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Independent · Manchester, UK

Senior paid media, CRO & ecommerce consulting without the agency tax.

I'm Robbie. Six years running ecommerce and paid media for brands from startups to blue chips. You work with me directly. No juniors, no agency speak.

6+
Years in ecommerce
£6M+
Total managed spend
20:1
Peak client MER achieved
0
Account managers in the way

Background

Built across categories, not stuck in one.

Six years running ecommerce across tech (LG Electronics, Cacti PCs), regulated gambling (Gaming Giveaways, MD scope), fashion and sports retail (JD Sports, ProBikeKit), nutrition and wellness (Myvegan), and nursery products. Full P&L management of brands with £2.5M+ COGS and £1M+ annual marketing budgets. Monthly ad budgets managed range from £1K to £200K. Total career managed spend £6M+.

Specialism in paid media and conversion rate optimisation, the two highest leverage levers in ecommerce. Paid drives the traffic, CRO turns it into revenue. Most consultants pick one and ignore the other. Combining both is where the real efficiency gains sit, and it's why budgets I manage tend to beat their previous benchmarks fast.

Full marketing mix experience beyond that: email and CRM, affiliate, brand, organic. I'll consult across the whole mix where the engagement calls for it. The edge is pattern recognition across categories where the rules differ sharply, from strict ad platform restrictions in gambling to deep funnel attribution in tech and creative cadence in fashion.

Brands worked with

LG ELECTRONICS JD SPORTS Myvegan PROBIKEKIT GAMING GIVEAWAYS CACTI PCs

Core disciplines

Paid Media Conversion Rate Optimisation Ecommerce platform Email & CRM Affiliate Brand & creative

Sectors I work across

Tech & consumer electronics Regulated gambling & iGaming Fashion Sports retail Nutrition & wellness Nursery & family DTC ecommerce

Selected outcomes

Startup tech company
Live client
£1.87M
sales / 6 months
16x
held every month

£1.87M attributed sales on £114K of ad spend across six months. Close to 1,200 orders at an average order value just over £1,500. Monthly budget was scaled roughly threefold over the period and ROAS held at 16x through all of it, rather than spiking once and falling away. Acquisition and attribution rebuilt from the ground up.

Gambling company 3yr 2mo build
Live client
£50K £500K
monthly revenue, 3yr 2mo
+350%
EBITDA

Brand built and scaled end to end at MD scope across paid, CRO, platform and retention. Monthly revenue from £50,000 to over £500,000 across a 3 year 2 month build, with a 14.7% conversion rate sustained and £2.14 CAC. Top line and bottom line growth, not revenue chased at the cost of margin.

Blue chip tech company
Enterprise
+50%
ROAS improvement
Six figure
annual spend

Enterprise scale paid programme. Targets were raised mid year and still beaten, with ROAS up 50% on an increased commitment. Embedded ROAS, CAC and LTV fundamentals across the in house team and shifted the org toward creative led testing.

Clients anonymised. Full case studies, verified dashboard data and references available on enquiry under NDA.

Why not an agency

You get the person who does the work.

An agency sells you a senior person in the pitch and gives you a junior once the contract is signed. Your account becomes one of thirty on someone's list.

Here you get the person who has run £6M+ of spend across LG Electronics, JD Sports and regulated gambling. The same person does the audit, builds the account and answers your email. No account manager. No handover. No minimum term.

An agency needs you to stay. I need you to get a result, because that is the only thing that gets me the next client.

What that costs you

I take on a small number of clients at a time, so sometimes the answer is that I am full. And I will tell you when paid media is not your problem. Some people would rather not hear that.

Pricing

Three ways to work together.

Fixed fees, no hourly billing games, no annual lock ins. Most brands start with a Rebuild or an audit and decide from there.

Tier 01

Rebuild

Two weeks. I rebuild the account properly and you keep the keys.

£1,250 fixed
  • Structure, targeting, tracking, feed and exclusions rebuilt in Google or Meta
  • Conversion tracking and attribution fixed so the numbers mean something
  • Written handover doc plus a video walking through what changed and why
  • Two weeks, hard end date. No retainer, no notice period, no lock in
  • Audit fee credited if you had one in the last 30 days
Start a Rebuild
Most popular
Tier 02

Managed

A hands on monthly retainer. I run your paid media properly.

£2,500 /mo
+ performance kicker
  • Daily account management across paid channels
  • CRO programme covering funnel testing, checkout optimisation and attribution
  • Weekly check in call plus Slack and email access
  • Creative testing cadence and briefs, with creative produced via bolt on
  • Monthly performance report that is actually readable
  • Rolling 30 day terms, never an annual lock in

Performance kicker

5% of monthly ad spend up to £20k · 4% from £20k to £50k · 3% above £50k. Invoiced quarterly.

