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My Proven Ad Strategies Vs. Time‑Wasting Tactics
SocialApr 21, 2026

My Proven Ad Strategies Vs. Time‑Wasting Tactics

Ad insights… what works for me and what I find to be a waste as a full time author

By Bink Cummings
Batch and Schedule Posts with Trending Audio—Options Exist
SocialApr 21, 2026

Batch and Schedule Posts with Trending Audio—Options Exist

You can still batch and scheudle your content that requires trending audio or music... you do have options

By Amber Figlow
Revive Top Posts: Reshare, Repackage, Reach New Fans
SocialApr 21, 2026

Revive Top Posts: Reshare, Repackage, Reach New Fans

Underrated marketing move: Go back to your top 10 performing posts from the last year. Rewrite them. Reshare them. Repackage them. Your audience has grown. New people haven't seen them. The message still hits. Don't let your best work collect dust.

By Ross Simmonds
Consistent LinkedIn Posts Unlock $15K Partnership Deals
SocialApr 21, 2026

Consistent LinkedIn Posts Unlock $15K Partnership Deals

I have booked more than $15K in co-marketing and partnership content deals with AI/AEO companies since I started posting daily on LinkedIn and switched my newsletter to a weekly cadence. This was not on my bingo card for 2026, but...

By Kaleigh Moore
Stop Comparing Content to Performance; Value Your Role
SocialApr 21, 2026

Stop Comparing Content to Performance; Value Your Role

In my first marketing job, I gaslit myself into thinking that if my content marketing results weren’t keeping up with the performance team’s, my job was worthless.

By Amanda Natividad
Shift B2B Marketing: Educate, Inspire, Build Trust
SocialApr 21, 2026

Shift B2B Marketing: Educate, Inspire, Build Trust

Thank you Sean Callahan for inviting me to join my friends Andy Crestodina , Mimi Turner , Jane Bartel and Jillian Ryan in the latest feature in the ANA "B2B Marketers Face a Crossroads." My POV: Most B2B marketing is...

By Michael Brenner
Stat Roundups Generate Far More Backlinks than Thought Leadership
SocialApr 21, 2026

Stat Roundups Generate Far More Backlinks than Thought Leadership

What's the best type of content to get links? It's not thought leadership content. It's a round up of a series of stats and facts associated with niches relevant to your category & customers. A lot of people hate on stat...

By Ross Simmonds
AI Agents Replace Entire Marketing Teams—Build Yours Fast
SocialApr 21, 2026

AI Agents Replace Entire Marketing Teams—Build Yours Fast

One person running AI agents can now handle what used to take an entire marketing team. The question isn't whether this model wins. It's whether you build it before your competitors do.

By Eric Siu
One AI Character, Endless Content Across Media
SocialApr 21, 2026

One AI Character, Endless Content Across Media

Most creators still rebuild content from scratch. New prompt. New image. New workflow. But what if you could create one AI character once and generate content with it forever? Images. Videos. Campaigns. All from a single conversation. I explored this new model using @Picsart Aura. This changes how...

By Ron van Loon
AI Marketing Tools List Keeps Growing with New Additions
SocialApr 21, 2026

AI Marketing Tools List Keeps Growing with New Additions

The best list of #AI #marketing tools anywhere continues to expand: https://t.co/1MqMiJP4M3 New tools added recently include @Onlypult, @vidnoz_official, Rovo by @Atlassian , NoteGPT TTS, @buffer, Cora, @meetgranola, @eclincher, and @NaturalReaderAi.

By Tom Pick
Meta Drains Brand Budget Early with Terrible ROI
SocialApr 21, 2026

Meta Drains Brand Budget Early with Terrible ROI

Love waking up to Meta spending 60% of a brands daily budget before 7am PT. Love that it spent almost 20% from midnight to 1am. Love that the CPA was 5x our goal and time on site metrics were basically...

By David Herrmann
Team Tackles SEO, GSC Bugs, and AI Ads
SocialApr 21, 2026

Team Tackles SEO, GSC Bugs, and AI Ads

On It's New, @MordyOberstein covers @johnmu on SEO statements, I cover GSC bugs and read more best practices and @TheMarketingAnu covers the Microsoft Ads AI news - no smiling thanks to @gregfinn https://t.co/a66J6LjzNe

By Barry Schwartz
Hire Social Strategists Who Prioritize the WHY Over Trends
SocialApr 21, 2026

Hire Social Strategists Who Prioritize the WHY Over Trends

What do I look for in a social media STRATEGIST? Not trends, or ~culture~, or even content. I look for social media professionals that can explain the WHY behind their ideas. Social Media Strategy is all about coming up with strategic...

