Samples

Here are the documents, and the writing itself.

Most of my work goes out under someone else’s name, so this page shows two things: the documents I hand clients when I run their marketing, and the writing itself. Client names are removed where the work is not public.

2026

Operating documents

This is what running a client’s marketing looks like on paper. These five come from one engagement, because it is the clearest end-to-end example I can show: the diagnosis, the build, the ads and the sales assets. Names and private numbers are taken out.

Diagnosis

The Gap Read

The first deliverable for a coaching business, July 2026

Before building anything I read the client’s whole system: the document he kept on where his business stood, an 81-module framework, two advisor calls and the community feed. Then I wrote down where the system stalled, citing his own sources back to him.

How to read this. Everything in this document comes from your own system. Every claim is cited to its source. Nothing is invented, and nothing here is my opinion competing with your coaches. The whole point is that your coaches already agree.

The headline finding. Your advisory stack agrees with itself, and has for six weeks. All of it converges on the same machine. The strategy layer is complete, validated and paid for.

What is missing is not knowledge. It is the execution layer: hands on the machine every week, regardless of what kind of week it is. One video has shipped in six weeks against a one-to-two-per-week target. The idea bank sits at zero of fifty. The reactivation email was never sent. That is the entire gap, and it is precisely the layer this engagement installs.

Client name and private numbers removed.

The build

The Content Operating System

The second deliverable, July 2026

This is the standing manual for how content ships every week, built on tools the client already had. His side of it is about ninety minutes of filming a week.

The operating principle. One anchor feeds the week.

One long-form anchor a week, then two or three shorts cut from it, two or three native reels, one email to the list, one community post, and a boost behind whatever catches.

Everything downstream is derivative of the anchor. No separate ideation, no separate production line. It fixes the exact failure mode of the last six weeks: long-form stops being the thing that slips and becomes the first domino.

Client name removed.

Sales

The Hit List

Warm leads, ranked, August 2026

I ranked every warm lead by how close they were to buying and gave the client the context, the angle and a message he could send as it was. I wrote it for the last night of enrolment.

How to use this. Work top to bottom and stop when you run out of evening. The order is deliberate.

Text or WhatsApp where you have a number. One at a time, from you. No links unless they ask, because the reply is what you want.

The first name on the list. He has already found the thing. He just cannot make it happen on purpose. He does not need convincing about the idea. He needs it to be reliable.

All names and numbers removed.

Paid

Ad angles for a free audit funnel

Five strategic angles for Meta, July 2026

These are five different hypotheses instead of five rewrites of the same line, each with copy, image concepts and video scripts that all lead to one free audit.

The rule throughout: recognition before persuasion. Every ad opens on something the reader has lived but never seen written down, most of it taken from the exact words of people on the winning calls. The audit arrives as the natural ending, never the pitch.

Compliance guardrails baked in. No personal-attribute call-outs, situation framing only. No cure claims or guaranteed outcomes. No before and after framing in the imagery. And note that Meta now reviews the ad and the landing page together, so the page keeps the same framing.

Client name removed.

Sales

An offer-page video script

For the page a warm lead lands on after a free audit, July 2026

The viewer has already raised a hand. That changes the job of the video completely, and most scripts get this wrong.

What makes an offer-page video different. This is not a cold pitch. Everyone watching has already asked to see this page. So the video does not sell the problem, it ratifies the decision: brief recap, walk the offer plainly, proof, guarantee word for word, honest scarcity, one clear next step.

Short beats long here. Certainty beats hype.

Client name removed.

2020 to 2026

The writing

Here is writing for seven clients, each in their own voice, plus articles under my own name. All of it is human-written.

LinkedIn ghostwriting

Day one of a five-day LinkedIn series

Written for Mahlena-Rae Johnson, a speaking coach for introverted edtech CEOs, 2024

The series gave one presentation tip a day for five days, each post with its own image. This is day one, with the emoji and hashtags taken out so it reads cleanly here.

If you are an introverted CEO with stage fright, you need to read this (and say goodbye to stage fright thereafter)

Do you know how to set a long-term company vision, lead the executive team efficiently and build happy employee relationships, but feel lost in public speaking?

