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Problem: Multiple brands had fragmented paid search strategies, limiting performance as the business prepared for a major product launch.
Action: Led a cross-brand paid search audit, presented optimization strategy to stakeholders, and personally implemented approved campaign restructures and launch campaigns across search platforms.
Results: Increased sales by 26% across all channels, including retail media, and drove $378K in first-month revenue for the new product launch.
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I had a startup reach out last week. They wanted a design system from scratch. All their existing work refactored and redesigned. Probably 4-5 months worth of work part-time.
I quoted them $45,000 because they wanted it done in less than 2 months.
They said that price was fine and they'd get back to me today.
They decided to hire a designer full-time at $80K a year. I think they will fire them after 2 months and get it done for a few grand.
Oh man!
I said I would check back in once the client reaches 10k with my organic growth strategies...
I may have failed on my promise, because with just two months of work after that post, we are sitting at over 33k on Instagram (from 500 followers) and 3k on TikTok (from 2 followers) with thousands of $ in orders for them. With ZERO ad spend.
Never underestimate the power of organic social media growth. Literally $0 ad spend for a couple million views across multiple videos.
Both screen shots are not even 4 days apart!
So glad to help scale my client's account on TikTok and bring extra orders without ANY ad spend budget. All...
I just checked their page… cool work
Title:
Santa-Cruz Travel Agency — From Word of Mouth & Instagram DMs to a Full Tour Selection Platform
Description:
Santa-Cruz is a real travel agency in Odessa, Ukraine with 25+ years of experience and a 5.0 Google rating. Over the decades they built a loyal base of repeat clients who come back year after year and recommend the agency to friends and family through word of mouth.
Their online presence: an outdated website that was eventually abandoned, an Instagram account, and Telegram. New clients find them almost exclusively through personal recommendations from people who've travelled with them for years. I personally love this agency — and I wanted to give them a real chance to grow beyond word of mouth.
The After:
A fully designed, bilingual (EN/UA) website built entirely in Base44 — live, mobile-responsive, and built for real business operations from day one.
What I built:
-Hero with bilingual copy and destination overview
-Interactive tour catalog with 8 destinations (Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Greece, UAE, Cyprus, Maldives, Tunisia)
-Hot Deals section with weekly tour table, filters by destination and duration, and fan-card animation
-AI Superagent chat widget answering FAQs about tours, visas, and pricing in Ukrainian 24/7
-Personal tour selection form — client fills in destination, dates, budget, number of adults and children → saved to database → manager receives instant email with full client details to prepare a personalised offer
-Packing Checklist automation — user selects destination, enters email, receives a custom checklist automatically
-Live weather widget for all destinations via OpenWeatherMap API
-Memory Gallery with Pinterest-style masonry layout
-Tips blog with expert articles from the agency's 25+ years of experience
-Interactive Google Maps embed in Contacts
-Full bilingual EN/UA language switcher
The automation that matters most:
Before: every lead came through DMs. The manager had to manually ask each client about destination, dates, budget, and group size — one message at a time.
After: every inquiry hits a database and triggers an immediate email to the manager with the full client profile — ready to call and offer the perfect tour without a single back-and-forth message.
This is not a booking engine — it's a personalised tour selection service, digitised.
Built with: Base44 · OpenWeatherMap API · Google Maps · AI Superagent · Email automation
After: website: https://santacruz-travel-flow.base44.app/
Befor : 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ta_santacruz?igsh=MW41eWltOXN4MzdzcQ==
✈️ Telegram: t.me/Santa_Kruz_Odessa
📍 Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/u7JjzYvrerhpe4mt9
#GiveItAGlow @Base44
Today I visited the Santa Cruz travel agency to present the website I've been working on. We went through the client-facing site first, then spent most of our time diving into the admin panel, since that's really where the value for the client lives.
I walked them through each...
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