Who Am I?
“When Aeschines spoke, they said, ‘How well he speaks.’ But when Demosthenes spoke, they said, ‘Let us march against Philip.’” — David Ogilvy
👋 Howdy, I'm Brian Thackston.
I'm a marketer ➡️ operations expert ➡️ lawyer ➡️ agency founder.
I'm lucky to be where I am and with who I am. Especially now that you are a part of it 😃 You can join my email group here, send me something via howdy [at] brianthackston.com, and/or connect socially with me here.
Pry into how I professionally help folks
I am a non-practicing attorney and I work with attorneys, CPAs, and other professionals to make them more money with their marketing and operations.
Marketing work I do
- Creative work: Videos, websites, and other creative work that converts visitors into leads and leads into clients. Plus, staying at the top of inboxes and showing up on the first page of Google and query in ChatGPT.
- Advertising & analytics: Google Ads. Facebook Ads. Print Ads. Retargeting Ads. Email Ads. If you’re spending money on ads, I can help you improve ROI.
- Fully managed marketing: It all starts with strategy. But everyone has some strategy — the hard part is transforming your strategic ideas into execution, which is where I best help.
Operations consulting I do
- People ops: Talent management isn’t just for Hollywood. Recruiting and retaining the right members for your team is more than just happenstance.
- Process development: Knowledge (and project) management is essential, especially for knowledge-based businesses (like legal and accounting firms).
- Management support: Getting things done with and without policies, procedures, and everything else needed for a well-managed team.
Legal work I (probably won't) do for you
- Contracts + Employment: A verbal agreement is only as good as the paper it's written on. Get practical advice for reviewing contracts.
- IP + General Counsel: Make sure you own what you think you own and you protect what you need to protect. Future you will thank you.
- Estate + Taxes + More: How to handle your aging parents, tax controversies, tax compliance, lawsuits, and more.
Get emails from me to you
Join my email group and drink deep from some brainwaves of sorts. Here's what to expect:
- Legal-ish things: Legal and non-legal items of great import generating headlines in the online and offline zeitgeist or wherever.
- Business-ish insights: Curated insights along with free resources on marketing, operations, IT, revenue operations, and more.
- Entertainment, to complete you: Because what is there to life if not art? And art imitates too much of life to just ignore.
I also want to ask for your help.
I know how little I know. Drop your knowledge and anger and jokes with me here.
Very truly yours,
Dr.* Brian C. Thackston, Esq.*, J.D.*
*Obtained Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from the University of Baltimore School of Law, member of the Maryland State Bar Association (Esq.), and this fellow on the ABA Journal website said I can call myself a doctor (Dr.). Plus, I'm just jooooking from time to time.