By Jack Appleby
Google Turns Search Into Task‑Based Life Navigation Platform
SocialApr 21, 2026

Google Turns Search Into Task‑Based Life Navigation Platform

Google announced new tools for Search that further transform it into a tasked-based platform for navigating modern life. https://t.co/6904wIVGxD via @martinibuster, @sejournal

By Tom Pick
Prioritize Profit per Ad over Exhaustive Data Testing
SocialApr 21, 2026

Prioritize Profit per Ad over Exhaustive Data Testing

Also think that most people are over-complicating "testing" by trying to buy data. You either are focused on performance and growth or you're focused on buying data & information. What's important to you, is it maximizing your profit and CM per ad...

By Kody Nordquist
First‑time Founders Spread Too Thin, Miss Traction
SocialApr 21, 2026

First‑time Founders Spread Too Thin, Miss Traction

Most first-time founders go wide too early. They set up ads, post on social, maybe do some cold outreach - and then wonder why nothing is sticking.

By Vinay Katiyar
OpenAI Launches AdsBot to Vet Ad Landing Pages
SocialApr 21, 2026

OpenAI Launches AdsBot to Vet Ad Landing Pages

We've got a new OpenAI crawler and it makes total sense. Meet OAI-Adsbot: From OpenAI: OAI-AdsBot is used to validate the safety of web pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT. When you submit an ad, OpenAI may visit the landing page to...

By Glenn Gabe
AI Cuts SEO Troubleshooting From Hours to Minutes
SocialApr 21, 2026

AI Cuts SEO Troubleshooting From Hours to Minutes

Old SEO vs New SEO Old SEO: Spend 3 hours analyzing why your organic traffic dropped 40%. Find nothing. New SEO: Connect your Google Search Console to Claude, get a ranked list of issues and fixes in 12 minutes according to your...

By Flavio Amiel
ChatGPT Ads Launch CPC Campaigns with $3‑5 Bids
SocialApr 21, 2026

ChatGPT Ads Launch CPC Campaigns with $3‑5 Bids

Interested in ChatGPT ads? Looks like CPC campaigns are live for some advertisers. @juokaz pinged me with some screenshots. You can select between Reach or Clicks for objective and then enter your Max CPC for the campaign. ChatGPT says to...

By Glenn Gabe
AI Overviews and Zero-Click Search Redefine SERP
SocialApr 21, 2026

AI Overviews and Zero-Click Search Redefine SERP

#AI Overviews, Zero-Click Search, and the New SERP: Key Takeaways from STAT’s 2026 Analysis [NEW POST] - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/IlliieKlqo New #GEO and #SEO research from @getSTAT . https://t.co/RKdz1POwmU

By Tom Pick
Craft Transformation Headlines: Promise Results, Relieve Pain, Stand Out
SocialApr 21, 2026

Craft Transformation Headlines: Promise Results, Relieve Pain, Stand Out

Transformation headlines do 3 things: 1. Promise a specific result 2. Acknowledge the pain point 3. Differentiate you If someone sees your pillar title and thinks "That's exactly what I need," you've nailed it. If they think "Oh, another post about Marketing," you've failed.

By Mos Clement
Google Search Console's Job Appearance Data Is Buggy
SocialApr 21, 2026

Google Search Console's Job Appearance Data Is Buggy

Google Search Console performance report for job appereance data is buggy https://t.co/3NitEYBZHY via @maxjpeters https://t.co/d0nGRKr4Ma

By Barry Schwartz
Creative Testing Beats Secret Algorithms for Scaling Success
SocialApr 21, 2026

Creative Testing Beats Secret Algorithms for Scaling Success

I've hired 20+ media buyers. Here's the pattern: The ones who talked about 'secret algorithms' and 'growth hacks' were useless. The ones who talked about 'creative testing' and 'offer construction' scaled accounts. Your guru's secret sauce is a myth. Fundamentals...

By Kamil Sattar
Scale to 20 AI‑driven Articles for Traffic
SocialApr 21, 2026

Scale to 20 AI‑driven Articles for Traffic

Watching your organic traffic drop 40% after the latest Google update because you're still doing SEO like it's 2019 while everyone else adapted their AI workflows months ago What you need to do? Compete on volume Forget about 4 articles a month Go...

By Flavio Amiel
AI Enhances SEO, Yet Human Expertise Remains Crucial
SocialApr 21, 2026

AI Enhances SEO, Yet Human Expertise Remains Crucial

I created an AI tool to improve internal linking and enhance meta titles and meta descriptions. After a few weeks, I can tell it's working nicely (we started where you see the dip in the graph around mid-march) But you have to...

