Hi. I'm Ali.
I've Always Seen What Could Be.
A better idea. A different angle. The connection nobody else noticed. The thing that could be bigger, smarter, more interesting or mean something more to people.
Marketing just happens to be where I've spent the last twenty years putting that instinct to work.
How I Got Here
I Kept Following The Ideas.
I've never been particularly interested in doing something just because that's the way it's always been done.
My career has been a pretty steady progression of seeing something and thinking, Ohhh, we could do something really good with this.
That instinct has taken me through marketing, technology, entrepreneurship, education, photography, community campaigns, content, websites, brand strategy and eventually owning a creative agency.
Different work. Same brain.
The Experience Behind The Ideas
Yes, I've Done The Work.
For more than twenty years, I've been building things people notice, remember and act on.
Brands. Campaigns. Websites. Content. Launches. Community initiatives. Businesses. Ideas that started on a whiteboard and somehow became the thing people were talking about.
I've been the strategist, the creative, the writer, the photographer, the teacher, the business owner and the person in the room asking, “Okay, but what if we did this?”
Strategy. Storytelling. Creative. Business.
Different disciplines. Same goal: make something people care about.
Experience gives you a pretty good idea of what works.
Curiosity keeps you from assuming that's the only thing that could.
The Rest Of Me
There's More To Me Than Marketing.
I love creating things. Photography. Traveling. Clothes. A really good idea. Learning something new just because I want to know how it works.
I'm curious by nature, opinionated when I have a reason to be, and almost incapable of walking past an interesting business without mentally redoing at least part of its marketing.
For a long time, business got almost all of me. These days, I'm interested in something bigger: building ambitious things without giving my entire life back to work.
I'm figuring out what that looks like in real time. And this time, I'm letting you come along for it.
How I See It
I See Marketing Everywhere.
Because people don't experience a brand one marketing channel at a time.
They experience the person who answers the phone. The employee they meet in the community. The story your sales team tells. The email they receive. The package they open. The way you make them feel.
That's why I've never been very interested in marketing that only looks good from the outside.
The best marketing understands people first. Everything else gets built from there.
Your brand isn't just what people see. It's what they experience.
Enough About Me
Now Tell Me About You.
What are you building?
If you've got a good business, a big idea or an opportunity you can't quite stop thinking about, I'd love to hear about it.
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