Digital Content & Social Media · Puerto Rico · Remote, US

Carlos
Cabrera

I build audiences that stop, watch, and trust, then turn that attention into real results.

9 years producing short-form video Strategy to final cut Bilingual EN / ES
Results at a glance
2xInstagram audience at Drunken Cookies, 30K to 60K+
5xAudience growth at Music On, 35K to 180K+
$18K+Monthly online sales built from zero at Drunken Cookies
$13KFirst-month online sales at SUMAQ, up from $400

Selected work

Three brands, three starting points. In each one I owned the content end to end: the idea, the hook, the shoot, the edit, and what happened after it was published.

Drunken Cookies

Social Media Strategist & Content Lead · 2024 to present

30K→60K+ Instagram followers, plus a Facebook community of 100K+
See the full account on Instagram ↗

The challenge

A cookie brand with several locations in Puerto Rico and no real online sales channel.

What I did

  • Built the content strategy and a weekly production system: on-site shoots, editing, and my own voiceovers.
  • Run $4K to $5K a month in Meta Ads and the budget for creator partnerships.
  • Lead a 3-person marketing team (a Meta Ads specialist, a publisher, and a content creator) and oversee a 7-person social operations team that handles DMs and online sales and escalates collaborations and paid promotions to me. I set the ads strategy and decide which content gets promoted.
  • Brief smaller creators every month with a clear objective, and they create to my direction.
  • Secured the brand's spot in PR Fashion Week and lead the partnership, logistics, promo content, and on-site coverage.

Why it worked

Consistency and real people. The brand shows up every week without depending on the owner, and a customer-generated content program (product in exchange for content) outperformed paid influencer deals at a fraction of the cost. Online sales went from zero to more than $18,000 a month.

The proof

  • 3,131Purchases driven by 109 ad videos I made, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026 (Meta Ads data)
  • $4.56Average cost per add to cart across all of them, inside the brand's $3 to $5 range for its best ads
  • 349Purchases from a single video, "Box Straight to Your Door"
  • 1.3MViews on the top ad, a free-delivery announcement

Best-selling ad

"Box Straight to Your Door"
  • 349Purchases, the most of 109 ads
  • 4,627Adds to cart
  • $2.96Per add to cart, below the brand's $3 to $5 benchmark

Why it worked: it answers the one doubt that stops an online cookie order: will it arrive fresh? In 17 seconds the viewer sees the full box, the cookies coming out of the oven, the FedEx pickup and the box arriving the next day. No claims, just the delivery experience, shown step by step.

Ad creative in market

Screenshots of Drunken Cookies ads on Facebook. Views include paid distribution. Tap one to see it full size.

  • Drunken Cookies Facebook ad announcing free delivery for a limited time, showing 1.3 million views, 650 reactions, 88 comments and 41 shares
    1.3Mviews · Free delivery
  • Drunken Cookies Facebook ad reading Envío Gratis over a box of cookies, showing 935 thousand views, 396 reactions, 45 comments and 20 shares
    935Kviews · Envío gratis
  • Drunken Cookies Facebook ad reading Tenemos deliveries, showing 688 thousand views, 1.6 thousand reactions, 116 comments and 207 shares
    688Kviews · 1.6K reactions · 207 shares
  • Drunken Cookies Facebook ad filmed inside a busy store with a box of cookies, showing 550 thousand views, 872 reactions, 109 comments and 53 shares
    550Kviews · 109 comments

Music On Auto Accessories

Content Strategist & Videographer · 2024

35K→180K+ Instagram followers, with a strategy the brand still runs today
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The challenge

A car audio and accessories shop in Cayey with a local audience of about 35K followers.

What I did

  • Designed the content strategy and produced the videos from concept to final edit.
  • Batch-shot 20 to 30 videos in one weekly shoot day and edited around five a day.
  • Coached the owner to present on camera, building a personal brand he still uses today.

Why it worked

Volume with a system behind it. Batch production kept the account publishing constantly, and the audience grew fivefold. The shop stayed booked up to three months ahead.

The proof

  • 4TikToks over 300K views in 11 months, against 1 in the previous four years
  • 546KViews on the top video of 2024
  • 3.1MOrganic views across the top 14 videos of 2024

Before and after, in data

Music On case study: 4 TikToks over 300K views in 11 months versus 1 in the 4 prior years and 3 after; top 2024 videos from 181K to 546K views; Instagram followers from about 35K to 180K+; 3.1 million organic views; 20 to 30 videos per weekly shoot day
Built from the account's public TikTok data: before, during and after my work. Tap the image to see it full size.

SUMAQ Silver & Jewelry

Social Media Marketing Strategist & Content Creator · Apr to Aug 2026

$400→$13K Monthly online sales in the first month, and $30K in three months
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The challenge

A jewelry brand with physical stores in San Juan selling almost nothing online.

What I did

  • Built the online sales strategy and a consistent content base around the product.
  • Produced the content and put paid budget behind what organic had already proven.
  • Directed 3 brand ambassadors and the owner on camera: wrote their scripts, ran the shoots, and got them posting about the brand on their own accounts.

Why it worked

The content made the product worth talking about, and the brand became a local go-to online. Sales grew roughly 30 times in the first month.

The proof

  • $13.6KGross online sales from Apr 15 to May 14, 2026, per the store's Shopify report
  • 129Orders in those 30 days, at a $96 average order
  • 48%Returning customer rate: buyers came back
  • 33%Of reels passed 10K views while I ran content, against 2% before and 4% after

Before and after, in data

SUMAQ case study: median Instagram reel views went from 1,744 before to 3,814 with Carlos and 2,260 after; reels passing 10K views went from 2% to 33% and back to 4%; online sales from $400 to $13,000 a month; about $10,000 a month sustained; YouTube Shorts median views from 149 to 1,208
Built from public Instagram and YouTube data, plus the store's Shopify report: before, during and after my contract. Tap the image to see it full size.

How I work

The same loop runs on every brand, from a 30-second Reel to a same-day response to breaking news.

1

Find the angle

What changes for this audience, and why should they stop scrolling? One idea per piece.

2

Make it

Hook, script, direction of on-camera talent, shoot, and edit. I do every step myself, and I set up the system when a team takes over parts of it.

3

Measure and repeat

Watch time, shares, saves, and sales, not just views. What works gets paid support and a follow-up.

Toolkit

Skills

Content strategyShort-form videoCreative direction Directing on-camera talentInfluencer & UGC programsMeta Ads AnalyticsAI-assisted production

Tools

CapCut (advanced)DaVinci ResolveMeta Ads Manager Professional cinema cameraiPhone short-form productionAI content tools