Simply Local is building a marketplace for farmers and ranchers to sell direct to consumers. They were looking to scale both their customer base and farmer base as they refine their offerings. They had a very aggressive cost per lead goal, along with limited geographical targeting (Austin, Texas area)

Start-up bridal industry trying to break-into a stuffy, non-dynamic industry owned by a couple of heavy hitters

• client was a small fish in a big pond not getting attention or focus from their agency, but paying the premium to hire them
• campaigns were not being executed properly, and not a lot of optimization was happening on a weekly basis
• campaigns were structed in ways that kept creative and campaigns in learning phase for too long, which didn't help performance
• not leveraging retargeting enough---low hanging fruit left to rot on vine

Koh is a D2C eco-friendly cleaning product, launched in 2016, and now selling to over 1M customers in Australia and the UK. With a rapid growing revenue of over $40M in this financial year (2021) and backed up by 60,000 incredible 5-star customer reviews they're taking on the nasty chemical cleaning industry. I've joined Koh in 2018, in the years that followed they expended to the UK and made incremental growth years. My challenge was that, without much experience, I had to manage 6 people and start this all from scratch.

Factor was looking to efficiently scale and continue aggressive growth in order to be acquired.