Michael K.

Senior Brand and Marketing Project Manager

Schwerin, Germany

Experience

Sep 2012 - Present
13 years 4 months
Schwerin, Germany
Remote

Founder and Agency Director

avatras Kommunikation und Marketing

From corporate communication to brand communication

  • BRANDING

  • Defining brand core and positioning through in-depth analyses

  • Identifying the perfect target audience and their actual needs

  • Optimizing offers and value ladder for maximum customer benefit

  • Refining corporate communication

  • Branding concepts that noticeably reduce acquisition efforts, churn, and objections

  • WEBDESIGN

  • Premium websites: visually outstanding, strategically built with exclusive copywriting

  • Legally compliant content: GDPR, imprint, and terms & conditions

  • AI-powered add-ons like live chat and appointment management

  • SEO and SEO-AI based on the EEAT principle

  • Cinematic video marketing that makes your brand emotionally tangible

  • Ongoing maintenance and updates to keep your online presence relevant

  • 🏼 COPYWRITING

  • High-converting copy, especially for complex offerings

  • Recruitment texts and employer branding that truly attract talent

  • Concise texts for websites, social media, and campaigns

  • Eloquently written speeches, presentations, and articles of all kinds

  • Technical and document translations for an international focus

Oct 2011 - Mar 2012
6 months
Chester, United Kingdom
On-site

Guest Lecturer

University of Chester

Department: Modern Languages | Course Module: German as a Foreign Language (B2 Conversation) | Class Year: Graduates 2012

Oct 2006 - Dec 2009
3 years 3 months
Biberach, Germany
On-site

Head of International Customer Service | Single Point of Contact for International B2B Partners

Robert Straub Autovermietung

Customer Relationship Management

  • Escalation management
  • B2B and B2C complaint handling
  • B2C and B2B support
  • Supporting the marketing and sales support departments

10/2006-07/2007: Licensee of National Car Rental Vanguard GmbH & Co. KG 08/2007-08/2009: Budget Rent a Car Robert Straub GmbH 2007: Awarded the Service Excellence Award

Employment ended due to the insolvency of Robert Straub GmbH

Summary

With strategic branding and goal-oriented marketing to more inquiries, a better closing rate, and a noticeable increase in your revenue.

Over 20 years ago, I recognized as an international sales assistant at Deutsche Telekom’s global headquarters the immense power of purposefully built corporate communication. A few years later, as Head of International Customer Service at Budget Rent a Car, I was honored for optimizing and digitizing existing processes—a milestone that has shaped me ever since.

My service company, founded in 2012 during my international studies in linguistics and law, has since evolved—thanks to the latest technological advances—into a full-service agency for owner-managed small and medium-sized businesses, focusing on online presence, marketing economics, and automation.

It started with a simple insight: a recognizable logo and an attractive website don’t help if no one knows what a company stands for.

Since then, my goal has been to interlink branding, web design, copywriting, and marketing so that “we’re here too” turns into a clear, memorable profile that attracts the right people and turns them into customers. Among other roles as association chair, PR manager, and lead web designer, I’ve learned to position brands in text, design, and presentation so transparently that the right audience instantly recognizes itself—with effects: less churn, much higher satisfaction, and far fewer objections.

Today, I develop unique brand images where branding isn’t cosmetic but a focused strategic decision:

Who do we want to attract? Who do we deliberately avoid? And how must the website, language, and story be structured to make it happen.

Websites that, combined with tailored branding, build trust in seconds, make even complex offers understandable, handle objections and prequalification with strong copywriting, guide visitors intuitively, consider SEO and performance, and ultimately lead to clear action.

Depending on the project, this ranges from a text-strong website developed in days to smart web systems that answer questions 24/7, qualify leads, integrate booking and AI elements, and ensure only well-informed prospects reach you.

At the same time, I’ve sharpened my focus on performance marketing: conversion-oriented copywriting for websites, landing pages, funnels, newsletters, and paid ads, combined with SEO and SEO-AI work so content not only convinces but is also found.

Cinematic video marketing complements this approach when moving images meet a brand message: storytelling that builds trust before the first conversation and is embedded in campaigns to deliver measurable revenue.

What sets me apart from my competitors is that my career began with professional language mediation, business internationalization, and legal communication: I know where machine translations and generic text generators fail, where website builders and Vibe Coding sound more promising than they deliver, and I transfer messages transcreatively, localized, SEO-aware, and legally compliant into the target language.

This has created a qualification many clients value as a rare combination: someone who thinks strategically about brand and audience, conceives websites and smart web systems accordingly, weaves copywriting, SEO, paid ads, and video marketing in efficiently as the icing on the cake—and turns it all into corporate communication that looks professional and results in noticeably more revenue.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2011 - Jun 2012

University of Chester

English Linguistics, Technical Communication, and Law · Chester, United Kingdom · Final grade 2:1 (comparable to 1.7)

  • Linguistics | passed all exams with top marks

  • Translation techniques DE<>EN | final exam: full transcription and translation of an episode of the German political talk show by Günter Jauch into English

  • Law | passed final exam with top marks

  • Extracurricular: Spanish conversation B2

Language exchange tandem (DEU, ENG, SPA, FIN)

Oct 2010 - Mar 2014

Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal

Conference Interpreting for Authorities and Courts (B.A.) · Technical Communication · Magdeburg, Germany

  • Interpreting techniques: consecutive interpreting, whispered interpreting, sight translation, simultaneous interpreting, and relay interpreting

  • Legal language and law

  • Legal and specialized translations

  • Document translation

  • Foreign legal systems

  • Intercultural action and cross-cultural competence

  • Terminology work

  • Passed all exams in the specialized translation modules with top marks

  • Also earned top marks for a research project in the minor subject of engineering and natural sciences titled "Design and Representation of Power Generators and Consumers" and for a specialist presentation on film dubbing

  • Extracurricular: audiovisual translation

  • Practice-oriented project work

  • Internships: translation agency (2nd semester) and law firm (3rd semester)

  • Deputy member of the Student Council for Communication and Media

  • Research assistant at the Department of Communication and Media

  • Language tandem (English and Spanish)

Sep 2003 - Jun 2006

Deutsche Telekom AG

State examination by the IHK Cologne · Foreign Language Correspondence EN · Cologne, Germany

DTAG Telekom Training || Certified Interpreter Edeltraud Banisch || Berufskolleg an der Lindenstraße

  • International business correspondence

  • Import and export

  • Service-oriented, English-language commercial correspondence

  • Business English and translations in a corporate context

  • Additionally: telecommunications products, communication techniques, sales consulting

Certifications & licenses

Publicly appointed and sworn expert of the judiciary

Higher Regional Court of Rostock · Rostock, Germany

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