SKILLS & APPROACHTOM ROWLEY♥ ♥ ♥
New · LiveData lake demoTOM ROWLEY · SKILLS & APPROACH

CHRISTCHURCH, NZ · DIGITAL MARKETING & ANALYTICS

INTO THE
DIGITAL
JUNGLE.

Digital marketing. Analytics. Practical AI.
A little about me, my skills, and how I approach the work.

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LEVEL 01 — THE CANOPY↓ THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
BONUS LEVEL / LIVE DATA LAKE

LIVE DATA
LAKE DEMO

New Zealand earthquakes from GeoNet, pulled every 15 minutes into a raw data lake, modelled in a warehouse and charted live. Nothing is typed in by hand.

SEE IT LIVE ↗
SOURCE
GeoNet API
LAKE
Cloudflare R2
WAREHOUSE
Cloudflare D1
BONUS LEVEL / NZ COMPANIES DEMO

DATA DASHBOARD
& ANALYSIS DEMO

Built from the Companies Office bulk data extract: 1.83 million companies, as at 1 October 2026. Cleaned, de-identified and rolled up into counts by sector, region and town before anything is shown.

OPEN THE DASHBOARD ↗
LIVE COMPANIES
749,562
OPENED LAST 12 MONTHS
61,406
CLOSED IN 2025
50,145
THE ANALYSIS / KEY FINDINGS

WHAT THE DATA SAYS

01 · GROWTHHalved

Net new companies: about 27,000 a year in 2020–21, 7,000–15,000 a year since 2022.

02 · CLOSURES+64%

Removals from the register: 30,600 in 2020, 50,100 in 2025.

03 · PROPERTY70%

of the largest sector is property investment and rental companies.

04 · INSOLVENCY+10%

more insolvencies in 2026 to date than at this point in 2025, itself a 15-year high.

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LEVEL 02 / THE TOOLKIT

GOOD INSTINCTS.
BETTER NUMBERS.

Data and dashboards, practical AI, paid media and search. Explore the work behind each skill—from the first question to a useful decision.

Eight areas. Open a field guide to go deeper.
SKILL 01

Data & dashboards

Make the numbers useful enough to act on.

Data lakes & warehouses · Dashboards · GA4 · Conversion tracking
Inside this skill

Measurement design

Define meaningful events, conversions and business outcomes. Map the customer journey and identify which signals are suitable for reporting, optimisation and decision-making.

Data checks & interpretation

Investigate duplicate events, missing coverage, attribution differences and reporting delay. Compare like-for-like periods and distinguish observed movement from a plausible explanation.

Data lakes, warehouses & lakehouses

Bring ad platform, analytics, CRM and sales data together in one place. Choose the right home for it: a data lake for raw files, a warehouse for clean modelled tables, or a lakehouse that does both. Join it up with consistent IDs and definitions so every report starts from the same source of truth. See a live data lake ↗

Dashboards

Build dashboards people actually use: a few decision-ready measures, the right level of detail for each audience, filters that answer real questions and notes on what each number can and cannot tell you. See one built on NZ company data ↗

What the work produces

A measurement plan, an event and conversion audit, a joined-up data model, dashboards with agreed definitions and a clear account of what the data can—and cannot—support.

SKILL 02

AI & practical workflows

Turn repeatable work into something easier to run.

Reusable prompts · Knowledge systems · Prototypes
Inside this skill

Workflow design

Break a recurring task into inputs, decisions, checks and outputs. Identify where AI can help with research, drafting or organisation and where human review remains necessary.

Knowledge & reusable tools

Structure reference material so it can be found and reused. Build prompts, templates and small prototypes around a defined job, with explicit assumptions and useful boundaries.

What the work produces

A documented workflow, a reusable template or a working prototype. The Goldmine calculator on this site is one example of making an idea tangible.

SKILL 03

Google Ads

From search intent to a useful business outcome.

Search · Performance Max · Shopping
Inside this skill

Account diagnosis

Review campaign structure, conversion goals, search intent and delivery constraints. Separate a measurement problem from a demand, quality or commercial problem before choosing a change.

