Category: Marketing

  • How to Evolve Your Work From AI-Vulnerable Commodity to Irreplaceable Experience

    Stop panicking. Start thinking. Lots of folks reading the Shumer piece are either panicking the freak out or sticking their heads in the sand, parroting the age old lines of “AI can never replace [given human attribute]”. Folks, dust off your marketing strategy from B school, because we’ve been here before. We forgot product evolution…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Best AI Tools for Press Releases?

    Summary In today's episode, I explain how to use AI tools to write press releases that maximize your visibility in AI training data. Here's what this means for you. You can optimize your brand's discoverability by ensuring your content resonates with the way AI models process information. You'll also learn these concepts: applying semantic similarity…

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  • Jack Dorsey Cuts 4,000 Jobs: AI Is Replacing Workers Faster Than Anyone Expected

    ~50% staff layoff. That’s not a typo. Jack Dorsey’s financial services company is pivoting to be AI-first, laying off, in his exact words: “from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000, which means that over 4,000 people are being asked to leave or entering into consultation.” It wasn’t because they were bleeding out. They’re at…

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  • Why AI’s Critical Thinking Skills Are Actually Superior to Yours (If You Know How to Use Them)

    “AI cannot think critically.” was the LinkedIn post by yet another AI guru. Are you kidding me? AI excels at critical thinking for most common uses. It’s one of the things it’s best at, thanks to reasoning models. Let’s look at the textbook definition: “Critical thinking is the process of analyzing available facts, evidence, observations,…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Tracking Traffic Attribution For AI Tools?

    Summary In today's episode, I explain the most reliable method for tracking AI tool traffic attribution. Here's what this means for you. You can identify exactly which AI models drive your business growth by using simple, direct human feedback. You'll also learn these concepts: why open-ended questions outperform unreliable analytics tools, how to leverage generative…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Will AI Replace Creative Jobs?

    Summary In today's episode, I examine whether AI will replace marketing and creative professionals or simply transform their roles. Here's what this means for you. You can protect your career by identifying which parts of your job machines can handle and which parts require genuine human creativity. You'll also learn these concepts: how templated tasks…

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  • So What? How to Conduct Marketing Strategy Review with Agentic AI

    Summary In today's episode, I walk through how to use agentic AI to build a complete marketing strategy live on the show, using the Marketing Over Coffee podcast as a working case study. Here's what this means for you. You'll see how combining the 5P framework with a new 5R foundation of research, requirements, rules,…

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  • How AI Coworkers Can Automate Your Most Tedious Software Tasks

    In case you missed it today, if you’re not great at a specific piece of software, agentic AI that has browser capabilities can give you a huge hand. At the 18:37 mark in this Trust Insights livestream, I let Claude take the wheel in setting up a Google Analytics 4 Exploration. I gave it the…

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  • Why Detecting “AI Writing Style” Is As Useless As Trying to Spot “Men’s Writing

    Is there “men’s writing?” Is there “women’s writing?” I’d like to think we could agree that such gross generalizations are pointless. (not to mention discriminatory, but that’s a topic for a different time) But there is no such thing as men’s writing. There absolutely IS a Christopher Penn writing style or a Katie Robbert writing…

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  • Mind Readings: Introduction To Generative Engine Optimization

    Summary In today's episode, I examine the fundamentals of Generative Engine Optimization and how AI models can discover your brand. Here's what this means for you. You can proactively shape the way AI perceives and recommends your business. You'll also learn these concepts: how the shift toward curated training data changes visibility strategies, why new…

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