    Trial-to-paid, CAC payback, expansion

  • Healthcare

    Compliant acquisition and local demand

  • Education

    Enquiry volume and enrolment quality

  • Real Estate

    Qualified site visits over raw leads

  • Travel

    Seasonal demand capture and RevPAR

  • Hospitality

    Direct bookings over OTA dependence

  • Fashion

    Drop cycles, creators, and returns

  • Technology

    Category creation and demand capture

  • Finance

    Regulated acquisition and trust signals

  • Local business

    Map pack, reviews, and phone calls

  • Creators

    Audience growth and sponsorship value

The stack I work in

Tools used: Google Analytics, Search Console, Ahrefs, Semrush, Screaming Frog, Looker Studio, Tag Manager, Google Ads, Meta Business, Mailchimp, Brevo, HubSpot, Canva, Notion, Figma, WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce.

Results

Three engagements, in numbers

Before-and-after on the metrics the client actually cared about.

D2C · Beauty12 months

Verdant Skincare

The problem

Almost all revenue came from paid social. Rising CPMs were eating into the margin and there was no organic base to fall back on.

What we did

Rebuilt the category and ingredient page architecture, fixed indexation on a bloated variant structure, and shipped a comparison-content programme aimed at branded competitor demand.

Non-brand organic sessions
41.7K+358%

from 9.1K

Organic revenue share
34%+23pt

from 11%

Blended CAC
₹910−38%

from ₹1,480

Trajectory

B2B SaaS9 months

Northlane Analytics

The problem

Lead volume looked healthy, but sales called most of it unqualified. Spend was scaling against a metric nobody downstream actually trusted.

What we did

Moved optimisation off form-fills and onto qualified-opportunity events fed back from the CRM, rebuilt the account around intent tiers, and rewrote the landing pages per segment.

Qualified opportunities / mo
86+258%

from 24

Cost per qualified opp
₹7,250−61%

from ₹18,400

Trial-to-paid rate
11.9%+92%

from 6.2%

Trajectory

Ecommerce · Home8 months

Kettle & Co

The problem

One-off influencer posts produced spikes with no measurable tail, and there was no way to tell which creators had actually driven sales.

What we did

Replaced the one-off posts with a tiered always-on creator programme, gave every creator unique code and link attribution, and put whitelisting budget behind the top performers.

Creator-attributed revenue
₹31.6L+652%

from ₹4.2L

Blended ROAS
4.8x+153%

from 1.9x

Repeat purchase rate
29%+11pt

from 18%

Trajectory

Testimonials

What clients actually say

Testimonial 1 of 5

The first month was mostly Ankit telling us which of our numbers were wrong. Annoying at the time, completely correct in hindsight. Everything we did afterwards actually held up.

Priya NambiarHead of Growth, Verdant Skincare

FAQ

The questions I get before every engagement

Including the ones with answers people don't always want to hear.

Working together

What does a digital marketing consultant actually do?

I work out where your growth is constrained, build the strategy to fix it, then run the execution against that. In practice I own channel strategy, campaign builds, measurement, and reporting. Part of the job is also telling you which of the things you are currently doing should stop.

How do you work with clients, retainer, project, or advisory?

Three ways. A monthly retainer for ongoing execution, a fixed-scope project for one-off work like an SEO audit or an account rebuild, and advisory calls if you have an in-house team that just needs direction. Most engagements start as a project and become a retainer once the direction is proven.

Do you work with businesses outside India?

Yes. I work with clients across time zones, with overlapping hours agreed at the start. Reporting and communication are asynchronous by default, so progress does not depend on us being online at the same moment.

Will I be working with you directly?

Yes. The person who builds your strategy is the person who runs it. Where specialist production is needed, whether design, video, or development, I bring in trusted contractors, and you always know who is doing what.

What size of business do you work with best?

Businesses past product-market fit that have a working offer and want to scale acquisition efficiently. If you are pre-revenue and still testing the offer, consulting is usually the wrong thing to spend on, and I would rather tell you that than take the engagement.

Pricing

How much does it cost?

It depends on scope, channels, and how much of the execution sits with me versus your team. Fixed-scope projects are quoted upfront and retainers are monthly with a clear deliverable list. You get a written scope and price before anything starts, so there are no hourly surprises.

Is ad spend included in your fee?

