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Brand Building for Makers:
What The Sims Can Teach Us About Worldbuilding in Marketing If you ever played The Sims, you’ll remember the loading screens: They didn’t...
May 123 min read


What Tomb Raider Can Teach Makers About Marketing in 2025
Discover what makers can learn from Lara Croft’s legacy. From brand storytelling to evolving your visuals, these marketing lessons will help you build a bold, resilient brand in 2025.
May 73 min read


What Diner Dash Taught Me About Marketing for Makers: Strategy Over Chaos
Diner Dash taught me early lessons about business. Here's what makers can learn from Flo’s fast-paced world, and why a clear strategy matters more than hustle.
May 22 min read


Instagram Strategy Tips for Makers, Inspired by Dave the Diver
If you're anything like me, you get unexpectedly inspired in the oddest places... like underwater, pixelated sushi restaurants! In Dave...
Apr 303 min read


How Not to Be a Dictator: Lessons in Influence from Tropico 6
You start with charisma. Then a few billboards. Then... a personal propaganda radio station. Tropico 6 is a cautionary tale in brand...
Apr 233 min read


Your Brand Is an Island
If you’ve ever played A Short Hike, you’ll know it’s not really a game about goals. There is a goal, technically, but the magic of the...
Apr 94 min read


Grow Your Brand with Word-of-Mouth
Let’s be honest, most of us didn’t become makers or crafters because we wanted to be salespeople. We got into this because we love the...
Mar 263 min read


How Minami Lane Makes a Case for Hyper-Specific Marketing
If you don’t appreciate cosy games, then you might not know what Minami Lane is! I discovered it in 2024 from an Instagram ad, and...
Mar 184 min read


The Power of Storytelling (ft Bryan Cranston)
It’s easy to think that storytelling only matters when it’s grand, groundbreaking, or meticulously crafted. But a conversation between...
Feb 22 min read


From a Blank Slate to a Fully Booked Retreat
Marketing for a wellness retreat isn’t just about selling spaces—it’s about building trust, creating an emotional connection, and making the
Jan 222 min read


What Pierre's General Store Teaches Us About Marketing
Despite being the town’s original supplier, Pierre’s General Store relies heavily on tradition and word-of-mouth. In a rapidly changing mar
Jan 143 min read


Turning Overwhelm into Playful & Strategic Marketing
To help Rachel reclaim a sense of playfulness in her marketing, we focused on visual thinking—mapping out what she was already doing, identi
Jan 12 min read


Data and Supermarket Clubcards
I started going to Tesco about 9-months ago when I got into the habit of getting my groceries after my weekly swim session. They have a...
Nov 6, 20244 min read


Makers Markets: Sales vs Marketing
I was part of a conversation recently about feeling disheartened with selling your product at markets. 👇 "Footfall is dropping compared...
Oct 22, 20244 min read


Weaving = Marketing
What Weaving Fabric Taught Me About Marketing Before we get into it... I do have a video version of this post with a voiceover and...
Oct 19, 20242 min read


A Coffee Break, a Tesco Ad, and a Lesson in Art-Driven Storytelling
There’s something really special about our family coffee breaks. Whenever I’m visiting my parents, around 2 or 3 pm, we all gather—my mum...
Oct 15, 20243 min read


Building Trust Through Transparency
The Idea of "Zero-Party Data" in Modern Branding From Twitter (DOJ 2022) to LinkedIn (Forbes, 2021) , big companies "accidentally"...
Oct 9, 20246 min read


What The Sims 4 Missed: The Power of Brand Anniversaries for Loyalty & Growth
All the fans were waiting expectedly for the celebration announcement, and something, anything to mark the occasion. And🥁 nothing happened.
Sep 24, 202412 min read


Inspiring Students to Build Their Personal Brand with Confidence
By bridging the gap between theory and practice, these workshops helped students see personal branding as an empowering tool, not just a buz
Sep 1, 20242 min read


A conversation with Kate Ivinson, Architect-to-be
I’ve started trying to embrace constraints as a creative challenge rather than a limitation. Instead of seeing practical requirements as ba
Aug 28, 20243 min read
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