Senior brand and growth strategy for founder-led consumer brands ready to scale — organic, paid, or both.
Work with meThe Dog Nutritionist had a great product but little marketing direction when I came on board two years in. Over three years I helped scale it to over $2.4M AUD with a consistent 40% profit margin — including 951% growth against the period before I joined. Growth came from a combination of challenger brand positioning, organic social across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, paid media on Meta and Google, and a lean content operation that scaled without a large team. The results attracted a strategic investor whose previous Amazon business exited for £100m.
Before that I spent a decade in senior marketing roles in London — Head of Marketing at David Yarrow Photography and Senior Strategist at Manning Gottlieb OMD, managing brand, paid, and social strategies for Waitrose, Renault, Specsavers and others.
That experience is what I bring to a small number of founders each year. I work at the strategy level — helping you decide what to focus on, what to stop doing, and how to build a marketing operation that actually scales. I also use AI tooling across content production, workflows and research to keep operations lean, which means the brands I work with get more output for less overhead.
"Chris turned my business around. He focused on the right marketing mix to create profitable results and managed everything. Great knowledge, great communication and great results."
A full review of your positioning, content, social and email strategy. Delivered as a clear written roadmap within five business days. A good starting point if you are not sure where the gaps are.
Senior strategic guidance without the full-time hire. Two to four calls per month plus async support. No execution, no agency markup. Just a senior brain on your business every month.
A 90-day growth strategy across organic and paid channels. Clear priorities, channel recommendations, and a playbook your team can execute. You own the results.
You are past the early stage. Revenue is coming in. But something is not clicking at the marketing level and you are not sure why.
I work with a small number of clients each year. If the timing feels right, reach out and we will figure out together if it makes sense.