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The Worst Marketing Advice & How To Make Faceless Videos

Mark Thompson
4 min readJul 26, 2024

3 Marketing Tips You Shouldn’t Follow.

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It’s Friday, and the Olympics start today (although I’ve been watching them since Wednesday. They lied to you!..blah blah blah, flat earth, chemtrails). And I feel like having some fun.

So here are 3 of the worst pieces of marketing advice brought to you by my alter ego, Sam.

Ignore him and do the opposite, and you’ll be fine.

I’ll also tell you below how I created these faceless videos. Embarrassingly, they are my best-performing videos!

How To Create Faceless Videos

Step one is to either use video and voiceovers or get a spokesperson.

I chose the latter, so I bought a series of cartoon characters. Here are 3 of them. The green backgrounds allow me to remove them using a chroma key filter in my video editing software. (ScreenFlow)

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Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson

Written by Mark Thompson

Veteran Content Marketer, Keeping it Simple and Sharing What Works in my regular newsletter: https://substack.com/@simpleisprofit

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