Authentic Marketer

Authentic Marketer specializes in crafting customized marketing strategies for service-based businesses that build trust, attract leads, and generate sales.

We've worked with a wide range of small businesses and leading brands such as Bean Ninjas, SYSTEMology, Realise Business, and Hub Australia. Our work has been featured in leading publications such as Forbes, Inc., Valiant CEO, and Huffington Post.
 
Our services include:
- Developing marketing strategies and ongoing coaching
- Writing compelling articles that rank on Google
- Getting authors and business owners booked on podcasts to promote their work

Want some help to level up your marketing in 2023? DM me to schedule a complimentary 15-min marketing blastoff call.

Fractional CMO & Marketing Consultant

The Trusted Voice

The Trusted Voice is a membership that helps you build your marketing, personal brand, and increase your sales online. You’ll get access to a supportive community and proven marketing strategies designed for success.

I coach TTV members through monthly check-ins and Content Lab workshops to help them build visibility, publish consistently, and grow their personal brand.

Marketing Coach

Our Kinds

Our Kinds is an innovative startup and movement dedicated to shifting consumption culture through supply chain redesign. Our first goal is to make the single-use takeaway cup redundant globally by fostering community partnerships and leveraging technology.

I'm excited to join the team as Chief Marketing Officer. I will lead the marketing strategy for raising capital and communications and also influence the culture, systems, and ways of working.

Fractional CMO

Academy of Entrepreneurs

At the Academy of Entrepreneurs, we redefine education. 

Our International Business College offers students a unique experience: learning directly from entrepreneurs, engaging in real projects, networking with top leaders, exchanging ideas with like-minded peers, and receiving coaching, public speaking, and investor pitch training. Join us and access our extensive investor network.

Award-winning programs:
- BSB50120 Diploma of Business
- BSB60120 Advanced Diploma of Business

As a mentor and lecturer, my role is to guide and support aspiring entrepreneurs in developing real-world marketing and business skills.

Lecturer and Mentor (Digital Marketing)

Birchal

Birchal simplifies fundraising so that forward-thinking businesses can build communities of engaged supporters and get back to shaping the future we all want to see.

Birchal is a market-leading equity crowdfunding platform. Early-stage businesses have now raised over $289 million across 380 successful CSF offers through the CSF platform since it commenced in 2018.

As Fractional CMO at Birchal, I lead strategic planning and hands-on execution one day per week. My role includes overseeing marketing KPIs, guiding team management, resource allocation, campaign execution, and delivering progress reports.

Heatseeker

Heatseeker is an AI-powered SaaS platform that helps scale-ups and start-ups quickly run experiments and navigate through data to enhance market fit, validate new features, and identify customer segments.

As Head of Marketing at Heatseeker.ai, I develop our GTM strategy and lead a dynamic team in crafting compelling narratives, executing data-driven campaigns, and enhancing our market presence and growth. (In other words, making sure we're the hottest thing in town 😉)

Head of Marketing

Journey

As a Growth Marketing Mentor at Journey, I supported the growth marketers on our team by providing coaching and guidance. I helped them navigate client relationships, manage workload challenges, and develop problem-solving strategies. My role was to offer support, share insights, and help them build confidence in delivering effective marketing solutions while balancing their responsibilities.

Growth Marketing Mentor

Helping Saas companies scale revenue and build a rockstar brand in the accounting industry.

Journey is a global consulting firm with a decade of experience. We help Saas providers succeed in the accounting industry all over the world.

We exist to help you accelerate sales, product adoption and brand awareness within the accounting community.

As Growth Marketer, my primary objective is to assist Journey clients in maximizing their revenue by enhancing their pre and post-sales funnels. I am responsible for creating and fine-tuning persuasive email marketing campaigns and optimizing content at various stages of the customer journey, all aiming to drive higher conversion rates.

Growth Marketer

The Growth Hub Global

The Growth Hub helps property professionals grow their businesses through outsourcing with virtual assistants so that they can focus on the things in their business that matter most. Creating greater freedom, more impact, and fulfilling your purpose in business and life.

