About

A small studio that actually makes the work.

HookCTA is run by EJ Lim in Los Angeles. We shoot, edit, design, and run ads — not a slide deck with a freelancer network behind it. The name is the job: get the stop, then get the action.

HookCTA studio — table, camera, and printed boards under warm light

How we work

Most of the work lives in CPG, supplements, beauty, and the local businesses around them. We stay close to the product: packaging on camera, claims that hold up, and a cadence a small team can actually keep.

You talk to the person doing the work. Scopes are written in English. Reporting is what changed, not a wall of dashboards.

In the room

  • Short-form video — script to publish
  • TikTok Shop and DTC content
  • Meta, Instagram, and Google ads
  • Brand stills, carousels, packaging-led creative
  • Shopify and marketing sites
  • Klaviyo / email flows
  • Influencer and UGC ops
  • Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma

Background

  1. 2026 — Present

    Founder · HookCTA

    A digital marketing studio for CPG, beauty, and local brands. Content, paid social, web, and partnerships — run as one system.

  2. 2025

    Digital marketing · SPTCA

    SMS and email, site, video and photography, paid ads, graphics, and AI tools folded into the weekly marketing stack.

  3. 2024 — 2025

    E-commerce marketing · Leaders Cosmetics USA

    Social accounts, Premiere and CapCut video, Instagram and TikTok ads, and the creatives that went with them.

  4. 2023 — 2024

    Shopify specialist · LifeArtVision

    Email, storefront, and digital marketing support across channels.

If you have a product that needs to move.

Write hello@hookcta.com. We take on a small number of brands at a time.