Office Hours: B2B Storytelling: How to Make Your Brand Their Favorite
“What’s the best Disney movie of all time?” Before you answer — you’re already proving the point. In this episode of SparkToro Office Hours…
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If Search Captures Demand, Public Evidence Creates It
Note: If you prefer audio, you can listen to a slightly-less polished version of this blog post on my show, the Zero Click Marketing…
Office Hours: How to Write Influence-Driven Marketing Messaging
“Where we’re going, we don’t need… roads.” Slip on your self-lacing Nike Mags, and buckle up in the DeLorean. We’re going back to 2021…
Why LinkedIn Might Have Two Algorithms — and Why Marketers Should Care
We marketers talk about the LinkedIn algorithm as though it’s a single behemoth. But a recent analysis from Christopher Penn suggests the platform may…
Office Hours: Who Will Amplify This and Why?
There’s an expression about the cobbler’s children not having shoes. We’re kind of like that. We are the cobblers AND the children, and we…
Best Practices Are Meaningless Without Audience Research
There isn’t actually anything “wrong” with best practices. Best practices are general guidelines for what to do in order to ensure a general baseline…
Why Everyone Prompts AI Differently (Even When They Want the Same Thing)
Recently, I ran a tiny experiment. I asked eight mom friends — people very similar to me socioeconomically and with kids around the same…
Vibes Meet Facts: Write Like the Smart Human You Are, Not the LLM Making Stuff Up Again
If you were to perceive the world based on a skim of my Threads feed this morning, then you would be convinced that absolutely…
The 5 Big Trends that Will Dominate Marketing in 2026
I find most end-of-year prediction and crystal ball-gazing listicles to be trash. They don’t prove their assertions, use anecdotes rather than data at scale…
Our Top 5 Blog Posts in 2025 to Help You With Your Marketing in 2026
Raise your hand if you remember these roundup posts! No? That’s just me? I was the only one paying attention to these in 2008?…