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Simple Business Sense / Case study

Creative thinking.
Commercial delivery.

Turning founder expertise into products, content and campaigns, with the systems to deliver them.

Working directly with Rory Prendergast and his team, I brought together strategy, design, hands-on production and marketing operations across the customer journey.

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Scripting, editing & channel development
Business

Simple Business Sense
Founder-led business consultancy

Working with

Rory Prendergast
& the wider team

My contribution

Strategy · Products · Design · Video
Campaigns · Paid media · CRM

Selected results

Creative work.
Commercial impact.

11,000%

increase in LinkedIn impressions

10

sales of The Accountability Code

2

sales through LinkedIn

1

sale through the webinar

€20K+LinkedIn revenue influence

€10K+Webinar revenue contribution

Results across the work I contributed to, from content and product creation to campaign delivery and follow-up. Rory handled sales closing. Channel revenue figures are shown separately and are not combined into a total.

01 / The challenge

Make the expertise
relevant to the owner.

Simple Business Sense helps business owners reduce their dependence on the day-to-day running of their companies. The marketing needed to make that value tangible and give the right people a reason to act.

I looked at the journey from attention to enquiry and booked call. Comparing funnel stages led me to question whether broad messaging was attracting the right audience, while fragmented data across platforms made performance harder to compare.

That shaped the work around a specific audience: owners whose teams still relied on them for decisions, direction and accountability. It also meant thinking beyond a single post or landing page to how the message, offer and follow-up worked together.

The connecting idea

Make the problem recognisable.
Give people something useful.
Build a clear next step.

02 / Product creation

The Accountability Code.
Built to be used.

I developed The Accountability Code as a practical digital product within the May Giftbox funnel, turning the business’s expertise into something an owner could work through and apply.

The workbook brings together an accountability framework, a document for defining ownership of a role, and a daily meeting structure. The completed version pairs guidance and worksheets with video walkthroughs. The product generated 10 sales.

The strategic choice was to deliver a useful, complete starting point. The wider programme could then become relevant when an owner wanted to apply the approach across the business. The product did not need to withhold essential steps to create that next conversation.

My work extended into the VSL script, landing-page messaging, checkout and post-purchase journey. I pushed for continuity between the video and page, and corrected thank-you messaging that still treated a buyer as someone who had booked a call. The immediate job was to help them access and use the product.

The Accountability Code / original product cover.
A working document, with space to define ownership and a clear weekly result.
From idea to delivery

Product structure
VSL & page copy
Checkout journey
Email access & follow-up

03 / Campaign development

One business offer.
Several ways to connect.

I worked across multiple Giftbox funnels, developing different entry points into the business through useful content, products and live sessions.

For the April webinar, I designed the presentation and created the promotional campaign around From Constant Questions to Clear Processes. The session brought Rory’s business perspective together with Bianca Petrascu’s process-mapping expertise.

The campaign connected lead-up emails, social graphics, carousel posts, stories and animated creative with registration and follow-up. The “MAP” response gave people a simple way to ask for details. I also worked on automated replies and follow-up, and prepared messaging for attendees, no-shows and people who left early.

I kept refining the campaign towards situations owners would recognise, pushing back on generic angles and making the copy shorter and easier to follow. Ahead of the session, I also prepared outreach asking registrants what they wanted covered.

The webinar funnel generated one sale, with €10K+ in revenue contribution recorded for the webinar work.

Webinar presentation / title and visual direction.
A central teaching sequence from the presentation.
Event promotion / published on Instagram. View post ↗
Carousel / one campaign idea adapted for the feed. View post ↗
Campaign creative / making the problem and desired change visible. View post ↗

Another Giftbox campaign / June

Could the business run
without you this summer?

For June, I developed a seasonal campaign around owners’ ability to switch off on holiday. The plan connected relatable LinkedIn stories and emails with a live session and a Summer Readiness Deep Dive.

The same commercial problem became more immediate through a situation the audience was already thinking about. Published posts carried that story through to the event and replay.

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04 / Brand & content

I made the work,
as well as shaping it.

My contribution included LinkedIn designs, YouTube banners, social content, scripting and video production. I was the person editing the videos shown below.

I helped develop Rory’s YouTube channel and worked on how his expertise appeared across Instagram and LinkedIn. That included the visual assets around the content, as well as the hooks, message and next step.

On LinkedIn, I noticed stronger engagement around real-life stories than direct sales or advice-led posts. I explored how that storytelling could carry business relevance, drawing on Rory’s actual experiences rather than repeating generic lessons. The LinkedIn work was associated with an 11,000% increase in impressions, two sales and €20K+ in revenue influence.

YouTube / channel banner design. View channel ↗
LinkedIn / profile banner design. View profile ↗
Video editing / selected work

Your Business Has a System.
The System Is You.

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Video editing / selected work

How to Make Your
Team Accountable

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Paid advertising

Creative shaped
around the ICP.

I scripted ads and developed creative for YouTube and Meta around the ideal customer profile. I also set up YouTube ads, bringing campaign implementation into the same body of work as the scripts and creative.

The YouTube script work explored several ways into the owner’s situation: constant interruptions, dependence on their judgement, the inability to take time off and the effect on growth. The task was to make the audience recognise their own business before introducing the offer.

My analysis also questioned broad targeting and the distinction between generating leads and generating relevant conversations.

05 / Marketing operations

The work behind
the next step.

The content and campaigns needed working systems behind them. I built and worked on CRM automations, email sequences, landing pages, forms and booking journeys.

This included contact tagging and segmentation, product-delivery emails, webinar follow-up and troubleshooting messaging workflows. I also contributed to the move from Kartra towards GoHighLevel, including checking and updating customer-facing links.

When preparing email activity, I worked through audience engagement and staged sending rather than treating the whole database as one audience. I also built the Systems Sprint waiting-list page and form, connecting the visible page with the process for capturing interest.

Alongside this, I handled call setting, replies on Rory’s behalf, calendar availability and meeting logistics. That gave me direct experience of the handover from marketing activity to a conversation with the business.

Product journey / workflow outline
  1. 01Campaign & VSL

    Audience, message and offer

  2. 02Purchase

    Product-specific checkout

  3. 03Access & use

    Email delivery and guidance

  4. 04Relevant follow-up

    Implementation and next steps

What I bring to the next role

Think it through.
Bring it to life.

This work connected the creative and commercial sides of marketing. I could contribute to the strategy, design the asset, write the script, edit the video and work on the systems needed to deliver it.

It also reinforced the importance of following the whole journey: attention, enquiry, purchase, delivery and the next conversation. Each stage asks something different of the message and the experience.

Original productWebinar & campaign assetsPublished video editsChannel designsCRM & delivery workflows
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