Category: Strategy

  • Are You Using the Dumbest AI Model Without Realizing It?

    Chances are, you’re accidentally using dumb AI. Spoiler: if you’re not actively making model choices in the AI tools you use, you’re probably inadvertently using dumb AI models. Broadly, there are two classes of large language models – reasoning and non-reasoning. Reasoning models are models like GPT-5-Thinking and Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4.5…

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  • How Specificity Increases AI Hallucinations โ€“ 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…

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  • 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…

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  • How to Scale Your Business with a 3-Tier Pricing Strategy

    How good is your product market fit? Do you have service options for every tier of customer? As the economy grows more uncertain and forecasting the quarter or year ahead becomes more difficult, one of the simplest bulwarks against revenue uncertainty is making sure you have products or services that fit every budget level. If…

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  • Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing and How to Fix It

    Almost every AI course is the same, conceptually. Here’s how to prompt. Here’s how to set up this or that. Here’s how to do this thing. These are the cooking equivalents of how to use a blender. How to cook a dish. How to write a menu item. They’re good. They’re important. They’re foundation skills.…

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  • Is Your Company Profiting From Cuts or Growing Through Innovation?

    “Consumer spending isnโ€™t driving company profits as much as reducing expenses and improving efficiency. That could be a problem.” writes the Wall Street Journal about this season’s earnings reports. Gee, you think? Anyone who’s spent more than a week in an Econ 101 class learned that you cannot cut your way to growth, and “lean…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Use AI With Analytics?

    Summary In today's episode, I explain how to integrate generative AI with various analytics tools beyond Google Analytics. Here's what this means for you. You can harness the power of any data source with an API to automate your insights and decision-making. You'll also learn these concepts: why generative AI struggles with direct math, how…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Best AI Agents For Marketing?

    Summary In today's episode, I explain why the best marketing agents are the ones you build personally rather than those you purchase from others. Here's what this means for you. You gain a lasting strategic advantage by creating custom tools that reflect your unique business processes and data. You'll also learn these concepts: the three-level…

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  • How Using AI Made Me Embrace Open Source and Ditch Expensive Subscriptions

    The more I use AI the more open source I become Everyone’s got a service to pay for Look at the foundations. People love the lumascapes of all the companies in a space, made most famous by Scott Brinker’s MarTech landscape. But when I look at the AI specific ones, I see something different: wrappers…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Explaining Marketing AI To Stakeholders?

    Summary In today's episode, I explain how marketing leaders should communicate their AI usage to cross-functional stakeholders. Here's what this means for you. You learn to shift your focus from technological implementation to driving actual business results. You'll also learn these concepts: how to avoid AI distractions, why stakeholders prioritize revenue over tools, and how…

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