Month: October 2025

  • AI Won’t Show Your Business If You Hide Your Pricing—Here’s Why

    This is a gentle reminder to everyone who has a commercial website without pricing on it. When someone asks ChatGPT/Gemini/AI the following: “Hey ChatGPT, I’m looking to hire a new PR agency. I’m specifically looking to get in with influencers, Substacks, and local press/trade press. Of these, Substacks are my highest priority so the agency…

    Continue reading →

  • So What? Data Horror Stories!

    Summary In today's episode, I walk through eight real-world data horror stories from marketers and map each one to the Six C's Data Quality Framework (clean, complete, comprehensive, calculable, chosen, and credible). Here's what this means for you. You walk away with a horror-story-tested approach to spotting data quality failures plus a workflow that audits…

    Continue reading →

  • How AI Supercharges Creativity Instead of Killing It

    “AI is destroying creativity.” Then it was never there to begin with. Truly creative people NEED to create. They need to make things. They have ideas that are burning inside to get out. AI doesn’t suppress that. If anything, AI enables that. When I look at my work and play over the last 2 years,…

    Continue reading →

  • Why Marketers Are Getting Kicked Off Reddit (And How to Survive)

    I feel a tiny bit sorry for all the marketers rushing to join and participate on Reddit after hearing lots of pundits say Reddit is where AI gets its answers. There’s a reason for that. It can be an exceptionally unforgiving place, especially if you are a marketer and your intent is obvious. Reddit tends…

    Continue reading →

  • You Ask, I Answer: Is Chat History A Fatal Flaw?

    Summary In today's episode, I explain how generative AI uses chat history to build context. Here's what this means for you. You can improve your results and maintain speed by managing your chat history properly. You'll also learn these concepts: how the context window functions, why conflicting instructions cause errors, and why you must use…

    Continue reading →

  • How to Know Your True AI Skill Level—And Why Labels Like “Beginner” or “Advanced” Are Misleading

    At several events I’ve spoken at recently, I’ve been told by people that they feel they’re beginning, intermediate, or advanced in AI. Yet once the session starts, and we start digging in, it becomes abundantly clear that those labels are meaningless. One person’s advanced is another person’s basic. This is especially challenging for those of…

    Continue reading →

  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Use AI Note Takers Safely?

    Summary In today's episode, I examine the security implications and best practices for using AI note-takers in professional meetings. Here's what this means for you. You can protect sensitive information and maintain compliance by understanding the risks of cloud-based AI tools. You'll also learn these concepts: how regulatory and client requirements dictate tool usage, why…

    Continue reading →

  • How Specificity Increases AI Hallucinations – And How to Stop It

    The more specific a piece of data, the less useful it is in forecasting. This is a maxim of predictive analytics. Predicting audience behaviors based on the year they were born is useful. Predicting audience behaviors based on individuals’ exact birthdays is not useful. Which is why, in OpenAI’s newest paper on hallucination in generative…

    Continue reading →

  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Prioritize AI Use Cases?

    Summary In today's episode, I explain how to prioritize AI use cases by focusing on revenue-generating activities. Here's what this means for you. You can secure stakeholder approval and funding more easily by demonstrating direct financial impact. You'll also learn these concepts: why revenue-focused tasks beat simple optimization, how to use a two-by-two grid for…

    Continue reading →

  • Almost Timely News: 🗞️ Why Deep Fakes Are So Dangerous (2025-10-26)

    Almost Timely News: 🗞️ Why Deep Fakes Are So Dangerous (2025-10-26) :: View in Browser The Big Plug 👉 Watch my MAICON 2025 session, From Text to Video in Seconds, a session on AI video generation! Content Authenticity Statement 95% of this week’s newsletter was generated by me, the human. You will see bountiful AI…

    Continue reading →