Our Story
Hello! We’re Magda and Olga; the co-founders of It’s Personal.
Over a decade ago, we started our journey as part of the original management team at sofa.com, an online furniture retailer that quickly became one of the UK's fastest-growing privately owned businesses.
It was a time where online advertising costs were rising, prompting brands to seek innovative ways to get the most out of their marketing budgets. investing in Customer Retention was the smart move.
We were hands-on in developing a cross-team Customer Retention function within the business from scratch. Of course, it included all of us in the Growth and Marketing teams, but we didn’t stop there. Customer Retention was everyone’s business; from Customer Services to Sales, to Delivery and Stock teams. Focusing on keeping our customers happy made us one of the most successful businesses in our sector, later acquired at a valuation that reflected that success.
We moved on to other roles in DTC and Ecommerce brands and the roles we held were CDO, CMO, CCO. Throughout this time, we always thought that Customer Retention is undervalued, overlooked and underestimated.
That’s why we started It’s Personal. We help Ecommerce brands to win more happy customers and keep them for longer. We run an agency we wish we’d had a chance to work with in our brand-side times.
For us,
It’s Personal!
A few words about our team:
We utilise our extensive knowledge and expertise to help purpose-driven, lifestyle brands grow online through clever, data-driven email marketing strategies.
We believe in business as a force for good and support inspirational business founders in growing sustainable businesses, where profit is valued just as much as people and the planet.
We have a small but mighty expert team who are resourceful, creative and focused on driving results fast.
We’re data-driven and help our clients make strategic decisions based on clean, reliable data, interpreted in the context of the wider sector and industry.
Get in touch to see what we can do for your business!
Meet the Team
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Olga de Villiers
FOUNDER & CEO
Some of Olga’s network still refer to her as ‘the one who speaks human about tech, data and ecommerce’. With her experience in SaaS and ecommerce businesses, Olga brings focus to the numbers that matter as well as humans behind brands
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Magda Kolesinski
FOUNDER & CCO
Passionate, driven and always full of energy. Magda’s super power is squeezing maximum return out of every campaign and activity - a quality she developed while growing ambitious startups and scaleups on very tight budgets.
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Filip
GROWTH STRATEGIST
With a background in performance marketing, Filip is all about the data and driving the numbers. Experienced marketing automation specialist with a passion for designing seamless customer journeys.
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Laura
CRM MANAGER
A volcano of creativity and a true wizard of puns - Laura brings to life the mindful email marketing strategies for our clients across campaigns, automations and more.
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Demi
EMAIL MARKETING ASSISTANT
Million ideas per second, and just as many tasks completed per day! Demi is the fast thinking, fast learning and fast working email marketing expert behind many winning campaigns released for our clients. -
Lisa
GROWTH STRATEGIST
Email Marketing & Social media expert. Obsessed with hunting down brands’ true differentiators and getting the message out there to the market.
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Gosia
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Gosia is our very talented graphic designer, with a magical sprinkling of her creative mind and artistic eye, she’s able to effortlessly create fabulous, on-brand design for our clients.