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SEREEN THOTTAN

SEREEN THOTTAN

Cochin

Summary

Resilient Digital Strategist with 14-year background in project management, communications and marketing. Expertise in brand development, interactive content and community engagement. Results-oriented professional committed to effectively building loyalty and long-term relationships with clients.


Achievements include increasing traffic, market penetration and brand recognition with targeted and highly successful strategies. Successful at identifying bottlenecks, risks and threats to campaign strategies. Attentive, enterprising and tenacious in accomplishing objectives.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

MANAGER, DIGITAL STRATEGY

M4MARRY
Cochin
01.2023 - 12.2023

Roles and Responsibilities

Digital Strategy

  • Design and implement digital strategy to bring conversions and onboard complete profiles from 4 designated states- KL, TN, AP and KA
  • Create media plan that encompasses different channels to achieve business goals

Performance Marketing

  • Optimal use of performance marketing to achieve revenue for the business
  • Optimize the campaigns and work with campaign managers to achieve business goals
  • Weekly, monthly, and quarterly analysis of campaign performance, goals achieved, and revenue from various channels
  • The objective is to reduce Cost Per Acquisition across markets
  • Plan monthly and quarterly media plans for all markets to achieve business goals- Gender Based Profiles, Community-Based Profiles, Geography Based Profiles, etc.
  • Create Ads in diversified Ad platforms- Meta App Ads, UAC Campaigns, Play Store and App Store ads, YouTube Awareness to conversions, etc.
  • Implement Advanced Analytics and Tracking
  • A/B Testing of campaigns and recommendations to the creative team
  • Influencer Marketing

SEO

  • Build SEO strategy
  • Coordinate with respective teams to get it executed
  • Provide reports to measure the organic performance across all markets

ASO and Social Media

  • Social Media Optimization and Social Media Quarterly Plan for all markets
  • Evaluate Alliances & Partnership for promoting M4Marry product and services
  • Build an influencer marketing program that helps drive awareness and engagement with the brand and products

AFFILIATE AND OTHER

  • Coordinate with external agencies or vendors for affiliate, WhatsApp, and other marketing opportunities

Others

  • Explore new markets like UAE, GCC, UK and USA

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development
  • Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes
  • Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance
  • Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members
  • Improved marketing to attract new customers and promote business
  • Monitored and analyzed business performance to identify areas of improvement and make necessary adjustments
  • Controlled costs to keep business operating within budget and increase profits

SENIOR SEO SPECIALIST

Focaloid Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Cochin
01.2021 - 12.2022

SEO | SMO | Google Ads | Website Revamp | Content Development
Maintained Google and Bing Webmaster Tools accounts and monitored for crawling and indexing issues.

  • Performed ongoing keyword discovery, expansion and optimization to increase organic search footprint and drive relevant site traffic.
  • Collaborated with team to investigate critical SEO-related issues and provided impactful solutions.
  • Planned, ran and analyzed client PPC initiatives and campaigns to increase sales, generate leads and promote brand awareness.
  • Researched and analyzed competitor website and advertising links to gain insight into new strategies.
  • Analyzed SEO outreach goals and presented findings to marketing director.
  • Tracked, reported and analyzed website analytics to drive strategy and improve user experience.
  • Collaborated with designers, copywriters and developers, creating effective search marketing campaigns.
  • Implemented pay-per-click campaigns to increase website traffic and conversions.
  • Devised effective link-building campaigns to increase website authority and visibility.
  • Completed keyword research and analyzed competitor SEO and PPC campaigns to identify gaps and opportunities.

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • The website ranks on the 1st page for most of the focus keywords and transactional keywords
  • Reduced cost per conversion by 40%
  • Improved website traffic from various channels by 80%
  • Recommended changes to website architecture, content and linking to improve SEO positions for target keywords

DIGITAL MARKETING CONSULTANT

Whyrel World Marketing Pvt. Ltd.
Cochin
12.2017 - 01.2021

Performance Marketing | SEO | SMO | ASO

  • Spearheaded client meetings to determine project needs and professional requirements and identify correct course of action enhance client success.
  • Discussed SEO needs and optimized strategies for short- and long-term campaigns.
  • Led and managed talented teams to plan and implement project tasks meeting timelines and exceeding expectations.
  • Created and delivered innovative, strategic marketing programs for clients with focus on events, digital marketing and social media.
  • Created and deployed social media content, engaged with target audiences and boosted reach with strategic ad placements.
  • Optimized e-commerce campaigns through A/B testing to increase online sales.
  • Developed digital marketing strategies by creating and implementing plans to reach and engage target audiences.
  • Created social media content with innovative brand messaging to support new product launches.
  • Created reports on digital marketing efforts using analytics tools to track and measure digital marketing success for management.
  • Created Pay-Per-Click campaigns to drive targeted traffic to company website.
  • Mentored and trained teams in KPI analysis and performance evaluation using Google AdWords and Google Analytics.