With our specialized marketing strategy session, you can leverage TGH's framework to identify areas of improvement in your marketing efforts and create a custom 30/60/90-day action plan tailored to your specific growth goals.

Get in touch if you'd like to learn more.

Marketing Strategist

The Growth Hub is a strategic growth partner for Australian real estate companies. Our experienced growth experts and virtual assistants support real estate professionals in optimizing their businesses for growth, freeing up their time to focus on the things that matter most. 

Our holistic approach positions us as a true virtual growth hub for scaling real estate businesses, providing the support and resources needed to drive growth and achieve business goals. 

As fractional CMO, I am responsible for developing and implementing marketing strategies that support the company's growth. This includes leading the marketing team, driving brand awareness, generating leads, and establishing The Growth Hub as an invaluable real estate services industry resource.

SmartQMS

SmartQMS helps Australian scientific laboratories and medical tech companies build smart quality management systems that improve compliance and quality. All while enabling them to obtain and maintain ISO certification easily. 

As CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) at SmartQMS, I'm responsible for developing and executing the company's marketing strategy, focusing on increasing brand awareness, generating leads, and driving revenue growth through effective marketing campaigns and initiatives.

Bean Ninjas

Bean Ninjas offers best-in-class bookkeeping, accounting, virtual CFO, and tax services for 7 and 8-figure eCommerce businesses looking to scale.

The Bean Ninjas Podcast provides insights and case studies to help 7-figure and 8-figure eCommerce businesses scale and reach an exit by improving their eCommerce finances and accounting. 

As Podcast Producer, Anfernee oversees the entire production process of the podcast, including planning, recording, editing, publishing, and promoting the episodes.

Podcast Producer

Bean Ninjas offers best-in-class bookkeeping, accounting, virtual CFO, and tax services for 7 and 8-figure eCommerce businesses looking to scale.

As Learning & Community Lead, Anfernee was responsible for devising strategies to consistently attract and retain new clients, positioning the Bean Ninjas brand as a trusted resource for financial training and community among digital entrepreneurs. His efforts aimed to deepen client relationships, ensuring they remained engaged and found enhanced value over time.

Results:
- Launched and organised a series of bi-weekly learning webinars with expert speakers for BN community at the start of COVID
- Launched BN community slack group and managed engagement with members
- Designed and facilitated an internal cohort-based Emerging Leaders training program for the BN team
- Designed, launched and promoted a Xero Financial Literacy course (DIY and cohort-based) 
- Produced the BN podcast, incl. sourcing and booking expert guests and promoting the podcast

Marketing Coordinator / Learning & Community Lead 

Fractional CMO, Marketing Consultant, and Content Creator for 6-figure+ Accounting & Real Estate firms. | Follow for posts about authentic marketing, online business & personal wealth

Some people think of marketing as just getting more eyeballs on something. But the best marketing doesn’t just grab attention—it teaches, builds trust, and creates real connections. That’s the kind of work I do.

I’ve:
✔ Helped 200+ students across nine schools in Laos develop leadership & problem-solving skills through hands-on learning (DFC Laos).
✔ Grown organic traffic by 400% in six months for an online bookkeeping service by refining its content, SEO, and podcast strategy.
✔ Hosted a virtual summit with 500+ attendees and 25 speakers, bringing global experts together to discuss remote business growth.
✔ Led marketing strategy for innovative companies Hub Australia, Birchal, Heatseeker.ai, and Our Kinds—helping them scale, attract high-quality leads, and build sustainable growth engines.


⭐ What I Actually Do ⭐

I help mission-driven organisations create impact through education, content, and community. 

Sometimes, that looks like:
🎯 Facilitating a workshop that helps founders cut through marketing overwhelm.
✍️ Creating content that simplifies complex ideas so people actually engage with it.
🤝 Building communities that feel like real conversations—not just another Slack group that everyone forgets about.

I’ve worked with Digital Marketing Collective, Frank Team, and Realise Business, helped Bean Ninjas scale their Financial Literacy for Xero Users course, and built learning experiences that connect, educate, and inspire.

