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Keep Your Friends Close… and Your Customers Closer!

An old saying goes: “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!” It means you should value your friendships and stay in touch regularly. The “enemies” part means paying even closer attention to people who may be trying to undermine you. Keeping them close helps you understand their motives and actions, so they can’t take…

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Even AI Says… The Best Marketing Starts with Talking to People

Call me ‘Captain Obvious,’ but I have always been a people person, which is why I believe marketing begins and ends with people. Yet, unless you are living under a rock, you’re being inundated with ‘experts’ and ads for AI tools that are encouraging you to allow AI agents to handle everything from writing, producing,…

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The Biggest Challenges B2b Businesses Face with Internet Marketing in 2026

Every once in a while, I find it helpful to reach out to a variety of people, connect, and get their take on the pulse of life, business, and whatever is on their mind. I had such a meeting this week with an industrial designer I befriended in Australia named Phillepe. We were discussing trends…

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Content Curation vs Content Distillation

I have always been a lifelong learner. I do most of my research through audiobooks and podcasts, but I also use Perplexity AI. They have a curated news feature that keeps me up to date daily on trends in tech and AI. I have also shared that I listen to The Verge, Pivot, and other…

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The Top 3 Challenges & Opportunities that B2b Companies Face Today!

Noise Pollution and Running with the Bulls All the best traditional marketing tools and techniques are getting drowned out by AI noise pollution. Smaller and some mid-sized companies are producing more AI content and automating their posting to social media and video platforms. Although some action is being taken to call out or diminish AI…

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The Physics of Marketing

At the risk of becoming a broken record, marketing your small- to mid-sized business is not getting easier. It feels like the harder we push, the more resistance we feel. The Verge reports that Claude is now touting “AI Watermarking”. Anthropic is planning to add invisible, machine-readable watermarks to Claude-generated text and include provenance metadata…

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