LinkedIn Marketing Strategy Certification
LinkedIn Marketing Academy
Strategic Growth Marketing · B2B Technology
I work across strategic marketing, demand generation and commercial alignment — translating customer and market insight into integrated campaigns, stronger customer journeys and measurable growth.
What I do
Connecting business goals, audience insight and positioning into campaigns that work across the channels where customers actually engage.
Building focused routes to demand through audience segmentation, account-based thinking, paid and organic activation, and close sales collaboration.
Designing joined-up journeys that turn interest into meaningful conversations, with the right message, timing and handoff at every stage.
Using campaign, funnel and customer data to understand performance, spot opportunities and make better decisions about where to focus next.
Selected work
Years across marketing, go-to-market and the commercial side taught me how customers evaluate solutions, how sales teams communicate value and how markets respond to different messages.
About
I am Elsa, a strategic growth marketing professional based in Porto and working in B2B SaaS. My path through marketing, sales and go-to-market gives me a practical view of customers, funnels and commercial teams — from shaping the strategy to making it perform.
How I think about marketing
I believe most marketing fails for the same reason: it starts with the channel instead of the customer. My work starts the other way around. I listen to how buyers actually describe their problem, I find the segments that genuinely fit, and only then do I decide what to say, where to say it, and what is worth investing in.
Good strategy, to me, starts where a customer need meets a business goal. That is the decision I care about most: not just what to say, but where marketing should focus, which priorities deserve the investment, and how the plan connects back to what the business is trying to achieve.
My story did not start in go-to-market. It started in marketing: a degree in Marketing, then early roles in branding, communication, campaigns and digital, later complemented by UX and design thinking. From there I moved into sales and go-to-market in B2B SaaS, and spent years learning the commercial side from the inside. Today I can bring those perspectives together.
Career
Education
Postgraduate, Web Design & UX
ESMAD, Porto
Postgraduate, Business Management
ISCAP, Porto
Degree in Marketing
ISCAP, Porto
Growth Marketing in Practice
A selection of projects across market prioritisation, positioning, demand generation and partner enablement. Some details are kept general to respect the confidentiality of the companies involved.
Market Prioritisation & Demand Generation
The challenge
A B2B technology business was pursuing growth across markets with different levels of maturity. The task was to create a consistent approach without treating every market, audience or opportunity as the same.
The strategic question
Where should the team focus demand-generation effort, and what needed to change by market to make that focus commercially relevant?
My contribution
I combined campaign, CRM and market signals to identify higher-potential segments. I helped refine ICP considerations, audience priorities and messaging direction, then translated these decisions into more focused campaign activity across markets.
Tools & workflow
Amplemarket · HubSpot · Salesforce · Power BI · Monday · Seismic · Claude · ChatGPT. I used campaign and CRM platforms for activation and analysis, Power BI to make patterns easier to discuss, and Monday and Seismic to coordinate work and sales assets. Claude and ChatGPT supported project organisation and repeatable task automation.
Impact
Increased lead generation by 20% over six months by replacing broad activity with more focused market and segment priorities.
What this demonstrates
Market prioritisation · Campaign planning · CRM-led analysis · Commercial alignment
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Request it →Lead Generation & Lead Quality Optimisation
Objective
Increase the proportion of sales-qualified leads by improving qualification criteria, alignment and conversion paths.
Context
The business generated a healthy volume of leads, but many failed to progress through the funnel. Marketing and sales were using different definitions of a qualified lead, creating friction and reducing efficiency.
Approach
I worked with both teams to review qualification criteria, align definitions across the funnel and identify where quality was being lost. We refined lead qualification, adjusted targeting and improved conversion paths to attract prospects that better matched the ICP.
Measurement
Performance was measured through lead quality, conversion rates and progression through the pipeline rather than lead volume alone.
Reflection
This experience taught me that generating more leads is not always the answer. The real challenge is generating the right leads. Clear qualification criteria often have a greater impact than simply increasing campaign activity.
Impact
+5% conversion rate and improved lead quality across the funnel.
Tools & workflow
HubSpot · Salesforce · Monday · Seismic. I used CRM and pipeline signals to support the qualification review, coordinated workstreams in Monday and kept supporting sales materials accessible through Seismic.
What this demonstrates
Lead-quality optimisation · Funnel alignment · CRM operations · Sales enablement
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Request it →Lead Generation & Market Prioritisation
Objective
Improve lead generation by focusing resources on the markets and segments with the strongest potential.
