• Too much competition for this product
• We had to find a way to sell a lot in a short period of time
• They never advertised in the past

Brendon worked with Beachbody & Openfit to handle a high demand increase caused from pandemic shutdowns. The companies app & web based services were in high demand and Google, Bing and display were poorly managed but spending 7 figures/month. Youtube had also been a failed initiative but needed revisited.

Given too much variance in ability of product marketing teams throughout the company, Wiley wanted to build and in-house agency of marketing specialists, who would partner with product marketers on all high revenue earning products (ranging from $250K annual to $50M+) to ensure successful outcomes.

I was brought in to build and lead this global team, and my challenge was to build out the proper processes, communication, measurement, and reporting, as well as get buy-in from global product teams who were not all thrilled with having some of their autonomy taken away.

The brand was struggling to acquire new customers and had no strategy with their paid media. I was able to create a strategy from scratch and eventually get them from breaking even to being profitable with their paid campaigns.