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Work Samples
Sicuro Abandon Cart Journeys
A collection of abandon-cart email sequences I wrote for Sicuro Brands. Six sequences across the VNSH and Modern Needs portfolios — layering courtesy reminder → price-increase urgency → discount → reservation-expiry to win back the cart. Click any email below to read the copy.
- 6 journeys / 21 emails
- VNSH and Modern Needs offers
- Layered urgency, scarcity, and discount logic
Nicus Planning — Datasheet
Datasheet for the Nicus Planning module — the multi-currency, multi-year budgeting and forecasting tool. Highlights what-if scenarios, governance views (run/grow/transform), automated variance analysis, and the audit trail features finance teams need to defend their numbers.
Nicus Blog Posts (30+)
A multi-year run of blog content for Nicus covering cost modeling pitfalls, chargeback strategy, ITFM/TBM program design, CIO-CFO alignment, recession playbooks for IT, and more. Each piece is linked below — most are still live on nicus.com.
- 30+ live posts
- Audience: CIOs, IT Finance leaders, TBM practitioners
- Mix of how-to, framework, and POV pieces
ITFM/TBM Program Maturity Guide — eBook
An eBook framing the ITFM/TBM program maturity model across four dimensions — People, Process, Technology, and Data. Built to give IT Finance buyers a shared vocabulary for diagnosing their current state and mapping a credible path forward.
- 4-dimension maturity framework
- Designed for sales-enablement and BOFU demand gen
- Each section anchored to a real customer pattern
State of Arizona Case Study
Long-form case study about Arizona's enterprise IT transformation under the Arizona Management System initiative — turning the state into a model of how showback and chargeback can reshape government IT economics.
- 35% overhead reduction with showback and chargeback
- 10,000 hours saved (~$480k, ~5 FTEs)
- $16.6M reinvested in enterprise services
- 25% YoY improvement in billing accuracy
State Technology Agency Case Study
Public-sector case study about a state technology agency wrestling a $60M+ budget across 39 consuming agencies — and how a purpose-built cost modeling platform replaced an error-prone mix of Excel and a stand-alone allocation tool.
- $60M+ annual IT budget
- 39 separate consuming agencies
- Government-mandated double step-down reporting handled with built-in workflows
Fortune 500 Insurance Case Study
Anonymized Fortune 500 insurance case study about a $70M annual IT budget trapped in spreadsheets — and the transformation that followed once IT Finance had a defensible source of truth.
- 33% reduction in non-labor planning effort
- 2,000 hours reclaimed annually
- 8 weeks taken out of the planning schedule
A Practitioner's Guide to Cost Modeling — eBook
Long-form practitioner's guide to IT cost modeling — the kind of high-investment content piece that establishes thought leadership and drives demand-gen pipeline. Eleven sections covering what an effective model looks like, how to build and defend one, and the tangible business outcomes it unlocks.
- 11 sections / ~20 pages
- Used as a lead magnet across paid and organic channels
- Co-developed with Nicus subject matter experts
Visa Customer Snapshot
Customer snapshot featuring Visa Inc. — a global payments giant managing $1.4B in annual IT spend. They ripped out Apptio in favor of Nicus in 30 days and reduced cost model run times from 13–16 hours down to 90 seconds.
- $1.4B annual IT spend managed in Nicus
- Apptio replaced in 30 days
- Cost model runs dropped from 13+ hours to 90 seconds
Lifeway Customer Snapshot
A short-form customer snapshot showing how Lifeway moved $35M of annual IT spend off spreadsheets and into Nicus in just 60 days — accelerating planning cycles and freeing leadership to make spend decisions in real time.
- $35M annual IT spend managed in Nicus
- 2 modules in production in 60 days
- Revised spend plans socialized in real time
City of Seattle Case Study
Co-developed this customer story documenting how the City of Seattle consolidated 29 separate IT shops into one centralized organization, replaced a dozen linked Excel spreadsheets, and won back thousands of analyst hours per year.
- Consolidated 29 IT shops into one
- 3,000 analyst hours saved annually
- Mid-year budget changes cut from weeks to a day
American Family Insurance Case Study
Wrote this Fortune 500 case study chronicling how American Family Insurance partnered IT and Corporate Finance to gain cross-organizational cost transparency across 25 operating divisions and 2,600 agents — and stopped guessing about IT spend.
- Cross-organizational IT cost transparency
- Reduced staff hours on TCO studies
- Supported new chargeback methodology
Testimonials
"Wil has been very effective at maximizing revenue from our internal lists and generating winning funnel copy for all our brands — in both good times and bad.
In a niche where we're constantly facing challenges to consistently scale on cold traffic, Wil's performance is one constant we've been extremely thankful to count on!"