I’ve shared my approaches in Forbes, Inc., Valiant CEO, Agorapulse’s Agency Summit, and The Content Byte podcast. I believe marketing isn’t just selling—it’s about teaching and creating lasting value.

⭐ What I’m Focused on Now ⭐

I’m moving from fractional CMO work to teaching, coaching, writing, and community-building—work that better aligns with my Projector Human Design.

🌍 Community for Migrant & Minority Professionals – Exploring workshops & memberships to help professionals grow wealth in career, business & life.
🎤 Teaching & Speaking – Leading digital marketing & business courses with academies & organisations.
✍️ Writing & Content – Writing for major publications, finishing my books Dare to Escape & Trust Signals.
🚀 Coaching Startups – Helping founders build content engines with hands-on strategy & execution.
🏡 Tiny Home Life – Planning an off-grid move for more freedom & sustainability.

⭐ What’s Next? ⭐

Are you looking to create impact through education? Whether you need a facilitator, writer, or strategist to help bring your ideas to life, let’s chat.

📩 DM me, and let’s explore how we can work together.

Anf Chans ☕

Platform Leverage

PlatformLeverage is a marketing consultancy specializing in audience-platform research and cross-platform marketing strategies.

Founder, CEO

Search Engine Land

Contributing content around Online Reputation Management, SEO and AI.
https://searchengineland.com/author/gert-mellak

Contributor

SEOLeverage

SEOLeverage is an International SEO agency focusing on increasing your organic conversions.

With site audits and ongoing consulting, paired with an outstanding app for machine-learning and AI insights, SEOLeverage is helping more and more online businesses and local businesses grow with SEO.

My team at SEOLeverage has a vast experience in SEO,
ranging from 5-10+ years of daily focused SEO strategy and implementation.

Get the SEO momentum started: seoleverage.com

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Solicom is a digital consulting firm specializing in business process automation, strategic marketing and e-commerce.

Founder

Regus

SEO Consultant

Online reputation management is crucial to your business's success. Ensuring your brand is represented positively across platforms is just as important as driving traffic. At SEOLeverage.com, we specialise in helping businesses build and maintain a strong online presence that fosters trust and authority.

As the founder and CEO of SEOLeverage.com, my mission is to help businesses like yours achieve measurable and sustainable SEO success. My team of 25 senior SEO experts specialises in conversion-driven SEO strategies and comprehensive online reputation management across all platforms, ensuring your brand gets the visibility and trust it deserves.

In a fast-paced digital world, we focus on timeless SEO principles that drive real results—better traffic, qualified leads, and increased sales for your business.

Ready to elevate your brand's online presence? Let’s get you consistent visibility and SEO results that matter.

Message me today to see how we can help your business grow!

Gert Mellak

Your competitors aren't smarter. They're just not wasting page authority.

See your leaks: seoleverage.com/calculator

E-Commerce SEO + AI | Helping Brands Fill $100K+ Revenue Leaks

FROM INVISIBLE TO $287K

Thinking about replacing your 1,000-page website with an AI-generated one? Think again!

@Gregmerrilees explains why your hard-earned SEO and content authority can’t just be replicated overnight. And discover how AI can enhance your site without losing the results you’ve built over time.

Check out the full podcast article here: https://lnkd.in/dC_dK-Nb

#WebDesign #AI #Personalization #ConversionRate #WebsiteStrategy

With all the #semrush buying, how does #adobe have time to do guest post outreach these days? 

Look what I just got (for real!) 😜

I recently discussed how we often misplace our SEO focus—optimizing for “perfect” speed scores while ignoring what truly drives revenue.

A few milliseconds faster doesn’t equal higher rankings. It’s about prioritizing improvements that move the needle.

Curious where your SEO investment should really go?  https://seoleverage.com/

I'm seeing content-to-code ratio come up a lot in some AI visibility tools as a recommended action step to work on for AI Search optimization, but have my doubts ... 

Has anybody seen anything that supports that argument?