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Consistent increase in sales for textile e commerce brand. The average increase in online sales was 40%
  • There was a tremendous improvement in organic website traffic through optimized and automated SEO strategies for the Magento website
  • Increase leads for a client in Australia through strategic digital campaigns and lead generation

WEB ANALYST

Thinking Code Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Cochin
05.2016 - 11.2017

SEO | SMO | Google Ads | Meta Ads

  • Build, plan and implement the overall digital marketing strategy
  • Stay up to date with the latest technology and best practices
  • Manage and oversee various digital marketing channels
  • Measure ROI and KPIs
  • Prepare and manage the digital marketing budget
  • Oversee all the company's social media accounts
  • Suggest activities for improving the quality of online content
  • Track and measure SEO and Google Analytics metrics and provide reports
  • Build an inbound marketing plan
  • Lead, supervise and motivate members of the digital marketing team

SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST

Rage Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Chennai
05.2013 - 02.2014

Digital Campaigns | SEO | Data Analytics

  • Enable analytics and campaign conversion tracking for better campaign performance
  • Website audit and recommendations to the SEO team to ensure organic traffic
  • SEO Strategy and Recommendations
  • Plan and execute campaigns for Citibank Singapore and Citi World Privileges

SENIOR WEB ANALYST

XeragoEbiz Pvt. Ltd.
Chennai
12.2011 - 04.2013

SEO | SMO | Content Marketing | Data Analytics | Campaigns

  • Drive the key metrics for Growth and performance marketing within the organization.
  • Campaign tracking and landing page optimization for premium credit card line
  • Social Media optimization and content plan
  • Create and identify key new digital marketing strategies that not only drive interest and capture new customers but generate engagements
  • Drive the key metrics for Growth and performance marketing within the organization.
  • SEO content optimization and On Page Optimization

SENIOR ENGINEER USABILITY

BNY Mellon
10.2008 - 02.2011

User Experience | Data Analytics | Content Optimization

  • Assist and provide timely data and insights to the UX team to execute existing and new projects
  • Collected data, established facts and drew conclusions to solve project issues.
  • Define different user workflows for Investment Broker Dealers based on different User Personas
  • Worked with different teams to understand project requirements and provided the data to take crucial project decisions
  • Trained on UX best practices - Usability Testing, Wireframe and Basic Graphic Design

ASSISTANT MANAGER- WEB ANALYTICS

Matrimony.com
Chennai
03.2007 - 02.2008

SEO | Website Content | Data Analytics and Insights

  • Worked with business heads from India Automobile, Matrimony.com, IndiaProperty and Click Jobs to understand user behavior
  • Provide insights on user navigation, behavior and dropouts from the registrations process on portals and provide recommendations of how to rectify the same
  • Work with the campaign team to understand landing page requirements and conversion tracking requirements
  • Work with product teams to establish best practices for content and website optimization
  • Was part product team for developing website strategy and registering various domains based on language and community targeting for the matrimony domain.

MARKETING EXECUTIVE

Synaptris Inc.
Chennai
02.2006 - 02.2007

SEO | CONTENT WRITING | EVENTS | DATA ANALYTICS

  • Content Writing
  • Content Writing
  • Data Analytics
  • Events

Education

PGDM - Marketing And Advertising

All India Management Association
Distance Education
01.2003 - 01.2019

Bachelor of Science -

University Of Calicut
Vimala College
01.2000 - 03.2003

PG Diploma in Computer Application - Computer Application

Everonn Systems India Ltd.
Vimala College
01.2000 - 02.2002

Skills

Google Ads- Awareness, App Promo and Registration Conversionundefined

Brands

  • M4marry
  • Tamil M4marry
  • Telugu M4marry
  • Kannada M4marry
  • Maxwell GeoSystems
  • CUMI Ceramics
  • Holistic Dental Melbourne
  • Bharat Matrimony
  • BNYM
  • Jayalakshmi Silks
  • Intel Appup
  • Vestal Kitchen Solutions
  • Citibank Australia
  • Citibank Singapore

Tools Used

  • Google Ads
  • Meta Ad Manager
  • Keyword Planner
  • Meta Ad Library
  • Firebase
  • Lens Web Analytics
  • YoastSEO
  • SEMRush
  • Ahrefs
  • SmallSEO Tools
  • Moz
  • ScreamingFrog
  • Ubersuggest
  • Adobe Analytics (Earlier Adobe SiteCatalyst)
  • Webtrend
  • Google Analytics
  • Crazy Egg

Timeline

MANAGER, DIGITAL STRATEGY

M4MARRY
01.2023 - 12.2023

SENIOR SEO SPECIALIST

Focaloid Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
01.2021 - 12.2022

DIGITAL MARKETING CONSULTANT

Whyrel World Marketing Pvt. Ltd.
12.2017 - 01.2021

WEB ANALYST

Thinking Code Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
05.2016 - 11.2017

SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST

Rage Communications Pvt. Ltd.
05.2013 - 02.2014

SENIOR WEB ANALYST

XeragoEbiz Pvt. Ltd.
12.2011 - 04.2013

SENIOR ENGINEER USABILITY

BNY Mellon
10.2008 - 02.2011

ASSISTANT MANAGER- WEB ANALYTICS

Matrimony.com
03.2007 - 02.2008

MARKETING EXECUTIVE

Synaptris Inc.
02.2006 - 02.2007

PGDM - Marketing And Advertising

All India Management Association
01.2003 - 01.2019

Bachelor of Science -

University Of Calicut
01.2000 - 03.2003

PG Diploma in Computer Application - Computer Application

Everonn Systems India Ltd.
01.2000 - 02.2002
SEREEN THOTTAN