We measure past the first purchase
Cohorts, repeat rate and lifetime value — the numbers that decide whether acquisition spend was worth it.
Growth marketing
Growth marketing agency in Dubai
The growth that happens after the first purchase — retention, lifecycle, referral and the experiments that tell you which lever actually moves.
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The stack we work in, the clients we keep
The platforms we build and run campaigns in, and the clients whose numbers we publish with their names on. HubSpot is the one partnership we claim; the rest are tools we use, not badges.
The problem
Acquisition gets the budget retention gets the leftovers
Almost every marketing plan in this market is an acquisition plan. The cheapest growth available to most businesses is sitting in the customer list nobody is talking to.
A 5% retention improvement is worth more than most acquisition campaigns
Everything is measured at the first purchase
Cost per acquisition, conversion rate, ROAS — all first-purchase metrics. None of them tell you whether a customer came back, which is where the margin actually is in most categories.
Experiments are opinions with a chart attached
Tests run without a hypothesis, stopped when someone likes the result, and read as significant at a sample size that proves nothing. That is not experimentation, it is confirmation.
The lifecycle is a newsletter
One list, one send, everybody gets the same email. A first-time buyer, a lapsed customer and a repeat purchaser are three different situations and one message serves none of them.
What we do
What growth marketing involves
The levers after acquisition, each with its own page.
- 01
A/B testing & experimentation
Tests run against a written hypothesis and a pre-agreed sample size.
- 02
Funnel & conversion analytics
Where people leave, in what numbers, and what it costs you.
- 03
Retention & lifecycle
Segmented programmes for first-time, repeat and lapsed customers.
- 04
Referral & loyalty design
Turning satisfied customers into a channel rather than a testimonial.
- 05
Product-led growth
When the product itself is the acquisition mechanism.
- 06
Marketing automation
The workflows that make lifecycle work possible at all.
- 07
All marketing services
Every capability in one place — strategy, web, search, content, paid, CRM and creative.
Capabilities in detail
The growth levers we pull
Specific, unglamorous and mostly unpulled in this market.
Conversion rate optimisation
The step-by-step work on the pages and forms between arrival and enquiry. Usually the fastest return available because the traffic is already paid for.
A/B and multivariate testing
Designed tests with a written hypothesis, a pre-agreed metric and a sample size decided before the build.
Funnel analytics
Where people leave, in what numbers, and what that step is worth annually if fixed.
Cohort analysis
Grouping customers by when and how they arrived, which is the only honest way to tell whether last quarter actually improved anything.
Retention programmes
Segmented by behaviour rather than by list — first purchase, repeat, at-risk and lapsed are four different conversations.
Lifecycle email and messaging
Onboarding, education, replenishment and win-back sequences that run automatically and stay measured.
Referral programme design
Turning satisfied customers into a channel, with mechanics that suit the category rather than a generic discount.
Loyalty programme design
Where repeat purchase is frequent enough to justify it — and an honest answer when it is not.
Onboarding optimisation
The first session decides retention more than any later campaign, and it is usually the least designed part of the product.
Churn analysis and win-back
Why people leave, when, and which of them are worth the cost of getting back.
Pricing and packaging tests
Frequently the highest-leverage experiment available, and the one teams are most reluctant to run.
Product-led growth
Where the product itself acquires — free tiers, trials, sharing loops and the instrumentation to see them.
Personalisation
Content and offers that change by segment, once there is enough data to make that better rather than creepier.
Growth reporting
Cohorts, repeat rate, lifetime value and payback period, with a written read rather than a dashboard.
Technology
What we run growth on
Instrumentation, testing and lifecycle tooling.
Analytics & cohorts
Seeing past the first purchase.
- GA4
- Google Tag Manager
- Looker Studio
- Amplitude
- Mixpanel
- BigQuery
Qualitative
Why the numbers look like that.
