

Wasim Ullah
Verified Expert in Marketing
Marketing Expert
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal member since November 7, 2022
Wasim is an MCIM-certified marketing director with 11+ years of experience in performance marketing, analytics, AI automation, and generative engine optimization. A Toptal verified expert, he has driven $1+ million in revenue at 40% CVR, reduced CPA by 60% at AXA Gulf, and achieved 10x performance gains through 100+ A/B tests. Wasim builds end-to-end systems using GA4, GTM, n8n, RetellAI, and GHL, and pioneers brand visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- A/B Testing
- AI Automation
- Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
- Google Tag Manager
- Lead Generation
- Marketing Analytics
- Marketing Automation
- Marketing Strategy
Work Experience
Marketing Director
BuyAnyInsurance
- Delivered $1+ million in attributable revenue within 12 months by owning the full growth funnel, including paid media across Google, Meta, and TikTok, bilingual (EN/AR) SEO, landing page conversion rate optimization (CRO), and AI-powered outbound automation.
- Achieved a 40% lead-to-sale conversion rate, which is nearly three times the 8-15% UAE insurance industry benchmark, by deploying over 100 A/B tests, utilizing heatmaps, and conducting multivariate landing page experiments. This resulted in a 10x performance improvement over the baseline.
- Engineered an AI-powered outbound calling system using n8n, RetellAI voice agents, and GoHighLevel CRM, automating renewal and lapsed-lead outreach across thousands of contacts and reducing manual sales effort by 25%.
- Pioneered generative engine optimization (GEO) for the UAE insurance category, securing BuyAnyInsurance rankings across ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity, one of the first UAE comparison platforms to establish AI search visibility.
- Reduced cost per acquisition by 60% and doubled ROAS by restructuring Google Ads and Meta campaign architecture with advanced audience segmentation, automated bidding models, and systematic creative rotation protocols.
- Built a bilingual (English and Arabic) SEO infrastructure across Google and Bing, achieving top-3 rankings for high-intent insurance keywords within 8 months and sustaining organic traffic growth year-over-year.
- Implemented n8n automation workflows connecting GHL CRM, RetellAI voice agents, and Twilio SMS, replacing manual outreach processes and scaling the marketing and sales team's operational capacity without additional headcount.
Marketing Analytics Consultant
Regal Rexnord
- Rebuilt GTM architecture for Regal Rexnord's enterprise Sitecore CMS environment, deploying a comprehensive tag management strategy that resolved persistent GA4 data discrepancies and improved conversion tracking.
- Developed and executed enterprise-grade GTM strategies, configuring tags, triggers, and custom variables to ensure reliable, deduplicated data collection, transforming a historically inconsistent analytics setup into a trusted data source.
- Conducted systematic quality audits of all tracking data, eliminating duplicate event firing and closing attribution gaps that had previously caused CRM-to-GA4 discrepancies across marketing and finance reporting.
- Collaborated directly with marketing and finance stakeholders to align tagging requirements with reporting KPIs, reducing cross-team friction and accelerating reporting turnaround by an estimated 40%.
Performance Marketing Expert
InPerSuit, Inc.
- Configured end-to-end GA4 funnel tracking, Meta Pixel, Google Ads conversion tags, and Zoho CRM integration via Google Tag Manager, establishing InPerSuit's first reliable full-funnel attribution model from ad spend to attorney engagement.
- Launched targeted paid campaigns across three legal verticals (Personal Injury, Business Law, Family Law), managing audience segmentation, creative testing, and conversion optimization across both Meta Business Manager and Google Ads.
- Resolved data discrepancies between GA4 and ad platforms by rebuilding the GTM tag structure with clean custom JavaScript variables, restoring attribution confidence for a startup making its first significant media investments.
- Delivered structured GA4 analytics training to the internal team, enabling the client to independently interpret funnel reports, user segments, and channel ROAS, building lasting in-house capability beyond the engagement.
Marketing Analytics Expert
Abu Dhabi Ports Group
- Established a comprehensive analytics infrastructure across Sitecore and Liana CMS platforms, implementing GA4 event tracking, custom data streams, and goal configurations tailored to the Group's multi-division digital estate.
- Deployed Hootsuite for enterprise social media management, centralizing monitoring, scheduling, and performance reporting across multiple subsidiary brands and channels.
- Designed and delivered executive dashboards consolidating data from GA4, paid media, and social platforms, enabling the marketing leadership team to make real-time, evidence-based budget and campaign decisions.
Digital Marketing Expert
University of California, Davis
- Achieved a 30x improvement in campaign effectiveness by designing and executing a multi-channel social media strategy across LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter, transforming the research department's digital presence.
- Produced and distributed high-quality multimedia content showcasing research initiatives in the agricultural environment, growing follower engagement, and LinkedIn visibility for the department's scientists and programs.
- Implemented keyword research and SEO best practices tailored to academic and research audiences, improving organic search rankings for department content and driving sustained inbound traffic growth.
