A body of work is how you build a better world and invite people into it.

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Essays, experiments, and inconvenient questions about branding, culture, and being human

ON brand

Why Are We So Obsessed With Elizabeth Holmes?

How To Get MORE! Results FASTER! and Why Ethical Marketing is a Long Game

Brands, Self-Help, and the Art of Caring What Other People Think

The 4 People Who Will Change The World (Which One Are You?)

How To Be An Overnight Success (No, Really!)

If Capitalism Can’t Solve It, What Will?

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Marketing, Propaganda, and How America Industrialized Persuasion

After the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, Trump supporters are saying to “lock and load” for civil war. How did we get here? We need to go further back. Marketing history intertwines with how politics and culture took shape over the last century. To understand marketing history is to understand ourselves.

Short Takes

7 Things We Need to Keep Winning Hearts and Elections

What Claude and Disney+ Have in Common

7 Things We Need to Keep Winning Hearts and Elections

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You Can See Everything

Cancel Culture and Personal Brands in PR Crisis, with Molly McPherson

Part 4: Fix It From Within or Burn It All Down? What Next?

Part 3: ClickFunnels to Hell, Fake It ‘Til You Make It, and Moneyball

Part 2: Six Figure Masterminds, Marie Forleo, and The Syndicate

Part 1: The Online Business Family Tree From Thomas Edison to Tony Robbins

Should Brands Be “Political”?

Shiny Happy People, Duggar Family Secrets: 19 Brands & Counting

About the Show

Marketing Muckraking is the ethics + entrepreneurship podcast for rebels, revolutionaries, and renegades who run businesses that burn the rulebook.

In the Media

What Our Obsession with Inventing Anna Tells Us About the Age of the Personal Brand | THE WEEK

American as Apple Pie: How Marketing Made Guns a Fundamental Part of Boyhood | JSTOR Daily

Gun Marketing Is Being Held Accountable. Don’t Ignore Sponsoring Kidfluencers | NEWSWEEK

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When Should I Change My Brand Design?

What the #*$% Is a Sales Funnel?!

Your Lead Magnet Sucks. Try This Instead.

Why Hiring a Web Designer Is A Waste of Money

The 3 Types of People Reading Your Small Business Blog

The Answer To “But, What If Everyone Laughs At Me?!”

What Facebook’s New Changes Mean For Your Small Business

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Awkward Marketing blends fun-sized business advice with sketch comedy and storytelling to help ethical entrepreneurs build unforgettable brands online.

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My latest essays + experiments via email.

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Day 17 of Creative Camp

The one with the time machine

I'm a creative director who wants to create more for myself, not the marketplace.

So I built Creative Camp: a playground, a time machine, and a wide open space for my ideas to roam freely again. Join me for a 30-day experiment in rebuilding my personal creative practice, paying attention to the world around me, and remembering that the process is the point.

The rules are simple:

Rule #1: Use what you have
Rule #2: The easier, the better
Rule #3: Process > product
Rule #4: Look for the YES AND!
Rule #5: Have fun!

If you've been missing the creative parts of yourself, too: welcome to camp.