Campaign planning & optimisation

Connect keywords, ads and landing pages around the offer. Explore search terms, exclusions, budget allocation, bidding goals and asset coverage with clear reasons for each change.

What the work produces

An account audit, prioritised actions, a measurement checklist and a test plan with a baseline, owner and review criteria.

SKILL 04

Meta advertising

Connect the offer, the creative and the quality of demand.

Facebook · Instagram · Creative testing
Inside this skill

Campaign & audience planning

Translate a business goal into a campaign brief: offer, audience, geography, desired action and budget. Consider prospecting and remarketing in the context of available data and the buying journey.

Creative & lead quality

Explore distinct creative concepts, hooks, proof and calls to action. Review the path from ad to enquiry or sale, including form friction, qualification and follow-up.

What the work produces

A campaign brief, a creative testing matrix and a reporting approach that distinguishes platform conversions from useful business outcomes.

SKILL 05

Ad copy & creative briefs

Make the promise clear—and give people a reason to believe it.

Messaging · Offers · Creative direction
Inside this skill

Message development

Connect a customer need with an appropriate offer, specific benefits, credible proof and a clear next step. Adapt the message to the channel and stage of the buying journey.

Creative testing

Organise meaningful variations in angle, hook, format and call to action. Keep track of what each variation is intended to test, rather than changing words without a hypothesis.

What the work produces

Ad copy options, creative briefs and an organised testing plan. Claims and proof need to be supported by the business before they go into an ad.

SKILL 06

Media planning & budgets

Put the next test in the context of the whole business.

Channel roles · Budget allocation · Prioritisation
Inside this skill

Planning the approach

Start with objectives, audience, offer, seasonality and operational capacity. Give each channel a clear role and define how progress will be assessed.

Budget decisions

Compare opportunities using compatible outcome definitions. Consider marginal returns, confidence, constraints and test costs rather than allocating budget solely on headline platform metrics.

What the work produces

A media plan, a budget rationale and a small set of priorities with dependencies, owners and decision dates.

SKILL 07

SEO & search insight

Find the questions people ask and the pages that should answer.

SEO audits · Search Console · Content opportunities
Inside this skill

Search visibility

Review how pages are discovered, understood and surfaced in search. Use Search Console to explore queries, landing pages, clicks and visibility changes.

Content direction

Connect search intent to useful page content, clear titles, internal links and a logical site structure. Prioritise opportunities according to relevance, effort and business value.

What the work produces

A practical SEO audit, an opportunity list and content briefs that explain the audience, intent and purpose of each proposed page.

SKILL 08

Testing & decision-making

Make each change leave the team a little wiser.

Hypotheses · Evaluation · Clear reporting
Inside this skill

Designing a useful test

State the problem, proposed mechanism and expected outcome. Establish a baseline and identify dependencies, competing changes and the evidence needed for a decision.

Reading the result

Allow for outcome delay and uncertainty. Separate implementation success from performance impact, and avoid turning a small or noisy result into a sweeping conclusion.

What the work produces

A change register, experiment brief and a short decision note: retain, revise, stop or investigate, with the reasoning recorded.

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TOOLKIT UNLOCKED

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WATCH YOUR STEP
KEEP GOING. THE GOOD STUFF IS AHEAD.
BONUS ROUND / FUN EXPERIMENTS

FUN
EXPERIMENTS

Small browser games I built for fun, starring a slightly cartoon me. No ads were harmed.

NEW / AGENCY SIMULATOR

Run Tom’s agency.

Win briefs, juggle the team, pick the right channel and launch campaigns that actually work. Twelve weeks to build the hottest shop in town.

Play Agency Simulator
Little Tom at his marketing agency desk
MARKETING RUNNER

Tiny Tom.
Big ad problems.

Jump the KPIs. Dodge the budget blowouts. Keep little me employed.

Play Marketing Runner
Little Tom in full stride, wearing his glasses, black tee and beige chinos.
LEVEL 03 / THE CLEARING

YOU MADE IT.
LET’S TALK.

That’s a little about me.
You can find more about my work, or say hello, on LinkedIn.

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THANK YOU FOR EXPLORINGCONTINUE? ALWAYS.