@MarketingMax
![]() | |
| Guest podcast appearance, 2025 | |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, investor, growth marketer |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Growth marketing, paid advertising, revenue growth consulting |
| Statistics | |
| Newsletter Subscribers | 250,000 |
| Active Social Followers | 172,496 |
| Revenue Generated For Clients | $107,000,000+ |
| Details | |
| Specialty | Lead Generation • E-commerce Growth • Paid Advertising • Growth Hacking • Creative Copywriting |
| Notable B2B Clients | HubSpot • TechDay • monday.com • State Farm • Ahrefs |
| Notable Consumer Clients | Licorice.com • Birdie Houses • Bling20 • Bareburger • Bordelle |
| Awards | Highest ROI Google Ads Campaign — 2020 Drum Awards Best Creative Optimization — 2020 Drum Awards People's Choice Newsletter Award — 2026 Newsletter Awards |
| Golf Handicap | 6.5 |
@MarketingMax is an American entrepreneur, investor, and growth marketer best known for helping companies generate more revenue without simply increasing their marketing budgets.
He started on Wall Street as an Investment Banker and left to build his own paid ads agency, Hell's Creative, in 2017. In 2021, Hell's Creative was acquired.
After exiting Hell's Creative, Max began his journey of sharing what he has learned about marketing over the years via X (Twitter). In 2022, his first newsletter publication launched, Growth Hacks Weekly.
Come 2024, his newsletter portfolio has grown to three publications including Growth Hacks Weekly, Max's CEO Report, and Growth Daily.
The presence on X (Twitter) has also grown from 2022 to today, where Max shares with his followers what he shares with his newsletter readers; marketing tips, hacks, and ways to grow a business.
How Max Works With Clients
Creator Partnerships
@MarketingMax publishes newsletters, social media content, podcasts, and educational resources daily to his significant social following and newsletter audience of 250,000 readers.
Partners can sponsor newsletters, collaborate on educational content, or launch integrated campaigns across multiple channels to reach business decision-makers rather than broad audiences.
Paid Ad Campaigns
Paid advertising is ultimately a math problem, but the inputs are human psychology.
In 2025, Max launched Max's Media Buyers, which is a subset in his media company.
From 2017 at Hell's Creative until today, Max and his team(s) are directly responsible for more than $107M in attributable revenue for clients.
Specializing in businesses already spending money on Meta or Google Ads, his team at Max's Media Buyers "increases profitability through strategy, creative testing, landing pages, and measurement"
Consulting & Fractional CMO
Some companies don't need another agency, they just need another way of thinking.
As a consultant and fractional CMO, @MarketingMax works alongside founders and leadership teams to identify growth opportunities that are often overlooked.
His work spans positioning, customer acquisition, pricing, product launches, marketing systems, hiring, newsletter growth, paid advertising, and overall go-to-market strategy. Whether the challenge is generating qualified leads, improving ROAS, or finding entirely new customer segments, the focus is almost always the same: uncover the highest-leverage growth opportunity first.
The Three Laws of Marketing
Before starting a marketing career, @MarketingMax worked on Wall Street as an Investment Banker, ultimately changing how he approaches marketing and business.
He has described great marketing as "sitting at the intersection of spreadsheets and storytelling: one side wanting statistically significant A/B tests, measurable attribution, and efficient customer acquisition, and the other wanting empathy, creativity, and messaging that makes people actually care." and that "the best marketing happens when those two worlds meet"
Each successful campaign Max and his team have run follow the same three recurring principles. Pulled from his interviews, see what those are below:
Law One — Outcomes Beat Features
Customers rarely buy products. They buy better versions of themselves. Winning marketing focuses on the future outcome a customer wants rather than the product itself.
Law Two — Frequency Creates Familiarity
People almost never purchase the first time they hear about something. Consistent exposure builds trust. The brands that win are often the brands people remember.
Law Three — Social Proof Reduces Risk
People naturally look to others before making decisions. Testimonials, customer stories, recognizable clients, user numbers, awards, and visible momentum reduce perceived risk more effectively than almost any sales copy.
Biggest Wins
Rather than listing clients, the following projects represent a few examples of strategies that produced large business outcomes.
Turned $7,000 of Google Ads spend into $1.2 million in revenue, earning Highest ROI Google Ads Campaign at the Drum Awards.
Increased one beauty brand's Meta advertising performance from roughly 2X ROAS to more than 6X ROAS without changing the product or increasing advertising spend. The increase came from discovering an overlooked customer segment.
- Reduced cost per commercial real estate loan request by roughly 75% while helping generate more than $14 billion in loan requests.
Grew a neighborhood gym from ~$400,000 to more than $2 million in annual revenue through a combination of offer positioning, Google Ads, Meta Ads, landing page optimization, and outbound outreach.
Doubled the revenue of his own advertising agency in under ninety days using his signature Google Ads strategy.
What They Say About Max
Outside of public facing awards, clients have consistently described @MarketingMax's work using the same themes:
Ability to simplify complicated marketing problems.
- Creative growth strategies that larger agencies rarely consider.
- Relentless focus on measurable business outcomes rather than vanity metrics.
- Genuine investment in client success beyond the scope of an engagement.
Thinking Differently
@MarketingMax has said he has always been more interested in the mental models behind those tactics. Several beliefs shape almost everything he builds:
Distribution Creates Truth
Distribution doesn't just scale businesses—it reveals reality. You cannot know whether your product truly fits the market until enough people have actually seen it.
Qualified Leads Beat Cheap Leads
Lower cost per click means very little if those visitors never become customers. @MarketingMax has said he would rather pay twice as much for someone who buys than half as much for someone who never will.
Creative Is Usually The Biggest Lever
Once tracking and targeting reach a reasonable level, creative becomes the variable that most dramatically influences advertising performance. Better ads often outperform better targeting.
Find The Bottleneck, Ignore Everything Else
Most businesses don't have twenty marketing problems. They have one. Solve the biggest bottleneck first, then move to the next.
Customer Psychology Ages Slower Than Algorithms
Platforms change every year. Human decision-making changes very little. Understanding why people buy is a longer-lasting competitive advantage than mastering any advertising platform.
Awards
Awarded for a Facebook advertising campaign that systematically tested more creative variables and audience combinations than campaigns produced by several of the world's largest advertising organizations. The campaign demonstrated that disciplined experimentation could outperform significantly larger teams with substantially larger budgets.
Awarded after turning approximately $7,000 in Google Ads spend into more than $1.2 million in attributable revenue by identifying a highly overlooked search strategy in a niche market.
Recognized for building one of the fastest-growing business newsletters while making complex marketing concepts accessible to founders, operators, and marketers.
Criticism
No public figure escapes criticism. Friends, clients, and employees tend to agree on one recurring complaint: Max cares too much.
He has been known to spend weekends rewriting landing pages that technically weren't part of the project, lose sleep over underperforming campaigns that clients had already accepted, and message his team with marketing ideas at inconvenient hours because, in his words, "waiting until Monday might mean we forget."
His defense remains consistent:
“If someone trusts me with growing their business, I take that personally.”