— Nathan Hopkins, Sicuro Brands
I had the pleasure of working with Wil and highly recommend him. He is an extremely talented marketing writer with the ability to produce meaningful content with just a few conversations with subject matter experts. He has a strong work ethic and a desire to learn new things. I was impressed with how quickly he was able to understand and navigate a fairly technical topic like IT Financial Management. Beyond all of this he was a great team mate, always helpful and friendly, with an infectious positive attitude! Your organization would be lucky to have Wil!
Wil has been an integral part of building the Marketing Team at Nicus. In a challenging industry with limited resources, Wil crafted exceptional content to generate demand for Nicus’s solutions. He has been a fast learner, and his intellectual curiosity will continue to serve him well throughout his career. He was properly nicknamed the “Word Man” at Nicus for spinning any context into sweet lullaby. I’d not only recommend him; I’d hire him time and time again.
"I've outsourced to other writers here and there, but Wil is my go-to guy when I need to outsource copy.
He has excellent research skills. He's self-motivated. He hits deadlines. And he writes damn good copy.
I can toss him an idea and let him run with it without ever worrying if we're on the same page. He knows how to take feedback. He asks the right questions. Overall, he just "gets it."
His abilities are quickly eclipsing "up-and-comer" status, and I strongly recommend you work with him. (In fact, I often send him referrals.)
Just please don't send him too much work... I'd like to keep working with Wil for a long time. ;-)"
— Ryan Healy, Upsender
I worked with Wil on multiple of my clients’ blogs, and he was always on point! His work was truly stellar, and his content was always exactly what the client wanted. His powerful knowledge of SEO and polished client communication skills made him a true asset. He was always very thorough with his research, content creation and help with social promotion. Wil would be a great addition to any team or project!
One of the first big challenges of mobilizing the Preserve Roanoke movement was to get a solid web presence in place. Much to our supporters’ appreciation, Wil took care of all the initial setup. He helped us buy a domain name, install Wordpress, source and customize a premium theme, and eventually backup and transfer the site to a new hosting account. The organization remains extremely grateful for his volunteer efforts.
"As a guy who built an affiliate company, solely through email, from $0 to $300,000 every month, if I could choose 1 guy to do it again with from scratch. 1 no nonsense writer. 1 entrepreneur to create compelling email, converting sales copy and day 1 profitable product funnels that can scale.
I'd choose Wil because he was with me and built it to those staggering numbers along side me.
There are just not that many people that have written, tested, and analyzed the amount of copy Wil has.
There are even fewer who have critiqued thousands of cold traffic emails, and made them work, while leading a team of 8 writers to do the same.
Frankly, copy is a key component that makes the rain inside any business. Most can't produce it. Less can analyze it. Less can teach it. Less can grow a profit line with it, day in and day out.
Wil does all of that.
Period."
— Lou Cozzolino, Lone Survivalist
Wil was extremely easy to work with. He always produced a product that exceeded our expectation. One of the pieces Wil wrote for us got a ton of impressions and really our company out. He was available when we needed him and answered emails in a very timely manner. I would definitely recommend Wil!
Wil is a talented copywriter who knows well how to use engaging style and highly effective sales tactics to write compelling copy. He is an asset to our company and a results-driver for our clients.
"I'm super impressed with Wil's ability to deliver quality copy on time and on budget. He is easy to work with and gets things right the first time (e.g. doesn't require handholding or endless revisions)."
— Drew Kossoff, Rainmaker Ad Ventures
Wil is a pleasure to work with. He’s prompt and professional. Writing for different industries is always a challenge, but he’s been able to quickly adapt to each client’s unique voice and industry jargon and always delivers great copy that requires minimal (if any) editing. I wouldn’t think twice about referring him or bringing him on-board for another project.
I’ve worked with Wil on a number of projects. My experience with him has consistently shown off his sharp eye for strategy, adept writing abilities, and personable attitude. Wil’s presence will be a positive force on any team!
"I was referred to Wil by Ryan Healy, whose schedule was too full to accommodate our landing page project. Wil had just started freelancing full-time, so his portfolio wasn't quite as filled out as the other copywriters we looked at. But when we got back the first draft of our copy, we knew we'd made the right choice.
His process was seamless, and he got the tone and voice for our audience almost perfect right out of the gate. He even found a great clinical study for an ingredient in our product that we had yet to discover ourselves. Then he integrated it right into the copy.
We're anxiously counting down till launch day so we can test it out!"
— Ben Steuart, Steuart's Natural Health
During my time with RYP Marketing, Wil has proven himself to be an incredibly detailed copyeditor/copywriter, a quick study on all things social, and, most importantly, he’s an easy-to-work-with nice guy. You really couldn’t have a kinder person on your team.
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Free Email-Copy Guide
Five lessons from $5M+ in email revenue — written for ecommerce operators and direct-response marketers who want to scale list income without burning out their audience. Drop your email and I'll send it over.
