Andy Black

Charities Institute Ireland

Google Ads Freelancer

Daft.ie

DoneDeal Motors

Blaser Mills Law

The AA (Ireland)

Google Ads Freelancer 

Groupon

SkillPages

Helped build 120m Google Ads and keywords to acquire 15k signups a day.

Head of New User Acquisition

Populis

Led a team of 35 Google Ads specialists spending €120k/day.

Head of SEM Operations

Managed the English speaking markets team.

SEM Team Leader

Analyst/Trainer for a team of 35 Google Ads specialists spending €120k/day.

SEM Analyst & Trainer

Dunnes Stores

Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Lead Oracle Database Administrator

15+ years generating leads with long-tail paid search campaigns & dynamic landing pages. Click the link in my bio to get free tips & tools.

The economy was tanking in 2009 and the work dried up for an electrician friend.

He had a wife, two kids, and a baby on the way - and he had to hand his van back.

He was desperate, and I wanted to help.

I built him a basic website and got it ranking for “Kildare electrician” - but no calls came in.

Then a €50 Google Ads voucher fell out of a book.

We set up a few ads and he got a phone call the next day - his first lead.

From there, we found something surprising:

Most of the demand wasn’t for electricians - it was for appliance repairs.

So we scrapped the original site and rebuilt around what people were actually searching for.

Twice as many people clicked his ad.  More visitors converted into leads.  His phone rang more often.

That campaign launched two businesses - his and mine.


Since then, I've:

- Managed a team of 35 running €120k/day in Google Ads spend.

- Helped build 120 million keywords and ads for a startup, generating 15,000 signups/day.

- Created daily dashboards and optimisation systems for platforms like DoneDeal.ie and Daft.ie.


These days, I focus on helping one business per niche per region dominate their local market.

Law firms, trades, services - if people are searching for it, I'll help you get found.

If that’s you, I can help you:

- Discover what your market is already searching for.

- Build campaigns that echo it back clearly.

- Generate consistent, qualified website visitors and leads.

- Track the few numbers that matter, and ignore the rest.


Want to become the go-to provider in your region?

Drop me a message.

Founder & Google Ads Geek

Josh Schachnow

Visto.ai

Visto uses tech and AI to make it 3x faster to prep Canadian visa applications for Canadian immigration professionals.

Check us out at https://www.visto.ai/

CEO & Co-Founder

Forum Ventures

Mentor

Joshua Schachnow Law

I help growing companies and recruiters bring foreign tech talent into Canada by providing efficient and affordable immigration services. Working in association with Jack Silverstone, immigration lawyer and former Chief of Staff to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, we focus on making your immigration application experience as seamless as possible. Feel free to reach out with any comments or questions.

Immigration Lawyer

VanHack

Vanhack helps companies hire amazing tech talent from around the world. I work with Vanhack to optimize their immigration process so when one of their Canadian companies hires a foreign tech worker, we can bring them to Canada as quickly as possible.

Head of Immigration

Pursuit

Pursuit helps the world’s brightest people find better lives & opportunities via a single common application. We bring transparency to global immigration for highly skilled workers.

Founder & VP of Business Operations

Brazeau Seller Law

Student at Law

Camp B'nai Brith of Ottawa

Programming and Youth Supervisor

District Realty

Property Management Assistant

Hey, I'm Josh - immigration lawyer, tech cofounder and blogger.

I spent the first 3 years of my career building my own law firm as a "regular" immigration lawyer and helped hundreds of individuals and companies navigate the Canadian immigration process. After a few years of filling out the same forms over and over again, I asked myself why there wasn’t a better way? 

Why wasn’t there any technology to take out the boring and repetitive parts of preparing a Canadian immigration application?

That's when I co-founded Visto.ai, a platform that uses automation and AI to make it 3x faster for immigration professionals to do research, document drafting, prepare applications and more.

To learn more about the Visto platform, head over here: http://visto.ai/

To get the Visto bi-weekly newsletter about Canadian immigration/tech updates, sign up here: https://visto.ai/visto-email-list/

I also love talking about business and sharing my entrepreneurial journey, so I started a business blog and newsletter where I share stories from my week as a Canadian tech cofounder and lawyer.

To follow along on my business journey as I continue to build Visto, sign up here: https://joshschachnow.substack.com/

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