Performance Marketing Lead
AXA Gulf
- Cut cost per acquisition by 60% across four GCC markets by restructuring paid media campaigns with advanced audience segmentation, negative keyword suppression, and App Store Optimization (ASO) strategies.
- Doubled ROI within 6 months by overhauling Google Ads and Meta campaign architecture, introducing creative rotation protocols, automated bidding, and quarterly performance forecasting for each market.
- Built comprehensive multi-market dashboards in Looker Studio tracking KPIs across the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman, enabling real-time budget reallocation and reducing campaign reporting turnaround from days to hours.
- Managed App Store Optimization (ASO) for AXA Gulf's mobile products, improving organic app store rankings and driving sustainable app install growth alongside paid acquisition.
- Delivered quarterly marketing forecasts aligned with each market's seasonality, competitive landscape, and product performance, providing the data foundation for senior leadership's annual budget planning.
Marketing Analytics Specialist
Hearst
- Delivered 3x ROI for Harper's Bazaar digital advertising by restructuring ad targeting strategies and optimizing creative performance through data-driven attribution modeling built in Looker Studio.
- Resolved critical GA4-to-Facebook Ads Manager data discrepancies for Hearst Technology's PWA website, identifying root causes in GTM tag configuration and implementing a corrected tracking framework.
- Collaborated with Hearst's Data, Analytics, and Finance teams on custom GA4 reporting, providing actionable insights that directly informed media budget allocation decisions at the executive level.
- Conducted a comprehensive GA4 setup assessment, rectifying event tracking gaps and configuring custom dashboards that gave the marketing team a reliable, real-time view of campaign and editorial performance.
Digital Marketing Manager
BuyAnyInsurance
- Achieved top-3 Google rankings for high-intent UAE insurance keywords within 8 months through a structured bilingual (EN/AR) SEO strategy, generating sustained organic traffic that reduced paid acquisition dependency.
- Delivered a 40% lead-to-sale conversion rate and 2x ROI by designing and optimizing landing pages, ad creatives, and audience targeting across Google, Meta, and email channels.
- Ran 100+ A/B tests using Microsoft Clarity, heatmaps, and custom landing page variants, achieving a 10x improvement in performance and establishing the CRO culture that underpins the platform today.
- Designed and deployed drip email campaigns integrating behavioral triggers and customer segmentation, improving lead nurture efficiency by 35% and increasing email-driven conversion rates.
- Reduced CPA by 60% relative to baseline through continuous bid strategy refinement, creative testing, and systematic funnel optimization.
Senior Digital Branding Specialist
Vudu Advertising
- Managed through-the-line (TTL) marketing campaigns for 8 multinational clients simultaneously, spanning brand strategy, digital advertising, social media management, and creative production using Adobe Creative Suite.
- Developed integrated brand strategies coordinating cross-functional teams of designers, copywriters, and media buyers, delivering campaigns on time and on brief for enterprise clients, including Fujifilm and IFFCO.
- Worked on over 20 projects as a solo expert across their marketing collateral, digital presence, and website development.
Digital Media Lead
CFE Group of Colleges
- Tripled lead volume within 12 months by implementing a structured off-page SEO and content marketing strategy — growing the institution's organic search presence from minimal visibility to a dominant position in the Pakistani education sector.
- Drove MOOC adoption by executing targeted digital campaigns on social media and email, introducing online learning to a new student segment and increasing enrolments beyond traditional classroom capacity.
- Created viral social media campaigns generating significant organic reach and brand awareness across Facebook and LinkedIn, contributing to a measurable increase in applications.
Marketing Associate
Imanagers
- Participated in marketing planning for 20+ clients and launched their organic social media campaigns.
- Created advertisement content that generated two times better online user engagement.
- Conducted guest posting and market research, including focus groups and quantitative research, to uncover opportunities on digital channels tailored to client needs, leading to customer acquisition and generating millions in revenue.
Project History
60% CPA Reduction Across 4 GCC Markets
- 60% — CPA Reduction
- 2x — ROI Improvement
- 4 — GCC Markets Managed Simultaneously
AXA Gulf’s digital campaigns were generating leads at high cost with inconsistent performance across the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman. There was no unified forecasting framework, campaigns lacked negative keyword management, and creative fatigue was degrading results, making it impossible to allocate budgets efficiently across markets.
Rebuilt the campaign architecture market by market, introducing audience segmentation layers, negative keyword suppression, automated bidding models, and quarterly performance forecasting. Multi-market Looker Studio dashboards enabled real-time budget reallocation. ASO was added to reduce paid install dependency and diversify acquisition channels.
Within 6 months, CPA dropped 60%, and ROI doubled across all four markets. Forecasting models were adopted by senior leadership for annual planning, elevating marketing’s strategic influence within the organization.
$1+ Million Revenue — AI-powered Lead Generation System
- $1+ Million — In Attributable Revenue
- 40% — Conversion Rate (vs. 8–15% Industry Average)
- 10x — Performance Improvement via A/B Testing
- 60% — Reduction in Cost Per Acquisition
BuyAnyInsurance needed to scale lead acquisition in a competitive UAE insurance market while improving conversion rates and reducing reliance on expensive paid acquisition. Campaigns targeted a bilingual (English/Arabic) audience across car, health, and travel insurance, with no reliable analytics infrastructure or conversion optimization framework in place.
