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Find me ๐ฆin: /mariefostercreative ๐ Last updated 20th March 2025 ๐ About me ๐ I am a freelance Creative Strategist and Marketeer with over 11 years of industry experience working on large and small brands from both in-house and ad agency set-ups. I am a marketing all-rounder with experience in both strategic and creative "big thinking", as well as hands-on experience in design, analytics, email marketing, and social media management (paid and organic). I love to work with start-ups on creating a well-rounded marketing strategy to achieve your goals, and also have a particular specialism with social media campaigns (paid and unpaid). I thrive with variety and am excited by big challenges. I believe that my varied skillset and passion for problem solving makes me an ideal fit for small charities or start-ups who need a determined all-rounder to make impactful KPI-driven campaigns. My relevant education and experience: โข BA Honours Creative Advertising Degree (Lincoln University), Foundation Art & Design degree (Central St. Martins, London). โข Freelance Art Director at various ad agencies: DLKW Lowe, Quiet Storm, Isobel, IRIS Worldwide, Blue Hive, GTB / Ogilvy. (2 years). Developing advertising campaigns across a range of channels. โข Worked for 4.5 years as an Art Director and single creative working on social & campaigns for Ford Motor Company, South West Trains, Guide Dogs for the Blind, and Wrap-up London. Covering a range of TV, Radio, Print, PR, Social Media, digital marketing, online advertising, and non-traditional campaigns. โข Launched and managed the organic social media channels (paid and organic) for several small brands as a freelance marketing and social media consultant (VA Institute Australia, Village Leathers London, Just Move in). Coming up with a new brand image for Village Leathers and JMI, creating design and copy guidelines to be used across all channels. โข Employed for 3 years at CLUSE watches as a Senior Social Media Specialist and copywriter leading a team of 4 social media managers and designers. Coming up with the strategies and creative concepts for all social platforms and creating content for email marketing. โข At Generation UK & Ireland (employed for 2 years) I led the creation and implementation of the organisations first marketing strategy and managed all executions across organic and paid social channels, eventually hiring a marketing team. This included creating the marketing strategy, creating content and posting to all social media channels, creating weekly, monthly, and quarterly progress reports and adapting the strategy based on learnings, creating an automated email marketing flow for our subscribers and writing all emails, creating a paid marketing strategy and executing it across social media and Google Ad Words. โข Content creator for Howsy and Upad. Creating blog, website and email content for landlords. โข Launching marketing strategy for Parcelist (USA Start -up). Here's some of my results: โข Won a new client (South West Trains) for Ad Agency GTB with my pitch for the โAdless Ad Campaignโ. I became the lead creative on this account for the following years the client remained with us. โข Created the most engaged with Social Media post of all time for Ford Motor Company (Europe) with an astonishing 42% engagement rate. (Industry benchmark is 2%). โข Won YCN award for best campaign and achieved several in-book D&AD awards as well as important contributions to Cannes Lions winning campaign entires. โข Grew the organic social media following for Generation UK & Ireland by 500% in 6 months. โข Several creative community competition wins with organisations such as She Says and One Minute Briefs. โข Increased conversions from marketing by 40% in one year for Generation UK. โข Created a 155% increase in transactions from organic social media for CLUSE watches and jewellery โข Earned 7.7K in just 3 weeks with new social media assets for digital marketing (CLUSE Watches and Jewellery). โข Increased comments by 74% and overall engagement by 34% (CLUSE watches and jewellery). โข As lead creative on a charity campaign for wrap-up London with ยฃ0 budget, I created organic โbuzzโ through organic social media channels, influencer outreach, PR stunts, and using free ad space in Time Out and the Metro to reach 4.1M users organically and receive 23K coat donations within just one week. I am open to work and would love to chat to you about your brief - Come say hi! I am able to visit offices in the UK or the Netherlands, cadence to be negotiated per client.
