Andrew Ishimaru

I strive to live by "intelligent hustle". Hustling is putting in the work required to accomplish great things. Intelligence-- well, it speaks for itself. So to hustle intelligently is to hustle with regard to creative pursuits, ones that require divergent and unorthodox thinking to exponentially move the needle where others can't or won't. Currently a digital nomad traveling the world one city at a time - 30+ countries and counting. My personal website where I write about growth marketing is found @ AndrewIshimaru.com

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  Advice on funding

  Have raised funds for past ventures, advised companies raising money, and at one time worked for an angel investor where I had privileged access to pitch decks, investor meetings, demo days, etc.

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  Building a team

  At Optimotive I've built a team from nothing to 15+ people across a remote organization working all around the world. I am very proud of our teamwork and the culture we've built as well!

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  Content marketing

  Have built and run content marketing strategies for many clients including successes from 0 to 100,000+ monthly site visitors. Very well versed in all things content.

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  Growth marketing

  True growth hacking is few and far between, but I have had a few moments of creative ingenuity where I've implemented true growth hacking campaigns. Very passionate about growth hacking.

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  Marketing automation

  Very familiar with automation from marketing to sales enablement, mostly via Hubspot but on a few other platforms as well like Pardot, ActiveCampaign, etc.

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  PPC strategies

  Have managed over a $1 million in PPC spend over a variety of channels and manage PPC through my team on a daily basis in Google Ads, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Reddit Ads, Outbrain, and more.

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  Product market fit

  We've run product market fit testing for several clients as well as encountered this launching our own ventures. Have some strategies for bootstrapping and lean testing PMF as a small company.

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  ActiveCampaign

  8 years of experience

  Have set up and managed marketing automation for clients here. Well versed in marketing automation and email marketing from basic to advanced segmentation and branching logic.

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  Google Ads

  11 years of experience

  Have set up and managed for clients here. Well versed in all aspects of this platform from basic to advanced functionality. We use this on a daily basis.

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  Asana

  11 years of experience

  Have set up and managed for clients here. Well versed in all aspects of this platform from basic to advanced functionality. We use this on a daily basis.

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  Bare Metrics

  10 years of experience

  Have set up and managed for clients here. Well versed in all aspects of this platform from basic to advanced functionality. One of our past clients used this for the back end of their SaaS platform

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  ConstantContact

  13 years of experience

  Have set up and managed marketing automation for clients here. It's not that great but if you are already using it I understand it could be a pain to switch. But you should probably switch to something better.

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  ConvertKit

  9 years of experience

  Have set up and managed this for clients and ourselves. Well versed in this particular tool as we use it as one of our primary email capture plugins within Wordpress

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  Facebook

  11 years of experience

  Have set up and managed for clients here. Well versed in all aspects of this platform from basic to advanced functionality. We use this on a daily basis.

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  Google Analytics

  14 years of experience

  Have set up and managed for clients here. Well versed in all aspects of this platform from basic to advanced functionality. We use this on a daily basis.

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  Google Webmaster Tools

  11 years of experience

  Have set up and managed for clients here. Well versed in all aspects of this platform from basic to advanced functionality. We use this on a daily basis.

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  Hubspot

  11 years of experience

  Have set up and managed for clients here. Well versed in all aspects of this platform from basic to advanced functionality. We use this on a daily basis.

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  Hubspot

  11 years of experience

  Have set up and managed marketing automation for clients here. Well versed in marketing automation and email marketing from basic to advanced segmentation and branching logic.

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  Mailchimp

  12 years of experience

  Have set up and managed marketing automation for clients here. Well versed in marketing automation and email marketing from basic to advanced segmentation and branching logic.

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  Salesforce

  10 years of experience

  Have set up and managed sales automation for clients here. Well versed in general layout, and setup from a marketing perspective for large organizations up to 100,000+ contacts

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  Unbounce

  11 years of experience

  Have set up and managed for clients here. Well versed in all aspects of this platform from basic to advanced functionality. We use this on a daily basis.

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  Wordpress

  11 years of experience

  Have set up and managed for clients here. Well versed in all aspects of this platform from basic to advanced functionality. We use this on a daily basis.

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  Management Consulting

  Remote & hybrid business operations to maximize net profit. After starting and exiting several businesses over the years, I started a consulting firm to help modern companies do remote right.

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  Creative Agency

  I founded, scaled, and sold a growth marketing agency over 6 years. We worked with clients all around the world and a remote international team from day 1.

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  Creative Agency

  I founded, scaled, and sold a growth marketing agency over 6 years. We built it remotely and worked with clients all around the world in a wide variety of industries and at scales from small startups to large multinational enterprises.