Renato Skrgulja

I'm a detailed and team oriented growth enthusiast with 6+ years of experience in building and leading teams and working on SEM, CRO, CRM and SMM. I've worked with clients such as Timeout, Playgrounds Sessions, Criteo, Wedgewood Weddings, Yara and many more. With more than $6 million in ad spend, I've managed to reach the goals (sometimes not very reasonable) in every scenario. Now I feel ready to share my secrets which are sometimes common sense, but often very data-driven and tricky to find. Unlike most of consultants I like to base my ideas on what should be done and can be done. Growth ideas and approaches are crucial but understanding resourcing is what makes people predict the future and build teams with incredible results. I derive a lot of lessons from spending 20 years jumping around the hoop 🏀 and apply it to my kind of leading. Weird but it works. Slack nickname: Ball Don't Lie

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  Growth marketing

  Inspired by mr. Sean Ellis I was brave early in my career to try my own growth hacks. And they worked. I was a one-man-army for a website builder SaaS and went from 0 to 100 paying customers by myself. Yes, I wouldn't go through that again but I learned that there's really no bad idea, just happy little accidents indeed. I can help you build a backlog of ideas based on your business and prioritise the execution.

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  PPC strategies

  With $6 ad spend most of my success comes from deep understanding of acquisition and activation side. 90% of companies are doing conversion tracking and structures wrong and that's what I like to consider the "fundamentals". Solving that, there's a process behind which I developed to always stay on top of your advertising platforms.

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  Technology and tools

  I love my wife but analytics come very close. In IG, the financial trading platform n1, I was working in a very small web analytics team and providing Deep Dives using Adobe Analytics. All the managers in this international company came to us to ask about performance. Having specialized in that but also tested many other tools related not only analytics but CRM, CRO and SEM I can tell you which toolstack can get you moving faster than you thought.

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  Venting frustration

  I'm definitely not on the melancholic side of the personalities. I'm also a father of 2 little girls. Combine that with work in the agency in the "wrong" timezone for some clients and you'll get the challenge that made me a better human. I have lots of advice that hopefully can help you as much as me :)

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  Adobe Analytics

  12 years of experience

  Omniture was my bread and butter working in IG. International company required ad-hoc analysis from a web analytics team on all things priority one. From country related deep dives to matching the business data with acquisition through SQL databases.

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  Adroll

  9 years of experience

  Used it for e-commerce retargeting for electronic, financial and fashion industry with $50k total ad spend. Find it industry specific to find great performance but worth testing on most businesses.

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  Google Ads

  13 years of experience

  Google ads are my specialty. Even before becoming a Head of Paid Search at Ladder this is what made my career. Knowing how to structure and optimise the account can turn any business into a competitor and more. I've spent around $5 million managing Google Ads for companies such as IG, Yara, Wedgewood Weddings, Criteo, Playground Sessions and more all with positive ROAS reaching the goals they set.

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  Ahrefs

  10 years of experience

  I've used Ahrefs as a n1 tool for keyword research for 50+ accounts such as Monzo, Midfirst and many more. There are many ways to make this tool work for you and I can show you how.

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  Asana

  12 years of experience

  I use Asana exclusively for project management for 5 years now. From a simple organisation for small teams to larger projects with 10+ people involved. Workflows and automations, nothing in red is what I love to see.

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  Facebook

  13 years of experience

  I've managed over 30+ Facebook accounts and consider this the most advanced advertising platform in terms of prospecting. I can show you how to make a winning structure for your budget and how to ramp up performance with creative testing.

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  Google Data Studio

  9 years of experience

  Inside Ladder, we worked on our own reporting product and after that transitioned everything on to GDS. I worked on the most complex reports and spent hundreds of hours on some of them. This is a phenomenal tool that, when setup properly, can provide live insights with little upkeep.

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  Hubspot

  13 years of experience

  Used it on 20+ projects since it was just a small CRM mostly for sales. Now it can be turned into a beast easily. I can help you with setup, lead scoring, lead stages, automation, landing pages etc.

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  Mailchimp

  13 years of experience

  I was an early adopter of Mailchimp when it used to be just cool looking. Now it's cool looking and can be a powerhouse if set up correctly. I've used the for companies of all sizes on 10+ projects.

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  Supermetrics

  8 years of experience

  I used Supermetrics briefly as a replacement for Funnel.io on some platforms that couldn't be tied through it. Usually I find Funnel.io more useful but I'm able to make a setup with any kind of business and sync with GDS or custom reports.

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  Zapier

  10 years of experience

  I made 20+ automations such as Slack notifications, Facebook Leads to Saleforc, passing, Wishpond to Salesforce passing and more. Can show you the ropes and tackle most of challenges.

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  E-Commerce

  Growth marketer turned CEO for a bootstrapped D2C brand. I've started from web analytics, specialised in paid search, learned Amazon but what I do best is build strong teams.