Cole
Potashnyk

Tri-continental brand builder & content strategist

Cole is a brand builder, writer, and content strategist who has taken multiple B2B and B2C companies from zero to over 100,000 unique monthly visitors. His four years at bespoke agency BH Digital built the foundation to make it happen; SEO, developing brand voice, launching integrated marketing campaigns — the technical skills. Studies in globalization at uOttawa and Chinese at Jiao Tong University did the rest — shaping an internationally minded strategist now contributing to media outlets like RADII and working with brands serious about building global power through the content and systems that actually move the needle.

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What I Do

01
Marketing Strategy

The key layer that makes everything else work — market and product research, audience segmentation, competitive positioning, and the content architecture to execute. All-encompassing: SEO (and AEO), paid campaigns, email marketing, and smart systems built to scale.

02
Content & Brand Voice

Finding what your brand sounds like, and making it impossible to mistake for any other. From guidelines to long-form editorial, the goal is content that builds brand equity, not just traffic.

03
Social Media

Platform-native strategy for brands that want more than a presence — a real audience. Content-market fit, organic growth, and the editorial thinking behind accounts people actually follow.

04
Cross-Market Localization

Bringing a brand into a new market — whether East to West or West to East — takes more than a simple translation of copy. It takes someone who understands both sides from the inside. Don't make the fatal mistake of launching without localizing.

Selected Work

Technical Experience

Organic Traffic
Icarus Medical

Full-funnel organic content strategy built from the ground up — keyword architecture, editorial calendar, and on-page optimization across a competitive medical vertical.

0 → 215kmonthly visitors
Social Media
SketchWow

Platform-native social strategy across channels — content ideation, copywriting, and growth execution from zero presence to a six-figure following.

0 → 150kfollowers across platforms
Email Optimization
iFixIt

End-to-end management and optimization of a high-volume email program — segmentation, copy, and deliverability at scale.

1M+subscriber list managed

Selected Work

Writing + Editorial

RADII — Full Archive
Author Profile — Cole Potashnyk

All published work at RADII — independent English-language media covering Chinese and Asian youth culture, arts, and technology.

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Shanghai's New Flex
RADII
Shanghai's New Flex: Posting Your Tickets to a Sold-Out Show

On status, FOMO, and the evolving social currency of cultural access in urban China.

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Chinese Gen Z Just Found a New Mood
RADII
Chinese Gen Z Just Found a New Mood

Tracing the cultural shift in how China's youngest generation is defining identity, aesthetics, and attitude.

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Credentials

Experience
Editorial Contributor
RADII — Hong Kong, CN
Senior Content Strategist
BH Digital — Denver, US
Global Content Lead
Nova Ukraine — San Francisco, US
Education
BA — Intl. Dev. + Globalization
University of Ottawa
Chinese Language (中文)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Together

Available for brand strategy, content, and cross-market projects. Reach out directly — response within 24 hours.

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