Redesigned the conversion architecture from the ground up. Implemented GA4 and GTM event tracking to capture granular user behaviour, then used Microsoft Clarity heatmaps and 100+ iterative A/B tests across landing pages, CTAs, and form flows. Simultaneously deployed an AI outbound calling system using n8n, RetellAI, and GoHighLevel CRM to automate renewal outreach at scale. A bilingual GEO strategy was added to capture AI search visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
CVR reached 40%, nearly 3x the 8–15% UAE insurance industry benchmark. The system delivered $1+ million in attributable revenue. A/B testing program achieved a 10x performance improvement. The AI outbound calling system handles 1,000+ contacts daily.
AI Outbound Calling System
- 1,000+ — Contacts Processed Per Day at Peak
- 25% — Reduction in Manual Sales Effort
BuyAnyInsurance had thousands of lapsed insurance leads in GoHighLevel CRM being manually re-engaged — an unsustainable process that couldn’t scale without significant headcount increases. Relying on human resources would waste time and money.
Designed a 3-workflow n8n automation architecture: a daily cron workflow extracting lapsed leads from GHL and triggering RetellAI voice agent calls at controlled concurrency; a webhook handler processing call outcomes and updating GHL contact records with tags, notes, and custom fields; a weekly retry workflow for follow-up sequences. A tag state machine enabled intelligent segmentation and phased rollout from 10 to 1,000 daily contacts.
The system scaled from 10 to 1,000+ contacts per day while reducing manual sales effort by 25%. The tag-based segmentation (llr, ai-called, ai-renewal-captured/ai-llr-followup, ai-lost-lead) created a self-managing pipeline.
GA4 & GTM Implementation
- 100% — Patient Scheduling Funnel Visibility Achieved
Eagan Counseling Clinic needed accurate tracking of the patient scheduling journey to understand drop-off points and improve online appointment bookings, a critical revenue driver for the practice, with no existing analytics infrastructure.
Set up GTM and integrated with GA4, architecting detailed event tracking across each step of the scheduling funnel. Configured custom GA4 exploration reports visualizing the full patient journey and identified key drop-off points. Reports were designed for the clinic’s non-technical marketing team to use independently.
The clinic gained full visibility into the patient scheduling funnel for the first time, identifying specific drop-off points for CRO prioritisation. The reporting setup was designed for non-technical users.
Other Experience
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
University of the Punjab - Lahore, Pakistan
Certifications
Marketing and Brand Strategy
The Chartered Institute of Marketing
AI Search Optimization Masterclass
Surfer
AI-Powered Performance Ads Certification
Google Analytics Certification
CXL Certified Optimizer
CXL
Skills
Core
Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Marketing Analytics, Marketing Automation, Marketing Strategy, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Lead Generation, Digital Marketing, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Social Media Strategy, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Go-to-market (GTM) Strategies, Growth Hacking, Marketing Research & Analysis, Performance Marketing, Email Marketing, SEO Marketing, Content Strategy, Google SEO, Local SEO, Metadata, SEO Audits, Funnel Marketing, Marketing Operations, Landing Pages, Email Marketing Automation, LinkedIn Marketing, Funnel Optimization, Paid Advertising, LinkedIn Ads, A/B Testing, Campaign Management, Marketing Technology (MarTech), Content Marketing, Social Media Content, Social Media Management, Social Media Marketing (SMM), TikTok Ads, Influencer Marketing, TikTok Marketing, Copywriting, SEO Backlinking, Content Creation
Platforms & Tools
Google Ad Manager, Google Analytics, Google Analytics 4 (GA4), Meta Platform, CRM Systems, Marketo, Looker Studio
Business Models
B2C, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), B2B2C, B2B, SaaS, Business to Business (B2B), Business to Consumer (B2C)
Technical
Google Search Console, CSS, HTML, JavaScript
Other
Meta Ads, Customer Acquisition, AI Automation, Microsoft Power BI, Data Analysis, Growth Strategy, High Net Worth Lead Generation, Growth Marketing, Survey Development & Analysis, Business Analytics, Dashboards, Event Tracking, WordPress, GoHighLevel, Communication Management, Startups, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), User Behavioral Analytics (UBA), Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), Lifetime Value (LTV), Go-to-market Execution, Artificial Intelligence (AI), B2B Sales Management, Apollo, Paid Media, Retargeting Pixels, Vibe Coding, B2B Lead Generation, Outbound Marketing, Fintech, Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), Surveys, Workflow, Semrush, Technical SEO, eCommerce SEO, SEO with AI, Webflow, Surfer SEO (GEO), Google Tag Manager (GTM), GoHighLevel (GHL), n8n, RetellAI, Paid Acquisition, Website Audits, Customer Journey, Reporting
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