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Why Old-School Marketing Still Wins in the Age of AI

Happy Anniversary to Me! It's been 10 years since I released my third book, The Bacon System: Sizzlin' Hot Recipes That Grow Your Business, and I got the idea to explore if the concepts are still relevant today, especially with the AI world we are quickly evolving into. I can tell you that over the…

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In a Data-Driven World…

Let me start with a pet peeve! I find the phrase “In a World…” like nails on a chalkboard. “In a world…” lines come from classic movie-trailer style voiceovers, popularized by Don LaFontaine, and they’ve become a meme format for over‑dramatic, often funny setups. In marketing and advertising, it is so overused… In a world…

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Is It Time to Rebuild Your Website?

During conversations with clients, contemporaries, and coworkers, there is often a lean towards getting attention, found, and remembered. What I often find missing is the “what happens next?” They are not wrong. Most websites are like trees in a forest. “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it,…

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Let Your Audience Connect Where They WANT to Communicate

People are so focused on what AI is doing to marketing that they often miss advances in communications technology. Live Translation lets your AirPods listen to someone speaking, sends the audio to your iPhone for on‑device AI translation, then plays the translated speech back in your chosen language. You can also talk in your own…

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Why Adding Content… Makes Your Ads Content

The English language is hard and convoluted. Words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently are called heteronyms. English has hundreds of these! The farm was used to produce produce I read what I read yesterday The bandage was wound around the wound I use AI in my business as a tool. It helps me research while…

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Are You Selling the Sizzle or the Meal?

I am such a geek that my Weber Grill has Bluetooth. I have an app that connects to it and monitors the temperature, showing you the cooking time. There is also a wired probe that you insert into a steak or chicken to monitor the internal temperature and determine when to turn the food. I…

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