Justin Oberman

Freelance Creative Director

Brand Response Copywriter, Creative Director - I can talk like a direct marketer ✓ and create brand awareness ✓ at the same time. 🤯 DM me to learn how. | Advertising | Branding | Strategy |

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Hi. 

My name is Justin Oberman. 

I am a copywriter and creative director who started an advertising agency in 2020 during the pandemic and quietly grew it to 7 figures using nothing but organic LinkedIn posting and word of mouth.

Then, in 2023, I burned out.

So, I closed my agency.

But before I did that, I had a stark realization. 

Besides the influx of business, my following on LinkedIn had grown to over 30k. 

I also realized that most of the people and brands that hired me did so because they liked my Linkedin posts. 

They liked the way I thought. 

I did this without taking classes from the gurus, paying attention to my metrics, or writing for the algorithm.

I figured, if I could do it for me, I could probably do it for other people as well.

So, I started offering ghostwriting services to high-level ad executives and solopreneurs in early 2023.

And the results were pretty phenomenal.

In just 6 months, I grew from zero clients to over 15

Since that day, I’ve taken my unconventional approach to branding and advertising and applied it to ghostwriting and managing the personal brands of several high-profile executives, founders, business owners, and solopreneurs (but I can’t tell you who).

My Mission is to help people and brands write things worth reading and do things worth writing about.

Here are all the ways you can work with me:

PERSONAL PUBLICITY MANAGEMENT 

Need help building and managing your personal brand? Let the world's only full-service ad agency (but for people) do it for you. 

→ GO HERE: https://www.obermanpartners.com/

ADVERTISING & COPYWRITING

Need help creating an ad campaign or with a marketing project? Let me put together a team for you. 

→ DM me

HIBACHI COPY

Just need copywriting help? Me, you (and whoever you think should be in there as well). Two days. All the copy you need. Done. 

→ GO HERE: www.hibachicopy.com

Email: justin@justinoberman.com
X: @obercr8ive

Creative Director / Copywriter

Oberman & Partners is a creative consultancy for brands and agencies that still believe in the magic of advertising. 

Known as the guy that brands and agencies call when they’re stuck or need a little extra creative juice, OBERMAN diagnoses the problem and (if necessary) puts together a unique team of PARTNERS (freelancers or other agencies) to solve them.

“Just wanted to say I really love your emails. The orange email had me hooked from the start to the finish. I don’t think any email has done that for me in literally years. Well done.”

Someone just DMd me that. So I figured I’d share it with all of you. 

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Copywriter, Ghostwriter, Personal & Corporate Brand Advisor, Manager & Impresario. | I help people and brands write things worth reading and do things worth writing about. | I also teach how to write like a human with AI

Everyone says they want to ‘understand’ the LinkedIn algorithm.

But the algorithm has no interest in understanding you.

It’s only interested in the humans that are interested in you.

So here’s how to talk to the algorithm without talking to the algorithm:

You don’t.

You talk to the people the algorithm is eavesdropping on.

• Make them laugh
• Make them stop
• Make them DM you
• Make them feel something
• Make them remember you

Humans create attention. 

Algorithms only amplify it.

Learn to talk to the humans, and the algorithm has no choice but to follow.

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The best hook I ever wrote made me feel stupid for writing it.

"Most people don't read past the first line."

That was it. Not clever at all.

I almost deleted it.

And I'm glad I didn't because when I hit publish, it outperformed everything I'd written that month.

Because here's the thing about clever hooks:

They make people work.

When something is clever people need to decode what you mean or are trying to say.

And, on social media, the moment people need to think too hard, they scroll.

But obvious hooks work differently because they say just enough of what people are already thinking to grab their attention.

The thing that's so true it feels risky to say. 

The thing that makes someone stop and think "wait, did they just read my mind?"

Good hooks, like good headlines, are not about cleverness.

They may seem clever after the fact, but what they really are is just true and relatable.

And truth is faster than cleverness.

Want to put this into action? 

Do this:

If writing your hook makes you feel smart, delete it.

If it makes you feel like you're stating the obvious, then you're getting close.

The hooks that work the best don't sound like a writer wrote them.

And the best place to find hooks is six to eight lines down (in a long post).  

That's where I found "Most people don't read past the first line."

That's also where I found "The best hook I ever wrote made me feel stupid for writing it."

That's because most people bury the lead, and most people don't get to the point until 6-8 lines down.

Want the exact patterns I use to write hooks that stop people mid-scroll?

Join me today at 12PM PST in my Free January Masterclass. 

Link in comments.

The algorithm left dishes in the sink again.

The same skills that make you a good performance copywriter will destroy your LinkedIn posts.

