Ali Fakhar

Marketing results & case studies

The decisions behind the results. Explore the challenge, my role, the changes I made and how the outcome was measured.

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Growing marketing-qualified leads 17-fold in three years

Geeks Ltd

Marketing Manager · 2022 to now

2022 to September 2026

Paid, SEO, email and content run as one system rather than four separate channels, with lifecycle workflows and lead scoring underneath holding it together. The growth came from the compounding, not from any single campaign.

  • Demand generation
  • Martech
  • HubSpot
  • HubSpot built from scratch
  • 100+ automated workflows
  • 60,000+ contacts segmented

17xgrowth in MQLs

Rebuilding Google Ads to cut acquisition cost by 80%

Geeks Ltd

Marketing Manager · 2022 to now

2022 to September 2026

I took over an account that spent steadily and converted badly. Rebuilding it around Performance Max and tightly themed Search cut cost per acquisition by 80% while conversion volume grew nine-fold, and reach grew alongside the efficiency rather than being sacrificed for it.

  • Google Ads
  • Paid media
  • -80% cost per acquisition
  • 9x conversion volume
  • 20x growth in impressions

80%reduction in cost per acquisition

Cutting LinkedIn cost per lead by 85% against senior buyers

Geeks Ltd

Marketing Manager · 2022 to now

2022 to September 2026

LinkedIn started as the most expensive line on the plan and ended up a dependable source of senior-level pipeline. Continuous audience and creative testing against VP, C-suite and Director titles took cost per lead from £441 to £68 over a two-year optimisation cycle.

  • LinkedIn Ads
  • Demand generation
  • 5x lead-form completion rate
  • 65 campaigns run
  • 478 creatives tested
  • 77% verified work-email lead quality

85%lower cost per lead

Growing organic search through technical SEO and content

Geeks Ltd

Marketing Manager · 2022 to now

2022 to September 2026

Technical fixes, content architecture and the internal linking that makes both pay off took the site from near-invisibility to 4.55 million impressions across more than a thousand ranking keywords. Average position moved from around 40 to 11, and the organic conversion rate nearly tripled.

  • SEO
  • Content
  • 40 to 11 average position
  • +197% organic clicks
  • 1.1% to 3.1% organic conversion rate

447%growth in organic impressions

Improving website conversion through testing

Geeks Ltd

Marketing Manager · 2022 to now

2022 to 2024

Audit, hypothesis, test, ship, then sit with the developers until it is actually live. A roughly six-fold improvement in conversion rate that came from many small corrections rather than one redesign.

  • CRO
  • Analytics
  • End to end audit to implementation
  • Continuous A/B testing
  • UI, copy, page speed changed and tested

~6×visitor-to-enquiry rate versus baseline

Taking daily unit sales from 4,000 to 10,000

Huawei

Marketing Communications Manager · 2019-2021

2019 to 2021

Product marketing across mobile, tablet and smartwatch, with multi-channel campaigns on six-figure budgets. One launch took daily unit sales from 4,000 to 10,000, and the brand finished ahead of its main competitor on share of voice.

  • Product marketing
  • PR and events
  • +20% share of voice over main competitor
  • 10+ multi-channel campaigns
  • 250 journalist relationships

150%increase in daily unit sales

Leading a US market-entry go-to-market

Geeks Ltd

Marketing Manager · 2022 to now

2024-2025

Research, messaging localisation, paid build, budget allocation and KPI forecasting for a UK consultancy entering the US market.

  • Go-to-market
  • Google Ads
  • Content
  • £60k-£100k quarterly budget managed
  • 5 team members led

1new market entered end to end

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