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Frederiek Pascal
CEO & Founder · ClickForest
Frederiek Pascal is the founder of ClickForest, a founder-led growth agency in the Mechelen region. With 25+ years of experience in digital marketing, e-commerce and AI, he shares on this blog what works in practice.
Founder-led growth, no layers in between.
Frederiek is the hands-on founder of ClickForest. For more than 25 years he has had both feet in digital practice: from the first banner campaigns to today, where AI search engines and agents are rewriting the rules. That experience is his compass, he knows what works and where budget evaporates without results.
His focus is performance marketing and Shopify e-commerce. On top of that he builds SEO and GEO into the structure and content of the site, so it ranks better and gets picked up in AI answers.
He also builds marketing automation and AI automation where they deliver real returns: faster testing, better follow-up and less manual work. Increasingly he builds real AI applications, agents and internal tools with Claude Code, and for companies that put speed and findability first he builds and migrates websites to the Astro framework.
For B2B software companies he also builds lead and nurture flows on top of the CRM when the sales cycle allows.
From ClickForest he helps SMEs and scale-ups in Mechelen, Antwerp and across Flanders. No account managers or junior staff in between: you work directly with the founder who actually builds your project. See the projects or read more about the team behind ClickForest.
What Frederiek knows inside out.
Specialisms
- Performance marketing (Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok)
- Shopify e-commerce development and CRO
- Blazing-fast Astro websites: development, technical SEO and migration from WordPress
- SEO and GEO: content structure, internal links and structured data
- Marketing automation and lead generation (B2B and e-commerce)
- Building AI applications and agents with Claude Code (internal tools, chatbots, automation)
Certifications, education and tools
- Bachelor Marketing and Public Relations
- Google Ads and Meta advertising
- Google Analytics 4
- Shopify development and CRO
- Astro (framework for blazing-fast websites)
- Claude Code (building AI apps and agents)
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