A few principles I’ve learned along the way. The hard way, mostly.
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INTENTION
Marketing is matchmaking
Finding the folks who genuinely need what you offer and helping them find you. That’s the whole job.
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CLARITY
Clarity beats cleverness
The best work is the simplest, and simple takes the most drafts. It respects your audience.
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INSIGHT
The dashboard doesn’t know why
Numbers tell you what happened. Finding out why means talking to actual customers, and no chart does that for you.
04
ACTION
Perfect someday never ships
A live campaign teaches you more in two weeks than a perfect plan does in two months. Ship it, then improve it.
Section 03 · Services
What I Do
No departments. No account managers between you and the work. Just one strategist who does the thinking and the making, then shows you what the numbers say.
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Strategy &
Positioning
— The homework, done first
Before anything gets made, I figure out what needs to be said, and to whom. Expect audience research and a hard look at the space competitors leave open. No 40-page decks.
I build and run campaigns that do what marketing should: grow your business. Paid, organic, content. I pick the channel your buyers already live in. And I do my own analytics: I've set up GA4Google Analytics 4: measures who visits a website and what they do there. and Tag ManagerGoogle Tag Manager: installs measurement tags on a site without code changes. from zero and built the Looker dashboards leadership ran the Monday meeting from.
Paid Media·Content Strategy·Email & CRM·GA4 · GTM · Looker Studio
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Creative
Direction
— Taste, applied
Most work gets scrolled past because it looks like everything else. I direct the visual identity and the voice myself, down to the details.
Visual Identity·Art Direction·Brand Voice·Content Production
The Process
A path, not a formula
Every brand starts from a different place. The framework bends to fit — some engagements live in strategy for a month, others need creative out the door in two weeks.
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Discovery
Understanding Your Story
Most of this step is listening. I get into your history, your voice, and what your customers say when you’re not in the room.
— Multi-vertical positioning for an enterprise digital health platform
b.well serves four buyers from one platform (health plans, health systems, life sciences, and consumer health), each with a distinct procurement cycle, regulatory context, and budget owner. I worked on the vertical-segmented messaging system: distinct landing tracks and vertical-specific content, plus ABMAccount-based marketing: aiming campaigns at named companies instead of broad audiences. playbooks tuned to each cycle.
Enterprise health buyers show up on whatever vertical page a colleague forwarded them. Get those four pages right and the homepage almost doesn’t matter.
Case 02 · GROWTH · 2025–presentPsychotherapy · private practice · Ventura
0→10 to 1
new practice online, end to end
positioning · local search · consult funnel
— Positioning, site, and consultation funnel for a new depth-oriented therapy practice
A depth-oriented psychotherapy practice opening in Ventura, with a therapist who’d rather talk about attachment theory than search rankings. The work was the whole client-acquisition path: positioning that sounds like her instead of a directory listing, an editorial site with room to breathe, local search done properly, and one unmissable route to a free consultation. Private-practice marketing has an ethics problem: pushy tactics erode exactly the trust a therapist needs. This funnel had to persuade without pushing.
What it took
Practice positioning & voice·Editorial site design & build·Local SEO foundations·Google Business Profile setup·Free-consultation intake funnel
Notes
Therapy clients don’t comparison-shop twelve practices. They read one page, feel understood or not, and book or leave. The page has to do the listening first.
Case 03 · BUILD · 2023–2025Large-format printing · fine art · retail POP
100+100+
retail POP units / year
HOKA · Stio · Museum of Ventura County
— Two-audience e-commerce engine for a specialty print shop
Image Source serves two completely different audiences from one shop floor: independent artists ordering GicléeMuseum-grade inkjet printing for fine art. Say it “zhee-CLAY.” fine-art reproductions, and national retail brands commissioning hundreds of custom POPPoint-of-purchase: the branded displays and signage you see inside a store. executions a year. I built the e-commerce side as a self-serve catalog for artists and photographers (product pages with material specs, paper-stock guides, file-prep instructions), while keeping the B2BBusiness-to-business: selling to companies rather than to consumers. side a relationship-led inquiry funnel with case studies, testimonials, and direct-to-the-shop contact. Neither audience ever has to wade through the other’s half of the site.
The artist ordering one GicléeMuseum-grade inkjet printing for fine art. Say it “zhee-CLAY.” and the go-to-market manager at HOKA ordering 100+ POPPoint-of-purchase: the branded displays and signage you see inside a store. units are not the same buyer. The site has to know that, and hand each of them a page that sounds like it was written for them.
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