And then wonder how Sal Khan, Michael Fullan, Marc Randolph and other popular public speakers are doing it.

Read the rest

This is the first presentation tip you need to know to deliver in public speaking like a pro.

You have to understand your audience before the presentation to connect with them during the presentation.

Before the presentation, you need to ask: Who is my audience? What do they need? What are their fears and dreams? How can I add value to them?

Because during the presentation, the more you value your audience, the more they will value your speech. The more focus you have on them, the less fearful you will be of them. The more you serve them, the less worried you will be over your performance.

Know that they are people too. And they are eager to see you do well and add value to their lives.

It’s about them. It’s not about you (never forget this!)

What audience size do you prefer when speaking in public: a large hall packed with people, or an intimate setting like a cozy bedroom? Tell me in the comments!

Ghostwritten for her LinkedIn.

Website copy

The home page of an immigration firm

Part of a 42-page website written for an immigration consultancy in Doha, 2025

People read these pages while deciding whether to move their family abroad. The job was to sound certain about the process without promising an outcome nobody can promise.

Work, live and invest across borders with experts who know the right people and the right process.

We handle the paperwork, the people, the process. From job placements to business relocations, we manage your entire move across borders. Ready to move? 3, 2, 1… so are we.

From the questions page. How fast can I get a work visa? Depends on the country and how fast your documents are prepared. We’ve processed some within three weeks. Others take longer. Speed is not a promise. But preparation is.

The closing line. A passport gets you to the gate. What gets you through is precision, strategy, and people who know how systems work.

Client name removed.

Publicity

Story angles from a media kit

Written for a Sydney practitioner going into podcast and press season, 2026

Editors and podcast hosts skim a kit for one thing: the story they can run. So the kit leads with three angles instead of a biography.

Why capable men go numb. Insight doesn’t heal what the body hasn’t felt. The exhaustion many men carry is the cost of holding a role together, year after year, until numbness becomes the default.

The modern-day monk of men’s work. Early nights, sunrise, daily devotional practice. Her discipline is her protection against every cliché in this space.

The woman who gives men their power back. An anti-guru story in a field full of gurus. The measure of her success is a man who needs her less, not more.

Client name removed.

Editing for an executive

From chatting at a party to co-owning a resort

For Pipasu Soni, then EVP and CFO of NFI Group, 2024

He sent the story in his own words, with every number and name in it. My job was to keep all of that and make it read like a person talking.

Friends, here is how it all started.

This article was born out of a conversation I had with a friend at my son’s U-9 hockey team end-of-season party. I remember us discussing my journey to becoming a CFO, as well as my experiences with personal business ventures.

It was 10 years ago (or probably 15 now). My wife and I, with our two daughters, were living in Minneapolis, following our daily routines…

Read it on LinkedIn

Edited and shaped. Published under his name.

Short-form video

An Instagram reel script

Written for Mehar Labana, a business coach with 100K+ followers, 2024

Every script follows the same shape: a story her audience already knows, one business lesson and one clear ask.

Opener. Twenty years ago, in 2004, a man wanted to help his cousin understand mathematics. He started teaching her using Yahoo’s Doodle notepad. Their sessions grew, eventually moving to YouTube, and today the channel has 8 million subscribers and billions of views worldwide.

Script. This channel is the Khan Academy, founded by Salman Khan, and it has made all-round learning simple, fun and accessible. Now, imagineeeee another channel where you can learn how to start and scale your business, create high-ticket offers and find clients, all for free.

Caption. Join now, and 20 years from today you’ll be forever glad you did.

Ghostwritten for her account.

Email copy

The first email in a cold sequence

Written for Fire Fuel SEO, going out to fencing companies, 2024

This is one of two versions I wrote for the same slot, so the agency could test which opening earned the reply.

Subject. What if you could be the most popular fencing company online?

Picture this: property owners lining up to hire your company. Your company is the most popular fencing company they find on Google, and everyone in town is talking about you. How does that feel?

This isn’t some fantasy. It’s the reality for a few companies you admire. But here’s the thing. It could be your reality too.

Written for the agency’s outreach.

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