Context
Lead volume was below expectations and marketing efforts were spread across multiple audiences. The challenge was understanding where demand existed and where resources would have the greatest impact.
Strategy
I analysed campaign performance, customer data and market behaviour to identify higher-potential segments. From there, I refined ICP definitions, adjusted targeting and aligned priorities across teams to focus on the opportunities most likely to convert.
Measurement
Success was measured through lead volume, engagement and overall campaign contribution to pipeline generation.
Reflection
This project reinforced how important prioritisation is. Growth rarely comes from doing more of everything. It comes from focusing effort where customer fit and business opportunity overlap.
Impact
+20% increase in lead generation over six months.
Tools & workflow
HubSpot · Salesforce · Power BI · Monday · Seismic. I combined campaign and CRM data to guide prioritisation, used Power BI to make performance patterns easier to discuss, and coordinated execution and sales assets across the team.
What this demonstrates
Segmentation · Demand generation · Performance reporting · Cross-functional execution
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Request it →Partner Acquisition & Enablement
Objective
Increase partner engagement and support channel growth through positioning, communication and enablement.
Context
Partners play a key role in growth, but they need to understand the value proposition quickly and feel confident communicating it to their own customers.
Approach
I developed enablement materials, took part in recruitment conversations and collaborated on joint go-to-market initiatives. The focus was helping partners adopt the message and feel more confident communicating it.
Reflection
Working with partners reinforced an idea I still apply today: a message is only truly ready when other people can repeat it and communicate it with confidence.
Tools & workflow
Seismic · Amplemarket · Salesforce. I used Seismic to organise enablement materials, Amplemarket to support outreach activity and Salesforce to maintain visibility of partner and commercial context.
What this demonstrates
Partner marketing · Sales enablement · Outreach support · Shared value proposition
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Request it →Brand Repositioning Campaign
Objective
Increase perceived value and attract higher-quality demand by repositioning the brand around a more premium market position.
Context
The brand operated in a competitive environment where competing on price would have been difficult to sustain. The challenge was to create differentiation through positioning rather than discounts.
Strategy
The strategy focused on clarifying the brand proposition, refining the target audience and prioritising the channels most likely to reach and influence that audience. Every communication decision was aligned with the desired market perception.
Execution
I planned and coordinated communication initiatives across digital channels, including paid media, content, email marketing and website optimisation, ensuring consistency between positioning and execution.
Impact
Increased sign-ups by approximately 7% over six months, while maintaining consistently strong participation in events and activities.
Tools & workflow
GA4 · Google Tag Manager · Meta Ads · Semrush. I used these tools to support channel activation, track campaign and website behaviour, and identify search and content opportunities that could strengthen the repositioning.
What this demonstrates
Positioning activation · Paid media · SEO and content insight · Marketing measurement
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Request it →Tools & Certifications
The platforms and continuous learning that support my work across market insight, go-to-market, demand generation and commercial alignment.
CRM & Revenue Operations
Analytics & Reporting
Marketing & Automation
Web & Content
Research & Collaboration
Design & Creative
AI & Productivity
Continuous learning
LinkedIn Marketing Academy
Udemy
Semrush
Semrush
HubSpot Academy
Approach
I work from the outside in: understand the customer and commercial goal, shape the message and plan, activate the right channels and journeys, then measure what moves demand and pipeline.
Strategy does not start with the customer alone, it starts where a customer need meets a business goal. I begin by understanding both: who has the problem and how they describe it, and what the business is actually trying to achieve.
From that understanding I build two things: clear positioning, what we stand for, who we are for and why we win, and a plan that sets priorities. Deciding what comes first, which segments and channels deserve the investment, is as much the work as the message itself.
Positioning only matters if it reaches the market. I translate it into the materials sales, partners and campaigns actually use, so the same clear story shows up everywhere a buyer meets the product.
I stay close to what happens next, and measure it against the business objective, not just activity: what resonates, what sales hear, what contributes to growth. I use the numbers to sharpen the positioning, the priorities and the plan over time.
What I bring that is different
What makes my perspective different is where I learned it. I have worked across marketing, sales and go-to-market, so I understand customers, commercial teams, positioning, execution and growth, and how they connect. That is the perspective I bring: a more complete view of how marketing actually drives a business.
Contact
Whether it is a role, a project, or you would like the full case studies, I would love to hear from you.