Marketing & Strategy

Marketing strategy, brand positioning, campaigns & creative direction — I help good ideasfindtheirpeople

I build marketing strategies and campaigns that solve business problems and create cultural relevance. It's where strategy meets craft.

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Philosophy

WhatI Believe

A few principles I've learned along the way— the hard way, mostly.

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INTENTION

Marketing is storytelling with intention

Finding the folks who genuinely need what you offer and helping them find you. That's it. Everything else is noise.

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CLARITY

Clarity beats cleverness

The best work is the simplest. Not dumbed down—distilled. One respects your audience.

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INSIGHT

Data informs, not dictates

Numbers tell you what. The magic is in the why—the human insight no dashboard captures.

04
ACTION

Good enough today beats perfect someday

Perfectionism is procrastination in disguise. Ship real, learn, iterate—don't wait.

What I Do

No departments. No layers. No account managers between you and the work. Just one strategist who does the thinking, the making, and the measuring.

Strategy & Positioning

Finding the signal

Before anything gets made, I figure out what needs to be said — and to whom. Brand DNA, audience truth, competitive white space. No 40-page decks. Just clarity that moves things forward.

Brand AuditAudience ResearchCompetitive AnalysisGo-to-Market

Campaigns & Growth

Turning strategy into momentum

I build and run campaigns that do what marketing should: grow your business. Paid, organic, content — I choose the right channel, not the trendy one.

Paid MediaContent StrategyEmail & CRMPerformance Analytics

Creative Direction

Making it matter

The line between forgettable and memorable is taste. I direct the visual identity, the voice, the details that make people stop scrolling and pay attention.

Visual IdentityArt DirectionBrand VoiceContent Production

The Process

A path, not a formula

Every brand is different. This framework adapts to your reality — your goals, your constraints, your timeline.

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Discovery

Understanding Your Story

Every great campaign starts with listening. I dig deep into your brand's DNA—your history, values, voice, and the people you want to reach.

Brand auditAudience researchCompetitive landscapeOpportunity mapping
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Strategy

Charting the Course

With clarity comes direction. I craft a roadmap that connects your goals to your audience. My services are tailored to your needs and typically include: Brand Strategy, Performance Marketing, Content Creation, and Creative Direction.

Channel strategyContent pillarsCampaign architectureMeasurement framework
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Creation

Bringing Ideas to Life

This is where strategy meets craft. Campaigns that feel human, content that resonates, ads that don't feel like ads.

Campaign creativeContent productionAd developmentAsset creation
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Execution

Making It Happen

Ideas mean nothing without execution. I manage the details so you don't have to—launches, optimizations, pivots when needed.

Campaign managementPlatform optimizationA/B testingReal-time adjustments
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Growth

Learning & Scaling

Data tells us what's working. Intuition tells us why. Together, we refine, expand, and build on success.

Performance analysisInsight extractionScale planningContinuous improvement

Selected Work

Three engagements — one each in strategy, growth, and build. Different industries, different scales, same operator.

Case 01 · STRATEGY · 2024–2025Enterprise health · B2B SaaS

buyer verticals 1 platform · modular content

b.well Connected Health

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. Worked on the vertical-segmented messaging system: distinct landing tracks, vertical-specific content, ABM playbooks tuned to each cycle. The platform stayed the same; the way each buyer met it changed.

What it took

Vertical positioningModular content systemABM playbooksRegulated-industry copy

Notes

Enterprise health buyers don't read your homepage — they read the vertical page their colleague forwarded them. Get the four vertical pages right and the homepage almost doesn't matter.

Case 02 · GROWTH · 2020–presentIndependent bookshop · Ventura

subscription tiers · 5 school partners events + retail + recurring revenue

Timbre Books

Subscription engine and community programming for a post-pandemic indie bookshop

Timbre opened in 2020 — the worst possible year to launch a brick-and-mortar bookshop. Built the growth infrastructure an indie needs to survive Amazon and outlast the Algorithm: a three-tier subscription box model (Fiction / Nonfiction / Picture Books, with 3-, 6-, and 12-month options), a packed event calendar (staff book clubs, genre clubs, author events), and partnerships with five Ventura-area schools for book fairs and educator programs. The shop runs on three revenue streams instead of one — retail, recurring subscriptions, and institutional partnerships — so no single channel owns the business.

What it took

Subscription product architectureE-commerce site buildEvent calendar systemSchool partnership frameworkCommunity engagement strategy

Notes

The indie bookshops that survive aren't trying to out-Amazon Amazon. They're building what Amazon can't: a third place, a subscription relationship, a reason to come back every month that isn't just 'we sell books.'

Case 03 · BUILD · 2023–presentLarge-format printing · fine art · retail POP

retail POP units / year HOKA · Stio · Museum of Ventura County

Image Source

Two-audience e-commerce engine for a specialty print shop

Image Source serves two completely different audiences from one shop floor: independent artists ordering Giclée fine-art reproductions, and national retail brands commissioning hundreds of custom POP executions a year. 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 B2B side a relationship-led inquiry funnel with case studies, testimonials, and direct-to-the-shop contact. Two audiences, one brand, no compromise either way.

What it took

Self-serve product catalogTwo-audience IAMaterial/spec systemB2B inquiry funnelTestimonial capture

Notes

The artist ordering one Giclée and the GTM manager at HOKA ordering 100+ POP units are not the same buyer. The site has to know that — once it does, the conversion rate on each path doubles.

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