Wil Reynolds Steve Toth Lily Ray Michael King Dixon Jones Aleyda Solís Dan Petrovic

No A $3.5M Shopify store was ranking position 28 for their money keywords.

Competitors with weaker domains were in the top 3.

The problem: 186 product pages, zero internal links to category pages.
Google couldn’t tell which pages mattered.

We fixed it in 4 weeks:

Added contextual internal links from product pages
Rewrote category descriptions as buying guides
Added FAQ schema
Fixed crawl budget waste on 2,400 parameter URLs

Result: Position 28 to position 4 across 12 categories. 2,147 new qualified visitors monthly. $287,364 annual revenue increase.

38x ROI first year.

Your competitors aren’t smarter. They’re just not wasting their page authority.

If you’re doing $1M+ in e-commerce, you probably have revenue leaks like this. See your number: https://lnkd.in/dtgdKubh

SEO is completely dead, right?

Unless you get a really good feeling for your target audience,
and focus on the small portion of things that actually move the needle!

SEO can grow your business, or help you recover revenue you are losing. 

Most new clients come to us to fill specific revenue leaks that we help them estimate in $$ numbers with our calculator first. 

The focused 30-day sprint approach then gets everybody necessary on board and helps fix isolated issues to recover revenue and see results fast.

Mentor to $300K–$1M founders | 64:4 Framework | $400M+ results | 16 years optimizing business models | 40 client max

The SEO Secret Most Agencies Hide From You

Most SEO agencies want you on endless retainers.

They audit everything. Work on 20 things at once. Keep you busy with approvals every week.

Here's what the smart ones do instead:

They calculate exactly how much revenue you're losing right now. They identify the one leak costing you the most. They fix it in 30 days. Then they prove it worked.

My partner Gert Mellak just showed me his new approach:

Instead of $5K per month forever, it's $7,500 for one focused sprint. Instead of analyzing everything, he plugs one revenue leak. Instead of constant meetings, you get two calls and three approvals.

The difference? You know the exact value before you start.

One client recovered $96K annually from a single overlooked segment. Another got $9K monthly from reorganizing internal links. A third ranked first just by changing one homepage paragraph.

The calculator shows you what you're losing. The sprint fixes it. The result speaks for itself.

SEO isn't mysterious. It's math.

Most agencies benefit from complexity. The good ones profit from clarity.

After auditing hundreds of eCommerce sites, I’ve learned this:

You don’t need a full audit to find where revenue is leaking. You just need to know where to look.

Most Shopify stores share the same weak points, and fixing them can change everything. See how we approach it here: https://lnkd.in/dCCx-kzp

SaaS Marketing - Content, AEO & SEO | Newsletter: How SaaS companies *actually* get customers

Sam Altman just asked for enough money to buy Japan.
He wants...

$7 trillion (more than Japan's GDP).

The biggest financial ask in human history.

And we don't even know... why?

Here's what's breaking my brain:

Kennedy's moon money? Gotta beat the Soviets.

The Manhattan Project? End the war.

Bank bailouts in '08? Prevent collapse.

$7 trillion. For what enemy? What crisis? What future are we building?

"AGI will change everything."

Cool story, bro. Change it how? For who?

And when Altman gets pressed on it in interviews?

He defends it with the arrogance of a Gringotts goblin.

This is me handing my kid 13 bucks for allowance and him holding out his other hand for 7,000.

Stone-faced. Like it’s normal.

Also a 13X multiple (Google is only 6x).

But we're not united around... anything.

Not a mission. Not a villain. Not even a clear promise.

Apple said "1,000 songs in your pocket."

Google said "organize the world's information."

OpenAI says "give us $7 trillion or get left behind."

Venture capital fanfiction.

At this scale, real marketing HAS to do one thing: unite us.

⚡️

PS - What's the Content IP (named problem) for OpenAI?

I genuinely can't think of it without drifting into Theranos/WeWork/FTX territory.

For those of us bad at math (me), 7 trillions would end world hunger for the next 175 years.

So the problem's gotta be bigger than that?

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