The term fractional CMO gets used a lot in marketing circles right now. Like most terms that gain traction quickly, it has started to mean different things to different people. Some agencies slap it on a retainer package that is essentially account management with a fancier title. Others are offering […]
There is a ceiling that most marketing agencies hit somewhere between 15 and 25 clients. Below that number, a good team can manage the workload through process and effort. Above it, things start to slip. Emails go out late. Reports are thinner than they should be. Account managers spread across […]
There is a pattern that shows up repeatedly among established businesses in McKinney and the broader Collin County area. The business is doing well. Revenue is solid. The owner has invested in marketing: a web designer here, an SEO vendor there, someone running Facebook ads, maybe an agency handling email. […]
Ask any marketing agency principal what their biggest operational headache is and they will not say clients. They will say software. The average agency runs somewhere between 12 and 20 separate tools to manage client work, and most of those tools were not designed to talk to each other. Data […]
Momento mori ,or, On taking myself to seriously A treatise on The Consumed. A video game in development. Making this horror game has been a ton of fun. It’s weird how much horror shows you. I was talking with the other game designer on this project and we agreed that […]
Here Is What That Actually Looks Like. AI-powered marketing has been a buzzword in the DFW area for a couple of years now. Every agency from Frisco to Allen claims to offer it. Most of them mean they use ChatGPT to write blog posts and call it a strategy. Actual […]
Agencies Are Starting to Notice. Here’s the honest version of where AI marketing stands today: most of it has been bad for a long time. Chatbots that write generic copy. Dashboards full of metrics nobody looks at. Software that promises to replace your agency and delivers something that needs more […]
I’m currently developing 3 games. One is for a fashion brand, a first person horror experience. It’s giving analog horror with putrid yellows, winding hallways, and VHS fuzz. There are many ideas wrapped into this one, actually. The brutalism of a collapsing consumerism culture is one key idea. Though I […]
I made my first post on GameBlogGirl in August 2013. Can you believe it’s been over a decade? I really can’t. At that time, I was still studying Computer Science, not yet graduated, and constantly writing, journaling, and playing games. A blog seemed like the next logical step. Only a […]
I gave Red Barrels’ Outlast a fantastic review a few months ago. Despite my wonderful experience with the main game, I waited until the Whistleblower DLC was on sale before buying it for myself. I usually think DLC is — no matter how polished it may be — overpriced. It is very, […]