Mohamed Gamal, MBA

Senior Manager | Performance Marketing | Sharing Learnings on LinkedIn

Performance dropped… and no one can explain why?
Targeting looks fine. Budgets are fine. Creatives are “okay.”
And your agency’s only explanation is: “the algorithm is learning.” 🙂

Meanwhile… your CAC is rising.
And leadership is starting to ask uncomfortable questions.

If you’re a Head of Marketing, you already know the truth:

👉 Performance marketing isn’t about running ads.
It’s about building a growth system.

That’s where I come in.

I’m Gamal, Founder of Gambra Digital.
I help marketing leaders turn performance marketing into a profit engine:

- Fix measurement gaps & tracking blind spots
- Reduce wasted spend (the silent killer)
- Build testing systems that scale (not random experiments)
- Shift teams from ROAS thinking → POAS thinking
- Create performance marketing that can compete globally (EU/US standard, not just local standard)

We’re not for everyone.
If you want someone to “run ads,” there are plenty of options.

But if you’re a brand with serious ambition
and you want a performance system that scales across multiple markets…

Let’s talk.

Book a Strategy Call (link in profile)
No fluff. No generic audit.
Just clarity + a plan.

Founder

A community for performance marketing and digital growth based in Dubai. Our purpose is to guide and connect people interested in PPC

By Joining our community, you will have the following benefits:
1. Access experts who can guide you with the challenges you face in your business.

2. Make new friends, as we will have monthly gatherings where we have fun and get to know each other.

3. Free webinar to navigate through the latest industry updates.

Now you can join our community for free; send me an email to: Gamal@ppclegends.com explaining your motives for joining the community.

Mohamed Gamal, EMBA

Performance Marketing is one of the hardest jobs
that looks ridiculously easy.

Because it looks easy,
everyone thinks they can do it.

“Just increase ROAS.”
“Just scale the winning ads.”
“Just let the algorithm learn.”

That’s how budgets get burned.

Doing performance marketing well is hard.

Great performance marketing is:

- Creative, not just analytical
- Data-driven, not dashboard-driven
- Obsessed with margins, not vanity ROAS
- Built on testing, not opinions
- Fast to show impact
- Deeply connected to product, pricing, and supply
- Constantly adapting to algorithms and market shifts
- Very visible in the P&L

Here’s the dangerous part 👇

When performance marketing is treated as “easy,”
it gets over-simplified.

When it’s over-simplified,
decisions get delegated to tools instead of thinking.

And when thinking disappears,
growth becomes expensive, fragile,
and impossible to scale.

Performance marketing doesn’t buy growth.
It earns it.

what’s the most misunderstood skill in performance marketing today?

 Mohamed Gamal, MBA

Founder @Gambra Digital | Helping Heads of Marketing & Performance scale profitably across markets | Global-level Growth Systems | Profit-First Performance Marketing (POAS)

Doing media buying is easy.
Doing performance marketing well is hard.

And confusing them is one of the most expensive mistakes businesses make.

Because media buying looks like performance marketing,
everyone thinks they’re the same.

- “Just launch the ads.”
- “Just increase the budget.”
- “Just optimize the campaigns.”

That’s how money disappears quietly.

Media buying is execution.
Performance marketing is decision-making.

Performance marketing is not media buying.

Great performance marketing is:
- Business-driven, not platform-driven
- Focused on revenue, not CPMs
- Connected to product, pricing, and funnel design
- Obsessed with unit economics, not just ROAS
- Built on testing hypotheses, not pushing buttons
- Accountable to the P&L, not the ad dashboard

Here’s the dangerous part👇

When performance marketing is reduced to media buying,
strategy disappears.

When strategy disappears,
teams optimize ads instead of fixing problems.

And when problems stay unfixed,
growth becomes expensive, unstable, and impossible to scale.

Media buying spends budget.
Performance marketing protects and multiplies it.

That’s why the best performance marketers don’t ask:
“Which platform should we use?”

They ask:
“What decision will move the business forward?”

What do you think most companies still get wrong about performance marketing?

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Digital Executive

Handles E-commerce websites.

April 2020 - present
	Muudha.com      www.muudha.com
	Kiabi                    www.kiabi.ae
	Style2door            


April 2020 - November 2020
	Reebok/AE/SA     


April 2016 – March 2020
	Bebe Arabia E-commerce website

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Al Onwan General Trading LLC

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Is a rapidly expanding interactive media company and a leader in the social media world
producing websites for various niches in the Asian region. BDSS Media, Inc. is proud of its
innovation in the digital media space and is a leader in social media applications and
integration.

PROJECT | MUMCENTRE

•	Part of the team that developed Mumcentre Singapore | Philippines | Malaysia a website 
        created on Php-Codeigniter platform for Parenting - Moms and Babies.

•	Maintain project documents including timelines (SDLC, AGILE others), internal processes,
        wireframes, scopes and change logs.

•	Works with Senior Database Manager and helps maintain back end database (SQL, SQL 
        Server).

•	Design and develop project scope & functions (backend CMS) using php-codeigniter.

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 [+]demonstrate real passion + interest in the ever-changing world of E-Commerce.

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