Digital Marketing Strategist
☛ Acquisition & Optimisation Strategies Tied to Your Business Goals 🇫🇷🇬🇧 ☚
Hi, I’m Stéphanie.
I help businesses build and grow sustainable Marketing Strategies based on desired outcomes using a holistic, integrated approach.
I’m a T-shaped Marketer with a thick T and extensive experience in SEO, Content Strategy and Conversion Marketing in particular. Building communities for engagement and loyalty is my current topic of choice, on and offline.
I have 15 years of experience in Digital Marketing and have worn many hats throughout the years — both as a Marketer and as an Entrepreneur.
Along the way, over 80 small businesses and big companies, early and growth-stage startups, independent agencies, renowned international agencies AND a global accelerator programme have trusted my expertise. Amazing companies & brands such as Yahoo!, Smile.eu, Keolis, La Grande Epicerie-LVMH, Veepee and many more.
I even was a popular SEO figure in another life.
I founded my own Marketing Agency in 2011 and I’m currently a Programme Manager at the Founder Institute in Berlin, the world’s first early-stage accelerator with a comprehensive, step-by-step programme to launch startups.
☛ I’m based in Berlin.
☞ I’m available for on-site and remote Consulting & Contracting.
☛ Nomadic, I relocate temporally for lengthy missions, wherever I’m needed.
☞ I work in English & French.
My backstory
☛ In Internet years, I’m ancient wise ☚
I fell into Search back in 2005, working for Yahoo!.
I was first in Paid Ads, then worked for the Search Team on new features and algorithm updates, and projects related to the User Search Experience (SXO) and the Search Journey.
☛ fr.yahoo.com
☞ uk.yahoo.com
☛ uk.eurosport.yahoo.com
In 2011, I co-founded Search Box, a Digital Marketing Agency with 150+ projects under the belt to date. Some of our achievements include:
☛ Growing a niche B2B site from 0 to €440K+ annual recurring revenue within 2 years, with funnel content and through tested, high-converting traffic acquisition channels (French Market).
☞ Increasing sales of an eCommerce site via paid advertising by close to 90%, within a year — from €398K+ to €753K+ annual revenue — while improving ROAS by +50% (French Market).
☛ Growing a niche editorial site from 0 to 110K+ traffic within a year, with a Content Strategy based on pillar pages and topic clusters — before “pillar content” was even a thing (French Market).
☞ Increasing organic traffic for a trade association’s editorial site by tenfold, with a consistent SEO-driven Content Strategy (French Market).
☛ Increasing the volume of ranking keywords for an institutional site by tenfold, after a content and SEO-focused redesign (International Market).
☞ Having a very loyal client base
☛ Consulting for premium IT agencies and prestigious companies & brands such as Smile.eu, Keolis, Le Bon Marché, Vente Privée, Evry2 and many more.
☞ Having ranked #1#2#3 on countless high-volume keywords in competitive industries with content alone (French Market).
☛ Not having paid for a link since 2013 (I’m quite proud of that one)
☞ In my early days as an independent consultant, I also ran a popular blog about Search Engine Optimisation and Inbound Marketing, and was well-respected within the French SEO community*.
☞ searchbox.agency
* If you speak French, you can read here an article I wrote for the then #1 SEO blog in France about SEO & CRO: ☛ “2012 SEO tendencies” (I was also somewhat known for my sharp tongue and dry humour, that I used abundantly in opinion pieces like ☞ this one.)
Founder Institute is the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, with a global portfolio exceeding $20B in estimated value. We help early-stage Founders validate their idea and build the foundations for a strong, enduring and sustainable business with the critical support network and the structured process they need.
I’m a Programme Manager and deputy lead for the Berlin Chapter, where we encourage Impact Startups with a dedicated Climate Impact Track, alongside the regular curriculum. We also offer Founders a large spectrum of extra, premium content from pitch bootcamps to Product Development, PR, Marketing and MVP workshops. And more to come.
☞ Close to 500 startups are created every year in Berlin. In 2019, FI Berlin created 17. By mid-2020, we already launched 14 (with a majority of female-led companies) and we’re striving for a 6% market share by the end of the year — or more!
☛ As Programme Director, my role intersects with operations, recruitment of the best Founders and Mentors, partnerships, programme and business development.
☞ I’m also the Marketing Lead for our chapter, with great things to come. Get in touch if you want to know more, be a sponsor or service partner and benefit from our growing visibility and regional influence.
☛ I approach my role at FI exactly the same way I approach Marketing for my clients and focus on the “Founder Experience”, beyond the curriculum. It’s all about “customer happiness”. And it starts with recruiting the right people for the programme, delivering the best value and support we can, engaging with our brand champions and letting our strong reputation do the rest.
☞ I host Marketing workshops on topics such as Positioning, SEO and Traffic Acquisition, and work on identifying opportunities and creating material to give founders the right tools and resources, and share our entrepreneurial know-how, to gain traction.
☛ fi.co/join
Want to power up your digital marketing?
I’m of course wonderful
☛ We worked together and this is what they had to say ☚
❝ Very analytical and very thorough. Stéphanie will leave no stone unturned until she gets to the bottom of things.
S. Renaud, CEO – ICAD/Co-founder – Search Box.
❝ Most of our traffic was gone following a Google algorithm update and our business was at risk. She completely turned our situation around within 6 months, for all our online properties. Meanwhile, she planned and executed our digital marketing strategy from scratch for a new B2B offer that generated €1M+ in sales in just over 3 years and close to €500K annual recurring revenue. She can both plan and execute marketing initiatives that get the ball rolling for any business in a competitive market. We worked very closely together for 4 years on various projects, in what was more like a partnership. She asks the right questions to make an impact on the metrics that matter most and she surely delivers.
M. Tuleda, CEO – Corpo’Events
❝ She consulted for us for years, and I brought her along as I moved to a bigger agency that particularly appreciated her great problem-solving skills, efficiency and hands-on approach. Would absolutely love working with Stéphanie again if given the chance.
J. Naveda, Digital Project Manager – AstonWood & Smile
❝ I’ve known Stéphanie since her early days as a consultant. She was a prominent and well-respected figure within the French SEO community, with very strong views and ethics about her job and how to do it. I’ve consulted her numerous times over the years as I greatly value her way of thinking and trust her judgment and work 100%.
P. Peristil, CEO – Smile Media.
Work with me
☛ I can contract, consult or freelance depending on your needs ☚
You’re a startup, and you want me to join your team to execute a plan into action?
I like challenges of all kinds — from working with new people to discovering new tools, learning new processes… to adding my own touch and savoir-faire to execute your plan into action and save you money, time and stress.
You’re an agency, and want to consult me as part of a long-term or ongoing commitment?
I’ve been consulting for agencies for YEARS.
You have ambitious clients who want to go beyond the basics? Count me in!
I’ll work on a proposal specific to your needs, with a clear framework and definite timeline.
☛ You have a minimum budget of €2500
☞ For startups, you are either a VC-backed or a profitable bootstrapped business
☛ You are clear on your UE & KPIs
☛ Book a call & let’s talk! (20mns) ☚
Please let me know what time would suit you best. I’ll confirm our call by email within 24 hours.