My marketing career in 28 sentences:

1. Quit job at Sam's Club to start an eComm business

2. Borrow $40k from my dad

3. Lose $35k in the first four months

4. Realize you suck at marketing

5. Spend $4k+ on useless marketing courses and masterminds

6. Use your last $300 to buy Breakthrough Advertising (yes, it cost $300 in 2013)

7. Read the book three times in 2 weeks

8. Make $200k in 6 months

9. PayPal shuts down your account and keeps half the money for another six months

10. Quit eCommerce and spend a year reading, thinking, and writing

11. Start freelancing and get fired from your first client

12. Double down on consulting and double your rates

13. Get three retainers and feel on top of the world

14. Blow up your retainers by taking on too much work

15. Get so stressed you get shingles at 26 years old

16. Take a month off to heal

17. Get hired as a full-time content marketer at an agency

18. Spend a year and a half learning the ropes of content marketing

19. Start a content marketing consulting business on the side

20. Get so busy you have to quit your agency job

21. Marketing starts to make sense

22. Close a 6-figure content marketing deal with a big brand

23. Rethink everything you knew about marketing

24. Design a "unified theory" of marketing and put it together into a 20,000-word PDF

25. Get better results for clients and yourself

26. Post about your experiences on Twitter and LinkedIn

27. Build a following of people who are interested in what you're doing

28. Learn to deal with haters and trolls

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Marketing(Curated)

Learn marketing from the world's best marketers

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tulkit. inc

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Curationlabs

A holding company of brands operating at the intersection of media, marketing, and systems thinking.

Founder at The-Flyer-1™

I run CurationLabs...a group of projects that sit somewhere between media, marketing, and systems thinking.

A few of the projects I'm working on now:

@Marketing Curated - a free email newsletter where I 1) demystify marketing from first principles and 2) curate wisdom from the best marketers in the world. Subscribe for free here: https://curationlabs.co/marketing

@Ankor, where we help early-stage companies in high-stakes industries (cybersecurity, healthcare, circular economy) build trust with the people who don't respond to traditional marketing: investors, strategic partners, policy influencers, and early adopters.

@Unbuilt, a media brand about founders fixing broken systems.

@Parachurch, a project exploring the overlap of belief, business, and culture.

I build curated assets that last.

If you're a founder or C-level exec looking to build your personal brand, I can help you build a curated library of assets that'll help you grow fast without sacrificing quality.

If you're a consultant or agency who wants to incorporate curation into their marketing arsenal, I offer a 12-week workshop where I guide you through my entire process.

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