Michael was unsure if there was a viable market opportunity to provide virtual dermatology to Americans. He needed a viable way to test his business idea quickly. He turned to me to build out a paid ad program to gather leads for Clear Health.

The two of us needed to determine viable benchmarks of the cost per lead to determine whether or not this was a profitable business venture to supplement Nefaire. Additionally, we needed to determine the best ad platform to reach people interested in online dermatology.

Dakine was running paid search campaigns that were targeting all of the United States and were not breaking up states. I let them know this was a concern because different audiences in different regions are going to be interested in the same products, it depends on the weather.

Each campaign has its own challenges, but that is what makes it so fun! Figuring out which creators will optimize each campaigns return. The main challenge is to ensure both parties understand what they need!

Andrea joined Fellow as the Director of DTC eCommerce - a Series B, coffee gear startup in San Francisco. She led the eCommerce B2C business, responsible for the P&L, eCommerce marketing and website product roadmap.

When she joined, the team has experienced some success with the first year of the pandemic, due to people investing in their home coffee brew bar. The challenges she faced were: there was no eCommerce team, no growth strategy, limited resources and budget, few business processes + low cross-team cohesion.