CPG Design: A Look at Viral Trends + Real-World Examples & Strategies

Graza. Fishwife. Brightland. These brands represent some of my favorite CPG designs. Marked by bright colors, bold fonts, and creative illustrations, this style of packaging is now moving beyond specialty stores and into big retail aisles. “If you walk into almost every major retail chain grocery store in the U.S., there would be at least…

Inside the B2B Marketing Funnel — Everything I Know as a Marketer

If it feels like the “B2B marketing funnel” concept has been around forever, you’re not far off. In 1898, advertising pioneer Elias St. Elmo Lewis created the AIDA model, laying the foundation for the funnel we marketers use every day. While the idea of selling something to someone is as old as humanity, the modern…

How to Create a Stakeholder Map for Seamless Project Tracking

Six years ago, I led a website content overhaul that nearly derailed when the product team and sales department had completely different ideas about our messaging priorities. Despite my experience with content strategies, I made a rookie mistake — I hadn’t created a stakeholder map. That experience pushed me to develop a systematic approach to…

I Asked Experts About Improving Keyword Rankings — Here Are Their Tips

I’ve been in content marketing for over a decade, and let me say that it’s never been this hard to rank highly in search. The reason is that there’s a lot of content out there — Google says that it indexes “hundreds of billions of webpages,” which take up over “100,000,000 gigabytes in size.” With…

Consultant behind Meow Wolf, Blue Man Group shares lessons on joy, playing, and branded experiences

Pop quiz! What do Meow Wolf, Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soleil, Disney Imagineering, and Ringling Bros. have in common? They’ve all sought out today’s guest as a consultant. But today’s master is… actually not a master of marketing at all. In fact, he’s never worked a day in marketing. But he literally wrote the…