Arun Kothapally 📈📊

Business Development Executive

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Achieved 5X traffic growth for multiple brands.
  • Grew Practo's app installs from 5K to 1.5 million.
  • Built content growth engine for Noon Academy.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Growth Marketing Specialist with expertise in SEO and content strategies across various industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

SeoContent MarketingGrowth MarketingDigital Marketing

Other Skills

ASOAffiliate MarketingAnalyticsApp Store OptimizationBloggingContent ScalingContent StrategyConversion OptimizationConversion RateE-commerceGoogle AdwordsKeyword ResearchLink BuildingOnline AdvertisingPaid Marketing

About

Brands I have helped grow ▪️ Practo - 10K to 1 Million web users per month., 5K to 1 Million App Installs – Paid + Organic. Handled $100,000 per month to drive web traffic and mobile app downloads via FaceBook and Adwords. Moved B2B inbound leads from 5% to 25% of total B2B leads by using SEO, content marketing and Adwords. ▪️ Flipkart - Helped the growth marketing team with ASO to reach the #1 app in the PlayStore. Did experiments in PlayStore which lead to 50K additional organic installs. Set up SEO framework for Shopsy website. ▪️ Josh App - Helped Josh figure out their online reputation on search. Identified the keyword and content universe for a short social video segment. Benchmarked the industry and competition to help the board, investors and team make educated channel and marketing decisions. ▪️ Voot/JioCinema - Worked with the product and tech team to identify fundamental issues with their website and delivered 5X traffic growth for their non-branded SEO traffic. ▪️ XOXODAY - Mapped the content and keyword universe for Empuls and Xoxoday. Achieved website migration with a 10% uptick in traffic growth. Optimised the existing link-building process for higher quality backlinks and ROI. Found technical SEO items stopping organic growth and improved traffic by 20%. ▪️ Noon Academy - Built and scaled the content growth engine for Noon from 0 to 100K organic visitors per month within 6 months. Trained and managed 30 writers who scaled content from 0 to 20K pages. Managed the WordPress website project as an independent consultant. ▪️ Edureka - 0.5 to 2.5 Million organic visitors within 18 months. 5X growth was achieved via scaling content by 3X and referring domains by 2X. Helped set up the inbound lead generation engine for Edureka. ▪️ Isha Foundation - 30% uptick in blog SEO traffic through migrations and fixes. 20% uptick in YouTube Watch time of Sadhguru YouTube channel through thumbnail and title optimization. Mobile growth retention and monetisation. ▪️ Treebo is now able to measure its SEO traffic accurately, spot SEO issues as they occur and are sure about the future roadmap for SEO growth. 25% growth in non-branded SEO traffic in 6 months. ▪️ Typito - 10K to 100K SEO visitors per month in 5 months. Used product-led growth to power research for the Video Templates product feature. ▪️ Gigzio - Optimised job indexing and technical SEO to move from 10K to 1 Million users traffic within 6 months.

Experience

Lido

AVP Growth

Jun 2020Nov 2020 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • ▪️ Content Scaling – Scaled content to 25K videos with a team of 7
  • ▪️ Traffic – 0 to 500K in organic traffic
  • ▪️ Social Media Listening and Process
Content ScalingTraffic GrowthSocial Media ListeningContent MarketingGrowth Marketing

