Magpie Marketing, LLC

08/26/2026

Whether you choose to use AI is your business— but if you want to be a creative thinker who is always ready for a challenge… you should be reading.

The research is abundant (no really—take two minutes to type this into a search engine and read article after article, study after study, on how reading improves almost everything) and yet people still struggle with it.

I always say if you haven’t found a love for reading you haven’t read the right book for you. Reading is deeply personal. You should connect with the material, feel a part of it or like you’re witnessing it, and it should move you!

The deeper you get into the story, the more benefits you end up with. Happy reading!!

08/24/2026

🥁INTRODUCING:

Mr. Porbeagle III 🖨️

He is a lover not a fighter despite testing my patience DAILY. Tell me a better name RIGHT NOW

08/22/2026

🦝Marketing Generalist: 14 Raccoons in a human flesh trench-coat🦝

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I don’t have an ego about what I do.

I know it’s really popular right now for graphic designers to bash on people who don’t know what they’re doing in Canva let alone adobe or some other system. But here? I’m proud of you for trying.

It doesn’t hurt my ego to watch people make weird design choices. (If you use AI know that I am sad and disappointed but we can chat about that later)

This is NOT to bash graphic designers— I know the level of detail, the intense amount of labor, the incredibly sharp eye, etc that goes into a beautiful design and yall deserve that gold star.

This IS me saying that my goal isn’t to have a fancy title, or to know more than others. It’s to highlight that not every person is a specialist, even outside the world of marketing.

I remember working at a lovely job where they had NO CLUE where to put me or what to do with me. I helped on events, some design, coordinating between teams. But I was largely not busy.

Don’t forget to utilize the people who aren’t experts. They have something a specialist doesn’t have: a broader scope of things. But also, if you want sick designs hire a graphic designer!

I’m always here for any questions, or to send my raccoons on a task for you. 💕🦝

08/21/2026

Babes!!! I’m not posting to go viral I’m doing it to show clients it’s okay to be weird on the internet. I don’t know everything! I’m a fool! A jester! A bamboozler!

Thanks for the offer, but no tankies 🫣💕😭

08/20/2026

I know I’m being silly here… but that’s kind of the entire point.

When I bag on “professionalism” I mean the 1950s suit and tie, locker room talk, “stoic”, “unemotional” ways we are taught to embody from an early age. I don’t mean you should skip important meetings or drop a project you said you would do because you’re “fun”.

Every time you have a preconceived notion of what you’re supposed to look like (hint: it’s the perfectionism that’ll leave you empty handed) an angel loses their wings. Challenge everything!

You don’t have to be whimsical or funny. You don’t have to be unemotional and straight faced. You don’t have to do or be anyone other than yourself.

I would argue that the more yourself you are, the more confident you become. The more you allow yourself to be as you are, the more likely you’ll attract the right customers. The more likely you’ll grow at a pace that works for you!

Always ALWAYS honor your own values. I can talk till I’m blue in the face, but if my beliefs don’t align with yours that’s okay, babes. I’m not for everyone. I’m for a few. I don’t need vitality. I need friendships and encouragement and beauty and art and fun and light!

Be you. Always. 💕👵

08/19/2026

THE DRAMA

But for real, my friends: you cannot be “apolitical” and a small business owner. Truly in any industry you work in, whether you’re the boss or not, you should be at least clued into local and national politics.

Voting against your best interests is a silly choice to make! Checking voting records of your reps, listening to grassroots movements, and accepting critical feedback from your customers all matters.

I yap a lot about values, and without those you can sway in the wind of politics without a thought in that brain of yours. But if you have values, you do your best to filter your decisions and take steps to honor those.

Example: If you SAY you value community, but you’ve never attended a community event, donated to your local community whether it be schools or nonprofits, hosted a community event…. Do you really value community? You can talk the talk, but ya gotta walk the walk.

Operating through the lens of your values removes the “sides” you’re taking. It’s nuanced, but it’s firm. You wouldn’t do what any politician says is right, you do what you know in your heart is right.

Apolitical is for wimps and pansies—and I see a bunch of winners and kind people on here. Do me proud.

05/27/2026

🚨New legal notification surrounding AI:

The case regarded copyright protection of “AI-created” works (Thaler v. Perlmutter, Case No. 25-449) has been labeled a victory for many and a loss for others. The Supreme Court declined to grant review, which affirmed the US Copyright Office (USCO) requirement of human authorship in order to be eligible for copyright protection.

How does this affect your business?

➡️For starters, this means that anything you use AI to “create” does not belong to you. If you have used AI to create a logo, branding, flyers—those can be used by anyone from a legal standpoint.

➡️ If you are an artist or creator, I would work on copyrighting everything you’ve made. AI will steal from you (that’s what it does, nothing it makes is original, yall) but you can begin the legal process to protect yourself with the knowledge the precedent has been set.

➡️ This is another case of many where we are seeing the limitations of Artificial Intelligence and its use in the business world. Legally, we now can make the assumption that if you use AI to hire people you could be sued and lose, as well as the loss of copyrighting anything you’ve used AI with.

💕 The good news is that if you’ve been on the fence about adopting AI, you can rest assured that waiting might be the best course of action.

We’ve heard a lot that AI is “inevitable” and we are being left behind, but the data doesn’t support this. The longer AI is used the more we will see the legality shake out the only ways we will be able to implement it safely, if at all.

*it must be stated that at Magpie Marketing LLC, we do not use artificial intelligence nor do we support it. Many of our clients use it for a variety of purposes, but we never have and never will. We are 100% hissed against AI, so please take that into consideration when making your own decisions for your business.

04/25/2026

Earth Day Cleanup happening right meow!

Come down for ten minutes or four hours and join us at the Traditions Park in Aurora, CO.

I hope to see you soon!

04/17/2026

Earth Day Cleanup is now NEXT SATURDAY, April 25th from 10:00am - 1:00pm.

Send a message to learn more

04/17/2026

🚨🌎 EARTH DAY CLEANUP POSTPONED🌎🚨

Due to this lovely spring storm, I’m making the call to push this event to next weekend!

If you haven’t already, go ahead and use the link in my bio to register! We will have snacks, water, goodie bags for kids who registered, and all the trash cleanup supplies.

EARTH DAY CLEANUP

🗓️ April 25 | Saturday
🕙 10:00am - 1:00pm
📍Traditions Park (100 S Jackson Gap Way, Aurora, CO 80018)