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Kavya Mehra
Brand & Creative Director

Kavya Mehra

🇮🇳 Mumbai

Kavya leads brand strategy and creative direction across every engagement — from naming and identity systems to campaign art direction and design systems. Ten years across boutique and in-house studios.

Brand DesignVisual IdentityCreative DirectionUX/UI

Recent articles by Kavya

Analytics

Cohort Analysis: The Report Every DTC Needs Monthly

Why cohort analysis is the single most important report for DTC — and the specific format we use.

Jul 19, 20243 min
B2B Growth

Sales Enablement: The 3 Assets Every Rep Actually Uses

Despite the library of content most orgs build, reps use three things. Build these first.

Jul 19, 20243 min
Email & CRM

Why We Stopped Using Welcome Discounts as Our First Touch

The counter-intuitive finding: leading with a discount hurts long-term customer value.

Jul 18, 20243 min
Local SEO

The Local Landing Page Structure That Beats Templated Dust

How to build location pages that actually rank — the thin-content alternatives most agencies ship are wasting their clients' money.

Jul 18, 20243 min
Brand Design

Packaging Design for DTC: What Matters and What Doesn't

Where packaging budget moves conversion vs where it's pure vanity.

Jul 16, 20243 min
Social Media

Instagram Stories: The Underused Conversion Channel

Stories are where your warmest audience lives. Here's how to convert them without being annoying.

Jul 13, 20243 min
AI Marketing

The 5-Minute Claude Workflow for Content Refresh

A specific Claude prompt sequence we use to refresh underperforming content in minutes instead of hours.

Jul 10, 20243 min
Email & CRM

The 6 Klaviyo Flows That Drive 90% of Lifecycle Revenue

If you're only going to build 6 flows, build these six. Everything else is noise until these are shipping.

Jul 9, 20243 min
CRO

The Research Stack That Powers Every Good Experiment

Before any A/B test, we run qualitative research. Here's the four-tool stack that generates experimentable hypotheses.

Jul 9, 20243 min
Social Media

The DM Funnel: How to Convert Social Followers Into Sales Calls

A non-pushy DM funnel that turns follower attention into booked calls without feeling sleazy.

Jul 9, 20243 min
Brand Design

Why Most Rebrands Fail — and the One Question That Saves Them

Rebrands go sideways when they start with design. They go well when they start with a single, specific question.

Jul 4, 20243 min
B2B Growth

How We Source B2B Leads Without Cold Outbound

The three organic channels producing most of our B2B pipeline — none involve cold outreach.

Jul 3, 20243 min
CRO

A/B Testing Math: When to Call a Winner and When to Keep Running

How to know when a test has run long enough — without falling into common statistical traps.

Jul 3, 20243 min
Social Media

The Content Pillar System We Use to Stop the Weekly Panic Posting

Four pillars, six formats, one rule: every post maps to a pillar AND a format. If it doesn't, it doesn't ship.

Jul 3, 20244 min
Paid Marketing

Google Performance Max: When to Use It and When to Avoid It

PMax is polarizing for a reason. Here's our framework for deciding when it's the right channel and when it quietly cannibalizes your other campaigns.

Jul 2, 20243 min
Video Production

YouTube Thumbnail Design: The 3 Rules That Lift CTR

What separates thumbnails that earn clicks from ones that don't.

Jul 1, 20243 min
Content Marketing

The Research Phase: Where Every Great Article Is Actually Made

Most articles fail in research, not writing. Here's the research discipline that elevates everything after.

Jul 1, 20243 min
Brand Design

Distinctive Brand Assets: The One Marketing Investment That Compounds Forever

Ehrenberg-Bass research shows distinctive assets are the single biggest driver of ad recall. Here's how to build them.

Jun 30, 20243 min
SEO

International SEO: Hreflang Without the Headache

A straightforward approach to hreflang that avoids the traps most teams step into.

Jun 30, 20243 min
Video Production

The Hook-Based Scripting Framework We Use for Every Short-Form Video

Why the first 1.5 seconds decides the fate of your video — and the hook template we've tested across 400+ scripts.

Jun 30, 20243 min
AI Marketing

The AI Translation Workflow for International SEO

How we use LLMs to scale content into 5+ languages without losing quality or ranking.

Jun 27, 20243 min
Paid Marketing

The Offer Test That Beat Every Creative Test We've Run

Why offer testing outperforms creative testing on nearly every account.

Jun 23, 20243 min
Email & CRM

The HubSpot Setup We Deploy for Every B2B Client

A repeatable HubSpot implementation blueprint — lifecycle stages, lead scoring, and the reports that actually guide decisions.

Jun 23, 20243 min
Brand Design

Typography Choices That Signal Premium

How typography decisions alone move perception of quality — and the premium typography patterns that work.

Jun 19, 20243 min

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