- Hotjar
- Microsoft Clarity
- Session recordings
- On-site surveys
Testing
Running the experiment properly.
- Google Optimize successors
- VWO
- Optimizely
- Server-side split testing
Lifecycle & automation
Making a winner permanent.
- HubSpot
- Klaviyo
- Customer.io
- Braze
- Mailchimp
- Zapier
CRM & automation
What happens after the click.
- HubSpot
- HubSpot Marketing Hub
- Salesforce
- Zapier
- Make
- Zoho
Commerce & product
Where the loops live.
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- Stripe
- Recharge
- Firebase
How we work
How growth work actually runs
Instrument, find the leak, test the fix, keep what worked. In that order.
Measure the whole journey, not the first step
Most businesses can tell you what a first purchase costs and nothing about what happens next. Before any experiment, the funnel and the lifecycle have to be visible.
- Funnel instrumented end to end, including post-purchase
- Cohorts by acquisition source and month
- Repeat rate, time to second purchase and churn made visible
- Revenue attributed to lifecycle, not just to acquisition
Fix the biggest one first
Growth work fails when it optimises a step that was never the constraint. The audit says which step loses the most people and what that is worth annually.
- Drop-off quantified per step, in money rather than percentage
- Qualitative evidence from session recordings and support tickets
- Opportunities sized before anything is built
- The constraint named explicitly
Against a hypothesis, at a real sample size
A written hypothesis, a pre-agreed metric, a sample size decided before the test starts, and a stopping rule. Otherwise it is not a test.
- Hypothesis and success metric written before the build
- Sample size and duration agreed up front
- One variable at a time unless the design says otherwise
- Losing tests documented — they are half the value
Turn a win into a programme
A successful experiment that never becomes a permanent workflow is a story, not growth. Winners go into the automation and stay measured.
- Winners built into lifecycle automation
- Segments maintained rather than set once
- Referral and loyalty mechanics where the category supports them
- Monthly review of what is still working
Why us
Why our growth work is unusually boring
No growth hacks. The levers that reliably work are unglamorous and most teams have not pulled them yet.
Tests are designed, not run
A hypothesis, a metric and a sample size agreed before anything is built. Most 'testing programmes' fail this.
Lifecycle lives in the CRM
Segments and workflows that keep running, rather than a campaign somebody sent once.
We report losing tests
A programme that only reports winners is not being honest about what it learned.
Industries
Proven results across sectors
Every number below is the count of case studies we have actually published in that sector, and the best result among them. Nothing is a counter.
Selected work
Work we have shipped, filterable
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German Medical Center
Two disconnected websites rebuilt as one bilingual WordPress site with a HubSpot funnel behind it.
+288% organic traffic
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Roxana Aesthetics
Seventy-two treatment pages in Dubai’s most contested clinical category, built inside DHA advertising rules.
+310% organic traffic
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Elora Polyclinic
One site carrying aesthetics, dentistry and surgery — three audiences, three routes, one design system.
+230% organic traffic
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Arabland
A Dubai property platform with filterable listing search, a map of the city and a mortgage tool.
+220% organic traffic
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Concept Plus
A scroll-scrubbed WebGL scene experience spanning six divisions — and still a PageSpeed of 90.
PageSpeed 90 on WebGL
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Bafco
Office furniture on Shopify, serving a single-chair buyer and a corporate fit-out from one catalogue.
+320% organic traffic
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A2 Sweden
A smart-lock catalogue with parallel routes by product, by industry and straight to the flagship.
+180% organic traffic
View Case Study Client stories
What clients say
On camera and in writing — swipe through the founders and teams we’ve helped design, build and grow.
In their words
★★★★★
GMC is thrilled to extend our heartfelt appreciation to Adnika! Collaborating with Ehsan and his team has consistently been an absolute delight. Ehsan's dedication and commitment have ensured that German Medical Center remains an exceedingly satisfied and happy client, especially regarding their Hubspot Onboarding, Digital Marketing, Website Development, Content Creation and Social Media Marketing. Adnika is indeed the Best Digital and Growth Marketing Agency in UAE!
