My Story
I've been in direct response since 2008 — funnels, launches, the unglamorous work of making other people's ideas pay. Early on I helped run the book launch for Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPRIZE.
And I kept watching the same thing happen: a great marketer gets hired to do a defined thing — build the funnel, run the launch — and the moment it works, the engagement ends. The better you are, the faster you're done. The only seat with staying power is the one setting the strategy.
So I took that seat. I became a fractional CMO, then built CMOx to teach the model to marketers like me. The playbook became The Fractional CMO Method — a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller — and its companion for the other side of the table, Find Your CMO. Then my co-founder and I built CTOx to do the same for technology leaders.
And I'm not just a marketing guy. Home is Philadelphia, with my beautiful wife, two wonderful kids, and more cats than I should have (3!). I'm a ham radio operator, and I built the popular POTACAT, along with MorseCAT and ScoutCAT. You can catch me at parks sending ? AGN? PSE in Morse code.