Why One-Pagers Are Dead (And What to Send Instead)
Recently I said that nobody wants your one-pager. Some of you disagreed, one of you quoted Limp Bizkit at me, a handful of your…
Marketing
Traffic Is Down; Revenue Is… Up?
It’s weird times in the digital marketing universe. For decades, traffic and sales went together like peanut butter and jelly, cacio and pepe, palak…
The Digital Watercooler is Gone
I used to log onto Twitter in the mornings and see people talking about a major brand’s latest ad campaign, skim through the latest…
Why Do We Need Zero Click Marketing?
Zero Click Marketing is now a book! You can preorder it today, and you’ll get it in the fall. You’ve heard of zero click…
The Biggest Mistake We Make When Asking: “Where Are My Customers?”
It’s January, and that means many marketers are tasked with a project to identify new channels and sources of influence for new potential investments.…
Whoa. 5 New Data Features in SparkToro in 100 Days.
If you blinked in the past four months, you probably missed at least one major SparkToro release. And that’s a shame, because every single…
New Research: We analyzed 332 million queries over 21 months to uncover never-before-published data on how people use Google
Google is a massive presence on the modern web. They’ve held 90%+ of the global search market share for 15 years. Even the rise…
If your audience’s sources of influence and your marketing budget don’t align, you’re gonna have a bad time
Yes, this is a rant. It’s a rant about where leadership teams allocate their marketing budget vs. where their potential customers actually pay attention.…
How Can My Brand Appear in Answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Other AI/LLM Tools?
It’s no surprise that marketers, founders, and business owners are starting to ask how their brands can be returned in the answers given by…
Stop Making Your Team Own Tasks. Let Them Own Programs Instead.
In a given week, I would write product descriptions, digital ad copy, pithy social media posts, a couple blog posts, and the abandoned cart…