$300
Socials Consultation
1 hour on Meet, prepped in advance (1 week lag)
Details
I go through your accounts before we talk and we spend an hour solving your problems. You get the recording and a one-page summary of what we decided within 48 hours.
Buenos Aires · local time
Alex Balvinsky
Content & Social Media Strategist · Tech, B2B, gaming, Web3 & SaaS
Brand Marketing Specialist with 5+ years in fintech, gaming and crypto. I grow communities to thousands of active members organically, provide creative solutions and viral ideas. English, Spanish, Russian.
I know my LLMs. But I am No Meat Proxy.
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Some numbers
>4Mviews in 6 monthsFreedx
+1.3Mviews on XFreedx
>2Morganic viewsEMCD
+150%following growthFreedx
+500%following growthEMCD
+250%weekly active usersEMCD
700korganic reach, full-year target hit in 2 monthsFreedx
Audience growth
- Telegram2.5k → 25kEMCD
- X650 → 3kEMCD
- YouTube0 → 3kEMCD, two channels
- LinkedIn2 → 3.5kEMCD
- Instagram1k → 7kFreedx
- TikTok35 → 1kFreedx
- X2k → 3.5kFreedx
- Discord & Telegram0 → 3kUbuntu Tribe
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Services
$200
Strategy Review
Written audit with comments, SWOT and a 30-day plan
Details
You send me your content plan and/or strategy and the last 1-3 months of analytics. I send back a presentation with comments on your plan, a SWOT, how you stack up against similar accounts, and a prioritized to-do list for the next 30 days. Ready in 5-7 days, follow-up questions included.
$100
Profile Teardown
A recorded walkthrough of your socials, no call needed
Details
Send me your accounts, your goal and a few accounts you look up to. In 3-5 days you get a 20-30 minute video by yours truly, going through what’s working, what isn’t, and the 5 changes I’d make first.
$TBD
Fractional SMM / Content / Community Consultant
You need the expertise, I have the time.
Payment 100% up front. 100% money-back guarantee if you’re not happy with the result.
You’re not paying for “Claude said:”.You pay for “I’ll make sure they’re happy with the result. Because I want them to be.”
Here’s what others think about my work
“An incredibly creative social media manager with a natural instinct for what it takes to build a brand’s presence from the ground up.”
“He not only grew the community across multiple regions but also turned challenges into opportunities, often delivering results that directly impacted the company’s success.”
“Aleksei doesn’t just manage accounts; he scales them.”
“He executes quickly, understands the industry deeply, and this combination had a huge impact on the quality and relevance of the content we produced together.”
“He always came up with fresh ideas, jumped in to help whenever it was needed, and made even stressful projects fun to work on.”
“Solid expertise in social media and audience growth, genuinely easy to work with, and adds a creative edge to his work.”
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Experience
Under NDA Now
Community Lead
- Rebuilding the socials from the ground up for a virtual card / crypto credit line product
- Crisis communication and managing negative sentiment, working with ORM
- Creative strategy overhaul and advanced storytelling integration
Freedx
Social Media Manager
- Owned social strategy and content across 8 platforms: scripted and produced short-form video, ran the editorial calendar, and led production end-to-end (multiple 500k+ view TikToks)
- Developed a Reddit strategy (0 to 1,000 in the company’s subreddit, fully organic)
- Tracked performance against KPIs and iterated weekly, hitting full-year organic reach targets within two months (700k reach, X +540%, TikTok +813%)
- Automated content production with AI agents trained on previous organic content and built customizable dashboards and reporting, reducing ticket closure time by 27%
- Set up a Discord community and managed multiple AMAs in RU, EN and ES
- Directed a videographer, designer and editor: wrote briefs, reviewed output, and held the team to a weekly publishing cadence
Munich Int. Mining
Social Media Manager
- Owned cross-platform social strategy and brand voice for 3 brands under one umbrella
- Built brand guidelines, ToV and editorial policy, and a visual system in Figma; created an employee branding kit (Telegram emoji, LinkedIn banners)
- Built a sustainable content calendar and used AI to recycle content while maintaining high engagement and view rates
Ubuntu Tribe
Community Manager
- Grew Discord and Telegram organically from 0 to 3k in a greenfield CIS market
- Built a Telegram moderation bot and automated funnels; managed a team of contractors (designers, paid traffic)
- Built a moderation system inside Discord with gamification and channel ratings
- Drove hundreds of registrations from target geos on minimal budgets through organic methods
- Developed an engagement strategy for short-form content, reaching 400k+ organic views
- Grew WAU from zero to 300
EMCD Fintech
Lead Social & Community
- Built and led socials across 5 platforms: owned the editorial calendar, ghostwrote in the founder’s voice and grew presence (Telegram 2.5k to 25k, X 650 to 3k, Instagram 1k to 3k, YouTube 0 to 3k, LinkedIn 2 to 3.5k)
- Managed a team of SMM specialists and community managers; ran a content ticketing system handling briefs from 5 product managers on a 1-week production cycle
- Created a community growth system and achieved community-owned moderation through gamification and a team of loyal members monitoring the chat (Telegram and Discord)
- Launched CIS and global YouTube channels from scratch (Global 0 to 700, CIS 100 to 2k subscribers, 100k+ views in 3 months); built monthly performance reports, ran weekly brainstorms and trend reports, and gathered quarterly competitive analysis
- Resolved multiple community crises and kept brand reputation high among members
Manager360 & Dia-Gram
Social & Content Manager
- Created Tone of Voice and writing policies
- Grew the Manager360 community from 100 to 1k; at Dia-Gram, drove 3,000 new app users, +10% daily online and 100k+ organic views
- My brand and social work supported 3 major league team signings
Apr Marketing Agency
Community Manager
- Moderated multiple Discord gaming communities
- Created a ranking system and gamified the community experience
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Download full portfolio (PDF, 3.8 MB)
Portfolio
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Skills
Community
- Community management
- Moderation policy & guidelines
- Volunteer moderator coordination
- Community playbooks
- Conflict de-escalation
- Crisis communication
- Community culture building
- Ambassador programs
Content & social
- Social media strategy
- Content strategy
- Editorial calendar
- Short-form video
- Copywriting
- Brand voice
- Ghostwriting
- Viral marketing
Analytics & feedback
- Performance analysis & reporting
- KPI tracking
- Competitive analysis
- User feedback collection
- Product feedback synthesis
- Google Analytics
- Power BI
- Sprout Social
AI & automation
- AI agents
- n8n
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Telegram bots
- Automated funnels
- Notion
- Figma
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Education & certifications
- B.S. in PhilosophyHigher School of Economics, Moscow, 2022
- Hootsuite Social Marketing2026
- Anthropic “Claude 101”2026
- Google Digital Marketing & E-Commerce2023
- Certified Digital Marketing AssociatePlus 30+ other marketing courses
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Daily puzzles
My morning warm-up.
Let’s grow your brand
Tell me about your product and your audience.
The fastest way to reach me is Telegram.