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Case study 04 · Health & Wellness Startup

Zero-to-One Marketing Infrastructure

Turning founder ideas into the project, data, web, and automation infrastructure an early-stage organization needed to execute.

Role
Marketing Operations & Project Management Lead
Focus
Marketing Operations · No-Code · Automation · Project Management · Data Operations
  1. 01

    Founder strategy

  2. 02

    Project operations

  3. 03

    Audience data

  4. 04

    No-code web

  5. 05

    Marketing automation

  6. 06

    Campaign activation

The starting point

No CRM to fix. Nothing built yet.

The organization was running several related brand initiatives in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment. Strategy and campaign ideas often started as conversations, audio notes, documents, and disconnected tasks.

The job was to turn that raw direction into an operating structure people could actually execute—starting before any technology was chosen.

01 — Turn strategy into execution

The work began before the technology.

I worked directly from founder-level direction and translated it into structured work. Strategic and financial decisions stayed with the founders; my role was making them executable.

Founder input

  • Conversations
  • Audio notes
  • Documents
  • Loose tasks

Operational mapping

Ideas sorted into structure, sequence, and scope

Projects · owners · dependencies

WorkstreamsCampaign branchesMind mapsOwnersDependenciesRoadmaps
Execution

02 — Build the project operating layer

One place to see the work.

Before

Work spread across conversations, messages, and disconnected information.

Asana operating layer

Project organizationAssignmentsDependenciesCalendar & Kanban viewsDashboardsCross-functional coordination

After

More structured execution through centralized project management across 5 brand properties.

03 — Structure the audience data

From scattered lists to usable audiences.

I aggregated, cleaned, and segmented a 5,000+ contact database for targeted outreach, and researched 30+ higher-education institutions and organizations as outreach targets.

↓

Raw lists

Community organizations, churches, barbershops, university outreach

↓

Cleanup

Consolidation and standardization

↓

Segmentation

Grouped by audience and campaign

✓

Campaign-ready

Targeted outreach audiences

04 — Build the no-code web layer

Three campaign properties, built no-code.

Using no-code tools including Lovable, I built three responsive web properties to support campaign execution. This was no-code digital infrastructure for campaigns—not traditional software engineering.

01

Wellness check-in campaign

02

Barbering outreach

03

University outreach

Responsive pagesCampaign messagingLead captureBrand stylingForm integration

05 — Connect marketing automation

From first touch to follow-up.

  1. 01 →

    Entry point

    Campaign page · QR code · landing page

  2. 02 →

    Lead capture

    Forms on the no-code properties

  3. 03 →

    Tag / segment

    Audience tagging in ConvertKit

  4. 04 →

    Follow-up

    Email sequences (ConvertKit) + SMS (Clearstream)

  5. 05

    Action

    Contest participation (Vyper) · commerce (Shopify)

Conceptual flow of how campaign entry points moved into capture and follow-up across the tools used.

06 — Support multi-brand execution

Five workstreams, one structure.

I built the project-management framework and digital infrastructure supporting work across 5 related brand properties.

My role was hands-on: operations and project lead, and cross-functional coordinator—keeping owners, dependencies, and deliverables connected as priorities shifted.

Hands-on implementation

What I actually built.

Project Operations

Asana structure, dependencies, ownership, and execution visibility

Audience Data

Consolidation, cleanup, and segmentation of 5,000+ contacts

No-Code Web

Three responsive campaign properties and lead-capture experiences

Marketing Automation

Email, SMS, tagging, and campaign activation workflows

Cross-Functional Execution

Translating founder direction into organized workstreams and deliverables

Verified evidence

What was put in place.

5,000+

Contacts aggregated, cleaned, and segmented for targeted outreach

3

No-code web properties built

5

Brand workflows structured and supported

30+

Higher-education targets researched

Next step

Big ideas, no operating structure yet?

If your strategy is moving faster than your infrastructure, I’m happy to talk through what to build first.

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