I'm Ahmed. I started NOIR, a car fragrance brand, selling on TikTok Shop.
When it started growing, I did what most founders do: I hired agencies to run the ads. They didn't perform. Not one of them.
Big promises on the sales call. Then account managers, monthly reports, ROAS screenshots, and an invoice every month. Meanwhile it was my money on the line, and nobody treated it that way.
So I stopped outsourcing it and learned it myself. The ads, the creative, the offers, the margins. And I outperformed every agency I'd ever paid.
Along the way I learned the lesson that changed everything: there were months where revenue went up and the bank balance didn't. More spend, more orders, longer days, and less to show for it.
Revenue is vanity. Profit is what pays you.
So I rebuilt everything around it. I worked out exactly what I could afford to pay for a customer. I fixed the offer so every order was worth more. And I only scaled when the numbers said yes.
That's what took NOIR to seven figures, first on TikTok Shop, then on Shopify, and all the way to an exit.
ICS is the agency I wish I'd hired back then.
When you work with me:
- You talk to me, not an account manager.
- We start with your numbers before we spend a pound.
- We measure success by one thing: what lands in your bank account.
Whether I run your ads for you or teach you to run them yourself, you get everything I learned the hard way, without paying for it the way I did.