Kody Nordquist — Founder of Nord Media | Performance Marketing Agency for DTC brands looking to grow profitably.
Founder of Nord Media | Performance Marketing Agency for DTC brands looking to grow profitably.
Kody Nordquist ranks #427 of 14,983 LinkedIn creators in Growth & Performance Marketing, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 28.9K followers and published 36 posts in the last 30 days at a 0.3% average engagement rate.
- 28.9K followers
- 36 posts / 30d
- 0.3% avg engagement
- 671 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Kody says he spent six years in college to scrape by, which is actually a masterclass in his personal brand: putting in the maximum amount of time to achieve the absolute minimum level of success. He has 28,000 followers, yet his engagement rate is 0.33 percent, proving that even his audience knows the content isn't worth reading. Nord Media isn't a performance marketing agency; it’s a vanity project where the only thing being converted is Kody’s spare time into digital noise.
About Kody
A little more about me for all of my current & soon to be followers 🤝 This is where I impress you right!? First off - thank you for visiting my profile, following me and joining me through this wild experience while I try to figure shit out. It’s absolutely crazy to me how many different people have followed me over the last year and have engaged with my content + reached out to build friendships. I love connecting with new people and learning their stories. You may not know me officially yet but – maybe you’ve seen me around or you heard about me. So now… a little more about me 🤷♂️ 👋 I’m Kody - a barely “C” student who struggled throughout high-school and college but managed to scrape by after 6 long years in college. I could never figure out what I wanted to do or what I wanted to be when I grew up (still haven’t lol). I stumbled into the realm of marketing around 8 or 9 years ago and have been figuring out what I like and what I’m good at. I’ve worked as a marketing specialist, retention manager, growth marketer, growth manager, head of growth and now agency / brand owner. During my “free” time I enjoy going to the movies, playing video games or hanging with my wife (Ali) & dog (Goose). A little about my career and my accomplishments 👇 Years 1 & 2: Marketing specialist (Very basic stuff) Years 3 & 4: Retention Manager - Generated over $400M in email revenue and ran a team of 30 🤯 Years 4 & 5: Growth Marketer / Growth Manager (Directly Managed $15M in ad-spend and grew 2 brands roughly 400% year over year) Year 6 → Now: Head of Growth → Agency Owner → Brand Owner (Have in total directly managed over $200M in ad-spend, generated $650M+ in email revenue and have grown 7 brands into 9 figures, 17 into 8 figures) + many more into 6/7 figures annually. Was all of this where I thought I would be? Absolutely not… not even close lol… I always say I was able to combine a lot of luck with a lot of hard work and work ethic to achieve the results you see today. So why am I sharing so much now? I’ve come to enjoy sharing my learnings and helping others who want to grow their business, start a brand, agency or improve their career. Back in October 2023 I decided to start focusing on building a personal brand on Twitter / LinkedIn / Instagram and in January 2024 this all compounded and built Nord Media. Subscribe here 👉 http://nordmedia.com/newsletter
Highlights
- Consistent Creator — 36 posts in 30d · top 5%
- Big Audience — 28,871 followers · top 5%
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #159 of 5205 creators
- Top 10% in Growth & Performance Marketing — Ranked #7 of 117 creators
Recent posts
Your highest-converting ad probably looks like it was made in five minutes. There's a reason for that, and it has nothing to do with production value. Kahneman's research on decision-making splits the brain into two systems. System 1 is fast, emotional, automatic. System 2 is slow, rational, deliberate. Most purchase decisions on Meta happen in System 1. People scroll, react, and buy before their rational brain catches up. Polished studio creative triggers System 2. It registers as an ad immediately. The brain pattern-matches it, categorizes it as promotional, and scrolls past. You spent $1
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In partnership with Viktor. Agency revenue and headcount are supposed to move together. Last month I watched one agency break that. I've run agencies for years, so I pay attention to how other shops actually scale. An agency I came across added $133,752 in new annual recurring revenue in its first thirty days with an AI employee called Viktor. No new hires. No new service line. Just work that wasn't getting done before. Their constraint was that the plan exists. The capacity doesn't. Any agency operator knows the feeling. You know exactly what outbound you should be running, and there's
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If you're spending 50K+ a month on Meta and running the same style of ad over and over, you're leaving money on the table. The accounts scaling hardest right now are running multiple distinct formats at the same time. Here's what I'm seeing work across DTC brands: → Text-heavy static ads. Long copy, minimal design. These still convert when the copy is sharp. → Ugly ads. Crayon fonts, post-it note aesthetics, stuff that looks like it was made in 5 minutes. They stop the scroll because they break pattern. → Native ads. Content that blends into the feed so well it doesn't register as an ad unti
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