By Flavio Amiel
Weak Product Pages, Not Meta, Kill D2C Conversions
SocialApr 21, 2026

Weak Product Pages, Not Meta, Kill D2C Conversions

Low ROAS ≠ Meta Ads India Problem Many D2C India founders blame the platform first. But often the leak starts after the click. Weak product pages kill conversion faster than bad ads.

By Premlata (Meta + Google Ads)
Higher Ad Spend Won’t Fix Funnel, Drops ROAS
SocialApr 21, 2026

Higher Ad Spend Won’t Fix Funnel, Drops ROAS

More Meta Ads Spend ≠ More Sales Many Indian D2C brands raise budget during festivals. Then blame ads when ROAS drops. Spend scales systems. Not broken funnels.

By Premlata (Meta + Google Ads)
Complex SEO Lets Ineffective Tactics Still Succeed
SocialApr 21, 2026

Complex SEO Lets Ineffective Tactics Still Succeed

Google's @johnmu says since SEO is so complex, you can still do a lot of SEO that does not work and still do okay https://t.co/GdDY0OVDPW https://t.co/yqJnuS4xN3

By Barry Schwartz
AI Teammates Amplify Digital Influence at Scale
SocialApr 21, 2026

AI Teammates Amplify Digital Influence at Scale

The Conversational Scale: Deploying AI Teammates for Digital Influence https://t.co/1rUhF9JADI via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #TechNews #AgenticAI #AIAgents #Agentic #AI #FutureOfWork #Strategy #Sales #Marketing https://t.co/aZmO7MJcHW

By Tim Hughes
Google’s Jan 20 Update Cracked AI‑Heavy SaaS Blogs
SocialApr 21, 2026

Google’s Jan 20 Update Cracked AI‑Heavy SaaS Blogs

The Jan 20 Google update was the most interesting update of the year for me so far (I’m still working on March Core analysis btw 🥵) Still finding new examples that all match the same patterns. A few things seemed to...

By Lily Ray
AI Traffic: From Worst Customer to Top Performer
SocialApr 20, 2026

AI Traffic: From Worst Customer to Top Performer

A Year Ago AI Traffic Was Your Worst Customer. Now It Is Your Best. https://t.co/xQGflQOMl2

By Shashi Bellamkonda
Unified Hub Links Agents to SMB Ad & Analytics Tools
SocialApr 20, 2026

Unified Hub Links Agents to SMB Ad & Analytics Tools

What is the best platform for connecting agents to the everyday systems needed by SMBs? Eg support for Google and Meta ads and analytics

By Albert Wenger
Adobe CX Enterprise: The Core of Digital Experience
SocialApr 20, 2026

Adobe CX Enterprise: The Core of Digital Experience

MyPOV: it all comes down to this? @adobe #adobesummit @adobesummit The entire Adobe CX Enterprise from @achakravarthy12 https://t.co/1slo7e0QHd

By R “Ray” Wang
Treat Budget as Daily Variable, Performance as Constant
SocialApr 20, 2026

Treat Budget as Daily Variable, Performance as Constant

Another nail in idea of daily budget controlling spend. Budget should always be a daily variable While performance is the constant That is how you want the machine to model your spend allocation. https://t.co/M5Qsc5I5sh

By Taylor Holiday
Stop Apologizing in Your Content to Keep Attention
SocialApr 20, 2026

Stop Apologizing in Your Content to Keep Attention

Stop apologizing in your content. ”Sorry I look a mess… sorry if you can hear my kids… sorry… sorry…” You are giving people a reason to scroll. They probably didn’t notice, but you just wasted 3 seconds apologizing, and you just gave...

By Amber Figlow
Design Shows for Clipability, Harvest Millions of Views
SocialApr 20, 2026

Design Shows for Clipability, Harvest Millions of Views

TBPN is a 7k-live-viewer pod that sold to OpenAI for $200M because their average clip gets 257k views. Everyone's talking about the strategy. Here's the structure: 1. Format is engineered for clippability, not the other way around 3 hours/day, live, 5 days a...

By Eric Siu
Consolidate Your Meta Ads Into One Campaign
SocialApr 20, 2026

Consolidate Your Meta Ads Into One Campaign

Meta advertisers: when was the last time you tried a fully consolidated, single campaign setup?

By Barry Hott
ZoomInfo Adds Free ChatGPT Connector with Enrichment Tools
SocialApr 20, 2026

ZoomInfo Adds Free ChatGPT Connector with Enrichment Tools

@ZoomInfo is expanding our partnership with @OpenAI with our @ChatGPTapp connector. Open to ANYONE - free sign up gets you 100 free credits. We've added Intent, Contact and Company Enrichment, Find Similar Companies, and Account Context that marries your...

