From direct sales to digital marketing

Curiosity, sales and a digital path.

The knowledge and skills I have today did not start in a Master’s. That catapulted them — but it began by selling, building and running real projects. The path is made by walking.

Digital track

In digital since 2010. With names and dates.

  1. 2010 — 2013

    Efecto Esponja and the leap into digital

    Finance and economics blog: Top 10 “Best business blog” at Premios Bitácoras 2011, 42nd in the Coguan ranking and 78th in ebuzzing/wikio Spain. A talk at Borsadiner, a community on bolsa.com… and the push that took me into digital marketing.

  2. 2013 — 2015

    CMO · Trustivity

    An ecommerce reviews startup: I was part of the founding team. Everything that was not code: product, content, acquisition, trade shows, partnerships, legal and internationalization. Clients such as Movistar, Promofarma or Electrocosto.

  3. 2016 — 2017

    Traffic Manager · Clinmoo

    A real-estate agency. SEO audits, landing-page WPO, PPC on Google and Facebook/Instagram, and an attribution system with automated reporting. Developers such as Núñez y Navarro, Aelca or Forcadell, and projects like BADI.

  4. 2017 — 2024

    Teaching · KSchool, UAB, UB and TeamLabs

    SEO for CMS module on KSchool’s SEO-SEM Master’s (WordPress, PrestaShop, Magento). Classes at UAB, the UB pharmaceutical marketing postgraduate, and analytics on TeamLabs’ LEINN degree. Teaching forces you to make daily work explicit.

  5. 2017 — 2020

    Reactiva · from specialist to partner and CMO

    I came in on SEO, WPO, SEM and analytics. I left as partner and CMO: strategy for clients (NGOs, leisure, ecommerce, industry, telco) and for the agency itself. That is where Julián and I set off to build SANTACONCHA, still sistered with them.

  6. 2019 — today

    Cofounder and Head of Marketing · SANTACONCHA

    I cofounded the agency with Julián. I run marketing: acquisition, SEO/GEO, campaigns and the conversation with the client. The team covers design and development. We are the A-TEAM. No helicopter. Coffee, a plan, and the habit of making it land.

  7. 2023 — today

    Cofounder · CAPTAMOS TU LEAD

    A looser way to tell what we already know how to do: acquisition, communication and performance for projects that want less of a straitjacket. Same standard, different tone. Even REME, the chat mascot, is part of the game.

  8. 2025 — today

    Partner & CMO · Academia de Pensamiento Diferencial

    Pep Torres has spent decades proving that extraordinary results are method, not magic. As partner and CMO I help that method reach more people: product, acquisition and the Academy’s digital layer.

The stock-market world

Before SEO, I was already reading the market.

I have invested in the stock market since around 2000. That stage is not nostalgia: it is the judgment with which I look at risk, signal and patience in any campaign.

Efecto Esponja

Blog · economics and finance

Top 10 «Best business blog» at Premios Bitácoras 2011, 42nd in the Coguan ranking of economics/finance blogs and 78th in ebuzzing/wikio Spain. The blog that pushed me into digital marketing.

bolsa.com

Community · selected as guru

Active profile with thousands of followers (more than 1.800 already in 2011; close to 4.600 in 2015). Daily conversation with traders and investors, not just standalone articles.

Borsadiner 2011

Speaker · Bolsa.com stand

Talk «Especular de forma fácil y consistente» at the money, stock market and investment fair (Palacio de Congresos de Cataluña). A real stage in front of the industry.

Barcelona Trading Point

Cofounder · CCO

Trader event for traders: +90 conferences, +1.000 attendees and +60 sponsors. A meeting point still alive online.

Visit site

elmundobursatil.es

Technical analysis

I wrote technical analysis for the outlet. Translating the chart into a clear thesis — the same muscle I use today to prioritize campaigns.

Invertia · moneycall

Forum · ~2002–2006

Active forum member under the nick moneycall. A few years of daily conversation about markets before «personal brand» existed.

Before digital marketing

I learned to sell before I learned marketing.

Sales, family business, finance and events before entering the digital world. They are not decoration: they are the foundation of how I think about acquisition, margin and people.

Out in the real world. Person to person.

  • Family fruit shop

  • Luxury sofas

    Natuzzi, Grassoler, Divatto

  • Electronics

    MediaMarkt, LG, Garmin

  • Banking and training

    Cold-calling

You learn to hear real objections.

What I brought into marketing

Empathy
with whoever is selling
Rigor
with money
Patience
with the process

That is why in marketing I start with the business, not the tool.

Stages and media

From the agency to the stage and classroom.

PPCCast, SEO Clinic, 4YFN, Twitch, classrooms. Judgment sharpens when you have to explain it in public. Today the weight sits with the agency; the stage, when it adds something.

  • PPC Fest

    Sponsorship of PPC Fest, focused on paid advertising.

  • 4YFN · Mobile World Congress

    SEO and SEM workshop with KSchool at 4YFN · Mobile World Congress.

  • Barcelona Digital Talent

    Twitch interview about SEO and my career in digital marketing.

  • Borsadiner

    Talk “Especular de forma fácil y consistente” at Borsadiner 2011, at the Bolsa.com stand.

  • PPCCast

    Interview exploring PPC agencies from the inside.

  • Semrush

    Collaborations and conversations in the SEO/SEM industry.

  • SEO Clinic

    Talk on SEO and search positioning.

  • Barcelona Trading Point

    Cofounder and CCO of an event by traders, for traders: more than 90 talks, 1,000 attendees and 60 sponsors.

  • KSCHOOL

    Lecturer for 6 years on the Máster SEO-SEM Profesional.

  • UB

    Lecturer on the postgraduate programme in Pharmaceutical Marketing at the Universitat de Barcelona.

  • UAB

    Masterclass on the Master’s in Digital Creativity at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

  • TEAMLABS

    Masterclass on analytics on the LEINN degree programme.

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08 · Now

The next chapter can be yours.

Marketing leadership, a serious second opinion on SEO and SEM, or a full project with SANTACONCHA. No endless forms.

Javier Concha López, digital marketing director