Consumer Health Wearables · Marketing Director + Equity Partner · 2025 - Present
2x channel revenue in 60 days.
3x monthly profit contribution in Q1.
Situation
Russian consumer health-wearables brand, smartwatches with blood-pressure and ECG monitoring for senior-care segment. Strong product, weak commercial engine. Performance budget sat in low-conversion channels, brand was undertelling its medical credibility, lifecycle was reactive not driven.
The team had run on best-effort tactics for two years. No unified funnel view, no P&L attribution per channel, no brand layer feeding paid acquisition.
Action
Stepped in as Marketing Director, also took equity partner position. Did three things in parallel:
Rebuilt the funnel from cold-traffic to retention. Mapped every touch point to LTV, killed channels under the threshold, doubled spend in the two that scaled.
Repositioned the brand around medical credibility, not lifestyle. Senior-care buyers are skeptical of wearables. Showing the ECG data and clinical use cases moved the consideration needle visibly.
Built the analytics stack from scratch, channel-level CAC, cohort-level LTV, monthly P&L per channel. Made the P&L the operating language, not vanity metrics.
Result
Doubled the key acquisition channel revenue in the first 60 days post-restructure. Tripled monthly profit contribution by end of Q1. Lifecycle went from reactive to a 4-touch automated sequence that lifts repurchase visibly.
Performance budget rebalanced from 70/30 ineffective/effective to 30/70. Same total spend, very different output.
Lesson
For senior-care wearables, medical credibility is the brand moat. The temptation is to lifestyle-market because lifestyle ads are cheap. The data was clear: clinical-use copy outperforms lifestyle copy 2.5x on consideration metrics with the 50+ buyer.
Don't optimize the funnel before fixing the positioning. I spent three weeks on positioning before touching paid spend, and that's why paid spend doubled in output.
Funnel Diagnostic Tool
Below, a simplified version of the funnel diagnostic tool I use in engagements. Pick a stage, see what I would investigate first.
Before optimizing CPC, check if the offer is even legible.
What I'd investigate first
- Is the headline a verb (action) or a noun (category)? Verbs convert. Nouns describe.
- Does the landing page hero answer "what does this do for me in the next 60 seconds" or does it describe the product?
- Are you A/B testing copy or just creative? Copy moves CTR more than creative on average.
The pattern
Most cold-traffic problems are actually positioning problems wearing a CPC mask.