Archive • Creekside Marketing • Buttondown

owning your job vs. owning a business

September 9, 2026

As I’ve worked with & helped grow dozens of businesses over the past few years, I’ve started to realise how many business owners don’t actually own a...

What winning in marketing looks like: Q4 2026

September 2, 2026

My partner Cade will be taking charge in this email, giving you all what he’s seeing in all the ad accounts he manages. For context, Cade manages the Meta...

How to hire a ads expert (and avoid the scammers)

August 27, 2026

This week, I’ve been working on scaling up our google ads capacity as we continue to grow, and thought some of you might appreciate how a google ads expert...

From the front lines (google ads): volume 1

August 20, 2026

For this edition, I’ve enlisted the help of one our best Google Ad reps, Ahmed (we’ve got 3 haha, but regardless he’s genuinely awesome).He’s from...

Selling to everyone is selling to no-one

August 14, 2026

Regardless of how unique this pretty standard marketing advice is, it’s especially true for our agency right now as we are in the thick of applying it in our...

I am my own worst enemy

August 6, 2026

One of Cade and I’s favorite things that we get to do in this business is network with other marketing pros and just help each other find ways to grow our...

the very first one (sort of) + intro

July 29, 2026

If you’re reading this, you are likely one of the first people ever (or at least the one of the first dozen) that is reading this newsletter.If you didn’t...

You're in on this early.

July 23, 2026

Hey , You're getting this because you've worked with us, talked with us, or we've crossed paths at some point. You didn't sign up for a newsletter, we just...