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Overpromise, Underdeliver: Lose Trust, Lose Leads
SocialFeb 22, 2026

Overpromise, Underdeliver: Lose Trust, Lose Leads

Marketers: Don't massively hype up your lead magnet and then fail to deliver. You might get someone's email but... You'll lose their trust. And trust is the currency of business.

By Katelyn Bourgoin
Tariffs Spike Costs—Recalculate Your Break‑Even ROAS
SocialFeb 22, 2026

Tariffs Spike Costs—Recalculate Your Break‑Even ROAS

Your ROAS looks fine, but your margins are bleeding. Why? Because tariffs jumped COGS 20-30% while your break-even ROAS stayed the same. You’re still trusting a dashboard number that’s been outdated for months. Recalculate your break-even, and thank me later.

By Kody Nordquist
Frame Price as Cost per Wear to Boost Sales
SocialFeb 22, 2026

Frame Price as Cost per Wear to Boost Sales

Selling a high priced article of clothing? Increase purchases by framing the price in terms of “cost per wear.” New (2025) research shows this tactic works, but you need to do the math for people because they may not get...

By Nancy Harhut
Google Shifts to Continuous Core Updates, Boosting 2026 Volatility
SocialFeb 22, 2026

Google Shifts to Continuous Core Updates, Boosting 2026 Volatility

I shared some thoughts yesterday about what we are seeing. Would be great if Google would provide some info... I feel like they are moving to continuous updating of systems (which would align with what they said about 'more core...

By Glenn Gabe
Custom Apps vs SaaS: Weighing Innovation Against Crowd Wisdom
SocialFeb 22, 2026

Custom Apps vs SaaS: Weighing Innovation Against Crowd Wisdom

Replacing paid tools with vibe coded apps is all well and good, but something I'm thinking about is the importance of staying on top of what existing apps are launching. Sure you can bring a tool to parity today with the...

By Wil Reynolds
Weekly SEO Support Newsletter Helps You Survive Search
SocialFeb 22, 2026

Weekly SEO Support Newsletter Helps You Survive Search

🐵 #SEOFOMO : Your weekly newsletter emotional support companion for surviving search 💪 Subscribe now if you haven’t and join +42K SEOs : seofomo(.)co https://t.co/674n119BdG

By Aleyda Solis
ChatGPT Ads Intrude, Miss Targeting, Threaten User Retention
SocialFeb 22, 2026

ChatGPT Ads Intrude, Miss Targeting, Threaten User Retention

More examples of ChatGPT ads in the wild. The experience didn't sound great for @EmilyForlini. And the targeting might be off -> I'm Seeing Ads in ChatGPT, and OpenAI Broke Its Promise. Here's What They Look Like From Emily: "On mobile,...

By Glenn Gabe
Add Organization & WebSite Schema to All Homepages
SocialFeb 22, 2026

Add Organization & WebSite Schema to All Homepages

SEO Tip: when it comes to using Schema for the homepage on a site, there are two types that I gravitate towards and recommend (especially for eCommerce stores). The two types are Organization and WebSite Schema, being tags that I see...

By Brodie Clark
Boomers Unknowingly Flood Threads via Facebook Auto‑posting
SocialFeb 22, 2026

Boomers Unknowingly Flood Threads via Facebook Auto‑posting

The fact that Threads probably gets a ton of boomers posting on FB and not realizing it’s auto-posting to Threads explains *so much* of this app.

By Lily Ray
Share Your SEO Challenges, Win a Hoodie
SocialFeb 21, 2026

Share Your SEO Challenges, Win a Hoodie

🚨 Take the #SEOFOMO's Ecommerce SEO & AI Search Optimization Survey [2026] and participate in an SEOFOMO Hoodie & Mug Giveaway 👇 Answer the SEOFOMO Ecommerce SEO & AI Search Optimization Survey and help us identify this year’s biggest ecommerce SEO...

By Aleyda Solis
Google Kills Excuses: PMax Now Mandatory
SocialFeb 21, 2026

Google Kills Excuses: PMax Now Mandatory

Google just killed every excuse you had for ignoring PMax. Full reporting. Negative keywords. Real split tests. This thread is your wake-up call 🧵 https://t.co/FqYcvnZVbf

By Kody Nordquist
Agentic Coders Accelerate Content Quality and SaaS Upsells
SocialFeb 21, 2026

Agentic Coders Accelerate Content Quality and SaaS Upsells

Agentic coders allow us to quickly iterate on what’s best for our customers using ClickFlow (our AEO/SEO content creator). I can’t understand any modern company that doesn’t use these. The speed we have as an org now would have been unfathomable 12...

