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Milan D.

Milan D.

Creative Strategist for DTC Brands | Meta Ad Concepts That Convert

If You're Tired of Guessing Which Ads Will Work, You're in the Right Place. I help DTC ecommerce brands build research-driven creative strategies that increase the odds of finding winning Meta ads. Unlike many freelancers who jump straight into writing hooks or UGC scripts, I start where high-performing creatives actually begin: customer psychology. Every strategy I create is built around understanding: • Who your customer really is • What they're feeling • Why they're buying now • What they've already tried • Which messages actually resonate • Which angles your competitors are ignoring The result isn't just "more creatives." It's a repeatable creative system your team can use to consistently produce better-performing ads. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY BRANDS WORK WITH ME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I don't rely on inspiration. I rely on research. Every project starts by understanding your market before a single script is written. That includes: • Market Awareness Analysis • Market Sophistication Analysis • Voice of Customer Research • Customer Avatar Development • Reddit, Amazon, TikTok & YouTube Research • Competitor Psychology Analysis • Emotional Messaging Development • Creative Angle Development • Hook Ideation • Creative Testing Roadmaps Instead of asking: "What ad should we make?" I answer: "What message is this market most likely to respond to?" That's what separates winning creatives from expensive guesses. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT I DELIVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Every strategy is designed to help your creative team produce ads with stronger market fit. Services include: ✓ Voice of Customer Research ✓ Customer Avatar Development ✓ Customer Journey Mapping ✓ Market Awareness & Sophistication Analysis ✓ Competitor Creative Research ✓ Creative Angle Development ✓ Hook Libraries ✓ UGC Video Concepts ✓ Static Ad Concepts ✓ Storyboards & Creative Briefs ✓ Meta Ad Messaging Strategy ✓ Landing Page Messaging Alignment ✓ Creative Testing Plans ✓ Ongoing Creative Strategy Consulting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MY PROCESS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 1: RESEARCH I analyze your customers across Reddit, Amazon reviews, TikTok, YouTube comments, Facebook Groups, competitor ads, and your existing funnel to uncover the language, emotions, objections, and buying triggers that drive purchasing decisions. STEP 2: STRATEGY I identify underserved customer avatars, uncover ownable positioning, map customer awareness levels, and develop multiple creative angles tailored to your market. STEP 3: CREATIVE DIRECTION I turn that research into actionable deliverables your creative team can execute immediately. This includes: • Hooks • Scripts • UGC Concepts • Static Ad Concepts • Messaging Frameworks • Offer Positioning • Creative Briefs • Landing Page Messaging ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MY BACKGROUND ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I've spent 2 years running my own ecommerce brands, giving me a practical understanding of what actually drives profitable growth. I understand: ✔ CPA Targets ✔ ROAS ✔ Creative Fatigue ✔ Offer Positioning ✔ Customer Objections ✔ Scaling Meta Campaigns ✔ Landing Page Alignment I don't create ads for engagement. I create strategies designed to generate profitable sales. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RESULTS I HELP BRANDS ACHIEVE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My work is designed to help brands: • Discover new winning ad angles • Improve creative performance • Increase CTR • Improve Conversion Rate • Lower Customer Acquisition Cost • Reduce creative fatigue • Build scalable creative testing systems • Align ads with landing pages • Scale winning creatives with confidence ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CORE SKILLS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Creative Strategy • Meta Ads • Voice of Customer Research • Customer Research • Customer Avatars • Market Awareness • Market Sophistication • Competitor Research • Creative Angles • Hook Development • UGC Scripts • Static Ad Concepts • Creative Briefs • Landing Page Messaging • Offer Positioning • Creative Testing Strategy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LET'S BUILD YOUR NEXT WINNING CREATIVE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The best-performing ads aren't created by luck. They're built on understanding the customer. If you're looking for a creative strategist who combines customer research, psychology, and performance marketing to build ads with a strong strategic foundation, I'd love to help. Send me a message, and let's discuss how we can improve your creative performance.

🇲🇪Podgorica, Montenegro$85/hr40% JSS5.00 (5)Since Jan 2018

Earnings and projects

MRR
$144

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#124,611 / 412k
🇲🇪Country#107 / 393
Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $866

Total earnings
$39k

Billed in all: $39k

World#92,785 / 412k
🇲🇪Country#146 / 393
Per project
$3.5k

$866 in the last 6 months

World#48,495 / 412k
🇲🇪Country#85 / 393
Projects, last 6 months
1
100% fixed0% hourly
World#128,092 / 412k
🇲🇪Country#89 / 393
Projects in all
11
91% fixed9% hourly
World#192,417 / 412k
🇲🇪Country#201 / 393

Earnings, last 30 days

$38.7kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$38.0k$38.5k$39.0k$39.5kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 21% in Creative Writing

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