The Brief Creative Newsletter

A brief, weekly dive into doing great work

Every week you'll get a note with immediately usable strategies and frameworks that will make you a better leader, will improve your team, and will help you deliver the best work of your career.

Expect to see fresh thoughts on creative, brand, and marketing along with some process and operations for good measure.

If you're a CMO, brand executive, creative leader or you just want to learn more about what it takes to make great work sign up now.

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The Briefs

014 - Get Your Time Back

Create the structure in your day that enables you to focus and get work done.

013 - Going from Service Provider to Partner

Being a service provider is holding you back. Here are the steps you need to take to become a partner.

012 - Better Collaboration and Decision Making

Sometimes working together is rough. DACI is how to make it better.

011 - Your First Intake Process

Stop reacting to incoming requests and take control of your workflow with an intake process.

010 - How to Work with Agencies and Vendors

Here's what all you marketers should be thinking about before you hire your next agency, contractor, or freelancer.

009 - The Worst Takes in Marketing

There are actually people out there who believe these things. I'm not one of them.

008 - Your Real Team

Ever wonder why silos keep developing at your company? It's because you're focusing on the wrong team.

007 - How to Make Friends and Influence People

The best way get buy in to build your Brand is by finding the right people to help internally

006 - Do You Have a Brand HQ?

This is how you build a single source of truth for your brand.

005 - How to Move Fast Thoughtfully

Turns out you can can be both fast and thoughtful in your approach.

004 - Do More With Less

The decision making framework you need to scale your marketing team.

003 - Gardening And Marketing

There's more than just vegetables in that garden.

002 - LEGOs Are Your Brand's BFFF

Who knew that the secret to building a strong brand was born in Denmark?

001 - So It Begins

Why do they hate process?