Real campaigns.

The creative work — on video, with receipts. Each one happened because a team committed to making something the market couldn't ignore.

The Receipts

Real campaigns.
Real teams. Real receipts.

A few of the campaigns I'm most proud of. Each one happened because a team of people committed to making something the market couldn't ignore. The wins belong to them.

Flip CX Lightning Strike — Challenge 7 at 500 registrants showing James standing in front of red wall with knife embedded in it, alongside the B2C Back To The Customer Awards 2023 branding
Flip CX · Lightning Strike

The Big Flippin' Reveal

Renaming RedRoute to Flip CX with weeks of teased clues and challenges. Yes, that's actually James in front of the target. Yes, those are real knives. Yes, there was also an ice bath in a robot costume and a CEO hot sauce challenge. The buildup earned the reveal.

Outcome → Category buzzSee the recap
The Banklorette — Bachelorette parody for CRMNEXT showing cast members and the real 5-year preserved rose in a Forever Roses gift box
CRMNEXT

The Banklorette

A full Bachelorette-style video series for credit unions — Trailer, Season Premiere, Group Date, all the way to the Final Rose. We sent prospects a real rose engineered to last five years with the message: "CRMs are meant to last. Will you accept this rose?" People outside our ICP asked to join the cast.

Outcome → Inbound from non-ICPSee it live
$$$CRMNEXT · Awards

Right on the Money

A national contest celebrating credit unions doing great work in their communities — with real custom wrestling championship belts as the trophy. When Guadalupe Credit Union won, their CEO posed with the belt on Instagram. Real customer, real celebration.

"We're extremely proud of this award that recognizes GCU's commitment to financial empowerment." — Winona Nava, CEO, Guadalupe Credit Union
Outcome → Customer-generated brand love
Bloomerang

Custom Lego Kits

Nonprofits wear a lot of hats and piecemeal multiple products together. So we sent custom Lego kits to our top targets with the message: "You no longer have to wear so many hats — we put the pieces together for you."

Outcome → Talked about for months
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The Coffee Truck Hijack

Qualtrics wasn't serving coffee at their main conference. So we rented a coffee truck and parked across the street. Everyone came to us — before, during, and after the conference. Qualtrics later said: "Bold move, but a good one."

Outcome → Stolen attention at the competitor's event
CX Championship Awards at CloudCherry — collage of CX leaders proudly holding their custom wrestling-style championship belts, including the iconic 'Captain CX' red belt
CloudCherry · Cisco loved this

The CX Championship

Real wrestling-style championship belts as the trophy for CX leaders. Each winner customized to their brand — including a "Captain CX" recipient who has worn his proudly for years. Cisco loved it so much they kept it going post-acquisition.

Outcome → Winners became brand ambassadors
B2C
Back To The Customer Awards
2023
Flip CX · Category Play

The B2C Awards

We launched the Back To The Customer Awards — celebrating the best of CX in E-Commerce and DTC — as part of the Flip CX rebrand. Not just a marketing splash, but a category-defining moment that gave the industry a new vocabulary and made Flip the convener of the conversation.

Outcome → Owned the category conversation
MENUCRMNEXT · Sales Enablement

The Sales Creative Menu

A "marketing menu" sales reps could pick from for their deals — like ordering off a restaurant menu. Made marketing tangible, accessible, and actually usable by sales. The kind of work that makes sales love marketing.

Outcome → Sales adoptionSee it live

Every campaign above happened because a team of people made it happen.
The work belongs to them — I was just lucky to build it alongside them.