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Akshay Milind S.

Creative Strategy + Static Ads Expert | Meta Ads | Graphic Designer

The creative strategy and static ads I've made for a wellness brand have helped them scale past $1.4M a month. I'm a creative strategist first and a static ad designer second. I've also scaled my own ecommerce stores past six figures a month, with my own money. So I know what an ad has to do: turn cold traffic into buyers. Making it look good is the easy part. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗨𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗦𝗢 𝗙𝗔𝗥 📈 Wellness brand: scaled past $1.4M a month. 3 of my statics alone brought in $304K in 5 weeks, at a 7.5x return 📈 Apparel brand: store sales grew from €12K to €150K+ a month in 90 days, while ad spend grew 13x 📈 Eyewear brand: cost per sale cut from $194 to $91 in 60 days, and return doubled (0.93x to 1.83x) 📈 Footwear brand: one static ad drove 1,096 sales and $84K in 6 weeks 📈 Clients include Ireland's biggest protein bar brand and one of Australia's biggest skincare brands 📈 Deep experience in health and wellness, supplements, skincare, weight loss, apparel, footwear and eyewear 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗜𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦 1️⃣ Know your buyer - I dig through your reviews, Reddit threads, Facebook groups and the ads your competitors are scaling, to find the buyers and reasons to buy they've missed. You'll know exactly who buys from you and what makes them buy. 2️⃣ Concepts worth testing - This is where I add the most value. Using my own creative strategy framework, I turn each buyer and their reason to buy into a concept ready to test. Every idea starts from a real customer and a message that's already working in your market, not a guess from a brainstorm. 3️⃣ A clear testing plan - I plan each concept across different ad formats and every stage of awareness, from people who don't know they have the problem yet to people ready to buy today. Every ad has a job, so every dollar teaches you something about your buyer. 4️⃣ Ads that look like your brand - I design every static from scratch around your brand, with headlines in your customer's own words. Scroll-stopping, never a template. 5️⃣ Feedback & Learnings - When an ad wins, I build fresh versions on the same message, so it keeps scaling instead of burning out. 𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗙𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗦 𝗜 𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗜𝗗, 𝗦𝗢 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗔 𝗣𝗨𝗥𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘 ❌ Pretty ads with no clear message behind them ❌ Random ads with no plan, which teach your account nothing ❌ Copy-paste templates your customer has already seen 50 times today ❌ AI slop: AI helps me create scenes, but your real product is always the reference ❌ Treating statics as "just for testing". Mine scale: the 3 above kept spending for 5 weeks at a 7.5x return 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗔 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗙𝗜𝗧 𝗜𝗙 → You're a DTC brand on Meta that needs a steady flow of new concepts, not just more ads → You're an agency that needs strategy and design for your clients, with no hand-holding → You're stuck at a spend ceiling because your ads keep burning out 𝗟𝗘𝗧'𝗦 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗗 Click "Hire Me" or invite me to your project, and tell me about your brand and what you want to achieve. Happy to jump on a quick call if it helps. Thanks! Akshay

🇮🇳Pune, India$34/hr100% JSS5.00 (3)Since Nov 2025
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$830

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#56,360 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#6,157 / 45.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$509

Last 6 months: $5k

World#62,313 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#6,566 / 45.9k
Total earnings
$7.1k

Billed in all: $7.3k

World#225,452 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#27,538 / 45.9k
Per project
$416

$332 in the last 6 months

World#200,250 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#24,659 / 45.9k
Projects, last 6 months
15

Across 16 contracts

81% fixed19% hourly
World#9,890 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#1,411 / 45.9k
Projects in all
17

Across 18 contracts

83% fixed17% hourly
World#149,089 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#20,954 / 45.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$7.3k+$509 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$6.5k$7.0k$7.5kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 10% in Adobe Illustrator

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