Built a content-to-commerce system for a creator-led media brand
A content production rebuild and team build-out that connected a creator's audience to a working commerce system, without losing the voice that built the audience in the first place.
The situation
Paul Saladino MD, known to his audience as Carnivore MD, built a large following around a contrarian nutrition message and years of daily content. The audience trusted him, and that trust set the bar for every product he put his name behind.
The business had a ceiling built into it. Every piece of content ran through him personally, every product decision waited on him, and the team around him was built to execute rather than to plan.
What the work looked like
Squeezing more hours out of one person was never going to move the ceiling much. The engagement was built around a production team that could capture his voice and multiply his output, and a way to connect specific pieces of content to the commerce outcomes they produced instead of guessing which ones worked.
- A content team that produced across formats without waiting on him for every piece
- A tracking layer that mapped content to the stage of the buyer journey it served
- A production process built to hold quality as volume increased
What it left behind
Content output grew while his own production time went down, and the team could see which pieces drove commerce instead of relying on instinct. It is the same measurement discipline I install for every client now: know what is working before you decide to do more of it.
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