Vishnu Balan, arms crossed, smiling

Digital Marketing Team Lead at Cutting Chaai, Kochi. I plan and run paid media that turns attention into enquiries, bookings and orders.

About

Brands bring a budget and a target. I close the distance.

Seven years of running Meta and Google campaigns for hotels, car brands, Ayurveda, restaurants and quick commerce.

I write the media plan, build the landing page when there isn't one, and report back in numbers a client's finance team can trust. At Cutting Chaai I lead the team that does this every day.

Outside client work, I teach performance marketing as a guest lecturer at Dotin Digital Academy.

2019Running paid media since
12Brands in the portfolio
KochiBased in Edapalli
Approach

How a campaign moves.

Every rupee goes through the same four stages. The work is making sure fewer of them leak out between each one.

1

Reach

Find the people worth paying for. Audience research, creative angles and a budget split that matches how long the customer takes to decide.

2

Click

Earn the visit. Ad copy, formats and offers tested against each other rather than guessed.

3

Convert

Make the next step easy. Lead forms, landing pages, WhatsApp and checkout flows built to actually be finished.

4

Return

Count what came back. Spend tracked against bookings, test drives and sales, then the plan is rewritten for next month.

Selected work

Different shelves, same discipline.

Twelve brands I've worked with, from five-star hotels to ten-minute delivery.

Automotive

EVM MINI Cooper

Premium cars, sold through Kerala's MINI dealership.

Hospitality

Kochi Marriott

Five-star stays, dining and events in Kochi.

Ayurveda

Kottakkal Arya Vaidyasala

Kerala's century-old name in Ayurveda.

Hospitality

Courtyard by Marriott Infopark

Business hotel at Infopark, Kochi.

Food delivery

Swiggy

Food delivery and quick commerce.

Quick commerce

Flipkart Minutes

Flipkart's minutes-fast grocery delivery.

Social & influencer

Melam

Social media and influencer campaigns.

Brand

Aditi Marvel

Hospitality

Taj CIAL

Taj hotel at Cochin International Airport.

Hospitality

Vivanta by Taj

Upscale Taj hotel on Marine Drive, Ernakulam.

Restaurant

Top Form

A Calicut institution since 1975. Awareness campaign tracked against sales.

Bakery & festive

Pandhal

Festive campaigns with their own order pages.

Your brand could be next.

Tell me what you're selling and what a good month looks like.

Start a conversation
What I do

Meta Ads

Lead generation, sales and awareness campaigns, structured so the learning phase isn't spent twice.

Google Ads

Search and Performance Max for people already looking, with keywords cut by intent.

Media planning

Budgets split by objective and season, written up as plans clients can sign off in one meeting.

Landing pages & checkout

Order pages, payment flows and Shopify stores when the ad needs somewhere better to land.

Reporting

Monthly decks and spreadsheets that connect spend to enquiries and revenue.

Brand identity

Positioning and creative direction so the ads look like they belong to one brand.

Experience

Where I've been.

2024 – present

Digital Marketing Team Lead

Cutting Chaai, Kochi

Lead the team running paid media and social for brands in hospitality, automotive, Ayurveda, food and quick commerce, from media plan to monthly report.

2023 – present

Guest Lecturer

Dotin Digital Academy

Teach performance marketing to students starting their careers in digital.

2021 – 2023

Digital Marketing Manager

Fegno Technologies

Managed digital campaigns and growth marketing for the company and its clients.

2015 – 2018

BCom, Computer Science

ELIMS College of Arts and Science

Commerce with computer science: the reason the spreadsheets come easily.

Contact

Have a budget and a target?

Send me a message with what you're selling, who buys it and what a good month looks like. I'll reply with how I'd spend the first rupee.