Benjamin Twichell

Fractional CMO & Growth

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Paris, France

Freelance

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Skills

Go-to-marketGrowthMarketing StrategySEOProduct MarketingCROLead GenerationCRMLinkedIn AdsHubspotContent StrategyMeta AdsYouTube AdsWordPressA/B TestingSEALead NurturingGoogle AdsSEMrushEmailing

Languages

English (Native)French (Fluent)

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About me

Intro

Hey 👋 I am a Fractional CMO & Growth advisor with over a dozen years of experience in the US and France. I work with startups to drive growth through with a customer-centric and data-driven approach. Looking to acquire more inbound demand, launch a new country, or simply need support getting your marketing team and efforts up to snuff? Drop me a message 📩

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Work experience

Fractional CMO & Growth

Benjamin Kimo Twichell

Nov 2016 - Present

10 years

Paris, France

• Marketing & growth strategy • Inbound acquisition (SEO, SEA, co-marketing, CRO etc) • Go-to-market (new products and countries) • Product marketing & positioning (personas, key-message, channels) • Website creation or refresh for small (SaaS or product) and massive (marketplaces or ecomm) • Team recruitment, structure & management (marketing & revenue teams) • Data driven goal objective and budget setting • Tool & process definition (10 years HubSpot exp) Driven growth for startups such as : Kactus, Spendesk, Invision, Frichti, Tabesto, Elevo, Cubyn, Solarock, Bitly, Mention, Privy, Hubspot, Upflow, SEMRush.

Kactus

Dec 2019 - Present

6 years 11 months

Paris, France

Head of Growth

Sep 2023 - Present

3 years 2 months

Paris, France

Responsible for all acquisition efforts of the online Marketplace. Working in a fractional capacity. During my tenure at Kactus I have: • 6.5x'ed inbound GMV generation on the marketplace • Driven inbound demand generation from 4m€ to 26m€ monthly • Built a highly profitable SEO machine • Increased paid ROI from .8x to 4x

Marketing & Growth Advisor

Jan 2022 - Oct 2023

1 year 10 months

Paris, France

Head Of Marketing

Dec 2019 - Jan 2022

2 years 2 months

Paris Area, France

CMO

TabestoFreelance

Jan 2023 - Sep 2024

1 year 9 months

Paris, France

served as CMO in freelance capacity

Upflow

Nov 2020 - Dec 2022

2 years 2 months

Marketing Director

Dec 2021 - Dec 2022

1 year 1 month

• First marketing expert, launched all inbound efforts ground up • Launched inbound acuistion for the US and accelerated EMEA • Recruited and managed team of 8

Marketing Advisor

Nov 2020 - Dec 2021

1 year 2 months

B2B GTM & Growth Strategist

FrichtiFreelance

Nov 2019 - Jan 2020

3 months

Paris Area, France

Frichti, Paris' top healthy food delivery service, primarily served a B2C market and wished to develop a stronger B2B offering. Seeking an expert in B2B growth, they brought me in to help them construct, bring to market and scale their B2B offer: Cantine 2.0 In this consulting mission, I worked in-house with Frichti's CEO and VP of Marketing and Product to and lead the marketing and creative teams to execute my strategy. The Cantine 2.0 project was a major success becoming one of the pillars of the company's product offerings. Cantine 2.0 went from 0 to 7 figures of revenue in 3 months, and serves as a blueprint for how to open new cities successfully.

Organic Traffic Strategist & Advisor

SpendeskFreelance

Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

5 months

Paris Area, France

The Spendesk marketing team requested my support in a consulting and educational role to accelerate their organic results. While in at the Seires A stage I created the organic acquisition strategy that helped drive demand generation for Spendesk. Results: 53% increase in organic traffic within 6 months.

Guest Lecturer

HEC Paris

Nov 2018 - Oct 2019

1 year

Paris Area, France

I was a guest lecturer on the topic of building growth into businesses. I taught HEC MBA students as well as the xHEC program - a joint masters program between HEC Paris and Ecole Polytechnique focused on entrepreneurship.

Senior Strategist

InboundLabs (ex mon.ki inc)

Oct 2017 - Oct 2019

2 years 1 month

As a Senior Strategist for Inbound Labs I worked with clients (InVision, SurveyGizmo, Privy and others)to devise their strategic roadmap to achieve their growth goals. I led an internal team to execute the strategy.

Head of Marketing

Mention

Dec 2015 - Dec 2016

1 year 1 month

Paris, France

• Led marketing enterprise transition, built inbound lead engine (HubSpot). • Increased SEO traffic +350% in just 6 weeks (SEMRush webinar here: https://youtu.be/fPhaxVhGSa8) • Generated over +5,000 leads in 5 months (HubSpot Success Story: http://www.hubspot.com/customers/mention) • Grew and managed an email list of 750,000+ • Recruited and managed a team of 8. • Created content offer pages which converted on average above 50%.

Founder

The Metropolitan Jolt

Feb 2010 - Dec 2014

4 years 11 months

The Metropolitan Jolt was a student-run music publication, which I created and grew from the ground up. • Functioned as CEO and lead press representative. • Readership grew to more than 1M/mo under my management. • Grew into an 20+ student team spanning seven cities in the United States & Canada. • Oversaw the publishing of 2,200+ original articles. • Personally constructed websites with Worpress. • Interviewed renowned musical acts, four Grammy nominees, nine record label heads, and many noteworthy tastemakers. • Received press credentials as official festival and event photographer. Metrojolt was sold in 2014.

Marketing Manager

Memolane

Jun 2012 - Oct 2012

5 months

San Francisco, CA, USA


Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Communication Science & Digital Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Communication Science & Digital Studies

2011 - 2015

4 years 2 months

Head Royce

2007 - 2011

4 years 2 months


Licenses & certifications

Inbound Certification

Issued: Jan 2014

Certified by HubSpot

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