Local Café Growth Campaign
Grew a neighborhood café's Instagram from 400 to 2,300 followers in 3 months with a content calendar and local hashtag strategy.
Turning curiosity into campaigns — learning digital marketing by building real projects, one metric at a time.
I'm Waed — a digital marketing learner who believes the best way to learn is to build. Instead of just watching courses, I run real campaigns, audit real websites, and write real copy for small businesses and personal projects.
My focus is on the fundamentals that move the needle: SEO, social media, analytics, email, and copywriting. I document everything I learn so my growth is visible — not just claimed.
Fell in love with digital marketing and began structured courses in social media and inbound.
Earned Google and Meta certifications and started applying concepts to real small businesses.
Running hands-on campaigns, documenting results, and turning every project into a case study.
A growing toolkit built through courses, practice, and real projects.
Keyword research, on-page optimization, and writing content that ranks and converts.
Planning, scheduling, and growing engaged communities across platforms.
Reading the numbers behind the campaigns — GA4, dashboards, and A/B testing.
Building lists, writing sequences, and nurturing leads into loyal customers.
Persuasive headlines, product pages, and ad copy that speaks to people.
Launching and optimizing small-budget campaigns to learn what actually works.
Hands-on projects where I planned, executed, and measured — then turned the numbers into lessons.
Grew a neighborhood café's Instagram from 400 to 2,300 followers in 3 months with a content calendar and local hashtag strategy.
Ran a full on-page audit, fixed meta tags and site structure, and saw organic traffic climb 60% in two months.
Designed a 5-email welcome flow for a startup, lifting open rates to 48% and recovering abandoned carts.
Wrote and structured a landing page that converted 9% of visitors — double the client's previous page.
A closer look at the process behind two of my favorite projects.
A local café had great coffee but almost no online presence. They needed a voice, not just posts.
I built a 30-day content calendar, leaned into behind-the-scenes storytelling, and used local geo-tags and community shout-outs.
Followers grew 475% in 3 months, and foot traffic from Instagram became their #1 acquisition channel.
A SaaS startup's landing page looked fine but converted under 4% of visitors.
I rewrote the headline around the customer's outcome, simplified the CTA, and added social proof above the fold.
Conversion rate jumped to 9% — a 125% improvement — with zero extra ad spend.
Industry-recognized certifications from the platforms that set the standard.
Google / Coursera
Google Skillshop
Meta / Coursera
HubSpot Academy
Honest write-ups on what I'm learning, testing, and figuring out.
I spent $50 on Facebook ads to learn — here's what the data taught me about audiences, creative, and patience.
Forget the noise. These are the fundamentals that moved the needle on every site I've touched.
A practical framework for documenting your work so it proves your skills to future employers.
Whether you need help with a campaign, want to collaborate on a project, or just want to talk digital marketing — my inbox is open.