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Paul Johnson

Fractional CMO | VP Marketing | B2C | B2B

€579/day
London, GB
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Paul

I’m Paul Johnson, founder of Lionizr and Fractional Marketing Consultant. Throughout my career, I’ve supercharged brands - from the UK’s first social media platform to the first electric car, global food and beverage brands, fitness tech, streaming services, D2C, and SaaS. Lionizr gives you a fractional marketing advantage - strategic thinking and tactical doing, on your terms.

Support Areas include:
- DTC & Ecommerce
- Retail Marketing
- Amazon & Marketplace
- Mobile and Mobile App
- Distribution & Resellers
- SaaS & PaaS
- Subscription

Specialist Skills:
- Brand strategy and positioning frameworks

- Budget planning and modelling to support business plan

- Channel strategy for DTC, retail, marketplace or app store launch

- Paid media strategy, planning and media buying (TV, Digital, Radio, Paid Social, Programmatic, YouTube)

- Paid Media optimisation and testing frameworks

- Creative strategy and development and planning for website, store, ads, content, packaging, etc.

- CRM setup and optimisation (email/SMS) across multiple ESPs

- Website CX, CRO and funnel planning

- Launch plan, GTM calendar, and growth stack setup

- SEO, content, influencers, and PR

- Performance dashboards, measurement and analytics


  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
London (up to 50km), Leicester (up to 100km), Birmingham (up to 100km), Northampton (up to 100km), Nottingham (up to 100km)

Experience

  • FRESCO
    Growth Consultant
    INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)
    Dublin, Ireland
    Working with the CMO and CEO, designing a B2B growth strategy and GTM to drive high quality lead performance across paid social, LinkedIn and HubSpot to create email automations, workflows and email sequences across different customer segments.

    To date, achieved 30% conversion increase across the customer funnel, whilst implementing a GTM plan across 12 month period, whilst working with sales to develop lead nurture flows, cold email flows and retention flows.

    LinkedIn has seen an increase in paid ads conversion by 150% through conversion rate optimisation.

    Developed a new website with dedicated landing pages for customer personas and specific buying challenges to enhance the customer journey through the sales cycle.
    Hubspot LinkedIn Marketing Customer Segmentation and Analysis Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy Lead generation
  • InPlayer
    Growth Consultant
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2021 - Today (5 years and 5 months)
    London, UK
    Working with the CEO to develop a new strategy for growth across international markets, with a key focus on increasing MRR and minimising customer churn. Achieved 900% growth in two years working as a fractional growth consultant.

    I delivered a breakthrough piece of work that encompassed partnerships within the video streaming and broadcasting industry, creating referrals and reseller communities, whilst developing a GTM plan that focused on key verticals across sports, music, performing arts, wellbeing and fitness, and levelling up the entire customer experience across website and email to provide a dedicated knowledge base to improve customers own experience of live streaming and broadcasting.

    The growth generated, played a significant part in InPlayer being acquired by JWPlayer for $450m.
    Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Customer Loyalty/ Retention Customer experience Product management
  • Wattbike
    Fractional CMO
    HEALTH AND WELLNESS
    April 2022 - Today (4 years and 2 months)
    Nottingham, UK
    Brought in by Piper PE following their investment into Wattbike as a parachute CMO to support the CEO and CPO on devising and executing marketing for the UK, AU and USA markets


    Spearheaded the development of a new DTC website, which not only included a full website refresh with new customer journey’s, but added a new shop designed to sell branded merch and cycling paraphernalia, helping to increase AOV by 30% and saw CLTV rise by 80%.


    Introduced an email marketing strategy, which saw the deployment of Klayvio and coupled with the new website, took share of sales related to email marketing to 15% from 3% in a ninth month period.


    Developed a new approach to Meta and Google Ads, by introducing a test and learn culture to optimise ads towards conversions, helping to increase CVR from 0.5% to 1.75%, lowering CAC and increasing revenue attributable to advertising.
    Branding CRM CRO Email marketing

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Education

  • Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Marketing, Advertising & Business
    University of Hertfordshire
    1996
    Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Marketing, Advertising & Business

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