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I'm Cam. Marketer, creator, venture builder and newsletter writer ofThe Path 🏔️Building a portfolio career to $240k/year.

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My Background

10 years helping businesses grow and personal brands land.

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The Portfolio Career

Your life's work

The Portfolio Career is the intentional pursuit of designing a career that has more impact, leverage and earning potential as opposed to a traditional job. It's designing a career which initially involves providing value for employers or clients, but then matures through content, products, services, community and additional lines of businesses. So that you can create choice and freedom in your work.

My Previous work

T-shaped Marketing Leader

Jack of all trades, master of some. I can write copy, design websites, and execute SEO sprints one week. The next I'll be spinning up SalesOps automation, end-to-end creating a new hero video and vibe coding a mini-application.

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  • LiveDocument

    Founder and marketer

    Document sharing that pairs a video with a PDF so silent files carry context and personality.

    2026 - Present
  • The Path

    Founder and newsletter writer

    An education business and newsletter on building a portfolio career through content, products and personal brand.

    2024 - Present
  • DataBees

    Marketing lead

    Brand, demand generation and go-to-market systems for a data services company.

    2024 - 2026
  • Upscope

    Head of marketing

    SEO, website design, content and inbound pipeline for a co-browsing SaaS.

    2021 - 2024
  • Anymail Finder

    Marketer

    Growth and content marketing for an email finding tool.

    2020 - 2021
  • Freelance, Copy & Content

    Copywriter and content marketer

    Copy and content for agencies and SaaS clients.

    2019 - 2020

Digital Products

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I help SaaS companies and agencies build compelling brands, demand generation engines and create inbound attributed sales pipeline.

My work

My Newsletter

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Monetize your expertise through content, newsletter craft, digital products and brand aesthetics.

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Greetings 👋

Welcome to my little patch of internet real estate. It's the home of everything I do in my career as a marketer, venture builder and online creator.

This domain is an almanac of my journey, my thoughts, and the tools and frameworks I'm using to build a portfolio career to $250k/year.

So what is a portfolio career?

There's a new way of building a career where you can leverage your skills, expertise and passion through digital products, writing, content and personal branding to build income streams beyond your day job.

This journey of a portfolio career is what I share through my education company: The Path.

And it is the vehicle I'm using to reach my goals.

Even as a young adult, I imagined a different kind of life. One where I did work I loved, that allowed me to explore my curiosity and passion for building businesses, but meant I didn't have to sacrifice security and take potentially crippling risks.

As a father security has never been more important to me.

The Path is the practice of creating that kind of life. It's about success in a traditional career, using writing online to share your expertise and insights, building digital assets that work while you don't, and turning your skills into leverage that compounds over time allowing you to command higher salaries, earn passive income, and build your own assets.

This website records my pursuit of that vision, and I hope it helps you on that journey too.

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Blog

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Illustration titled AI should be better now
The Path13 May 20263 min read

AI should be better

Three years on from melting-eyed AI images, the technology has leapt but the taste gap has not closed. What that means if you are building a portfolio career.

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Philosophy11 May 20263 min read

The importance of needle movers

On the days you are tired, sick or hungover, productivity advice fails. Pick the two or three things that move the needle, do those, and bank the win.

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The Path7 May 202627 min read

The Economics of the Portfolio Career

The business models behind a portfolio career: the comfy number, 1000 true fans, proximity offers, flywheels, recurring versus one-off, and distribution.

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