Marketing Specialist · San Diego, CA · Open to remote

I plan, write, and run campaigns that move real numbers.

A versatile marketing specialist working across education, nonprofit, and consumer brands. Strategy, content, email, and analytics, start to finish.

Portrait of Tahmarah Otoo
40%
Enrollment lift in my first quarter
144%
Social media reach growth in 30 days

Selected work

Three campaigns, three kinds of proof.

Enrollment marketing · Best Friends Animal Society

Reversing flat enrollment for a national education program

I market the Lifesaving education programs at Best Friends. Within my first quarter, I lifted enrollment in two courses by 40% and 38% by rebuilding how each campaign was planned, targeted, and measured. This is enrollment marketing, not pet adoption.

What I did

I built campaigns that ran across email, organic social, and paid, instead of leaning on one channel. I wrote the email and the channel-specific social copy, coordinated creative through Canva, and ran timelines in Asana so launches hit their dates. Early on, every audience got the same email. I introduced segmentation so the message matched the recipient, then tracked channel performance to concentrate effort where it converted.

+40%
Course one enrollment
+38%
Course two enrollment
2x
Facebook engagement vs channel average
Enrollment by cohort before and after marketing
Course one applications and payments before and after the campaign Course two applications and payments before and after the campaign
Enrollment by cohort, before vs after my campaigns

Content + email · Best Friends Animal Society

Building a course's marketing from almost nothing

The Finding Success in Animal Services course had the thinnest set of marketing assets of any program I support, with few student testimonials and little concrete proof to point to. I built the marketing out, reworked the email strategy, and filled the most recent cohort.

What I did

I reworked the course's email marketing around real student testimonials and tighter audience segmentation, all of which I owned. I produced a video that told the course's story and ran it across our channels. Because the course had so little existing content to draw on, I also created the testimonial and proof assets the program now reuses in future campaigns.

Full
Most recent cohort enrolled to capacity
~26K
Views on the campaign reel
54
Clicks to the course page
Graduates of Best Friends education programs at commencement
Graduates of our education programs
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Event + audience growth · Better K9 Pet Resort

An open house that filled a brand new course

Bark to School is my favorite campaign at Better K9: a free dog training open house promoting the trainers school, run as a social series, email, and community outreach I owned from start to finish.

What I did

I planned and wrote the campaign across every channel, from the social series and the email to the community outreach on the ground. The hook I wrote opened by asking whether your dog is a 10 out of 10, and if not, here is a free open house to help. I produced the videos myself, the way I had been writing campaign copy and content well before AI tools existed.

Recognized

One of the videos from this campaign was later used as a teaching example in a social media course for pet care businesses at the Pet Boarding and Daycare Expo West.

50
Guests, the event filled to capacity
Full
Launch class for the Certified Trainers Course
A dog in a training session at Better K9
Training at Better K9, the program the campaign promoted
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What I do

Versatile marketing, not a single channel.

Strategy & Campaigns

  • Campaign planning
  • Demand generation
  • Audience segmentation
  • Event promotion
  • Brand messaging

Content & Creative

  • Copywriting
  • Email marketing
  • Graphic design
  • Photography
  • Video production

Channels & Growth

  • Multichannel campaigns
  • Social media
  • Audience growth
  • Community engagement
  • Paid social

Analytics & Ops

  • Performance tracking
  • Conversion analysis
  • A/B testing
  • Project management
  • Cross-team delivery
Tools I work in
Mailchimp HubSpot Dash Social Meta Ads Google Analytics Canva Adobe Creative Cloud Asana CapCut
Tahmarah Otoo Tahmarah with the Best Friends team at the National Conference

About

Marketing built on outcomes, not output.

My path to marketing wasn't linear, but every part of it shaped the way I think.

I first studied health science, which led me into research assistant work rooted in psychology, behavior, and data. That experience taught me how to ask better questions, look for patterns, and let evidence guide decisions. From there, my love for animals brought me into pet care, where I grew into operations management and learned how to lead teams, understand customers, solve problems quickly, and keep a busy service business moving.

Marketing became the place where all of those skills came together.

I started by owning social media and content, then continued growing into broader marketing roles across two organizations. Along the way, I earned my MBA with a focus in marketing and continued building my skills through HubSpot certifications, LinkedIn learning, conference courses, and hands-on campaign work.

What I love most about marketing is the mix of creativity, strategy, and execution. I can take a goal and help turn it into the campaign, the copy, the visuals, the video, the email, the social content, and the follow-up. I care about the idea, but I also care about the numbers afterward: what connected, what converted, and what needs to improve.

For me, marketing is where research, storytelling, design, and business strategy meet. It's about understanding the audience, building trust, and creating campaigns that people actually respond to.

Based inSan Diego, CA · Open to full time marketing roles

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Location
San Diego, CA