Professional profile

Senior growth marketer with hands-on PPC, SEO and marketing leadership experience.

13 years across client projects and my own e-commerce businesses. Reviewed 100+ ad accounts, with peak monthly ad spend above US$50k. I bring a business owner's perspective to margins, costs and operational capacity.

Black-and-white portrait of Jan Połednik

Selected results

2×

B2B leads doubled with better quality at the same cost per lead.

< 20 %

Ad spend as a share of revenue for an e-shop with 8,000+ products, against a 33 % limit.

50 → 1,421

Tracked keywords in Google's top 3 within three months for a food e-shop, same tracked set.

9 % / ≤ 15 %

As CMO: total ad spend as a share of revenue in peak season / off-season, against a 20 % cap. Not ROAS, not profit margin.

Professional experience

External and overlapping engagements, not parallel full-time jobs.

  1. 2020 – present

    Independent marketing consulting

    PPC/SEO consulting and audits. Current projects are recent examples; not all have run since 2020.

  2. 2024 – 2026

    Milujeme Krétu — CMO

    Marketing, sales and operations; ad spend 9 % of revenue in season / max 15 % off-season against a 20 % cap; AI-assisted CRM and ordering workflows.

  3. 08/2022 – 01/2026

    Aranysexternal

    External marketing lead, PPC, SEO and coordination; Smilingbaby and Mumma projects.

  4. 08/2023 – 06/2025

    Fingeraexternal

    External PPC, SEO and AI; Czech campaigns and consulting for the Slovak market.

Earlier business ownership

  1. 2016 – 2020

    Sambuko — founder

    Actively ran the e-shop. Still the owner; a hired manager runs daily operations.

  2. 2014

    Pink Robin

    First own e-shop, later sold.

Current projects

Tools

Advertising & data
Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Meta, Sklik, Google Analytics, Looker Studio
SEO
Screaming Frog, Google Search Console, Ahrefs, Collabim, SEMrush, Ubersuggest
Product data
Google Merchant Center, Mergado, XML rules, feed segmentation and fixes
AI & building
ChatGPT, Lovable, Claude, Gemini API and custom prompts; CRM and internal tools

Languages

Czech native · English C1 · Spanish A2 · Polish A1

International experience: Iceland, Ireland, the UAE and the Czech Republic.

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