

Online course: Growth Hacking Facebook
Duration: 45 minutes
Growth Hacking Facebook is not your average college lecture on Facebook content. It’s an online course, filmed like a documentary, that shows how James Shamsi grew his Facebook page from 0 to over 1.6 million organic likes in under 7 months.

My roles in creating this course:
Lead writer: I interviewed James Shamsi, a viral strategist with over 4 billion views under his belt, to find out how he grew his Facebook page from 0 to 1.6 million organic likes AND raised $500,000 on Kickstarter faster than I could leash train my dog. I took that information and turned that into an online course that feels unscripted, where James walks students through the exact strategies he used and how to apply them to their own niche.
Creative director: I managed every part of the creative process, including: writing the visuals into the script, creating and enforcing a design style guide, conceptualizing our set, and managing our post-production team of video editors, motion graphics artists, and graphic designers.

A lesson from the course:
Module 3, Video 3:
Meet Lucy Axters
Lucy was an essential piece of James’ strategy: she was able to reach people he couldn’t, she helped him raise over $500,000 on Kickstarter — in fact, James’ success would be far less without her. Here’s the catch: she isn’t real.