Freelance marketing manager · Byron Bay

Salt of the earth marketing.

I'm a Jane of all trades, and for most businesses that's exactly the point. One person who can run the whole thing, do the actual work, and tell you the truth about what's worth doing.

Kaya Lemaire, freelance marketing manager, sitting in her home office in Byron Bay

Six years. Three countries. More than twenty businesses, from bathhouses to architecture studios.

The situation

You don't need a marketing department. You need marketing to actually happen.

Most business owners I meet are in the same spot. There's a list of things that should be happening. The emails, the socials, the website that's three years out of date, the launch that keeps slipping. It's not that you don't know it matters. It's that there's nobody to hand it to.

You could hire a specialist who does one of those things well and leaves the other nine on your desk. You could hire an agency, and pay for an account manager to sit between you and whoever is actually doing the work.

Or you could hand the whole thing to one person who can do all of it, and get on with running your business.

What I do

The full spectrum. Genuinely.

I started as a writer, which is why the strategy holds up. Everything else I learned because a client needed it and there was nobody else to do it.

◆Strategy and planning
◆Research, surveys and interviews
◆Copywriting and content
◆Social media
◆Email and automation
◆Funnels and lead gen
◆Websites and landing pages
◆Design and brand
◆Photography and video
◆Influencer and partnerships
◆Print and communications

Not every business needs all of it. Part of my job is telling you which parts you don't need yet.

Why me

Put the wheels back on your business.

Most businesses I come into aren't broken. They're just running with something missing, and everyone's got used to the wobble.

01

One person, the whole function

No account manager, no five suppliers to chase, no gaps between them where things quietly die. You brief once. It gets done.

02

Unusual speed

I use AI properly, as a working tool held against real expertise rather than a quick copy and paste. Without expertise and critical thinking it's just more AI slop. I assess in detail what's worth doing and what's actually good enough to push out.

03

A team behind me when you need one

I keep a bench of freelancers I work with regularly. Designers, developers, admin, strategists. When a job is too big or too technical for one person, I bring them in, brief them and manage them. One point of contact, one invoice, and the work usually lands well under what the same roles would cost hired locally.

04

I see the whole business, not one channel

I'm not going to out-specialise a paid ads agency on paid ads. What I can do is see your whole business at once, work out where the actual bottleneck is, and then go and fix it myself.

Clients

Who I've worked with

Six years across two continents, and a client list that always surprises people.

Kaya Lemaire

Hospitality and wellness

  • Banya Bathhouse
  • Fratelli
  • B3 Brunswick Heads
  • Social Remedy

Entertainment

  • Brisbane Comedy Cellar
  • Guilt Free Comedy
  • Red Room

Professional services and trades

  • KIRK
  • MPASOL
  • Enjoy Carpentry

Education and platforms

  • The Leela School
  • Kubrio
  • Jared Franks
  • IELTS platform launching

Health and social impact

  • All Hands Taiwan
  • The Earth Guards

Agencies

  • Oasis
  • Ivory Media
  • MindMob
  • Hudac Agency

A self-directed education platform and an architecture studio have almost nothing in common, except that both of them needed someone to work out what to say and then go and say it.

Featured result

Tripling course conversion with a rebuilt funnel

An online personal development course. Two launches, five months apart. I rebuilt the funnel end to end. Copy, offer, page structure, email segmentation.

Sales page conversion

8.33%up from 2.62%

Launch revenue

$77.8Kup from $22K

Enrolments

270up from 78

Email click rate

5.7%up from around 2%

None of that was a redesign for its own sake. Every number traces back to a specific change, made in order of impact.

Read the full case study

Where I fit

Where I slot in well

Founders and entrepreneurs

You know what needs doing. You don't have the hours, or the specific skill, or both. I step in and execute the parts you can't.

Small businesses that need a revival

The marketing has gone quiet, or was never really started. We work out what the business actually is now, and rebuild from there.

Agencies carrying big client portfolios

You need a Jane of all trades who can pick up a client account and run it without hand holding. I've worked agency side and I know how to fit into someone else's process.

Owners who want an outside view

An audit, an honest read, a set of recommendations, and then help getting your existing team to actually execute them.

Anyone with more jobs than people

This is where the network earns its place. Creatives, techies, admin and strategists, briefed and managed by me, so you're dealing with one person rather than seven.

Client words

What it's like to work with me

Placeholder quote. Two or three lines from a client, in their own words, about what actually changed.

Name, Business

Placeholder quote. Screenshots of real client messages would work here too, and honestly land better than a polished testimonial.

Name, Business

Get started

Let's work out what you actually need.

Tell me where your business is at and what's not happening. I'll come back with an honest read on what I'd do first and what it would cost. No pitch deck, no discovery call funnel.

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