I help companies that are hiring email marketers skip the 3-month recruiting grind. I run your deliverability, outreach and retention myself, starting this week, at 1/3 the cost of the hire.
"Kunal is a one-man army of Email Marketing. He is able to juggle a whole set of skills that usually require a whole team."Verified 5.0 Upwork review | Email Marketing Manager / CRM Manager, 11-month engagement
This is my actual Upwork profile. 3 years of client work where every review is public, permanent and impossible to fake. I am moving this exact operation off-platform, direct to companies like yours, minus the marketplace fees.
One video, no fluff. What I do, how I do it, and why it costs you a third of a salary.
Infrastructure, authentication, list health, flows, reputation. You get a written teardown of what is broken and what it is costing you in revenue.
Everything from the audit gets repaired or rebuilt. I never experiment with your sender reputation. Only setups I have run at scale before.
Ongoing management on a monthly retainer. Every Friday you get a written report: deliverability, replies, pipeline, revenue. You always know where you stand.
Word for word from my public Upwork reviews. Every single one is a 5.0.
"Kunal has been a fantastic asset to our project. His expertise in email marketing and CRM integration is impressive. He's extremely proactive and communicative, ensuring smooth execution and quick resolution of any issues. Kunal's strategic recommendations have been invaluable, particularly in domain management and campaign optimization, leading to high engagement rates. I highly recommend Kunal for anyone needing a skilled and reliable email marketing strategist."
"Kunal is incredible to work with. I see why he is a top talent. He was responsive, prompt, professional, intelligent, and fun to work with. He was incredibly reliable and always brought new ideas to our project. I will absolutely hire him again."
"Kunal expertly resolved our email deliverability issue, enhancing our campaign performance significantly. His thorough understanding and strategic approach not only optimized our email efforts but also improved our overall engagement. His time management and expertise are highly commendable."
"Two specialists attempted the task before him, but he succeeded where others fell short. He even created a strategy document that we could use when working on the social media ads. We are glad to have crossed paths with him!"
Most email programs bleed money in places nobody is looking: DNS, list hygiene, sending patterns. I find every leak in the audit.
Copy does not matter if you are in spam. Reputation and authentication come before a single campaign is sent.
I do not test theories on your domain. Everything I deploy has already worked across dozens of client accounts.
Domains and mailboxes ramped properly so volume never torches your reputation.
Cold outreach, campaigns and flows launched on infrastructure built to carry them.
Inbox placement monitored continuously. Weekly reports so wins compound instead of decay.
My retainer runs about 1/3 of what you would pay an in-house email marketer. No benefits, no equipment, no severance, no bad-hire risk.
Deliverability, infrastructure, outbound, LinkedIn and retention. That is 2 or 3 separate hires anywhere else. With me it is one Slack channel.
The average email marketing hire takes 2 to 3 months to source, interview and onboard. I have started client engagements on the same day as the first call.
Every Friday you get a written performance report. Deliverability, replies, meetings, revenue. Ask any of my clients: I over-communicate on purpose.
While your email marketer seat sits empty, the highest-ROI channel in your company runs unmanaged. Every week of vacancy is measurable money: email returns $36 to $42 for every $1 spent (Litmus), versus roughly $2 for paid search and $2.80 for social ads. That gap does not wait for your recruiter.
And hiring is slow and risky by design: filling a role takes around 44 days on average and costs about $4,700 before salary (SHRM), and a bad hire costs up to 30% of that employee's first-year earnings (US Department of Labor). The fractional model exists because of these four numbers.
Three silent killers explain most underperforming email programs. All three are technical, invisible in your dashboard, and exactly what I fix first.
Since Google and Yahoo began enforcing sender requirements in 2024 (DMARC, one-click unsubscribe, spam complaints under 0.3%), the inbox placement gap between properly authenticated and unauthenticated senders has grown to roughly 45 percentage points. Most companies fail this silently: mail "sends fine" and dies in spam. My first 72 hours on any account: SPF, DKIM and DMARC verified, aligned and enforced.
Email lists decay by about 22.5% every year (HubSpot): people change jobs, abandon inboxes, unsubscribe. Keep sending to the dead weight and providers read it as spam behavior, dragging your reputation down for the subscribers who do want your mail. I ran this playbook at scale for CGIAR: flag, segment, clean, and reputation recovers.
Automated emails drive 37% of all email revenue from just 2% of send volume (Omnisend), and automated workflows return up to 30x more than one-off campaigns. Most companies run campaigns and skip flows, which is exactly backwards. It is why CheckCheck gained $2,000 a day: not more sending, better automation.
I plug into your team and own the technical side: deliverability, infrastructure, outbound systems, flow builds. Your team keeps the strategy. I make it land in the inbox.
Book a Call NowI run your entire email function end to end: strategy, infrastructure, outbound, retention and reporting. The full output of the role you were about to hire, at 1/3 the cost.
Book a Call Now| High Performing Emails | Do It Yourself | In-House Employee | Agency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to start | Days | Now, badly | 2 to 3 months | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Monthly cost | 1/3 of a salary | Your own time | Salary + benefits + tools | High retainer + markup |
| Senior does the actual work | ✓ | ✕ | Depends on the hire | Usually a junior |
| Deliverability + outbound + retention in one | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | Separate teams, separate bills |
| Weekly performance reports | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | Monthly, if that |
| Risk-free guarantee | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Cancel anytime | ✓ | ✓ | Notice period + severance | Locked contracts |
I have spent 16+ years in B2B sales and marketing and the last 3 running email for companies worldwide. These are the numbers I stand behind.
Book a 30-minute call. You will leave with a straight, honest read on your email program even if we never work together. That is a promise.