Md. Nahid
CTO & Co-Founder
For five years we have sold businesses search traffic. A few of them would have been better off without it. Traffic that brings no buyers is the most expensive thing in marketing, and it hides behind a dashboard that looks healthy.
How the journey began
I had been doing search since 2015. Local SEO first, then agencies, then white label work on other people’s clients. The jobs kept arriving with the same problem attached. Some of the tasks went against Islamic rules, and turning them down inside somebody else’s company was not something I could keep doing.
So in December 2020 I stopped, and started Creative Marketers BD instead. One rule from the first day: no project that conflicts with Islamic values, whatever it pays. That rule has cost real orders, and it still does.
What it turned into
What began as one person is now a team of eleven. In five years the practice has run search for more than twenty businesses: pest control, real estate, e-commerce, law, logistics, clinics, packaging, supplements and graphics services, in Bangladesh and in the Gulf.
Twenty companies teaches you something a single vertical cannot. Buyer search behaviour is close to identical everywhere. Only the vocabulary changes. Most of what agencies charge for as strategy is vocabulary.
The work itself has not changed much either. A technical audit, honest keyword research against what buyers actually type, content built for those searches rather than for a word count, and links earned slowly enough to survive. It is unglamorous. It is also the part that compounds.
