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Mar
17
How to be innovative and find your voice when you use it to make money in advertising

How to be innovative and find your voice when you use it to make money in advertising

Experience provides wisdom to draw from, but it tempers the power of naivety. The more ingrained your adopted approach, the
7 min read
Oct
06
Referential Concepting: Is Anything Really Original?

Referential Concepting: Is Anything Really Original?

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better,
12 min read
Jul
18
The Conceptual Iteration: Turn Your Iterative Process into a Concept Factory

The Conceptual Iteration: Turn Your Iterative Process into a Concept Factory

Learn how to turn your iterative process for ad creative into a concept generating machine on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok by using classic Mind Mapping techniques.
9 min read
Jun
15

How to build creative alignment on a Growth Marketing team

If you want to build a high-performing creative team, it starts with how you structure it. In my opinion, the
2 min read
Jun
06
How to Iterate on Winning Ads: Write Great Copy With The Advanced Iteration

How to Iterate on Winning Ads: Write Great Copy With The Advanced Iteration

The definitive guide to copywriting and brainstorming high performance ad copy for Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok ads using the iterative process.
7 min read
Apr
04
4 ways generative AI will change marketing (with links to tools)

4 ways generative AI will change marketing (with links to tools)

In the wake of Generative AI's viral year, Large Language models are starting to have a moment, as
3 min read
Mar
07
How to Iterate on Winning Ads: The Basic Iteration

How to Iterate on Winning Ads: The Basic Iteration

An inside peak at the iterative process for producing ad creative used by the most successful brands on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok ads. Learn the creative iteration secrets of the pros.
8 min read
Jan
24
The Laws, Ethics, and Mechanics of "Borrowing" in advertising

The Laws, Ethics, and Mechanics of "Borrowing" in advertising

Authors Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. The information provided here is for informational purposes only and should not be
11 min read
Jan
04
What learning how to draw taught me about the future (and what it has to do with corporate culture)

What learning how to draw taught me about the future (and what it has to do with corporate culture)

Welcome to my New Year's blog post -- I'm a little late to the party but
5 min read
Dec
12
The First Principles of Ads: How to be Creative (even if you're unsure)

The First Principles of Ads: How to be Creative (even if you're unsure)

“There is nothing quite like ignorance combined with a driving need to succeed to force rapid learning.” ― Ed Catmull, Creativity,
7 min read