The TL/DR:
I'm a marketing consultant building a successful business without social media, and I can help you do the same.
For the full 4-1-1-, keep reading.

How it started
After almost 20 years in media and marketing roles, I realized entrepreneurs were being given a lot of bad advice about marketing, especially about marketing on social media.
I sat at conferences where women were told social media was 50% of their job as a business owner. I heard a woman ask a panel if she still needed a website in 2025 and was shocked (and lowkey mad) when she was told to just build an Instagram page. I watched women grow anxious while they sat through yet another social media “strategy session” that promised growth and sales if they just tried new gimmicks, copied the same cookie-cutter tactics, and filmed more videos–the same things they’d already tried without success.
Nobody talked about ethics. No one talked about safety. There were absolutely zero discussions about the way social media is changing, or what it means to be a woman with a business that depends on platforms run by, built by, and optimized for men.
But the worst part was that no one had any solutions for the women in the room who were uncomfortable with social media. When they asked “Are there other ways to do marketing?” they were told “We’ll get back to you.” When women said “This isn’t good for my mental health,” or “It’s so time consuming and I’m not getting anything from it” they were told they were probably not using it correctly, or they just needed to “get over their fear.”
I sat there screaming in my head “That’s just not true! Don’t tell her that!” and thinking “Someone needs to tell these women that there are plenty of other ways to do marketing.”
In 2025, I realized that someone was me, and I left my role in corporate finance to help women entrepreneurs build marketing systems and plans that run successfully without social media.
Meet the Reject in Chief
Hey there! I'm Megan.
I'm a writer, marketer, strategist, and former small-town Midwesterner who escaped to New England and city life in Boston, MA.
I’m a flexi-vert (ENFJ-T) who enjoys social interaction but burns out fast in loud places and big groups. I need equal time by myself to do introverted things to recharge, like binge watch 90s and early 2000s TV shows, stay up too late reading “just one more chapter” of the latest book from my TBR stack, and writing blog posts exposing social media companies for their shady shenanigans and false promises.
Okay, I write other things, too. Like my weekly newsletter or chapters for the book I’m working on.
I’m known to quote obscure movie lines during conversations, and I’ve watched Gilmore Girls so many times I can usually tell what episode’s on just by the clothes the actors are wearing. Fall is, in fact, my entire personality and since I’m a late-October baby, the Scorpio in me doesn’t care if you think that’s basic.
I’m also an Enneagram 2, which means if you start crying I’ll probably cry too (I swear I’ll try so hard not to, though!), and as a dog mom of 2 I absolutely want to see your dog when we’re on Zoom. I don’t have a favorite book (you can’t seriously expect me to pick just one), but I do have a soft spot for 80s movies that are so bad they’re exceptional; if you can quote Better Off Dead, we can definitely be friends.
Born in the late 80s, I’m one of the lucky Millennials who remembers both pre-internet life and learning to type fast in AOL chat rooms. I went to one of the first 10 colleges to get access to Facebook back when you still needed a university email account to sign up (ah, the better days) and I’ve got the student loans to prove it. I like my jeans low-rise and skinny, my hair side-parted, and my text messages punctuated.

Did you know?
Corporate marketing campaigns don't rely on social media.
Big businesses prioritize ownership and serving themselves first.
They don't want to drive traffic to Instagram, they want you to know their business operates on their digital real estate. Behind the scenes, their marketing plans are focused on driving traffic to their website, capturing contact information, engaging their audience in their inboxes, and providing value that just doesn't translate through 20-second sound bites and snarky comments.
Social media might play a role in their marketing campaigns, but it's not the engine that drives the machine
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Which means it doesn't have to be yours either.
The credentials
I’m a journalism school grad who loved writing and deep research but hated the hard-hitting parts of news-gathering, so I started my career in print and digital magazines. I worked at Indianapolis Monthly magazine, freelanced for The Indianapolis Star, and spent 2 years at The Saturday Evening Post of Norman Rockwell fame before I realized how long it would take to pay back my student loans if I stayed in my field. Marketing paid better and used the same skill set, so I made my case and got hired on-the-spot at my first marketing role in the early 2010s.
Over 15 years across higher education, tech, and finance, I learned on-the-job in small marketing teams where I had multiple roles at the same time: copywriter, email marketer, social media manager, field support, community manager, event planner, internal communications, promotional products and digital store manager, ghostwriter—you name it, I did it.
I learned to marry the skills of journalism (good story-telling, thorough research, audience, tight copy) to marketing strategy in digital, in-person, and print. I climbed from manager to director, director to team lead, and exited my career as a vice president to start my own independent marketing practice.
