Ben Bradley

Writer & Product Champion

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(630) 430-7267

My name is Ben Bradley.

I am a writer, a product champion, a company founder, and a wearer of many hats.

We represent amazing companies.

With a startup background, and great supporting team, we have a lean mindset for rapid go-to-market programs.

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Current projects

Better CRM outcomes

Section 508 compliant eLearning

Embedded engineering and design for manufacturability

Google Non-Profit Grant

Reshoring

THE MQL IS DEAD

Recent works

The Hidden Cost of Marketing Debt

Macon Raine Marketing Decrapification™The hidden cost of marketing debt.Why “keep it running” is quietly draining growth and how leaders can recover capacity, clarity, and investment.Prepared by Amy C. Sanders maconRAINEFor Marketing leadershipTL;DR: The continuing...

Contemplating the terror of succession: Transfer the growth. Not just the company.

Macon Raine Growth TransferabilityContemplating the terror of succession.You’re not getting any younger; neither is your growth model. The race is to turn founder-powered growth marketing into a company-owned system before you sell, hand it down, step back, or...

Google gave your nonprofit a free puppy

The problem with a $120,000 free puppy. Now what? A free puppy is adorable and exciting. The kids promise they’ll take care of it. Then the puppy pees on the rug and eats the sofa. The puppy was free. Owning the puppy is not. Google Ad Grants works the same way....

Nonprofit Media Coverage: Why Chasing Press Coverage Is the Wrong Goal

A newspaper feature can make a program look like a success to everyone in the building except the people it was supposed to reach. That's the problem of chasing press coverage as a primary strategy: it optimizes for the moment your board feels good, not the moment a...

Nonprofit Landing Page Example: Before and After Discoverability

Somewhere between "we ran the campaign" and "did it actually reach anyone new," most of a nonprofit's real impact quietly gets decided. Here's what that decision looks like in practice, using the exact same program information published two different ways. Before: A...

Nonprofit Promotion vs Discoverability: The Myth That More Promotion Fixes Low Enrollment

Somewhere right now, a parent is trying to find a summer program their kid will actually get into before it's fully booked. Whether they succeed often has nothing to do with how many emails a nonprofit sent about it, and everything to do with whether anything findable...

Ultimate NonProfit Discoverability Assessment Prompt

The assessment treats discoverability as part of mission delivery. If the right people cannot find your programs, resources, expertise, and opportunities when they need them, your organization cannot create its full intended impact.

Google Grant Services for Non-Profits

If your 501c3 is new to search advertising or if you know your way around, Google Ad Grants makes it easy and inexpensive to launch effective campaigns, with advertising solutions designed for nonprofits of all shapes and sizes. To qualify for a Google Ad Grant, your...

Was your Google Ad Grant canceled?

Your website must have high-quality content and be functional. If you are new to the Google Ad Grant, it requires a clear description of your non-profit mission. Your website must not contain broken links. It must load quickly.

Why B2B Outbound Marketing Fails and How to Improve It

B2B outbound fails when the account list, timing, message, offer, and follow-up do not create a credible reason for the recipient to engage. Volume and automation amplify the quality of the underlying strategy. They do not repair weak relevance.

Why Your Marketing Message Is Not Connecting With Buyers

Marketing messages fail when buyers cannot recognize the problem, understand the offer, see why it is relevant to them, or believe the claim. Effective messaging connects a specific audience and business condition to a clear outcome, credible mechanism, and proportionate next step.

Chapter 24: Make the Nonprofit Mission Findable

Chapter 24 of Leap The Nonprofit Discoverability Gap serves as a concluding reflection on the importance of making the mission findable.

Chapter 23: From Websites to Discovery Networks

Chapter 23 of Leap The Nonprofit Discoverability Gap discusses the shift from viewing a website as an isolated container to viewing it as a node within broader “discovery networks.”

Chapter 22: One Record, Many Contexts

Chapter 22 of Leap The Nonprofit Discoverability Gap emphasizes the value of creating “one record” that can be used across multiple contexts.

Chapter 21: Shared Discovery Networks for Noncompetitive Organizations

Chapter 21 of Leap The Nonprofit Discoverability Gap argues that noncompetitive organizations should share their audiences to amplify the reach and usefulness of their mission-related content.

How the 1% Growth Framework Finds Marketing Opportunities

The 1% Growth Framework is a method for identifying small, evidence-based improvements across the entire marketing and sales path. It does not promise that every change produces exactly one percent growth. It uses incremental improvement as an operating discipline: find friction, prioritize it, test a correction, and compound what works.