
Ewan Mchorton
Startup growth coach and brand strategist
Bio
I’m helping early-stage startups and businesses to grow with the clear positioning and whole vision of their company. I’m doing marketing more than 10 years, worked with brands in the US, UK and CIS markets. Mentor at Techstars Stockholm and couple other accelerators. My main expertises are: - Marketing strategy and positioning - Branding and creating visual identity - Pitch and sales deck - Content marketing and social media promotion - Assembling marketing and creative teams and managing it I also worked a lot in the agencies, created my own and as a coach I mentor marketing specialist and agency founders to grow. I’m certified ICF coach so I can help you to find your blind spots in business and encourage you for multiple grow of your marketing business or carrier in marketing.
Expertise
Advice on funding
I’ve helped more than 30 startups create pitch decks and prepare for investor meetings. I can help you sharpen your story, structure the deck, clarify the key messages, and turn complex ideas into a concise and compelling presentation. We can also rehearse your pitch and prepare for difficult investor questions.
Building a team
I’ve built marketing teams as both a startup CMO and the founder of a creative agency. I can help you understand which roles you actually need, structure your team, assess candidates, and hire people who fit both the job and your working style. For agency founders, I can also help with team culture, responsibilities, delegation, motivation, and management processes. We can work on anything from your first marketing hire to restructuring and improving an existing team.
Content marketing
I’ve developed content strategies for both major brands and early-stage startups. I can help you understand what your audience actually cares about, define the right formats and channels, and build a clear content system. I can also help you assemble the right execution team, from copywriters and editors to photographers, videographers, and scriptwriters.
Go to market strategy
I can help you build a GTM based on real customer insights, market dynamics, and competitive context. Together, we’ll define your target audience, positioning, key acquisition channels, and the right way to communicate your value at every stage of the customer journey.
Product launches
I’ve launched new products through Product Hunt, niche communities, forums, influencers, and creative guerrilla marketing. I can help you plan the launch, choose the right channels, craft the product story, and create the content needed to get attention – from launch videos and presentations to influencer activations.
Product market fit
I can help you clarify who your core customers are, what problem your product solves for them, and why they should choose it. Together, we’ll sharpen your value proposition, analyze customer insights, and identify gaps between the product, market needs, and your messaging.
Social media
I’ve created social media and video strategies for major brands and B2C startups, including viral TikTok and YouTube videos with 1M+ views. I can help you understand trends, choose the right formats, and build a content strategy designed for both reach and business goals. I also work with experienced creative teams and production partners who can bring the strategy to life.
Toolkit
Asana
12 years of experienceOrganize work of agency in Asana, work a lot with team and project in this app. both corporate and free options. Big fan of simple, UX and UI friendly task managers.
Facebook
15 years of experienceManaged Focebook ads, have many specialist and agencies who prfessionally promote brand and startups with the help of Facebook and Instagram Ads. Big fan of numbers and checking hypothesis with real result.
Google Analytics
15 years of experienceAnalytics and numbers seems a lot to me. Make decisions based on numbers and metrics. Goals and cohorts are good for LTV and clients retention. Also worked a lot with Yandex.Metrics.
Trello
15 years of experienceKanBan system is very comfortable for content production and social media processes. Built hundreds of the project with Trello and organize the work of 10+ team in this task manager.
Wordpress
12 years of experienceBuild several project and blog platforms on that platform. Have many developers that can help to make your site or blog platform. Alittle bit heavier than no-code low code platforms and site builders but still okey if you want to built blog.
Youtube
15 years of experienceCreate many Youtube strategies and promote channels. Also seed viral videos with the help of ads, bloggers and partner channels. Several times were among top of the videos of the country.
Industries
EdTech
Consult several educational project and LMS platform. Help them with quick launch, first sales on the early stage and growth and positioning on the more later stages.
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Worker a lot with big FMCG-brands and b2c-startups. Especially good expertise in social media, community building and communication strategy for the brand.
Creative Agency
Build 3 creative and social media agencies. One of them were among top 30 creative agencies in the country. Now I'm launching branding studio. Know how to scale you agency from 0 to 500k $ ARR.
Travel Agency
Mentoring several projects in travel sphere from marketing strategy to executing and building team in all ad channel. I love travelling too. Visited more than 25 countries)
SaaS
Made a lot of pitch decks and sales deck for the B2B-startups. Also made brand strategy from the scratch: naming, idea, visual identity, landing page, etc. Helped to settle in cold outreach for LinkedIn and content strategy for B2B-stratups