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Mert Aktas

Co-Founder

Istanbul, Türkiye13 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Increased monthly recurring revenue by 1470% at UserGuiding.
  • Achieved #22 of the YEAR on Product Hunt in 2019.
  • Recognized as Digital Adoption Category Leader for two consecutive years.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Growth Marketing Expert with a strong focus on digital strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Growth MarketingProduct MarketingBrand MarketingDigital MarketingCustomer AcquisitionMarketing Strategy

Other Skills

Product-Led GrowthSEOBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Marketing CommunicationsStart-upsSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)Social MediaOnline AdvertisingGoogle AdwordsGoogle AnalyticsAdvertisingDigital StrategyAnalytical SkillsGrowth LoopsMonetization

About

7+ years at UserGuiding. Head of Growth. Founding employee. Before UG: did marketing for a company that exited at $600M, lasted almost 5 months in corporate. I write about boring growth work that actually works, why most SaaS marketing is theater, and whatever I build with AI agents recently. When I'm not working, I'm probably failing a boss fight in Path of Exile or Diablo.

Experience

13 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Lyfta

Marketing Advisor

Dec 2021Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

SEOStart-upsDigital MarketingBusiness-to-Business (B2B)

Retable

Marketing Advisor

Mar 2021Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom · Remote

SEOStart-upsDigital MarketingBusiness-to-Business (B2B)

Userguiding

Founding team | Head of Marketing

Dec 2018Present · 7 yrs 5 mos

  • Joined UserGuiding as a founding employee and owned marketing and growth roles.
  • Increased organic traffic by 200% and monthly recurring revenue by 1470% in a year and helped our CEO raise $1.3M.
  • Led successful launches on Product Hunt, one of which gained us #22 of the YEAR in 2019 and nominated as "the maker of the year" by Product Hunt.
  • Led UserGuiding's company branding to gain honorable mentions by tech giants (such as Product School, Hubspot), and recognised as “Digital Adoption Category Leader” for the last two years and “Easiest to Use Solution” for the last three years consistently on G2.
Product MarketingProduct-Led GrowthSEODigital MarketingBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Growth Marketing

Smopin

Marketing Director

Jan 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Istanbul, Türkiye

  • Contributed to the growth and success of Smopin, a friendship app that connects individuals with similar interests. While working at my digital marketing agency, I spearheaded marketing campaigns for Smopin, leading to an impressive increase of 1K daily active users in just a few months.
  • Recognizing my talent and results, the founder offered me the position of Marketing Director. Under my leadership, Smopin's user base continued to expand, reaching a peak of 500K monthly active users before its closure in 2019.
Customer AcquisitionSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)Start-ups

Ren union

Co-founder | SEO & Ads

Jun 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Kadıköy, İstanbul

  • REN Union was a data driven digital marketing agency mostly working with growing tech startups.
  • We offered services such as website & mobile app building, digital marketing, SEO, design, social media management, and Product-led Growth consultancy.

Johnson & johnson

Assistant Brand Manager

Feb 2016Jun 2016 · 4 mos · Istanbul, Türkiye

  • Led the SEO optimization for all product portfolios in J&J Turkey and managed a $5M+ annual marketing budget across various online and offline channels.
  • Achieved success of Listerine's campaign launch, resulting in a 30%+ sales increase compared to the previous year.
  • However, after five months, I realized my passion truly lies in digital advertising. To pursue this, I made the decision to leave Johnson & Johnson and establish a digital marketing agency, focusing on delivering exceptional results in the digital landscape.
Social MediaOnline AdvertisingSEOMarketing StrategyMarketing Communications

Yemeksepeti.com

Digital Marketing Specialist

Jun 2012Feb 2016 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

  • Owned SEO and Google Ads channels at Yemeksepeti until it's acquired by Delivery Hero for $596M.
  • Joined Yemek.com as the fourth team member and led its growth with Batuhan Apaydin and led Yemek.com's SEO and Facebook Ads channels.
  • Yemek.com was recognised as one of the top 20 most popular Cooking and Recipe websites in the world after reaching 17M website visitors and 40M video views per month and amassing a social media community of over 2M.
Google AdwordsGoogle AnalyticsOnline AdvertisingSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)Digital MarketingAdvertising+2

Education

Boğaziçi University

Bachelor's degree

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University

Bachelor of Science - BS — Physics

Sep 2009Dec 2009

Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi ve Maarif Koleji

Science Section

Jan 2004Jan 2009

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