By Henry Schuck
Track AI/LLM Traffic and Conversions with Looker Studio Template
SocialApr 20, 2026

Track AI/LLM Traffic and Conversions with Looker Studio Template

Time to track AI / LLM traffic and conversions. Clone this Looker Studio Template. Link -> https://t.co/nGXnF2Duut

By Flavio Amiel
Bots Account for 37% of Web Traffic, Redefine Analytics
SocialApr 20, 2026

Bots Account for 37% of Web Traffic, Redefine Analytics

Web traffic metrics increasingly hide a structural distortion. Malicious bots generate 37% of activity, so marketing analytics, ad spend and cybersecurity baselines must be recalibrated because a growing share of “users” is no longer human. Source @StatistaCharts via @antgrasso https://t.co/kfAwyiqWYw

By Antonio Grasso
Microsoft Adds IndexNow Support for Internet Archive
SocialApr 20, 2026

Microsoft Adds IndexNow Support for Internet Archive

ICYMI: Microsoft offers the Internet Archive IndexNow support to help support the site https://t.co/nFeyZ5sRRz https://t.co/Vr6VWMivxX

By Barry Schwartz
Claude Pinpoints Rank‑11‑20 Pages Ready for #1
SocialApr 20, 2026

Claude Pinpoints Rank‑11‑20 Pages Ready for #1

Upload your Google Search Console CSV to Claude with this prompt: "Identify pages ranking 11-20 that could hit page 1 with content updates." It'll analyze click-through rates and suggest exactly which pages need work. Beats manually scrolling through 2,000 keywords....

By Flavio Amiel
Validate Sales Organically Before Spending on Ads
SocialApr 20, 2026

Validate Sales Organically Before Spending on Ads

'Just run Facebook ads' is the worst advice for beginners in 2026. Build a simple funnel. Get 10 people to buy it organically. THEN run ads. If you can't sell it without ads, you won't sell it with ads.

By Kamil Sattar
Snapchat's Growth Hacking Sparks DAU and Engagement Concerns
SocialApr 20, 2026

Snapchat's Growth Hacking Sparks DAU and Engagement Concerns

⚡️ Snapchat Growth Hacking Raises Concerns on DAUs/Engagement ⚡️ $SNAP Ever since becoming a public company, Evan Spiegel, Snap’s Co-Founder, has been critical of growth hacking... https://t.co/cUVqO01ZFu

By Rich Greenfield
AI Mode's Side‑by‑side View Could Boost Publisher Traffic
SocialApr 20, 2026

AI Mode's Side‑by‑side View Could Boost Publisher Traffic

Good to know that AI Mode's new display (opens the page side-by-side with AI Mode) includes Scroll-to-Text highlighting (which is better for analysis in GA4, rank tracking tools, etc.) ALSO this is likely a hot take but I don't think this...

By Lily Ray
Lower ROAS Enables Scalable, Profitable Meta Campaigns
SocialApr 20, 2026

Lower ROAS Enables Scalable, Profitable Meta Campaigns

The ideal situation is to have the lowest ROAS possible on Meta while scaling and being “profitable” The higher you need that ROAS to be, the harder scaling becomes.

By Kody Nordquist
Scheduling Posts Doesn't Hurt Reach—Stop Believing the Myth
SocialApr 20, 2026

Scheduling Posts Doesn't Hurt Reach—Stop Believing the Myth

The "I won't schedule my content becuase it decreases reach" conversation is one I'm tired of having... ... but I'm having it again because I keep seeing people stay stuck behind this idea.

By Amber Figlow
Switch ESP Fast, Keep Revenue Steady with Omnisend
SocialApr 20, 2026

Switch ESP Fast, Keep Revenue Steady with Omnisend

Nobody wakes up excited to migrate their ESP. Because historically, it sucks: → Weeks of setup → Broken flows → Revenue dips @omnisend's angle is different: → Flows live fast → Data moves clean → Revenue doesn’t stall Switching tools shouldn’t cost you money. If anything it should make you...

By Taylor Holiday
HubSpot’s Breeze Assistant: Simple Tool, Powerful Possibilities
SocialApr 20, 2026

HubSpot’s Breeze Assistant: Simple Tool, Powerful Possibilities

I love it when HubSpot builds simple primitives which can then be combined in creative ways to unlock a lot of power. If you're a HubSpot customer and haven't played with Breeze Assistant yet, you should. It's getting really, really...

By Dharmesh Shah