More than 15 years across business, marketing and journalism. I build marketing and business strategies for startups and growth, and champion employee ownership in digital services — grounded in a newsroom career that ran to the front page.
There are four turning points that shaped who I am professionally. Each marks a shift: from employee to founder, from marketer to strategist, from writer to content expert, from local reporter to international correspondent, and from translator to front-page journalist. Together they trace how a curiosity about business and words became a career built on strategy, storytelling and growth.
The turn from employee to founder. As CEO of this employee-owned cooperative-to-be I scaled revenues 200% in 2023–24 and 75% in 2025, lifted margins 35% and took retention from 75% to 95% — expanding into GCC, EU and US markets. Through Gojo Systems (0.5% market share in 240 days) and Pilot Studios (profitable in 120), we have been able to carve a small but growing slice of the local market. 150+ projects, 50+ brands.
Date: Since 2018
Description: The turn from writer to strategist. Where I learned SEO content and fused it with serious business journalism — 118% traffic growth in five months, single-handedly and without a team, while producing unique, value-added bilingual reporting. The capability that now underwrites my consulting work.
Date: 2023
Description: The turn from local reporter to international correspondent. The only foreign stringer and fixer on retainer with Swiss Radio and Television — facilitator, correspondent and interpreter, 99% delivery anywhere in Jordan. I coordinated nation-wide radio documentaries, built a network from politicians to “vagabonds”, and was gifted an honorary SRF mic.
Date: Since 2019 or 2020
Description: I started as a translator here while still at university, left journalism for banking, then left banking to get back to it — through AlGhad, and back there for front- and full-page stories: the Jordan–Iraq premiers’ summit in Baghdad, debt imprisonment and municipal corruption, tax evasion and the shadow economy.
Date: 2011–2012 or 2012–2014
A community-first digital blood bank and donation-tracking app, making blood donation a civic habit across the Arab world.
Status : Under development
Personal financial management application that reinvents how individuals handle their finances, building health financial habits through visibility, convenience, and education.
Status : Underway
Checkers’ multimedia production house — video, social content, podcasts and motion graphics, script to delivery.
Status: Launched 2025, under formalization
Checkers’ technology arm — websites, mobile apps and SaaS marketing and distribution channels, built for clients and for the group’s own offering.
Status: Launched 2024, products under development
Founder & CEO. A democratic, cooperative enterprise spanning technology, multimedia production and digital marketing.
Status: Est. 2018
Co-founder and PR lead of Jordan’s first tax-support app, later echoed by the government’s Fawateeri.
Status:
Research-led articles and content, reports, profiles, editing, blogs and white-papers that make important ideas easier to understand and act on.
Arabic–English translation, localization, editing and proofreading, built for meaning rather than word-for-word equivalence.
Consecutive and simultaneous interpretation, facilitation, stringing and fixing for projects that need accuracy and context on the ground.
Market research, business planning, feasibility, growth and resilience strategy for startups and established companies, including cooperative and employee-owned models.
Practical marketing communications that connect content, audience needs, distribution channels, and measurable business goals.
SEO news writing, investigative reporting, in-depth analysis and event coverage, in Arabic and English.
New-age journalism training, newsroom transformation, content management and SEO strategy for publishers.
Abdul Rahman Bazian — Content, Communications & Marketing Strategy
Writing, research, reporting, editing, translation, and strategic communications support.
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