SendGrid was a well-established email API frequently used by businesses for transactional email use cases, attempting to break into the email marketing space with an email marketing campaign. After around two years of struggling to break into email marketing, marketing leaders were interested in a way to build more content marketing traffic to the site via organic search channels. Problem was, email marketing is an extremely difficult vertical for content marketing.

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

The Canadian tax industry is very competitive. TurboTax and H&R Block are the giants in the space. SimpleTax came along with any innovatively easy product and fun product that challenged the status quo. The brought fun to a stale space. My job was to efficiently bring in new customers to simpletax.ca through primarily paid search, and assisted with paid social activities. It was very important the message was 'on brand' which had a more 'fun' approach than the competitors. We also had tight CPA requirements as the payment model was a 'pay what you want' or donation model.

Trouva has been named a top 5 startup in the UK. They were struggling to hit their aggressive, VC required performance targets. This was complicated by the fact that they had tens of thousands of SKU's in their data feed; targeting so many countries; that the golden SKU's weren't easy to optimize.