Ashia Avasthi
Business Development Specialist - Government Grants @ Ryan
About
A marketing strategist with over 5 years of experience in digital marketing, specializing in driving growth and enhancing visibility for technology-oriented and government programs. Expert in leveraging data-driven insights to execute high-impact campaigns that significantly improve engagement and lead generation. What I Do: - Marketing and Storytelling: From ideating to executing content strategies, I enhance B2B brand narratives across digital platforms. - Strategic Marketing: I direct comprehensive digital marketing strategies, managing campaigns that have successfully generated over 30k leads. - Content Master: I create and redesign websites and landing pages, adhering to SEO guidelines, that have witnessed a significant increase in user interaction and page views by up to 50%. - Collaboration and Management: With a keen eye for detail and a commitment to excellence, I oversee the creation of high-quality marketing collateral, manage dynamic teams, and coordinate with external agencies to ensure top-tier deliverables. Apart from the corporate buzz, my academic fervor is towards understanding how the global interacts with the local. A trained academic researcher with an interest in topics around globalization and how it affects socio-cultural-economic behavior across national boundaries.
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India
Non-profit Organization Management
Lean Thinking, Business Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Market Research, Project Management, Business Development, Data Analysis, Lead Qualification, Product Launch, Brand Development, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Performance Marketing, Brand Marketing, Social Media Management, Marketing Analytics, Marketing Campaign Management, Web Content Optimization, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Client Relations, Social Media Strategy
Experience

Business Development Specialist - Government Grants
Supporting lead generation, sales enablement, and client engagement efforts focused on helping Canadian businesses access government grants, incentives, and funding programs. - Engaging with leads, qualifying prospects, and supporting their transition into the sales pipeline. - Researching and identifying potential clients, building outreach lists, and supporting nurture campaigns for re-engagement or inactive leads. - Collaborating with the Sales, Marketing, and Program Development teams to identify engagement opportunities, refine lead generation strategies, and provide input for CRM reporting and campaign effectiveness tracking.

Senior Marketing Associate
- Led growth marketing initiatives for 70+ T-Hub programs and flagship initiatives, overviewing program marketing, assessing lead generation, and initiating marketing campaigns on social media platforms. - Handled end-to-end program management initiatives for 30+ corporate & government clients like Mercedes Benz, Hero MotoCorp, Redbull, Panasonic, HSBC, Boeing, Maruti Suzuki, ICE, AWS, IDEX, Kotak, XDC, etc. - Managed and optimized omnichannel digital marketing campaigns on LinkedIn, Meta, and Google, generating 70,000+ relevant leads with budgets exceeding 20 Lakhs, achieving a lead conversion rate improvement of 30%. - Conceptualised and delivered content of various formats for social media, WhatsApp outreach, targeted email campaigns, and ad copies, improving engagement rate by up to 5%. - Executed marketing and branding activities for 5+ major T-Hub events, including event planning, vendor/agency management, and the creation of branding materials, for events like T-Innovation Summit, T-Hub Foundation Day, DAIS 2024, T-MAP, GCC Innovation Summit, and T-Hub Portfolio Summit. - Produced content for websites including the new T-Hub website, MATH (DST) website, and AIC T-Hub website, and edited 50+ landing pages & microsites, resulting in 50% increase in participation, user visits, and engagement. - Supervised interns and associates, overseeing their daily activities and project contributions, identifying resource gaps, and allocating tasks to optimize the team’s performance - Managed external agencies and vendors for the T-Hub brand and various program content formats, including designs, blogs, case studies, video production, website or landing page creation, and podcast ideation

Copywriter
• Created content for social media channels like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. - Standardized the social media campaign process under the leadership of the Director of Marketing and increased impressions on LinkedIn from 3000 to 30k per post. - Customized ad copies for LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google for paid campaigns and service promotions. - Created company 10+ internal newsletters, and subscription newsletters, in collaboration with different departments. • Designed, and optimized Simform’s landing pages, service brochures, and case studies. - Produced 10+ landing pages for different service categories like Cloud Native Development, DevOps, SaaS, etc. - Designed 20+ Simform case studies enabling B2B campaigns and sales activities. - Composed 10+ service-related brochures and whitepapers for B2B sales activities.

Content Writer
• Created long-form technical content while collaborating with campaign managers, SEO team, and designers. - Published 20+ blogs on Simform’s blog page with a total of 82k+ pageviews and 70k+ unique pageviews. - Wrote 15+ off-site blogs, published over multiple sites like Hackernoon, Medium, etc. - Delivered and published a comprehensive eBook on ‘Microservices’ along with its outreach activities.

Content Developer
Smart Thrive
• Acted as a subject matter expert on various academic-related subjects – English, Political Science, Management, Communications, History, etc. • Published blogs as a ghostwriter for off-sites on a wide range of topics. • Conceptualized creative content for landing pages, brochures, presentations, posters, and other design-related forms of content. • Edited and delegated coordinated tasks with colleagues and junior writers.

Freelance Writer

Online Tutor
MyMegaMinds
• Acted as a subject matter expert on various academic-related subjects – English, Political Science, Management, Communications, History, etc. • Created and scheduled online teaching materials for students. • Edited academic essays and research content.

Digital Strategist
HelloDiamonds.in
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
• Conceptualized and created social media content as a part of the marketing campaign – blogs and posts. • Copywriting for HelloDiamonds landing page and social media accounts like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. • Wrote product descriptions for their online jewellery segment. • Designed graphics for social media posts – images, infographics, brochures, and posters. • Executed social media campaigns directly under the leadership of the CEO. • Conducted and analyzed data-driven research on marketing responses and reviews.

Content Writer
• Wrote and edited product descriptions for the home furnishing and decoration segment. • Published on-site and off-site blogs on home décor related topics. • Created copies for marketing campaigns on their social media platforms – Facebook and Twitter.

Digital Strategist
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
• Managed the application prototype and monitored user experienced during the testing period. • Monitored user experience responses after the launch of the site and provided a daily report on its functioning. • Designed and created long-form content for the blog page and social media platforms. • Created customized templates for email marketing. • Conducted and analyzed data-driven research on marketing responses and reviews. • Collaborated with the branding team for the launch and promotion of the Poletalks app. • Created copies for marketing campaigns on their social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
Education

International/Global Studies
Pursued Masters in Global Studies, which focuses on the broad areas that affect the processes of globalization. Core subjects include - Global Environment and Society; Global Cultures, Identities, Migration and Diaspora; Global Political Economy; Global Social Policies; Citizenship Struggles; and Global Development.
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