Aleph One Marketing

Building systems, strategy, and software for marketing teams.

Co-Founder

Squirrels.AI

AI content generation aligned to brand guidelines and customized for unique target personas. Built on multiple LLM with web access and a human-in-the-loop marketer and editor.

Pavel Novel Consulting

• Produced an influencer outreach and marketing campaign for a skincare company that tripled their daily sales with a 433% traffic increase to native IG Shop & link-in-bio from a qualified audience, leading to a 117% jump in conversion rate across the e-commerce site.
• Established a content system & automated workflow for an auto dealership spanning across twelve websites to grow organic SEO traffic by over 35% across highly competitive keywords.
• Created & executed the go-to-market strategy for a subscription box to grow their recurring customers from 0 to 1,000 in 8 months, developed email marketing automations and drip campaigns, and built an analytics dashboard & custom CRM for a two-sided marketplace.

Principal Consultant

spoiled NYC

spoiled NYC is the Food and Culture Guide to New York.

Launched a digital lifestyle destination for New Yorkers with the aim to grow owned media reach, ultimately attracting a community of over 1 million people across email and social channels, and receiving 40+ million total page views through social, email, and search.

Owner & Co-Founder

Heroic Public Benefit Corporation

Head of Marketing

Yestime

Yestime is focused on delivering core messaging tools that are easy to use and priced simply. My experience in marketing, operations, and startups help YesTime deliver customized CRM systems, unique marketing solutions, and digital transformations for clients.

Advisor

spoiled Media

• Led & managed marketing campaigns for more than 100 clients in the B2C space, including W Hotel, Casper, Budweiser, FreshDirect, and Brooklyn Museum, working with their in-house teams & agency partners to garner 100+ million combined impressions across digital. 
• Expanded marketing partnerships by producing over 150 separate giveaway campaigns that generated over 2 million email entries for our partners and our email list.
• Oversaw the development & launch of a publicly-available SaaS platform for creating and running email giveaways that attracted over 400 media and marketing B2B users.

CEO and Co-Founder

The Culture LP

Uniting creators with brilliant offline and online experiences. Working closely with fast-rising photographers, musicians, producers, and artists, the CLP has created a creative community heavily centered in New York City.

GMB Direct

• Developed and optimized paid Facebook campaigns that reduced overall customer acquisition costs for local business clients by over 40% for their products and services. 
• More than tripled mobile customer conversions for local businesses by creating over 20 mobile-optimized websites with analytics tracking and pixels from Google and Facebook.
• Decreased Facebook fan acquisition costs for clients by 74% by remarketing to previously engaged users, A/B testing of all creatives and copy, and testing different bidding strategies.

Digital Marketing Director

Likeable

• Create decks for webinars and presentations
• Contribute research for articles and research on potential clients and business partners      
• Manage Facebook and Twitter communities for NYT best-selling guide on social media implementation
• Learned how to leverage social media for business success

Social Media Buzz Builder

My breakthrough came in 2012 when I began to build a digital lifestyle destination. Quickly attracting millions of readers, it would become a landmark of the New York City culture scene. Building on that experience, three years later, I co-founded a digital marketing agency as the CEO and principal consultant to the agency’s 100+ clients.

From elevated champagne pop-ups to influencers and cultural projects, we created bold campaigns that made us the agency to come to if you wanted to do big things in New York. Our team of multidisciplinary in-house marketers, creatives, and freelancers launched some of the most unforgettable experiences for our clients and their customers. My philosophy that ideas can come from anywhere sparked a continued expansion in the form of a SaaS product that helped other media businesses develop their audiences.

My experiences in marketing and growing businesses ushered in a new chapter as a full-time consultant. I work directly with select companies to help guide their teams and partner agencies through today’s dynamic marketing environment.

Working with their marketing teams, I streamline and optimize strategies across all digital channels. At the same time, my deep expertise and broad view give business leaders the clarity and perspective needed to grow.

In the grand vastness of life outside of marketing and business, I’m a proud father, runner, meditator, poet, and amateur historian.

Key Skills:
∙Marketing and brand strategy 
∙Email marketing
∙AI and marketing automation
∙Community building
∙Social media management
∙SEO
∙Content development
∙Paid advertising
∙Event marketing
∙Lead generation

Pavel Konoplenko 🐿️

I help small business owners 2X their profits in 12 months without feeling overwhelmed and lost.

Founder | Investor | Managing/Operating Partner | Fractional COO for low and mid-market SMBs. I have bought, sold, and invested in the growth of 160+ businesses. I now help service-business owners streamline operations, grow profits, integrate AI-powered solutions, and build real value - so they can create scalable businesses, create real wealth, and empower others. Want me to help you grow your business? Click the link in my bio or shoot me a DM to get started.

Evan Gove

This is the #1 reason 99% of businesses never pass $5M/yr in revenue.

Founder dependency. 

Solution: 

Document, Automate (AI-enabled), Iterate (repeat), and hire great people to support your systems. 

If you are not good at the above, start by hiring someone who is.

Documentation is boring. 

But boring scales. 

Fastest way to onboard more team members? 

Documentation. 

Fastest way to remove yourself from 90% of day-to-day processes in your business? 

Documentation. 

Fastest way to increase the enterprise value of your business? 

Documentation. 

Do the boring work, and reap the rewards.

Once you understand this about money, you will always have plenty of it. 

Money follows attention. 

Not aimlessly though. 

Intentionally. 

In order for people to buy from you, they must know about you. 

Once they know about you, they need to know you can help them fix a problem. 

Once they are in your ecosystem, you need to stay relevant and top of mind. 

So how does this turn into money? 