Start with Managed
Tier 03

Strategic Partner

Embedded marketing leadership for serious growth stage brands.

£5,000 /mo
+ enhanced performance kicker
  • Everything in Managed, plus:
  • Strategy lead across paid, CRO, ecom platform and email or CRM
  • Fortnightly strategy meetings and board level reporting
  • Roadmap planning, hiring input, agency and vendor selection
  • A direct line by phone or Slack whenever you need a sounding board

Performance kicker

7% of ad spend up to £20k · 5% from £20k to £50k · 4% above £50k. Invoiced quarterly.

Discuss Partner tier

Also available

Audit · £500 one off

The diagnostic on its own. Account review, tracking and attribution check, written recommendations in priority order and a walkthrough call. Credited against a Rebuild booked within 30 days. 30 minute walkthrough call included.

Book the audit

Advisor · £500 a month

When you have the team and just need the brain. One 60 minute strategy call a month, an async channel for questions, a quarterly account and funnel review. No execution from me. 3 month minimum, rolling after that.

Apply for Advisor
On the performance kicker

The default model is a tiered percentage of managed ad spend. It's clean, measurable straight from invoices, and leaves no room for attribution debates. Some clients prefer a share of net new revenue uplift instead, at 10% on Managed or 12% on Partner against an agreed baseline. Either works, so we use whichever fits how you already measure.

Extras

Add what you need.

Available on Rebuild, Managed and Partner, sourced through my partner network of vetted writers, designers and video producers I've worked with for years. You get the work, I quality control it.

Copy & content

partner

Blog posts, landing page copy, email sequences, ad copy. Briefed by me, written by trusted partners.

From £350 / piece

Graphics & design

partner

Static social, banners and paid creative. Each set covers 1 to 3 assets on a single concept with one round of revisions, briefed against the testing cadence.

From £100 / set

Video production

partner

Fully shot and edited video built for social. Bigger multi scene, on camera or branded shoots quoted separately.

From £150 / video

How it works

A short, sharp engagement process.

I don't do long onboardings. Nothing here takes a month to get going.

01 · Day 0

Intro call

30 minutes. We work out if I'm the right fit. If I'm not, I'll tell you who is.

02 · Week 1

Audit & access

Read only access to ad accounts, analytics and the ecom backend. I run the diagnostic.

03 · Week 2

Plan & sign off

Recommendations doc, prioritised. We agree what gets done, in what order, by when.

04 · Week 2 onwards

Execute & iterate

On Rebuild the work is done and handed back at the end of week two. On Managed and Partner it is weekly check ins, monthly reporting and quarterly review, rolling 30 day terms.

FAQ

Honest answers.

Why hire you over an agency?

You get me, not a junior account manager. I've run paid media inside billion pound businesses, where most agency staff have only ever seen the client side from the outside. You also get senior strategic thinking for less than most mid tier agencies charge for monitoring software and a weekly call.

Do you work with regulated industries like gambling?

Yes. Gambling and iGaming is a core vertical and I currently run paid and ecom for an operator at MD scope. I know the platform restrictions, the Google and Meta ad policies, the compliance overlay and the affiliate ecosystem. Most consultants won't touch this space. I work in it daily.

What's the minimum ad budget I need?

For Managed retainer work, ideally £10K a month or more in paid media spend so the engagement makes sense for both sides. Below that there are three paths. Rebuild is £1,250 and fixed scope, for when the account needs fixing and you want to run it yourself afterwards. Advisor is £500 a month with no execution, for when you've got the team and just need senior direction. The Audit works at any spend level, including brands deciding whether to start paid at all.

Can you work alongside our existing agency?

Yes, and the Strategic Partner tier is built for exactly that. I act as the senior client side voice steering your agency, briefing them properly and holding them to standard. It's particularly useful when you've outgrown the agency you signed with two years ago.

Is CRO part of every engagement, or separate?

Paid media without CRO is just an expensive way to buy traffic that doesn't convert, so the two are never separated. On Managed and Partner I run an active CRO programme alongside the paid acquisition, covering funnel diagnostics, test prioritisation, checkout audits and attribution work. On Rebuild and Audit you get the diagnostic and the tracking fixed, which is where the CRO work has to start anyway. It's where most of the compounding efficiency gains come from.

Which platforms do you work across?

Paid: Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, programmatic, YouTube and Reddit. Ecom platforms: Shopify in depth, plus Magento and BigCommerce. CRM and email: Klaviyo and HubSpot. Analytics: GA4, server side tracking and attribution modelling.

What does the contract look like?

A plain English MSA with rolling 30 day notice on retainers. No exit fees, no platform lock in, no hostage tactics on your ad accounts. Everything stays yours.

Where are you based? Will you travel?

Manchester. Most engagements run remote with monthly onsite time for Partner tier clients. London and the Northwest are easy. Further afield is fine but billed at travel cost.

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