Arda Mendes

Digital Marketing & Strategy Director

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

With over 10 years of digital marketing experience, Arda continues his career as a Digital Marketing Director at Misli.com, helping brands in the areas of digital marketing and growth by blending different cultures from agency, brand, and start-up backgrounds. He worked at Dogan Online, ZEO, Modanisa, Demirören Media, and MedyaNet in the past. He is a speaker at conferences and workshops in the field of digital marketing.

Experience

  • Misli (Full-time · 5 yrs 3 mos)
    • Digital & Strategy Director
      Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Digital Marketing Director
      Apr 2021 - Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      • Conducting cohort analysis to identify trends and patterns in customer behavior, • Defining goals for new members and customer segments, • Setting revenue targets for new customers and developing strategies to achieve them, • Mapping out the customer journey for new users to improve user experience, • Increasing the retention rate of new customers through targeted campaigns, • Boosting the average deposit amount of new customers through targeted promotions and incentives, • Increasing the average revenue generated by new customers, • Managing the SEO, SEM, and analytics teams to drive traffic, • Conducting customer lifetime value (LTV) analysis for different traffic channels to determine ROI, • Automating the reporting process to ensure accurate and timely delivery of insights.

  • Head of Performance Marketing at MedyaNet
    Jan 2021 - Apr 2021 · 4 mos

    • Managed SEO, SEM, and BI teams, • Determined SEO strategies, • Determined SEM strategies, • Established measurement and reporting standards, • Conducted cohort analysis to contribute to growth processes, • Provided support on marketing strategies based on cohort analysis results, • Designed retention campaigns based on cohort analysis results, • Applied campaign ideas to digital channels, Brands worked on: levis.com.tr, dockers.com.tr, barcin.com, tatildekirala.com, kifidis.com.tr, misli.com, yakala.co, yenibiris.com, millipiyangoonline.com.

  • Head of Performance Marketing at Digital Case by Demirören Holding
    Nov 2018 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Demirören Medya (Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye)
    • Digital Marketing Group Manager
      Jun 2017 - Nov 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

      • With three different teams, managing SEO, SEM, social media and BI. • Determining strategic goals of the company in digital marketing with the developments in the digital field by following media dynamics. • Establishing team goals, • Reporting directly to CDO • Developing projects based on strategic goals Additionally, • Establishing digital marketing strategies for all new business lines in the group companies • Managing operational processes

    • Digital Marketing Manager
      May 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Ambassador at SEMrush
    Feb 2016 - Feb 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo