Viewing brand direction: Artifact-first (work in progress)← All versions

Busy B Marketing · Flagstaff, AZ

The best little spot in town shouldn't be the one that quietly disappears.

I run quarterly marketing campaigns that turn great Flagstaff businesses into the places locals rave about and tourists go out of their way to find.

What really stings?

You didn't open your doors to become a marketer.

I keep watching incredible places open, stay great, and still close — over the worst four words in business: "I never even knew it was there."

Great isn't enough if nobody knows you exist. That's not your job. It's mine — and I learned it from a bee.

How bees fix this

When a bee finds something good, she doesn't keep quiet.

She flies home and dances directions — actual figure-eights — until every bee knows where the good stuff is. No luck. No big budget. Just directions, on repeat.

Flagstaff is the hive. Your place is the find. I'm the dance.

What a Busy B quarter looks like

One season. One real campaign. Not random posts.

Every quarter I build and run a focused campaign for your business — start to finish — so you can get back to running the place.

A plan for the season
A real campaign built around what's actually happening this quarter — tourist rush, slow month, a new menu, a holiday. Not scattered one-off posts.
Words & visuals that sound like you
Copy and design in your voice — the kind of writing and creative that national brands pay a fortune for, pointed at your corner of Flagstaff.
Seen where locals & tourists look
Social, email, local search, print where it still works. The right dance floor for your crowd — so the people who'd love you can actually find you.
You'll know if it worked
Plain-English results at the end of the quarter. No jargon, no smoke — just what moved, what didn't, and what we do next.

See it before you buy it

A sample quarter, start to finish

Meet "The Pinecone" — a fictional downtown café. Amazing pastries, loyal regulars, invisible to the tourists two blocks away. Here's the quarter I'd run:

The Big Idea — "Flagstaff's Front Porch"

The reel

P

thepineconeflag

Downtown Flagstaff

Mock Instagram reel: the first pour of coffee at dawn on The Pinecone's porch, morning light down the street

Before the trail. Before the shops. Before the day even starts.

Liked by 214 neighbors

The email to the regulars

From: The Pinecone ☕

To: The regulars

We saved you a seat.

It's Tuesday. The porch is quiet, the pastry case is full, and your seat — the good one, by the window — is open.

Before 9 this week, your second coffee is on us. Locals only. Tell no one. (Fine, tell everyone.)

Claim my seat

The sidewalk

START YOURFLAGSTAFFHERE.☕ 40 stepsthat way →

Slow Tuesdays become a reason to visit, and The Pinecone stops being a secret. That's what a dance looks like.

Proof of craft

You're looking at my work right now.

Busy B is a campaign I built the same way I'd build yours — the name, the story, this site, the card in your hand. One idea everything ladders up to, words in a voice built for exactly one audience: you.

Before this, I trained by building full campaigns for brands with the biggest personalities in the game — strategy, research, copy, creative, and the dashboards that prove it worked:

  • Aviation Gin

    Email campaign

    A Ryan-Reynolds-dry email: "More charming than your ex. Less emotional too." Voice that sounds exactly like the brand.

  • Dr. Squatch

    Product & research

    "Ritual Kits" — self-care for men repositioned as mission packs (The Breakup Cleanse, The Promotion Purge), backed by real survey + interview research.

  • Hulu

    Ad creative

    "your world. unfiltered. bold originals. no apologies." — a split-screen concept and billboard, copy and design together.

  • Liquid Death

    Full strategy

    "Murder Your Thirst. Embrace the Rebellion." — a complete campaign, Japan expansion plan, and ROI dashboard built on the brand's famous slogan.

  • CD Projekt RED

    CRM turnaround

    How a "gamers-first" studio rebuilt trust after a rough launch — transparency, service tiers, and community as a comeback strategy.

  • Netflix

    Global & brand

    Brand hierarchy, messaging, and an international expansion plan taking the brand into China.

Straight up: those were training builds from my marketing degree — nobody hired me, and I'll never pretend otherwise. Busy B is the first brand that's all mine. The second one should be yours.

Brandon, the B in Busy B, on a red-rock overlook with his dog

Meet the B in Busy B

Hi, I'm Brandon.

I'm a Flagstaff local who genuinely can't stand watching great small businesses close quietly because nobody knew they were there.

I spent years learning how the boldest brands in the world get seen — the strategy, the research, the copy, the creative, the measurement. Busy B is me pointing all of that at the town I actually live in.

No account managers, no jargon, no disappearing act. Just your scout, in your corner, making sure the hive knows what you've got.

How we start

Three steps to becoming a staple.

  1. 1

    The Scout Report (free)

    I fly a lap around your marketing — how you show up to locals, tourists, and Google — and bring back the quickest wins in plain English. No charge, no pressure. That's just what scouts do.

  2. 2

    We plan your season

    If it's a fit, I build a season-long campaign around your goals, your voice, and your crowd.

  3. 3

    The town finds you

    We run it, measure it, and turn your place into the one locals and tourists can't stop talking about.

The dance starts here

Get your free Scout Report.

Tell me a little about your business and I'll take a lap — where you're getting seen, where you're not, and the fastest ways to fix it. Free, no strings. Worst case, you get an honest report and a good cup of coffee out of me.

By providing your phone number, you agree to receive text messages from Busy B Marketing about your Scout Report and our services. Message frequency varies; message & data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out or HELP for help. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Prefer to talk? Call or text 928-563-5141.