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Founder, Marvellous Performance

Ten years of growing businesses on the numbers their owners actually care about: bookings, deposits, subscriptions and revenue, not clicks.

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years growing businesses

countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, the UK and the US

Up to

a month in Google Ads budgets

The Person Who Set Your Strategy Watches Your Numbers

At most agencies, the senior people win the account and juniors run it. Here, our founder oversees every account, and a senior account manager runs it day to day.

That means the person who set your strategy is the one watching whether it works. When something needs changing, it doesn’t wait for a junior to notice and escalate.

Our founder

Oversees every account.

The person who set your strategy is the one watching whether it works.

A senior account manager

Runs it day to day.

When something needs changing, it doesn't wait for a junior to notice and escalate.

What Ten Years Looks Like

Travel bookings

Our work

A premium travel brand

100+ campaigns consolidated to 10, ROAS from 0.67x in April 2025 to 6.11x in November 2025, on 58% less spend.

Our founder's work

A UK tour operator

Revenue up 33% and ROAS up 31% month on month, on the same budget.

Our founder's work

A Nigerian online travel agency

Abandoned bookings recovered at a 60% rate, with acquisition cost down 25%.

Apps

Our founder's work

A Nigerian online travel agency's app

Downloads up 1,500% year on year, in-app bookings up 200%, and the uninstall rate down by about 70%.

Our founder's work

A bus travel app across Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda

Downloads and registered users up 400% within a month, acquisition cost down 75%, and completed bookings up 200% within 6 months.

Our founder's work

A language-learning app

Free users up 40% month on month for 6 months straight, and paid subscriptions up 30%.

Fintech

Our founder's work

A regulated South African lending marketplace

On the same $1.6 million budget, incremental risk-approved activations up 17.4% and cost per incremental activation down 14.8%.

Our founder's work

A crypto exchange

First deposits up 35% from a remarketing strategy.

SaaS

Our work

A US SaaS platform

Cost per subscription from $255 to $69.86.

Scale

Our founder's work

Budgets

Has managed Google Ads budgets of up to $2m a month, and worked on accounts spending up to $50.4 million a year across Google and Meta. Led a digital team with an annual budget of over $3 million.

Our founder's workApps01

A US food delivery app

The problem

Operating in 28 metros, it had to win more first-order customers with the budget frozen. Platform-reported numbers were no longer accepted: only deduplicated customers the ads actually caused counted, and payback had to stay under six months.

What changed

One definition of a new customer across Google and Meta, counted once. Budget moved weekly by marginal return, and spend was timed to the months when demand was high and ads were cheap.

Incremental new customers

Cost per incremental customer

Payback: about 4.5 months, every month inside the six-month limit.

The result, Year 1 to Year 2, on the same $14.69 million

Incremental new customers+20.3%
Year 1
418,879
Year 2
503,767
Cost per incremental customer−16.9%
Year 1
$35.07
Year 2
$29.16

Lower is better.

MeasureYear 1Year 2Change
Incremental new customers418,879503,767+20.3%
Cost per incremental customer$35.07$29.16−16.9%

Payback about 4.5 months, every month inside the six-month limit.

Our founder's workE-commerce02

A US DTC brand

The problem

The dashboards looked strong. Restated on what the ads actually caused, after returns and fulfilment, profit was far lower, and Meta was losing money once existing customers and view-through were stripped out.

What changed

Spend on warm audiences and existing customers cut back where it lost money at the margin, new-customer prospecting protected, and Google scaled where the next dollar still returned more than it cost. Halo effects, such as brand search, were measured separately and never counted towards the goal.

Incremental contribution after ads

New-customer share of orders, from 50.2%

Budget, the same both years

The result, Year 1 to Year 2, on the same $50.4 million

Incremental contribution after ads+15.5%
Year 1
$10.72m
Year 2
$12.39m
New-customer share of ordersup
Year 1
50.2%
Year 2
53.1%
MeasureYear 1Year 2Change
Incremental contribution after ads$10.72m$12.39m+15.5%
New-customer share of orders50.2%53.1%up

Meta was still losing money at the end, but less: from −$2.57 million to −$1.75 million, while still bringing in most of the new customers.

Where

Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States. E-commerce, travel, fintech, SaaS, mobility and education.

Written down

Two books on the method: First 90 Days of Growth, and Google Ads Mastery.

Credentials

  • Executive MBA, Rome Business School
  • B.Sc. Medical Biochemistry, Delta State University
  • Google Ads certified in Search, Display, Shopping, App and Video
  • HubSpot and product-led growth certifications

Start With A Conversation About Your Numbers

If you'd like your account run by the people who've done this before, start with a conversation about your numbers.