★★★★★
Adnika provided us with their Inbound Sales and Marketing solutions through Hubspot. They helped us generate more qualified leads for our sales team, drive website traffic, increase customer engagement, and grow our customer base. Adnika is a reliable partner that has always taken our specific goals and needs seriously.
★★★★★
Adnika has helped us plan, implement and optimize ad campaigns on Facebook and Instagram. Adnika is truly committed to Performance Marketing. They provided us with a fantastic dashboard with detailed KPIs that helped us track the campaigns’ performance in real time. Adnika also gave us helpful and dedicated support during the whole project, and the campaigns turned out to be a great success. We highly recommend working with Adnika's growth experts.
★★★★★
We really enjoyed working with Adnika’s team. Not only are they talented, but they all take the time to understand whom they're working with, what they're trying to accomplish, and how to help the business achieve its goals. The quality of work we've experienced has made a huge difference for us and helped drive new business.
★★★★★
Adnika helped Sea Technology with setting up new digital channels, such as Google Search Ads, to attract more customers and leverage our brand. We are very satisfied with the results and we will continue with the implementation of lead generation, marketing automation, and performance marketing.
★★★★★
Working with the Adnika team has been a real pleasure! Extremely friendly, Ehsan and Elin are always available with prompt replies, valuable insights, patience, a problem-solving attitude, and high knowledge. Super easy to work with them. I highly recommend the Adnika team to help your business!
★★★★★
I am an artist, but I also manage a collective of DJs. In order to promote our services to our clients, we needed Inbound solutions that could attract the right traffic and promote the brand. Adnika built and designed our Inbound processes as well as create and manage campaigns on social media and Google Ads which helped us attract many more customers. I’m very happy!
★★★★★
We've been using Adnika growth marketing solutions only for a few months. They are highly professional, competent, experienced, and creative. Get ready to get to work with this agency. They will come alongside you as a business owner and feel your pain and joy! Get ready to transform your business.
Questions
Growth marketing, answered
What businesses ask before starting a growth programme.
Growth retainers here typically run from around AED 15,000 a month, because the work is senior and analytical rather than production-heavy. The honest framing is that growth work should pay for itself from the leak it closes — if the funnel audit cannot find enough value to cover the retainer, we will say so rather than sell you a programme.
Digital marketing is mostly about getting people to arrive. Growth marketing is about what happens once they do, and especially what happens after they buy — retention, repeat rate, referral and lifetime value. Most businesses have an acquisition team and nobody who owns the second purchase.
Usually not first. If you have very little traffic and few customers, there is not enough data to test with and acquisition is the constraint. Growth work becomes the highest-return option once there is a base of customers big enough that a few percentage points matter.
Single-digit to low-double-digit percentage improvements per successful test, and roughly a third of tests win. Anyone quoting a guaranteed doubling is describing a sales pitch, not a testing programme. The compounding is what makes it worthwhile.
Long enough to reach the sample size agreed before it started, which on lower-traffic B2B sites can be weeks. Stopping a test early because it looks good is the most common way testing programmes produce confident nonsense.
Not in the sense the phrase usually means. Short-lived tricks that exploit a platform loophole stop working and occasionally get accounts banned. What we do is unglamorous — instrument the funnel, find the biggest leak, test the fix, keep what worked.
Repeat rate, cohort retention curves, lifetime value and payback period, alongside test results including the losers. A growth report that only shows winners is not reporting, it is marketing.
A funnel audit: the journey instrumented end to end, the drop-off quantified in money rather than percentages, and the biggest constraint named. You keep the findings whether or not you continue with us.
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Next step
Find out what your funnel is leaking
A funnel audit that quantifies each drop-off in money and names the biggest constraint — written down, whether or not you work with us.