Mahmoud Elewa / Performance Marketing

Paid media that is judged on profit, not on platform screenshots.

I am an independent performance marketer based in Cairo. I plan, buy and manage paid social and paid search for e-commerce brands across Egypt and the wider MENA region, and I report on what actually landed in the bank rather than on what the ad platform chose to claim.

Cairo, Egypt Independent, sole operator E-commerce and DTC

What I do

Paid social

Meta and TikTok campaign strategy, build and daily management. Account structure, audience and creative testing, budget allocation and scaling.

Paid search and shopping

Google Ads across search, shopping and performance campaigns, including feed hygiene and conversion tracking setup.

Measurement and reporting

Pixel and conversion API setup, attribution sanity checks, and reporting that reconciles platform numbers against the store's own order data.

Media planning

Budget and revenue forecasting, channel mix, and quarterly plans with stated assumptions, target returns and the risks that would break them.

How I work

Most accounts I take over are not underperforming because of the ads. They are underperforming because the reported numbers are wrong, the tracking is double counting, cancelled orders are never deducted, or the site leaks the traffic that the ads paid for. So the first thing I do on any account is reconcile what the platform reports against what the store actually shipped and collected. Everything after that is built on the corrected number.

I work with a small number of brands at a time, directly with the owner or the marketing lead, and I run the accounts myself rather than handing them to a junior buyer.

~EGP 1.5Mmonthly ad spend managed across the portfolio
~15e-commerce brands in fashion, beauty, kidswear and electronics
~5xblended return on ad spend across managed accounts

Background

Contact

If you are running an e-commerce brand and want a second opinion on an account before you commit to anything, send me the basics and I will tell you honestly whether I think I can move it.

[email protected]

Based in Cairo, working with brands across Egypt and the wider MENA region.