Duke & Duck

We are Duke & Duck, an Emmy award-winning content studio focused on brand, editorial, and documentary animation and motion graphics. We work with some of the biggest non-profit and corporate brands in the world to drive social change, promote products, raise money, and connect people through effective storytelling.

Founder & Managing Director

Double Scoop Studio

At Double Scoop Studio, we are serving up delicious animated content for kids that make a social impact.

Head of Studio

Voxiva

Marketing, research, and more at a small, socially-focused software startup.

Marketing Manager

The Bike Project of Urbana Champaign

The Bike Project co-op offers a space, tools, and community to repair bikes, share knowledge, hold classes, and advocate for bikes in Urbana-Champaign.

Co-Founder

ACTS Clinic

I went to ACTS to help them however I could.  What I ended up doing was helping them to upgrade their network infrastructure to link the main clinic with the pharmacy as well as to other local health resources.  I also won them grants from Microsoft and Dell for new software and computers.

Volunteer

Since 2009, I've been using animation to tell stories that matter. Stories are powerful. They tell us who we are, what we believe in, and how we should relate to the world around us. My life is dedicated to using that power to make the world a better place for everyone in it.

Duke & Duck is the Emmy award-winning content studio I started with my best friend Dave back in 2009. We produce brand videos, social content, explainers, advocacy campaigns, and animation for documentaries. Most of our work is direct to clients where we serve as strategic advisors and content creators, but we also work with select agencies as partners. We have years of experience creating award-winning animated content for household brands, including: Capital One, the ACLU, Nestlé, Patagonia, and National Geographic.

In 2022, I founded Double Scoop Studio with a single goal: To make sure that the next generation has access to stories that put as much emphasis on positive social values and impact as they do on entertainment and turning a profit. We make proprietary content for non-profits who want to reach kids, and develop and produce our own original IP. Our partners include the American Red Cross and PBS Kids.

Alex Herder

Struggling to connect with clients over video pitches?
Sick of selling the “second-best” concept in every meeting?
Waiting for the day your creatives will magically “get it” and be able to present by themselves without embarrassing the agency?

This is- as the French say- Bulls**t.

The idea is everything. But it doesn’t count unless we can get the client to love it. Buy it. Make it.

It took me half my career to learn how to sell. As soon as I did, I found myself swamped in meetings, unable to get work done, and trusting “less important” pitches to teams with zero experience.

We couldn’t afford more CDs. And my cloning experiments were dismal failures. In desperation, I created a program to pass on all my years of knowledge, experience, and expertise to the rest of the agency.

That worked (and broke way fewer Geneva conventions than the cloning thing). So if your agency is:
 
❌  Struggling to bring their A-game when pitching via video
 
❌  Burying your best presenters under more client meetings than they can handle 
 
❌  Flipping desks when ideas you couldn’t sell get produced by your competition 
 
Well, that’s why The Sell It Great System exists. 
 
It’s the difference between “figuring it out as you go along” and having:
 
✅  Increased confidence and presence– both in the room and on zoom.

✅  A repeatable pitch process that saves time and delivers wins, even for presentation newbies. 
 
✅  The skills you need to sell your best ideas, not just the “safe” ones.
 
But talk is cheap. You want proof. Testimonials. A personal, fully-staffed yacht. 
 
I’ll give you two out of three:  

"A few weeks before we were saying, “What if he's just really good at selling his program, and when he gets here it's all trash?'..." -Susan Nelis, Head of Client Group of Droga5 Dublin
"...then you showed up and we were like, 'Oh thank god, he's legit.'" -Ste Rogers, CD of Droga5 Dublin
 
“I now have more comfort speaking, more assertiveness in my tone, less fumbling, and more clarity.” - Isaac Pagan, VP ECD at Pepsi Foods 
 
"Ben has a way of meeting people where they are and drawing out their unique style and strengths to become more comfortable with presenting. It was fun to watch it in action. I could see a million little light bulbs going off in our department throughout our session." - Greg Hahn, Co-Founder & CCO of Mischief
 
Start selling your best ideas today. Book a call with me here: https://calendly.com/sellitgreat/chat

Ben Levy

I don't know if I should talk about the new book coming, the new training coming, or the accidental PR I hit yesterday. What do you all want to hear about?

(Joke's gonna be on me when this post gets zero engagement)

Presentation Coach. Helping people with ideas convince people with checkbooks.

I took a stand up comedy class in ad school. The first day, everyone had to sit in front of the room for three minutes while the class wrote impressions of them. Which were then read out loud.

The idea was that you’re often the last person to know how you’re perceived. There’s a business/presentation lesson here, but that’s not why I’m writing this. 

I’m writing this because the first thing the teacher read re:me remains the funniest damn thing I’ve ever heard. 

“Looks like he believes in the Matrix.”

I had been lifting for years by then, and was wearing the kind of tight shirt that is still only barely acceptable in Miami (where this took place). None of it mattered. The nerd showed through. 

Anyway, a lot of people said they wanted to know about my accidental PR the other day. It was only afterward I realized they probably wanted to know about an accidental Press Release, not an accidental Personal Record.

I say all that to just lesson the shock of seeing me type the following sentence: I did RDLs for 3 sets of 8 x 165. Which happens to be ten pounds more than I currently weigh. Didn't even realize it until the next morning. 

So, yeah. I may have been born a massive nerd. But that doesn’t mean I’m not also a gym bro. 

There’s a business/presentation lesson in that too, but that’s not why I wrote this. 

(Sips protein shake)

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