If you're a copywriter (especially a copywriter who learned the craft over the past 10-15 years of performance marketing domination), then you've spent 10 years learning to write copy that converts. Which is great for ads, or advitorials and the like.

But on LinkedIn (or any social media), those skills are working against you.

Because, despite what the gurus tell you, organic social is not a direct response or performance medium. It's a brand awareness medium.

I know a lot of people will disagree with me on this. If you are one of them, go ahead, fight me on this. But first, answer me this:

If it's not a brand awareness platform, then why are you using it to build a personal brand?

Anyway, that's not what I wanted to write about. 

What I wanted to write about was how copywriters should grow their personal brand on LinkedIn, because it works a little bit differently than it does for most people.

And part of the problem is that, as a copywriter, client work teaches you to disappear.

To be a good copywriter, you need to either create someone else's brand voice or learn how to write in it.

Like a method actor, you've trained yourself to become the other person or brand or whatever and ignore anything that's personal to you. 

What you think is irrelevant unless you are thinking like them.

So when you sit down to write your LinkedIn posts, you, quite naturally, think to yourself... 

How do I write a good LinkedIn post? 

And chances are, you land where most people land.

You think you need to make everything sound professional. 

And I get it. 

LinkedIn is a business platform. 

 But it's also a social media platform. And just like any other social media platform, it doesn't reward "professional."

It rewards personally.

That's why someone with zero copywriting ability who writes something like "I don't know what I'm doing" with a picture of them surrounded by 3 cats can crush your well-thought-out AIDA posts.

Believe it or not, people don't come to LinkedIn to be sold to.

They come here to discover, follow, or find.

They come to discover opportunities.

They come to follow trends and updates.

They come to find work or clients.

But they don't come to LinkedIn to get any of those. 

They come to get them from people. 

From human beings.  

The best copywriters on here don't try and pretend they are something they are not. 

They don't try to be the world's most versatile copywriter. 

They write their posts in their own style. 

And the people who hire them hire them because of that style. 

So that's my advice to copywriters trying tio build their personal brand on here. 

Your writing is your work.  

Your writing style is your personal brand. 

And the people who hire you because they like both are the best and easiest clients to work with.

Goldzone Group

Goldzone Group was founded in 2000 with a simple belief: Business can be the most powerful force for human transformation.

What began in Hong Kong with a single company, Lighthouse Education Corporation, has evolved into a group of 16 privately held companies spanning healthcare, technology, professional services, publishing, education, consulting, and investment advisory.

Over the past two decades, we’ve developed a comprehensive body of intellectual property, frameworks, and immersive learning experiences for high-performing individuals, visionary founders, and fast-growing companies.

Our work is built on a core philosophy:

Every organization is a reflection of its leadership.
To grow a business, you must evolve the people who run it.

That’s why we created GOLDZONE: a transformational leadership and lifestyle curriculum designed to help leaders grow without losing themselves in the process. Our focus is on sustainable success, grounded in clarity, integrity, and whole-system thinking.

We work with clients who want more than profit.
They want to lead with purpose, build with vision, and create impact that lasts.

Goldzone Group companies are privately funded, system-driven, and values-aligned. 

We believe in:
→ Leading with purpose and clarity
→ Building businesses that scale without losing soul
→ Designing systems that evolve people as well as profits
→ Creating win/win/win outcomes... for all stakeholders, including the planet

We’re not here to play the old game better.
We’re here to build a new one.

Co-Founder

Chairman

Goldzone Leadership Center

CEO Coach & Mentor

Goldzone Ventures

Let’s fuel the engines of growth and innovation to make the world a better place!

Private Equity Fund and Investment Advisory focused on high-growth projects managed by conscious leaders and employing capital to provide optimum returns for all stakeholders.

→ Early and Expansion Stages.
→ Debt & Equity.

I established this company to manage our personal investment portfolio and Founders Fund. We deliver advisory/consulting services to support CEOs and Founders in structuring their companies, financial planning, writing business plans, conducting presentations, managing stakeholder relationships, and business development.

Fund Manager

Director of Business Advisory

Goldzone Education

As co-founder and executive producer, I lead the team designing seminars and educational events, creating multimedia and total immersion environments, producing videos and presentations, planning publications, and writing articles and white papers.

The research for this company began in 1988 when I attended my first professional sales development training seminar. I was hooked on learning and began participating in as many workshops as possible. 

I found that the more I learned, the better my professional results. 

After reading over 1,000 personal and professional development books and participating in 71 seminars ranging from a few hours to 12 months, I formed my ideas about education, consulting, coaching, and life. 

I concluded that the essential aspect of life was Personal Leadership. Leadership became the focus of my research and development.

