Akhil Aniyan
What I do · Seven disciplines

The craft

The disciplines I’ve spent fifteen-plus years sharpening — what each one involves, how I approach it, and the tools I reach for. Not a menu. Just the work.

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01

Digital Marketing Strategy

Connecting business goals to channels, budgets, and messaging — the thinking layer that makes everything else work.

Toolbox
Google AnalyticsSEMrushHubSpotTag ManagerLooker Studio

What it involves

Market & funnel diagnosis
Channel selection & budget allocation
Positioning & messaging frameworks
KPIs that map to revenue

How I approach it

Strategy starts with understanding the business, the market, and the competitive landscape — then choosing where to play and how to win. I’ve built digital roadmaps for startups and enterprises alike, always anchored to measurable outcomes.

02

Performance Marketing

Paid media across search, social, and display — managed against ROAS and payback period, never impressions.

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Google AdsMeta AdsLinkedIn AdsTag Manager

What it involves

Google, Meta & LinkedIn campaigns
Bid, budget & audience optimization
Creative testing frameworks
Full-funnel measurement

How I approach it

Every dollar tracked, every metric analyzed. I’ve managed seven-figure media budgets with one operating rule: efficiency compounds — find the improvement, act on it, repeat.

03

SEO

Technical and content optimization that compounds — organic visibility built to outlast algorithm updates.

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SEMrushSearch ConsoleGoogle AnalyticsWordPress

What it involves

Technical audits & site health
Content mapped to search intent
Authority building & digital PR
Rank & traffic measurement

How I approach it

SEO is a marathon, not a sprint. I treat it as infrastructure: fix the foundations, publish with intent, and let the compounding do the work.

04

Growth Marketing

Experimentation, funnel optimization, and acquisition loops — finding the lever that actually moves the number.

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HubSpotGoogle AnalyticsSEMrushTag Manager

What it involves

Acquisition funnel design
Experiment backlogs & testing cadence
CAC & LTV modelling
Scalable growth frameworks

How I approach it

Growth is a learning loop, not a bag of tricks. Data analysis plus creative thinking, run at a weekly cadence — and the discipline to kill what doesn’t work.

05

Conversion Optimization

Evidence-based CRO — turning existing traffic into outcomes through systematic experimentation.

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Google AnalyticsHotjarVWOTag Manager

What it involves

Funnel & behaviour analysis
Hypothesis-driven A/B testing
Landing page systems
UX research & insight

How I approach it

Traffic means nothing if it doesn’t convert. Identify the barriers, form hypotheses, test systematically, keep what wins — then start again.

06

Web Development

Custom WordPress, React, and Node.js builds — where the marketing brain meets the engineering hands.

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WordPressReactNode.jsPHPMySQLGit

What it involves

WordPress themes & plugins
React & Node.js applications
Responsive, mobile-first builds
Performance & SEO-ready foundations

How I approach it

Fifteen-plus years and 150+ projects of building for the web. I like owning the whole stack — building makes me a better marketer, and marketing makes me a better builder.

07

Strategic Advisory

Digital transformation, market positioning, and competitive strategy — the zoomed-out view of the whole board.

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Looker StudioNotionSlackGoogle WorkspaceMiro

What it involves

Transformation roadmaps
Competitive positioning
Tooling & stack recommendations
Team capability building

How I approach it

Sometimes the question isn’t “which channel” but “which direction”. I’ve worked with leadership teams navigating digital — translating complexity into decisions.

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The toolbox

The platforms I work with daily — certified, current, and battle-tested across 150+ projects.

Google Ads
Meta Ads
LinkedIn Ads
Google Analytics
Google Tag Manager
HubSpot
SEMrush
WordPress

Curious how I think?

The blog is where these disciplines turn into words — strategies, teardowns, and lessons learned the honest way.