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Est. — Studio of one ● Available Q3 2026 Remote / Worldwide

Social media that sells.

Elma — Social Media Designer

A one-woman studio crafting Instagram feeds, ad creative & paid campaigns that move the needle. Five years, forty-plus brands.

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Strategy, design & a little obsession with the feed.

I'm Elma — a social media designer and ad strategist helping growing brands look intentional online. From scroll-stopping carousels to high-converting ad sets, every pixel and caption is built to earn attention and revenue.

I work directly with founders and small teams. No agency layers, no handoffs — just one person who lives in your Meta Business Suite and treats your grid like it's her own.

40+
Brands shipped
5 yrs
In the trenches
12M
Impressions managed
3.4×
Avg. ROAS

What I actually do.

Pick a single service or hand me the whole channel. Most clients start with one and end up keeping me on retainer.

— 01

Post design

Feed posts, carousels, story templates and highlight covers — designed for your brand, built to stop the thumb.

Carousels Reels covers Stories Highlights
— 02

Ad management

Meta & TikTok paid social — creative, targeting, daily optimisation, weekly reports. ROAS-first, always.

Meta Ads TikTok Ads Creative testing Retargeting
— 03

Content strategy

Monthly content calendars, pillar planning and caption writing tuned to your voice and the algorithm.

Calendars Captions Hooks SEO
— 04

Full channel

Soup to nuts. Strategy, design, ads, reporting. You make the product — I make the internet care about it.

Retainer Reporting Community Growth

Recent campaigns.

04 Projects / 2024–2026
Case 01 — Hospitality

Olive & Stone

A coastal boutique hotel needed a feed that felt like a long Sunday lunch. Rebuilt the grid, launched seasonal ad sets and grew bookings through Q1.

Followers
+218%
ROAS
4.1×
Duration
6 mo
olive
01
stone
02
slow
03
summer
'26
04
Case 02 — Beauty / DTC

Mira Skin

Cult-favourite clean skincare, post-launch. Owned the entire paid social engine across Meta and TikTok, plus reels-first feed direction.

Revenue
$1.2M+
CPA
−42%
Duration
14 mo
m.
new drop / 04.26
skin
↑ 4.1× ROAS
Case 03 — F&B

Loaf & Letter

Independent bakery building a local cult following. Reels-led strategy, weekly drops, neighbourhood-targeted ads.

Views
3.8M
Foot traffic
+62%
Duration
Ongoing
Sourdough,
Sunday.
482K views
Behind the
counter.
1.1M views
Saturday
drop.
218K views
Case 04 — Fashion

North & Noon

Slow-fashion label launching a third capsule. Built the editorial-feed direction, produced campaign assets, ran top-of-funnel ads.

Add-to-cart
+88%
CTR
2.4%
Duration
4 mo
N&N
SS
capsule
III
linen
26
noon
north
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Results that compound.

0M+
Total impressions
0×
Average ROAS
0%
Avg. CPA reduction
0+
Brands shipped

A process built for small teams.

Step
/ 04
01
02
03
04
— 01 / Audit

We listen.

A 60-minute call, a full audit of your channels, your competitors and the last 90 days of paid performance. Nothing gets designed until we know what's broken and what's worth doubling down on.

— 02 / Strategy

We plan.

A 4-week content calendar, a paid-ads test matrix and a brand-design system. You approve the direction before a single asset gets made.

— 03 / Make

We build.

Posts, carousels, reels, ads — all designed, copywritten and scheduled. You see everything in Notion, comment in one place, approve in one click.

— 04 / Optimise

We iterate.

Weekly performance reviews. The winners get scaled, the losers get killed, and the calendar evolves every month. That's where compounding actually lives.

Trusted by 40+ founders & marketing leads
Olive & Stone Mira Skin Loaf & Letter North & Noon Atlas Coffee Wren Studio Maison Lune Field Notes Olive & Stone Mira Skin Loaf & Letter North & Noon Atlas Coffee Wren Studio Maison Lune Field Notes

What clients actually say.

"
Elma rebuilt our entire feed in six weeks and our DM enquiries tripled. She gets the algorithm and she gets our brand. Rare combo.
S
Sara Mendez
Founder, Olive & Stone
"
We've worked with three agencies. None of them moved CPA the way Elma did in her first month. She actually opens Ads Manager.
J
James Park
CMO, Mira Skin
"
My grid finally looks like the brand I always imagined. Reels are going off, the line is out the door on Saturdays. Worth every euro.
N
Nora Halil
Owner, Loaf & Letter

Let's make something.

Tell me a bit about your brand, your goals and what's not working. I reply within 48 hours, usually same day.

Email
hi@socialbyelma.com
Instagram
@socialbyelma
Based in
Worldwide