Grow with arun

Organic Growth Marketing Consultant - SEO, Content and Conversions

Oct 2016Present · 9 yrs 5 mos · Remote Anywhere · Remote

  • ▪️ Flipkart - Helped the growth marketing team with ASO to reach the #1 app in the PlayStore. Did experiments in PlayStore which lead to 50K additional organic installs. Set up SEO framework for Shopsy website.
  • ▪️ Josh App - Helped Josh figure out their online reputation on search. Identified the keyword and content universe for a short social video segment. Benchmarked the industry and competition to help the board, investors and team make educated channel and marketing decisions.
  • ▪️ Voot - Worked with the product and tech team to identify fundamental issues with their website and delivered 5X traffic growth for their non-branded SEO traffic.
  • ▪️ Noon Academy - Built and scaled the content growth engine for Noon from 0 to 100K organic visitors per month within 6 months. Trained and managed 30 writers who scaled content from 0 to 20K pages. Managed the WordPress website project as an independent consultant.
  • ▪️ Edureka - 0.5 to 2.5 Million organic visitors within 18 months. 5X growth was achieved via scaling content by 3X and referring domains by 2X. Helped set up the inbound lead generation engine for Edureka.
  • ▪️ Isha Foundation - 30% uptick in blog SEO traffic through migrations and fixes. 20% uptick in YouTube Watch time of Sadhguru YouTube channel through thumbnail and title optimization. Mobile growth retention and monetisation.
  • ▪️ Treebo is now able to measure its SEO traffic accurately, spot SEO issues as they occur and are sure about the future roadmap for SEO growth. 25% growth in non-branded SEO traffic in 6 months.
  • ▪️ Typito - 10K to 100K SEO visitors per month in 5 months. Used product-led growth to power research for the Video Templates product feature.
  • ▪️ Gigzio - Optimised job indexing and technical SEO to move from 10K to 1 Million users traffic within 6 months.
SEOContent MarketingDigital MarketingAnalyticsGrowth Marketing

Practo

Digital Marketing Manager - Mobile and Web Growth

Dec 2012Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • ▪️ Grew from 5K to 1.5 Million mobile app installs using growth hacking, App Store Optimisation (ASO) and paid marketing for Android and iOS app.
  • ▪️ Grew SEO traffic from 10K to 2 Million visits per month
  • ▪️ Lead a team of 2 SEO marketers and 1 mobile app marketer
  • ▪️ Handled $100000 per month in paid marketing spends - Facebook + Google Ads + Affiliate Marketing
  • ▪️ Digital Media buying for Practo TV Ad campaign
  • ▪️ YouTube promotion of Practo TV Ad and Mothers Day Campaign - Mobile App Marketing
  • ▪️ Grew B2B inbound marketing leads from 5% to 25% of total B2B leads by using SEO, content marketing, Google Ads and Landing Page Optimisation
  • ▪️ 2X growth in appointment booking conversion rate via digital analytics and A/B testing
Digital MarketingSEOApp Store OptimizationPaid Marketing

Affiliate marketing independent

Independent Growth Marketing Consultant and Affiliate Marketing Business

Oct 2011Dec 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • ▪️ Drove 5 figures in sales for e-commerce platforms like Volusion, Shopify and BigCommerce using SEO, exact match domains names and content marketing.
  • ▪️ Growth Marketing consultant for contemporary women’s fashion e-commerce website Greenscarf.com
  • ▪️ SEO growth of 25% in 3 months for e-commerce website redlily.com
SEOContent MarketingE-commerce

Purple talk

Digital Marketing Executive

Jun 2010Aug 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • ▪️ Lead SEO link building and marketing campaigns for [x]cube LABS.
  • ▪️ Acquired links from top digital media sites like Yahoo Finance, Mashable and Gigaom using content marketing.
  • ▪️ Handled SEO marketing, WordPress customisation and optimisation for top 5 company micro sites and corporate website.
  • ▪️ Blogger and digital marketer for 2 mobile tech blogs. Grew it to 20K visits/month from 1000 visits/month.
  • ▪️ Spoke at digital marketing events at Pune and Gurgaon.
  • ▪️ Implemented the app marketing plan for Gwiggle and PayAnywhere App.
  • ▪️ Trained the team on Digital Analytics by conducting in-house marketing workshops.
  • ▪️ Ideated, proposed and managed the Digital Business Performance Analysis Dashboard.
  • ▪️ Reformulated the SEO keyword research strategy and laid technical SEO process.
  • ▪️ Lead the link removal and link profile clean up SEO campaign.
  • ▪️ Built the content marketing framework and content marketing ROI dashboard.
SEOLink BuildingDigital Marketing

Education

Reforge

Jun 2022Jun 2023

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor's degree — Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Jan 2006Jan 2010

CXL

Conversion Rate Optimizer

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