By Eric Siu
Non‑SEO Users Frustrated by AI Mode Shift
SocialFeb 21, 2026

Non‑SEO Users Frustrated by AI Mode Shift

I’m not a fan of this change and have watched non SEO folks complain when they get stuck in AI Mode

By Lily Ray
AdX Publishers Warned: No Action Needed Amid Google Probe
SocialFeb 21, 2026

AdX Publishers Warned: No Action Needed Amid Google Probe

As we await Judge Brinkema's decision in US v Google whether to break up Google's adtech business, evidence continues to be unsealed in SDNY tonight. "NEVER USE THE WORD BERNANKE EXTERNALLY, EVER." "All AdX publisher will be impacted." "Publishers do not need to...

By Jason Kint
Engineer‑style AI Marketing Tour: Live Demos Worldwide
SocialFeb 20, 2026

Engineer‑style AI Marketing Tour: Live Demos Worldwide

I'm going on the WORLD TOUR 🌍 I've spent the last few months building marketing skills for Claude Code — automating the work I've done with 60+ startups over the last two and a half years. The repo has over 8,400+ stars...

By Corey Haines
Embrace the Cringiest Platform, Scale to $7.3M ARR
SocialFeb 20, 2026

Embrace the Cringiest Platform, Scale to $7.3M ARR

4 years stuck at $2.5M ARR. I had no idea if this was my retirement plan or the thing that broke me. Then I built a $7.3M ARR company in 18 months with 3 employees and zero funding. The weapon turned out to...

By Adam Robinson
Pre‑filled LLM Prompts Drive Smarter Brand Traffic
SocialFeb 20, 2026

Pre‑filled LLM Prompts Drive Smarter Brand Traffic

Most marketers right now are trying to figure out how to get the LLMs to send them more Web traffic. Maybe the pro move is to do the opposite. Check out what Amplemarket HQ is doing. And when you press...

By Matt Heinz
AI Tool Buzzy AI Disrupts Viral Video Industry
SocialFeb 20, 2026

AI Tool Buzzy AI Disrupts Viral Video Industry

Holy shit...Buzzy AI just killed the entire "viral video" industry. It uses AI to research what's actually going viral, then generates videos that match those patterns with your brand. This changes everything for content creators. Here's how it works↓ https://t.co/FGWGX9AUam

By Hasan Toor
Scale Content Production with AI‑Powered Automation
SocialFeb 20, 2026

Scale Content Production with AI‑Powered Automation

I'll be heading down to Tampa for Digital Summit soon. The topic: Delivering AI-Powered Content and Automations That Scale Here's more about my session: Marketing leaders are expected to produce more content, faster, without sacrificing quality or team bandwidth. But...

By A. Lee Judge
Know Your Lead's Value, Transform Your Agency Strategy
SocialFeb 20, 2026

Know Your Lead's Value, Transform Your Agency Strategy

Here’s a question most agency owners can’t answer: What is a single lead actually worth to your business? When you know that number, everything changes: what you spend on ads, which partnerships you say yes to, whether that content strategy is actually...

By Dan Mall
AI Search Redefines Visibility, Not Replaces SEO
SocialFeb 20, 2026

AI Search Redefines Visibility, Not Replaces SEO

AI Search Isn’t Replacing SEO — It’s Rewriting Visibility: Key Insights from the @Conductor 2026 AEO / GEO Benchmarks Report - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/Cs3W27UiQI

By Tom Pick
Align Channels, Team Strength, Capacity, Budget for Maximum ROI
SocialFeb 19, 2026

Align Channels, Team Strength, Capacity, Budget for Maximum ROI

When I’m crafting a marketing strategy, these are the areas I’m considering to make sure my client gets the best ROI: ⁠ ⁠ 1️⃣ High-Impact Channels → Drives potential return (more impact = more ROI)⁠ 2️⃣ Team Strengths → Increases efficiency and quality...

