wake up your marketing.

You don’t need more people.
You need a better person.

I’ll build your strategy, write your ads, buy your media, and read the analytics. Then I’ll do it again faster.

I’ve run marketing for Citi, Comcast, Memorial Sloan Kettering, The Plaza Hotel, Coke Zero, and UPS. I’ve also run it for yoga studios, rage rooms, arcade bars, and a company that makes body wipes. I won an International ANDY Award. I taught at the School of Visual Arts. I led SCORE North Florida. I created an entirely AI-produced sketch comedy series. I built one of the first social networks. I wrote the book on programmatic media. Literally.

Strategy, creative direction, copywriting, media buying, performance marketing, analytics, AI, and execution. I do all of it. Personally. Not as a team. Not as an agency. As one senior operator who’s been doing the work of entire marketing departments since before it was a business model.

You don’t need more people. You need a better person.

Here’s what you’re probably dealing with right now

You hired someone to build a website. It went up. Looks fine. Then you needed a logo, so you hired someone for that. The logo doesn’t quite match the website, but close enough. Then a content person, because someone said you need content. The content person writes blog posts nobody reads because they’re not optimized for search, so an SEO person comes in and rewrites everything the content person just did. Meanwhile, a social media person is posting to Instagram with no connection to what the content person wrote or what the website says. None of these people have met. You’re coordinating every conversation, every deliverable, every decision, because the CEO is also acting as CMO despite having zero marketing experience. 

It’s like building a house with no architect. You’ve got an electrician, a plumber, a framer, and a roofer. Nobody knows how big the house is supposed to be. Nobody knows where the walls go. The plumber is running pipes through a wall the framer hasn’t built yet. The roofer showed up on Tuesday because that’s when he was available, not because the house was ready for a roof.

That’s what marketing looks like at most companies. A bunch of contractors running around with no blueprints. Everyone’s doing something. Nobody’s building the same thing.

I’m the architect. The general contractor. And I also do most of the trades myself.

Strategy, creative, media buying, analytics, and execution. Personally. Thirty years across every discipline in marketing, now accelerated by AI. One person. One invoice. No agency overhead, no junior account managers, no three-week feedback loops.

WHAT DO YOU NEED?

 

FRACTIONAL CMO

Senior marketing leadership, strategy through execution, one person, no ramp-up and you don’t have to also hire a…

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Campaigns, brand identity, and creative that gets measured because I also specialize in

PERFORMANCE MARKETING

Media buying, conversion optimization, and analytics who has compelling case studies to prove it.

Perhaps yours will be so good I can use it to get me hired as a 

MARKETING SPEAKER

Insightful, contrarian, experienced marketing speaker who will entertain your audience because I am also a…

COMEDIAN

Stand Up Comedian Opening for Nationally Touring Acts, Improv Teacher, AI filmmaker, Culture Jammer

FIND YOUR FOUNDER TYPE

Every founder has a default mode. A pattern they fall back on under pressure. Most don’t know what theirs is until someone points it out.

After thirty years watching startups, I’ve noticed something. There are about seven people starting companies. Seven templates. Seven ways to die. Everyone else is just doing cosplay. Very expensive cosplay with health insurance implications. Find your founder type, know your malfunction before I do.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
ONE PERSON CAN DO ALL OF IT

Fired their agency. Became their agency

Audited media spend, found the previous agency coasting on inflated CPAs. Took over strategy, creative, media, and analytics.

Their best customer wasn't who they thought.

Data showed 60% of customers were women. Repositioned everything to match. Revenue followed.

One-person marketing department

. Fractional CMO running strategy, creative, media, and analytics, plus built a class recommendation tool using 25+ variables.

Private school enrollment, digital-first

Geofenced competing campuses, ran full-funnel enrollment marketing, 9.46% conversion rate.

35% YOY growth in five months.

Active client. Full marketing ownership for a board game bar. Strategy, events, PR, social, B2B sales, in-store, SKU management.

WHAT I’M LIKE WHEN NO ONE IS LOOKING

Side projects are expected in top ad portfolios because client work always has an excuse for why it didn’t reach its potential. A side project shows what you’re like when no one is looking. It’s also the reason I get your work done as efficiently as possible, so I can get back to my passion project, which for some reason is not marketing bolts and flanges for the pipefitting industry. 

In the 90’s started the largest print punk fanzine in the northeast while balancing 100 hour weeks at two-time Agency of the Year BBDO. Built and grew one of the first social networks in the early 2000s to Ad Age’s Power 150 blogs. Wrote a history book. Do stand-up comedy. Made an AI sketch comedy series. Built an app to track your enemies. Created a one-letter Wordle.

An Icelandic painter once told me he paints because he can’t not paint. “It’s like air. Without it I will die.” I realized I’m not a painter. But I am a marketer. If you don’t hire me, I have 30 things I’m jazzed to wake up for. With me, you get someone who does this because it’s the air they breathe, not because they minored in it with their business degree.

YOU DON’T NEED MORE PEOPLE.
YOU NEED A BETTER PERSON.

WHAT’S NEW

UPCOMING SHOW

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Glory Days Presents!

Tuesday, March 24th
Comedian EMO PHILIPS
Lisa Pockets
Marc Lefton
with special guests
Doors: 7PM / Show: 8PM

 

I have adored Emo Philips since the UK in the 80’s. He is hilarious.”
— Eric Idle, May 12, 2018

“Emo is the most brilliant joke-writer in the game. You HAVE to see him live. He’s amazing.”
— Patton Oswalt, February 1, 2022
 
“What a joy. What a complete joy. Astounding. There really is no better joke writer and that’s the smallest part of what’s great.”
— Penn Jillette, July 23, 2025
 
“Emo Philips… absolutely killed.”
— Rolling Stone (Carnegie Hall review), October 30, 2022
 
Described by Jay Leno as the best joke writer in America, Emo Philips has performed over seven thousand stand-up shows in comedy clubs, colleges and theaters, including a multi-week run at the Playhouse Theatre in London’s West End.
 
In 2018 and 2022-2023, Emo toured with “Weird Al” Yankovic (over two hundred concerts across three continents); Emo will forever remember the standing ovation he received at Carnegie Hall.
 
“I’m not sure when or where I first heard of Emo’s routines, but once I did I instantly became a fan,” says “Weird Al” Yankovic. “Emo had the iconic look of someone who could have been a major star in the era of silent films. His body language was indescribably weird. And his material was flat-out brilliant.” If asked at gunpoint who the funniest guy in the world was, Yankovic adds, “Without question I would have to say Emo Philips — especially if Emo happened to be the one holding the gun.”
— “Weird Al” Yankovic, Chicago Magazine

Finally, a U.S. history book that explains why every terrible decision was actually a bold learning opportunity.

Written in the cheerful, bureaucratic voice of a government that has never once admitted a mistake, The Tremendous History of the United States of America reads like the textbook you vaguely remember… if it had been tested on focus groups instead of students.

From “discovery” to the present, every chapter proudly reframes conquest as “growth,” war as “lively disagreement,” and inequality as “policy still under active review.” It’s not satire, according to the narrator. It’s simply the most complete, unbiased, totally reasonable explanation of why America is doing great and always has been.

For fans of political humor, satirical U.S. history, fake textbooks, and smart comedy about dumb propaganda, this book is a gift, a weapon, and a conversation starter you can quietly slide across the table and walk away from.

If you’ve ever thought, “I can’t believe they taught us that in school,” this is the deluxe, upgraded, focus-grouped, star-spangled version of exactly that feeling.

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