I help make your local video marketing fun again.
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“You are a literal genius with your edits, creativity, and magic.”
—Kate Newey
What I Do
MAVEN
Local video marketing, made simple
Jeff & I travel all over the country to film hyperlocal video content with our Top Bananas (our clients). In just the past few years I’ve filmed, edited, and published over 14,000 videos to help small businesses and Realtors build their brands and get more leads.
Three months of content, in just a few hours of time, every third month. It doesn’t get easier than that.
Useful Not Famous
Everything we know about entrepreneurship
Useful Not Famous is the podcast for people who care more about profit than ego. We’re on a mission to become the most useful people you know.
Hey Elmhurst!
Your guide to all things Elmhurst, IL
After focusing on hyperlocal video marketing for our clients, we decided it was time to create a local platform of our own! Love where you live.
Hiveway
DIY hyperlocal video marketing
After ideating, shooting, editing, and posting over 14,000 hyperlocal videos for our Top Bananas, we’ve learned a thing or two. Hiveway is the suite of tools we’ve created for those small businesses who may not have the budget to be a Top Banana, but are ready to level-up their local marketing.
Podcasts
I host podcasts about entrepreneurship and art.
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Art
You, Me, & Banana
Release Date: April 2, 2025
“You, Me, & Banana” is an animated short film that finds Jeff and Amara shopping when a sudden slip on a banana peel brings them crashing together. Sometimes finding love requires a little push from an unexpected source.
Director:
Amara Andrew
Writer:
Amara Andrew
The Spoopies
Release Date: October 2, 2022
The Spoopies are an NFT collection of 999 hand-drawn characters inspired by animation from the 1920s and early 1930s. The Spoopies inhabit Candy Corn City, a city filled with candy corn, witches, skeletons, pumpkins, black cats, and ghosts. Be warned, though, some of them are quite mischievous.
The Dours
Release Date: January 23, 2022
Misfits. Weirdos. The unfortunate. These are The Dours.The Dours are a group of outsiders who haven’t quite figured things out yet. They exist on the fringes of society, but that’s honestly where they thrive best. Inspired by Edward Gorey’s classic book “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” some of our Dours are met with some rather unfortunate obstacles in their regular daily life.
Amara’s Odds & Ends
Release Date: October 1, 2022
After 444 sales and all 5 star reviews, my Etsy shop is on break. But you can find it here!