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Alok Bharti, Digital Strategist

A Digital Strategist Who Builds Your Marketing Plan And Runs It With You

I set the plan across SEO, paid media, content, email, web and apps, and decide what gets priority and budget. Then I build the systems it needs and run the plan with you.

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15+Years Experience
100+Clients Served
$100K+/moAd Spend Managed
$30M+ARR Channel Built

Associated Brands

Maruti Suzuki NEXT PLC App Masters Circus Media Capita PLC AdGlobal360 iResearch Services SG Analytics Maruti Suzuki NEXT PLC App Masters Circus Media Capita PLC AdGlobal360 iResearch Services SG Analytics
Proof, Not Promises

Featured Work

A few of the brands I’ve built growth engines for.

Services

Every channel. One growth engine.

Pick a channel to fix, or hand over the whole engine. Each one is run the same way I’ve run it for enterprise brands, just sized for where you are now.

01: Acquisition

Performance Marketing

Paid acquisition across every channel that matters, built to hit a CAC/ROAS target, not just spend a budget.

  • Google, Meta, Apple Search Ads & TikTok
  • Creative testing & budget scaling
  • CAC / ROAS optimization at scale
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02: Acquisition

Organic Growth

SEO, ASO & AEO that compounds over time instead of turning off the moment you stop paying for it.

  • Technical & content SEO audits
  • App Store optimization (ASO)
  • AI / answer engine optimization (AEO)
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03: Conversion

User Journey Optimization

Turn traffic into customers: funnel audits, UX fixes, and structured A/B testing.

  • Funnel & UX audits
  • Structured A/B testing
  • Conversion tracking & reporting
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04: Engagement

Content/Social

Content built to build an owned audience, not just feed the algorithm for a week.

  • Content strategy & calendars
  • Organic social growth
  • Brand voice & positioning
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05: Retention

Lifecycle Marketing

CRM & email systems that turn a first purchase into a habit, not a one-off.

  • Lifecycle & retention campaigns
  • Segmentation strategy
  • CRM setup & automation
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06: Infrastructure

Web/App Development

The platform everything above actually runs on, planned and built to support growth, not fight it.

  • Web & app planning and build
  • Analytics & tracking setup
  • CRM infrastructure
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07: Operations

AI Systems

AI-managed websites, CRM, and outreach automation, run through plain-English commands instead of tickets.

  • AI-managed website builds
  • Owned CRM systems
  • Outreach automation
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In Their Words

People I’ve worked with

★★★★★

“Alok didn’t just run our ad accounts, he rebuilt how we thought about acquisition. Our CAC dropped within the first quarter and stayed down.”

Hitanshu Dhingra

Hitanshu Dhingra

Director at Finintel, India

★★★★★

“Alok helped manage our web and Google Ads accounts, along with client strategy calls. His sales conversion rate was excellent. Sharp with digital strategy and easy to recommend.”

Steve Young

Steve Young

Founder and CEO, App Masters USA

★★★★★

“Alok fixed our broken onboarding, we barely had any paywall views. He built a funnel that made our conversion rate skyrocket.”

Matthew

Matthew

Founder and CEO, BHM, USA

★★★★★

“He rebuilt our SEO strategy from the ground up. Six months later organic was our highest-converting channel, by a wide margin.”

Partha Bhagowati

Partha Bhagowati

Associate Manager, EY, India

★★★★★

“Responsive, sharp, and genuinely invested in our numbers moving, not just in billing hours. Exactly what we needed at our stage.”

Vishal Vichare

Vishal Vichare

Conservative Councillor for Hargate and Hempsted, UK

★★★★★

“Alok played a key role in Maruti Suzuki’s digital transformation, leading the project with integrity and vision.”

Vishnu Dass

Vishnu Dass

Head of Development at AdGlobal360, India

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Alok Bharti
About Me

15 years, one obsession: growth that compounds

MBA, agency veteran, and a digital strategist who’s worked on growth for everyone from scrappy startups to billion-dollar brands like NEXT PLC and Suzuki Motors. Now available on an ongoing Digital Strategy retainer for businesses that want the plan and the hands to run it. Also a self-taught guitarist who’s busked through 10 countries, which is maybe why I’m good at finding the long, unglamorous route that actually gets you somewhere.

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Digital Strategist FAQ

Questions people ask before hiring a digital strategist

How much does a digital strategist cost?
It depends on scope. Ongoing work on a monthly retainer is scoped to your business and priced on request, with no lock-in. Most engagements run three to twelve months. Get in touch and I will scope it against what you actually need.
What does a digital strategist do?
A digital strategist works out how a business should use its online channels to reach its goals, sets the priorities and budget across those channels, and measures whether the plan is working. In my case that means a 3-month marketing plan with SMART goals, the measurement and reporting behind it, weekly or monthly calls to run it with you and, where scoped, the website, CRM and automation it depends on. You get one person accountable for the plan across every channel.
Digital strategist vs marketing agency, what is the difference?
An agency runs a channel you hand it, such as paid ads or SEO, and reports on that channel. A digital strategist sits a level above that: deciding whether the channel deserves budget at all, setting priorities across the whole mix, and checking the numbers against the plan. If you already have an agency, I set the plan and direct the work. If you do not, I can run the channels myself.
Do I need a digital strategist or an in-house marketing lead?
If marketing is already your main growth engine and needs someone in the building every day, hire in-house. If you have a budget but no plan behind it, or several channels run by different people with nobody setting priorities, a digital strategist on retainer gets you the plan and the execution now, month to month, without a long contract. It is also a way to get the plan and the measurement in place before you hire in-house.
How long does a digital strategy engagement last?
Most engagements run three to twelve months. The first 90 days are usually strategy, measurement and fixing what is obviously broken. After that the work shifts to scaling what is working. It is a monthly retainer with no lock-in, so you stay only while it is useful to you, not because a contract says so.
What experience do you bring as a digital strategist?
15+ years across enterprise and startup marketing, with an MBA from Northumbria University, UK. I led SEO for NEXT PLC, the UK’s largest fashion retailer, on a channel generating $30M+ in ARR, directed digital transformation for Maruti Suzuki at AdGlobal360, and have managed $100K+ per month in omnichannel ad spend across Google, Meta, Apple Search Ads and TikTok. I work from India with clients in the US, UK and India, and I build and run this website, its CRM and its outreach automation myself.

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