- Marketing Strategy
- Social Media Marketing
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Graphic Design
- Writing
- Social Media Management
- Art Direction
- Copywriting
- Content Creation
- Arts & Crafts
- Illustration
- Social Media Content Creation
Santpoort-Zuid, Netherlands
Iโve managed influencer and UGC campaigns reaching 3.5M+ followers, including public figures, built $50K+ in brand deals with a single creator, and led social media for $1.5B+ companies. My team has been hired by TikTok and Meta to scout creators for their own campaigns (yes, really), and I will use the same systems to scout creators for your brand. With 7+ years in marketing, Iโve run campaigns in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, covering hospitality, including villas, boutique hotels, and resorts, e-commerce, wellness, sports, athlete brands, and DTC. My goal is simple: help you turn creator content into a system that drives trust, traffic, and sales. โฆ Scout influencers and UGC creators who actually fit your brand, audience, and offer โฆ Get the right assets from creators, not just random videos โฆ Transform UGC into ads, reels, landing page sections, website social proof, emails, and product page content โฆ Build briefs with hooks, scripts, angles, and clear direction so creators produce content with a purpose โฆ Manage outreach, rates, contracts, usage rights, deadlines, revisions, and deliverables โฆ Structure affiliate and influencer campaigns with codes, tracking links, and reporting โฆ Use creator content to make your website feel more trusted, human, and conversion-ready โฆ Turn top-performing creator assets into Meta and TikTok ad tests โฆ Build DM, comment, giveaway, and collaboration flows to capture demand โฆ Track what works weekly and keep improving the system based on performance
- Social Media Marketing
- Web Design
- Shopify
- WordPress
- Website Redesign
- Custom Web Design
- User Interface Design
- Social Media Content
- Mobile App
- Website Copywriting
- Social Media Design
- Website Builder
- Social Media Management
- Ecommerce Website
- Website Content
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Project-based consultancy and strategy development and expand the business through digital marketing for various international clients. Highlight the skills I offer to the company: - Develop an overall digital marketing strategy - Management and development of every paid social ad, PPC, SEM, DSP and organic submission SEM: Google, Yahoo, Amazon, BingAd DSP: The Trade Desk, Amazon, Display & Video 360 Google, Criteo, MicroAd, Logicad SNS Organic/Paid: Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, LINE, TikTok, YouTube - Manage and develop an influencer marketing - Manage and develop an affiliate marketing - Identify new tactics for customer acquisition strategy, revenue growth and retention - Increase customer awareness and conversions, ROAS - Test, analyse and optimise campaigns, providing data-driven insights to maximise performance - Manage marketing spend, including strategy, planning and execution of marketing activities across each channel - Digital content strategy and planning - Adjust marketing channel bidding strategies and targeting, technical execution - Drive innovation using the latest technologies, analytics and optimisation processes - Share progress and final reports - Website traffic analysis with focusing on media transition users - Creative and content analysis - Website pixel management (Google tag management) - Social media management - Copywriting, localisation - Translation - Coaching marketing to the client's internal team - Market research
- Digital Marketing Strategy
- Social Media Marketing
- Content Strategy
- Digital Marketing
- PPC Campaign Setup & Management
- Social Media Advertising
- Search Engine Marketing Strategy
- Campaign Reporting
- Paid Social
- Google Ads
- Facebook Ads Manager
- Campaign Optimization
- Influencer Marketing
- Search Engine Marketing
- Paid Media
Amsterdam, Netherlands
I help founder-led beauty, wellness, and lifestyle brands build the strategic foundation they need to grow with intention. From brand positioning and visual identity to social media, content, and influencer strategy. With 9+ years of experience working with US-based CPG brands, I specialize in the categories where brand feeling drives purchasing decisions. My clients are typically small to mid-sized brands who are ready to move beyond guesswork and build something that actually delivers. A few brands that I've worked with: * Tower 28 Beauty * Ciele Cosmetics * Mocktail Club * Movember * Gillette * noissue packaging How I work: I start by auditing what exists, researching the competitive landscape, and identifying whitespace. From there I build positioning strategy grounded in where the market is and where it's going. Then I develop the frameworks your brand needs to show up consistently: visual style guides, social and influencer strategies, content calendars, and analytics best practices. What I can help you with: * Brand audits & competitive analysis * Brand positioning & visual identity * Social media & content strategy * Influencer & creator strategy * UGC strategy & creator partnerships * Content ideation & sample content calendarsโจโจ A note on location: I'm an American based in Amsterdam, working remotely with US clients with flexible hours that overlap with US time zones. English is my first language, and so is understanding the cultural nuance that makes American consumers actually connect with a brand. For international brands looking to enter or grow in the US market, that's a meaningful advantage. If you're a founder building something you believe in and need a strategic partner who can meet you at the vision stage, I'd love to connect.
