Brandon Brison
Nashville, TN

Creative Director · Direct-Response Copywriter

Brandon
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I take complicated subjects like finance, healthcare and emerging technology and turn them into copy that people act on.

✓Results

The numbers I’m measured on

24×

Return on ad spend, top-performing campaigns

Direct response · CDMG
16%

Unaided brand awareness, up from 2–3% in three years

National brand · Brookdale
50%

Less production time after moving the agency to AI-assisted workflows

Creative operations · CDMG
4

National bestsellers I helped develop as senior editor

Publishing · Ramsey Solutions
§Selected work

Selected work

Financial publishing

Investor acquisition campaigns

I lead creative for integrated campaigns across mining, metals, biotech, energy, AI and crypto: promos, email, landing pages and paid social. The job is making a technical investment story clear, compelling and compliant. The best of these returned up to 24× ad spend.

Brand · Healthcare

Building a national senior-living brand

At Brookdale Senior Living I moved from senior copywriter to associate and then interim creative director, running national creative strategy and brand development. Unaided awareness grew from about 2–3% to 16% in three years.

Public company communications

Starfighters Space, pre-IPO to post-IPO

Investor positioning, compliant messaging, investor updates and reputation management through the company’s move to the public markets.

Creative operations

Moving an agency to AI-assisted creative

I designed and rolled out AI-assisted workflows for research, drafting and production across the CDMG creative team. Production time dropped by as much as half without lowering the bar on the copy.

⌗Experience

Twenty years of editing, writing and leading writers

  1. 2023–now
    CDMG
    Creative Director

    Creative strategy, direct-response marketing and integrated campaigns across several industries.

  2. 2017–2023
    Brookdale Senior Living
    Senior Copywriter → Associate Creative Director → Interim Creative Director

    National marketing, creative strategy and brand development.

  3. 2017–2018
    Martin Ventures
    Marketing Consultant

    Branding and digital launches for healthcare portfolio companies.

  4. 2011–2017
    Ramsey Solutions
    Senior Editor

    Editorial development and financial content; helped develop four national bestsellers.

  5. 2005–2010
    Plunkett Research
    Editor → Senior Managing Editor

    Grew production output about 10% a year for four straight years.

✎What I do

What I bring to a team

Direct-response copy

Promos, sales letters, email, landing pages and ads that are written to be tested and measured.

Creative direction

Leading distributed writing teams, setting standards and mentoring writers.

Brand and positioning

Messaging, brand storytelling and market positioning for B2B and B2C companies.

Investor communications

Compliant messaging, IPO communications and investor updates.

Editorial development

Shaping books, reports and long-form content from outline to final proof.

AI-assisted production

Prompt design and workflow automation that speed up production without lowering quality.

EducationBA and postgraduate study, University of Houston · Editing Certificate, University of Chicago · StoryBrand, COMPEL, EntreLeadership and BECOME training
→Contact

Have a campaign or a role in mind? Let’s talk.

Email is the fastest way to reach me. I’m also on LinkedIn.

brandon.brison@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/blbrison ↗