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David B.

Top Rated+ Social Media Manager & Meta/TikTok/Google Ads | Team Behind

Top Rated Plus Social Media Manager and founder of NOVA. I run social end to end for hospitality, wellness, events and DTC brands: strategy, reels, design, community, plus Meta, TikTok and Google ads when it's time to scale. 10+ years in, with a creative team of 10 behind me. Message me and I'll come back within one business day with a clear next step. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👋 ABOUT ME Engineer turned marketer. I started NOVA to run marketing the way an operator would: clear strategy, clean execution, honest reporting. You work directly with me. A team of 10 covers strategy, copy, design, video editing, ads and community, so the calendar never slips. Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese. US and EU clients. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📣 SOCIAL MEDIA, OWNED END TO END • Strategy, monthly calendar, scripts and captions • Reels and short video: scripting, editing, hook cards, subtitles • Design for carousels, stories and ads • Community management and DM-to-sale follow-up • Monthly report in plain language, with what we change next Platforms: Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn. 🎯 PAID, WHEN IT'S TIME TO SCALE • Meta and TikTok ads: creative testing, audiences, retargeting, lead gen • Google Search and PMax when the buyer is already searching • Tracking first: GTM, pixel and conversions set up before we spend • Landing-page feedback so the traffic converts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📈 RECENT WORK (2026) ▸ 9,000 to 25,900 followers this year for a luxury villa in Jamaica (1.5M views) ▸ 182,000 accounts reached by one reel for a Cozumel villa, 3,500+ new followers, no paid push ▸ 476,000 views and 6,000 new followers in 2026 for that same villa ▸ 8.7M views and 28,000 new followers across the six Instagram accounts we run (Jan to Oct 2026) ▸ 1.9M views for an LA event-shuttle company, from FIFA World Cup content to concert pushes ▸ 205 leads in three weeks at about $1.35 each: Meta lead ads for US group-stay properties ▸ 400 conversions a week at under $2 each: Google Ads for a wholesale retailer, after the client's own management had cut conversions by 83% ▸ Under $2 a lead on Meta, consistently, and 2x to 5x ROAS on sales campaigns 📚 EARLIER RESULTS ▸ $50k in 90 days for an info-product launch, no ads ▸ $50k+ in bookings for a luxury villa through influencer marketing ▸ 500+ sign-ups in 30 days for a book club ▸ $300 to $5k+ a month in 60 days for a DTC brand (1M+ organic views) ▸ 168% revenue growth to EUR 200k+ for a health and wellness eCommerce on Shopify Happy to walk you through the accounts on a call. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 HOW I WORK ✓ Senior contact, direct: you deal with me, the team handles production ✓ Upwork chat, email or WhatsApp, plus ClickUp so you see every post before it goes out ✓ Fixed monthly packages, no setup fee, month to month ✓ Also available: creative, email automations, landing pages ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📬 NEXT STEP Tell me your goal and your current stack (site, socials, ads). I'll come back with the clearest next step. Portfolio and reviews below.

🇧🇷Niteroi, Brazil$25/hr100% JSS4.66 (20)Since Jan 2023
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$1.7k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#27,499 / 412k
🇧🇷Country#394 / 4,647
Revenue, last 30 days
$2k

Last 6 months: $10k

World#20,681 / 412k
🇧🇷Country#306 / 4,647
Total earnings
$102k

Billed in all: $103k

World#38,141 / 412k
🇧🇷Country#413 / 4,647
Per project
$3.1k

$3.4k in the last 6 months

World#54,073 / 412k
🇧🇷Country#656 / 4,647
Projects, last 6 months
3
100% fixed0% hourly
World#66,482 / 412k
🇧🇷Country#654 / 4,647
Projects in all
33

Across 34 contracts

100% fixed0% hourly
World#89,876 / 412k
🇧🇷Country#634 / 4,647

Earnings, last 30 days

$103k+$2k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$100k$102k$104kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Dotted: longer than usual between two readings.

Skill rankings: Top 4% in Video Editing

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