I started this company to organize our intellectual property, to create manuals, systems, and educational technologies that allow more information to be transferred in less time – with a higher retention rate, to publish and license our intellectual property.

To date, the company owns about 300 articles, bulletins, and white papers, created proprietary Zone Teaching Technologies™, Zone Learning Technologies™, the Optima Zones of Life and Business®, Renaissance for Leaders® BLOG, Optima Seminars®, Optima Coaching®, as well as intellectual property rights to 97 seminars, training programs, certification programs, and services ranging from 4 hours to 12 months in duration.

Publisher & Content Creator

Orozon

We develop Healthtech, Welltech, and Fintech applications that integrate
emotional and artificial intelligence.

Chief Software Architect

Goldzone Foundation

Every Goldzone Group company vests 5% of their annual profits.

Director of Philanthropy

Goldzone Wellness Center

Director of Research Development

Zone d’Or

We built an awesome in-house design team, then established a separate business. Our love of Paris and all things creative and aesthetic led to choosing Zone D’Or as our name, which means Goldzone in French!

Zone D’Or became a full service boutique design and marketing company specializing in brand development, graphics design, interior design, product design and software user interface design.

At Zone d’Or we believe that great design is not good enough. Design should be alive, captivating and aesthetically elevating spiritually.

Excellerated Business Schools

Founded in 1978, the Excellerated Business Schools is an international organization with customers and graduates from more than 26 countries.  Educational programs focus on teaching the generalized principles of Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller, socially conscious entrepreneurship, business, and investing.

The most notable program is the week-long, condensed "Excellerated Business School for Entrepreneurs," which teaches: accounting, finance, sales, marketing, negotiation, raising capital, strategic planning, and attracting and retaining the best talent.

The organization disbanded in 1994 when the partners split assets and went their separate ways.  I joined one of the original partners as a shareholder and CEO to reinvent the business, revitalize the curriculum and transform the sales/marketing.  We resumed delivery of programs and services in 1996.

Under my leadership, the organization expanded throughout the Asia Pacific, including translating the core curriculum into Chinese, training partners, program instructors, and launching programs in China.

I left in 2001 to start a new organization focused on business and personal leadership.

Excellerated Marketing International

Under my leadership, the company produced over 100 business and financial development seminars in 12 countries, growing into a multi-million dollar multinational in its first eight months. In 1998 a team of 3 employees bought the business.

Managing Director

I’ve spent the last 30 years building companies, licensing IP, raising capital, creating systems… and making mistakes.

Some businesses scaled too fast. Some partnerships blew up. I hired wrong, trusted too easily, ignored my instincts, and nearly burned out trying to hold it all together.

Each mistake became a lesson.
Each success revealed another layer of the game.

Eventually, I saw the pattern:
Every business is a reflection of its leader.
The bottleneck isn’t the market... It’s the mindset, maturity, and the invisible beliefs of the founder.

That changed everything.

I stopped chasing the next deal and started designing companies to scale without me.
I began building systems that grew people, not just profits.

And I committed to making business a platform for transformation... for me, my team, and those we serve.

Since then, I’ve founded 20+ companies, created and licensed $39M+ in IP, produced 700+ events for audiences up to 5,000, and raised $30M in capital while retaining full control.

But what matters more:
I’ve built a life I’m proud of.
A business that runs on principles, not personality.
A marriage that’s a real partnership.
And a curriculum: GOLDZONE, designed to help leaders build success that aligns with who they truly are.

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What I Believe:

→ Structure drives behavior. Change the system, not just the outcome.
→ Integrity is a lifestyle. Truth and trust win in the long term.
→ Leadership energy sets the tone. Culture is contagious.
→ You don’t fix people... you design environments that evolve them.
→ Mistakes are data. Feedback is a feature.
→ Your business should work without you. If you’re the machine, it’s not scalable.
→ Value leads, money follows. Service drives results.
→ Distinctions shift paradigms. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
→ The best deals are win/win/win... for you, them, and the greater whole.

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What Makes Me Different:

→ I use frameworks to make the invisible visible
→ I’ve built, broken, and rebuilt... at scale
→ I’ve done the inner work (30+ years of it)
→ I transfer knowledge fast... nothing held back
→ I design for leverage, duplication, and freedom
→ I don’t do hype, hustle, or shortcuts

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Quick Facts:

→ Married to @victoriadiorwang
→ Father of 3 daughters
→ New Zealand-born, Australian, Singapore PR 🇸🇬
→ $1B+ client/partner revenue growth
→ 20 companies founded
→ $39M in licensed IP
→ $30M raised... kept control

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Who I Work With:

Most of my work is through public programs, immersive events, and advisory engagements with leaders who are ready to go deep.

DM me - let's connect!

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