- Marketing Strategy
- Social Media Marketing
- Brand Development
- Branding
- Brand Management
- Graphic Design
- Video Editing & Production
- Content Creation
- Content Marketing
- Social Media Strategy
- Social Media Audit
- UGC
- Video Editing
- Creative Direction
- Creative Strategy
Zaandam, Netherlands
Iโm a QA Engineer with 6+ years of experience testing web and mobile applications in banking, insurance, and gaming. I help teams deliver stable, bug-free products by finding issues early and improving overall quality. โข Manual testing, regression testing, and test case design โข API testing using tools like Postman โข Bug tracking and reporting with Jira โข Experience with fintech, healthcare, gaming industry, and complex systems I focus on clear communication, detailed bug reports, and reliable results. Letโs work together to make your product better.
- Manual Testing
- API Testing
- Jira
- Postman
- Regression Testing
- Mobile App Testing
- Test Case Design
- Software Testing
- Product Management
- Scrum
- Web App Penetration Testing
- Bug Tracking & Reports
- Functional Testing
- Smoke Testing
- Black Box Testing
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hi, I'm Whitney, a Growth Marketing & Creative Strategist with 15+ years building and scaling revenue engines for B2B and B2C companies across SaaS, EdTech, logistics, fintech, and events. I partner with founders and leadership teams to design, execute, and optimize full-funnel growth systems, combining performance marketing, creative strategy, and hands-on execution. I don't just advise. I build and run what works. ๐ ๐ What I've actually delivered โข +213% growth in student bookings, then +53% YoY at Ironhack NL โขย โฌ90K revenue in 5 months from a single course I conceptualized and launched โข โฌ242K in subsidies secured through government and institutional partnerships โข 40K+ lead CRM built from scratch, sustained at 30% open rate for 2+ years โข 50+ events and 5,000+ attendees organized in one role alone โข Marketing Director across 8 international brands simultaneously at a global logistics agency โข On-site content production across EU, Southeast Asia, and APAC ๐ ๐ฏ What I take ownership of โข Full-funnel strategy and optimization โข Paid acquisition with strong creative direction โข Content systems that drive demand, not just engagement โข CRM, lifecycle marketing, and HubSpot architecture โข Influencer and creator marketing โข LinkedIn growth and B2B social systems โข Video content: concept, production, editing ๐ฌ โข Experimentation roadmaps and A/B testing โข Acting as fractional Head of Growth or Marketing โจ Creative that performs One of my differentiators is combining performance with creative execution: campaign concepts, video, messaging frameworks, social systems, and design direction. I've built content operations that ran at scale across multiple brands and time zones. ๐ง How I work Data-driven but not data-limited. Fast execution, continuous optimization. Everything tailored, no generic playbooks. ๐ณ๐ฑ Native Dutch | ๐ฌ๐ง Fluent English | Remote, Amsterdam-based
- Social Media Marketing
- Facebook Advertising
- Web Design
- Search Engine Optimization
- Graphic Design
- Dutch to English Translation
- Digital Marketing
- Dutch
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