Building growth systems that work

I help businesses find out what’s working and what’s not in their marketing & user journey. If you’re spending money but not growing, I’ll help you eliminate blockers, identify opportunities and optimise paid marketing execution for overall business growth.

Helping brands with...

To ensure the highest value & best possible results, I prioritise areas where I excel — applying a decade of expertise across various industries, markets & business sizes to drive real results.

Performance Marketing

Efficient scaling through:

  • analysing customer journey & business drivers
  • identifying inefficiencies & growth opportunities
  • implementing growth roadmaps that balance short-term results and long-term value

Data Analytics

Improved decision-making by:

  • ensuring data reliability
  • conducting comprehensive business-level analysis
  • providing shareable insights that benefit all departments

Anja combines in-depth channel expertise with a creative, analytical perspective to powerful effect.

Experienced, pragmatic and a fantastic strategic and operational partner for any early-stage business looking for rapid and sustainable growth.

Types of projects I usually work on

Marketing Partnership

Invested in your brand’s long-term success, acting as part of your team. Similar to Marketing Lead or Growth Director roles.

Not just an account manager.

Data & Conversion Tracking

From customer journey mapping, conversion tracking implementation to business-wide reporting and dashboards providing relevant & useful information.

Ongoing or on-demand - your choice.

Agency Support

Collaboration on projects where expertise is needed in specific areas within or outside your scope.

Proposition testing, GTM strategy, paid account & tracking audits, etc.

I helped brands generate over €27m direct revenue in past 5 years.

Remote from Berlin sunny Croatia

Turning data into growth since 2013

Experienced growth marketing specialist with extensive knowledge in several areas (paid search & social, web analytics, data analysis & forecasting, CRO).

Strong believer in holistic approach to growth & data as a way to truly understand the big picture and provide insights & relevant context.

More details on my journey starting from agency-side, in-house to independent professional can be found on LinkedIn.

Anja Krizan

Each project is a unique mix of complex questions in need of simpler answers

I help you get them through basic but essential principles.

Get the fundamentals right.
Building skyscrapers on sand - not a great idea.

Many decisions don’t need data.
Pinch of common sense at most.

Your team needs to understand how their work is moving the needle.
All rowing in the same direction.

Nothing exists in a vacuum.
Include all relevant metrics & factors when analysing marketing & business performance.

Wondering how these translate into business results?
Let me show you.

SCALING TO EXIT

TrustedHousesitters

Helping the company go from £10m Series A to £100m Series B in 3 years through paid growth.

Key Achievements

  • Scaling annual revenue 5x in 3 years, from £4m to £22m
  • 8x increase in global membership (30k > 250k members)
  • Directly managing over 90% of marketing budget during this period
  • Rapid & sustainable growth in key markets (US, UK, Europe)

”Anja is a skilled and insightful growth marketer who has played a key role in transforming the growth trajectory at TrustedHousesitters. Anja combines in-depth channel expertise with a creative, analytical perspective to powerful effect. She has rapidly and efficiently scaled investment across PPC, Paid Social and OLV, whilst bringing insights back to the wider team to improve overall marketing execution. She constantly surfaces new opportunities and works effectively across the organisation to ensure they are effectively implemented. Thanks Anja, I really enjoy working with you!”

— Jo Lavender, CMO at TrustedHousesitters, UK

EVERYTHING DATA

HARO / GedankenSchmiede

Extensive work on enhanced event tracking implementation, data management & reporting (BigQuery, Looker Studio) alongside paid search & social campaign management.

Paid search and social marketing strategy & experimentation lead to overall paid CVR increase of 60% and 70% CPA reduction in 6 months.

”We have been working with Anja for more than 3 years now and are very satisfied. Anja is very professional, always responds quickly and reliably to spontaneous requests and has excellent expertise in performance marketing. She is not only excellent at setting up and managing campaigns, but also at creating optimized reporting templates in Looker Studio and Matomo, which make our daily work much easier.”

— Christian Hofmann, CEO at GedankenSchmiede GmbH, DE

STARTUP LAUNCH

BBC Maestro

Successful launch of new service on UK market through marketing strategy & execution on paid search/social channels and email.

“Anja and the team were instrumental in the successful launch of BBC Maestro. Experienced, pragmatic and a fantastic strategic and operational partner for any early-stage business looking for rapid and sustainable growth.”

‍— James Sallon, Growth Lead at BBC Maestro, UK

INTERNATIONAL B2B EXPANSION

Studio 3T

Directly responsible for planning, creating and managing PPC marketing campaigns on German and international market, extended with conversion & landing page creation and optimisation, business-level analysis and customer journey mapping & recommendations.

“Anja has excellent and comprehensive specialist knowledge, which she used extremely effectively and successfully, even in complex tasks. Her very good comprehension enabled her to immediately grasp even challenging situations. Her well-founded and confident judgment as well as her entrepreneurial mindset also enabled her to always make optimal decisions independently, even in difficult situations. She was extremely reliable and enjoyed our absolute trust.”

‍— Tomasz Naumowicz, Managing Director at Studio3T, DE

Are we a good fit?

If you’re in need of someone who:

  • takes a hands-on, no-nonsense approach
  • helps you answer complicated questions with clarity & detail
  • focuses on the forest, not the trees (that comes later)
  • can work as an extension of your team

that is a good start.

If you recognise yourself in these:

  • face challenges that require tailored, high-impact solutions
  • value data-driven insights and are willing to experiment
  • adopt simplicity over chaos
  • feel aligned with principles outlined above

would you like to have a chat?

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