Simple. 

Give value to get attention. 

Give value to keep attention. 

Ask for your audience to choose you to solve their problem. 

Give value while solving their problem. 

Repeat.

"I want to take care of my people" 

Great.

Then do this... 👇🏼

Set clear standards for what success looks like in your business. 

Set clear and measurable outcomes each person is responsible for. 

Equip and enable each team member with proper resources for their role. 

Clearly communicate when someone is underperforming. 

Give them a plan for improvement, and hold them accountable. 

If they still do not improve...

Offboard them immediately. 

This will do two things for you. 

Eliminate underperforming team members dragging your business down. 

Free up resources and create motivation for those who are the driving force behind your growth. 

Remember, taking care of your people sometimes means getting rid of those who are not a good fit. 

Underperformers do not like to work with high achievers, and vice versa. 

You will be doing everyone a favor (and what is best for your business).

A lot of business owners have forgotten the primary purpose of their business.

TO MAKE MONEY. 

Say what you want about the altruistic reasons you are in business for. 

If you are not making money, you cannot help anyone (even yourself).

“That’s not my job”

OR

“I will figure out how to solve this problem”

Which would you rather hear from your team?

If you want a top performing team, get rid of anyone who responds with the first statement.

Selling your business does not have to be a terrible and painful experience. 

But you must do these things first 👇🏼

Document all of your systems. 

No investor is going to pay top dollar for a company without documentation. 

Professional management in place. 

If your business cannot run without you, it is a job. Investors buy assets, not jobs.

Clean books. 

Investors want to see strong cash flow. Make it easy for them by keeping clean books that show where the money comes and goes. 

Strong customer relationships/reviews. 

Your business is significantly more valuable if you have a strong customer base. Focus on your customers and you will make a lot more on your exit. 

Build your network. 

Don't wait until you are ready to sell your business to start talking to investors, brokers, etc. Often your investor network will tell you what they are looking to buy and what is valuable to them. Use this information to your advantage. 

Do your own due diligence. 

Make sure you are knowledgeable on the process you are getting involved in. Find a mentor, a business transaction attorney, a solid tax accountant, and a CPA who understands Mergers and Acquisitions (or is accredited in business valuation). 

With the right team, tools, and systems in place you can sell well. 

Thinking about exiting your company in the next 3-5 years? 

Let's talk. 

Shoot me a DM or leave a comment on this post.

Business growth only has two directions…

Up or down. 

This also means:

If your business is not growing.

It’s shrinking. 

Make sure you know which direction you’re going.

The best and worst part of any business…

Is people.

If you run a traditional service-based business, you should follow this equation: 

Revenue > expenses = good (profitable) business

If you don't, you end up with this...

Revenue < expenses = bad (unprofitable) financial anchor

Don't make business more complicated than it has to be. 

Make more money than it costs you to get and service customers and you are winning the game.

It’s not that you don’t have time. 

It’s that you don’t make the right priorities. 

I used to be terribly inefficient and had a low capacity for getting things done. 

My priority? 

I didn’t have any. 

Then I chose to make priorities. 

At the top? 

First, learning how to prioritize.

Second, learning how to be more efficient. 

Then, learning how to leverage. 

Now I do 15x what old me could do, more efficiently, and at higher quality. 

We all have the same amount of time…

Prioritize accordingly.

Business is a sport.

To be great, you need to:

Understand strategy like a chess player

Take calculated risks like a wingsuit skydiver

Stay hard to read like a poker player

Be mentally tough like an MMA fighter

Condition yourself accordingly.

Business mastery starts with the ability to learn... and it never stops.

Want to make more money? 

Provide more value to the marketplace. 

Don’t overcomplicate it.

Without these, your business will fail. 

👇🏼

Aligned Expectations + Accountability 

Enable your team to succeed from day one by providing clear expectations. Clarity is King. 

Hold them to the standards that you aligned on from the start. Without this, culture will flop and your team will backslide. 

Not sure where to start? 

Do this. 

Create clear role descriptions and have a meeting with each team member to create clarity around what is expected of them in their role. 

Create clear Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for their role to define what success looks like. 

Give them the tools and training needed to successfully obtain their KPIs. 

Have clearly defined accountability measures (rewards when achieved, hard conversations and consequences when not achieved). 

A lack of accountability hurts your company and the person who needs accountability. 

Do yourself and your team a huge favor by setting the expectations and keeping everyone accountable.... early and often.

Communication -> Alignment -> Clarity 

This is the essential path for getting the most out of any relationship.

Most individuals and organizations struggle so much with the first, they never get to the next two.

Destructive incompetence.

The silent killer of many SMBs. 

Many business owners tolerate incompetence far too long. 

Reality is, incompetent teams kill far more businesses than any market shift or competitors ever will.

#competentpeopleonly

The best time to make changes in your business is now. 

Small decisions?

Think for 30-60 seconds. Decide. Act.

Big decisions? 

Think on it for 30-60 minutes. Decide. Act.

Major, life-altering, universe splitting decisions?

Think on it for a few hours…

Sleep on it. 

First thing the next day. Decide. Act. 

It is a lot easier to redirect with momentum than it is at a stand still.

Trust, but verify…

If you delegate something to someone, they are responsible. 

But, you are accountable. 

Always follow through and train your team to do the same.

Clarity = more cash 

Here’s why 👇🏼

Customers don’t buy when they’re uncertain. 

Employees don’t work hard when they don’t know what they’re working on. 

Leaders don’t operate with confidence when they’re unclear on where they are leading others to. 

Clarity instills confidence in everyone. 

Give clarity to everyone and watch it turn into cash.

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