Hiba
Hiba Belkhayat

Brand Strategy · Direction · Script

HibaBelkhayat

I decide what people feel. The sentence is the easy part.

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01The premise

Most content fails before anyone writes a word.

Not because the idea was weak. Because nobody decided what the reader was supposed to feel.

Significant problems don’t always announce themselves.

From “The report nobody opened”
Hiba Belkhayat

Strategy first
Sentences second

03The chapter that matters most

I decide what the camera sees

Two brands, six cuts. The idea, the script and the shot direction are mine — the frame only carries them.

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Maison Ayla

Maison Ayla

Maison Ayla · Lima Design — three of six cuts

04What I do

Four disciplines.One spine.

Deciding what you refuse to say

Positioning isn't the list of things you're good at. It's the one claim you're willing to be judged on, and the four you'll give up to make room for it.

  • Positioning
  • Voice & tone
  • Category framing
  • Message hierarchy

27%

Landing page conversion

Up from 7%. Same offer, same traffic — rewritten narrative.

15+

Engagements since 2024

Funnels, campaigns, calendars and scripts, in English and French.

3:00

The VSL format

Three minutes to move a stranger from curious to committed.

08

Videos delivered

Six directed for two brands. One I shot and cut myself. One where I'm the one on camera.

05From the desk
Hiba Belkhayat at the desk, mid-record

Where most of it gets decided

Paid social — Meta ad

Cold traffic · ~130 words · high-ticket service offer

The ad that admits the price

It's $6,000. I'm telling you now so you can stop reading if that's the wrong number.

Most people in my category won't say it until you're forty minutes into a call. There's a reason for that. They think the price is the objection, so they bury it under rapport and hope the rapport holds.

It doesn't. It just moves the argument somewhere later, where it costs both of us more.

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