No. My fee covers strategy and management. Media spend is paid directly by you to the platforms on your own billing, which keeps account ownership and spend data entirely in your control.

Do you require a long-term contract?

Retainers run month to month after an initial three-month period. Three months is the shortest honest window to build, launch, and read results. Anything shorter and you would be judging the work before there is data behind it.

Results

How long before I see results?

Paid channels can show signal within two to four weeks, though a reliable read on profitability takes a full purchase cycle. SEO is slower. Early technical wins can land in four to eight weeks, but meaningful compounding growth is a six to twelve month horizon. Anyone promising faster is selling you something.

Can you guarantee a number one ranking on Google?

No, and neither can anyone else. Google's ranking systems are not controllable by any third party, and a guarantee of a specific position is a reliable sign of a bad operator. What I commit to is the work, the reporting, and an honest assessment of what is achievable in your competitive set.

What happens if the results are not there?

We look at why, out in the open. Sometimes it is the channel, sometimes the offer, sometimes the market. If a channel cannot be made to work profitably for you, I will say so and recommend stopping. Billing for something that is not working is not a business I want to be in.

How do you measure success?

Against business outcomes agreed at the start, usually contribution margin, qualified pipeline, or CAC payback depending on the model. Traffic, impressions, and rankings are diagnostics rather than goals. If a metric cannot be tied back to revenue, it does not belong on the dashboard.

SEO

What is the difference between technical, local, and programmatic SEO?

Technical SEO makes sure search engines can crawl, render, and index your site properly. Local SEO targets geographic intent, so the map pack, your Google Business Profile, and location pages. Programmatic SEO generates large sets of templated pages from structured data, which works brilliantly for genuine long-tail demand and badly when it is used to mass-produce thin pages.

Is SEO still worth it now that AI answers appear in search results?

Yes, but the target has moved. AI summaries absorb a lot of informational queries, so the value concentrates in commercial and transactional intent, brand-led demand, and content with genuine first-hand expertise. The work is less about ranking for everything and more about owning the queries that convert.

Do I need to rebuild my website for SEO?

Usually not. Most sites need fixes to architecture, internal linking, indexation, and page speed rather than a rebuild. A rebuild only makes sense when the platform itself is the constraint, and in that case I will show you the specific limits rather than just recommending it.

Paid ads

What is a realistic ROAS to expect?

It depends entirely on your margin structure. A 2x ROAS can be very profitable for a high-margin SaaS product and ruinous for a low-margin reseller. That is why targets get set on contribution margin after looking at your unit economics, rather than on a benchmark borrowed from someone else's business.

Should I run Google Ads or Meta Ads first?

Google captures demand that already exists, Meta creates it. If people are already searching for what you sell, Google usually pays back faster. If you are introducing something people do not yet know to look for, Meta is the better first bet. Most mature accounts eventually run both, sequenced by whichever constraint is binding.

Who owns the ad accounts and data?

You do, always. Accounts are set up under your own billing and ownership and I work as a granted user. If we stop working together you keep every account, every dashboard, and the full history. Nothing is held on my side.

Influencer

How do you pick the right creators?

Audience fit before follower count. That means checking real audience geography and demographics, engagement quality rather than raw rate, comment sentiment, and brand-safety history. A creator with 20K followers and the right audience routinely outperforms one with 500K and the wrong one.

How is influencer performance actually tracked?

Unique discount codes and tracked links per creator as the baseline, plus post-level engagement, and where budget allows, geo-based lift tests to check whether the revenue was incremental rather than simply attributed. Without incrementality checks, creator ROAS tends to flatter itself.

Getting started

What do you need from me to get started?

Access to your analytics, ad accounts, and Search Console, your margin and pricing structure, and an honest account of what you have already tried. That last one saves the most time, because repeating a failed experiment is the most common way an engagement wastes its first month.

How do we begin?

A short consultation call where you describe the business and the constraint as you see it. If I think I can help, you get a written proposal with scope, timeline, and price. If I do not think I am the right fit, I will tell you on that call and point you somewhere better.

Contact

Tell me what's actually stuck

A short call, no pitch deck. If I'm not the right fit I'll say so and point you somewhere better.

Response time

I reply to every genuine enquiry within one working day, usually the same afternoon. Based in Bengaluru, India, and working across time zones.

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