By Mallory Musante
New Study Debunks Tracking as Win‑Win for All
SocialFeb 19, 2026

New Study Debunks Tracking as Win‑Win for All

Big. A major new law & tech paper takes on the economics of behavioral advertising - the kind that tracks users across multiple businesses and contexts, not just on sites they choose to visit. It challenges industry’s favorite claim: that tracking...

By Jason Kint
Tease, Don’t Tell: Subject Lines Spark Curiosity
SocialFeb 19, 2026

Tease, Don’t Tell: Subject Lines Spark Curiosity

Most subject lines announce. The best ones tease. "Our New Spring Collection" tells me what's inside before I open it. There's nothing left to be curious about. "We almost didn't release these" makes me need to know why. One gives away the answer....

By Chase Dimond
Simplify Offer, Get Free 10k Leads, 5x Demos
SocialFeb 19, 2026

Simplify Offer, Get Free 10k Leads, 5x Demos

These 3 changes to our cold email copy 5x’d demos booked last week. OLD VERSION: Subj: $18 per lead is a lot Body: You’re paying ~$18 per lead or more on Meta right now. And, some more if they don’t...

By Adam Robinson
Speedy AI Tactics Sacrifice Trust, Hurting Long‑term Value
SocialFeb 19, 2026

Speedy AI Tactics Sacrifice Trust, Hurting Long‑term Value

Trust is built over time, and broken in an instant. Is your "scalable" AI strategy mortgaging trust for visibility? I have had to accept my brand getting "less visibility" in GEO to maintain a standard, because we have just that ......

By Wil Reynolds
Grokipedia Mysteriously Absent From Sistrix Visibility Chart
SocialFeb 19, 2026

Grokipedia Mysteriously Absent From Sistrix Visibility Chart

lol Grokipedia doesn’t even show up on the @sistrix visibility comparison chart I had to check multiple times to make sure I didn’t type the domain name incorrectly 🤣 https://t.co/NMUTsbS7Yr

By Lily Ray
Distribution, Not Creation, Is the New Attention Bottleneck
SocialFeb 19, 2026

Distribution, Not Creation, Is the New Attention Bottleneck

Distribution and the human attention premium That marketing and distribution become the principal challenges of scaling content in an attention landscape awash in it seems like an obvious outcome as production costs collapse. But it has not yet emerged as a...

By Eric Benjamin Seufert
Focus on 4 Metrics, Not 50, to Drive Profit
SocialFeb 19, 2026

Focus on 4 Metrics, Not 50, to Drive Profit

You’re deluding yourself into thinking you’re organized by staring at a dashboard with 50 metrics... … and somehow, you're completely missing the only 4 that actually matter: MER (Marketing Efficiency Ratio): This is your early-warning alarm. If MER dips 10-15% below target, something's leaking....

By Kody Nordquist
Make Marketing Content Sales‑Ready, Not Just Pretty
SocialFeb 19, 2026

Make Marketing Content Sales‑Ready, Not Just Pretty

I was asked how to make sure Sales will actually use Marketing content. Here is the short answer I gave. Stop reviewing content by Marketing standards and view it from the perspective of someone trying to sell you product or...

By A. Lee Judge
AI Becomes Core: Budgets Rise, Teams Accelerate In‑House Execution
SocialFeb 19, 2026

AI Becomes Core: Budgets Rise, Teams Accelerate In‑House Execution

7 Key Takeaways from Stensul’s 2026 MarTech Outlook Report - https://t.co/58rLpJuLMz "#AI is no longer treated as a side experiment; instead, organizations are increasing martech budgets, investing directly in AI-powered tools, and reshaping teams and workflows to bring more execution...

By Tom Pick
Agentic AI Redefines B2B Marketing: Lean Teams, Strategic Humans
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Agentic AI Redefines B2B Marketing: Lean Teams, Strategic Humans

The future of agentic AI in B2B marketing is finally coming into focus. The B2B marketing org structure has to change, with fewer layers and more shared accountability across a unified data layer. The human role will shift to something...

By Stephanie Buscemi
Case Studies Reveal SEO Tactics Destroy Organic Traffic
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Case Studies Reveal SEO Tactics Destroy Organic Traffic

I have now read *multiple* public AEO/GEO "case studies" where the organic traffic literally looks like this. I'm not even kidding. I just pulled this chart from a case study published 2 weeks ago. Looks to me like they actually destroyed...

By Lily Ray
Ads Work; Doubting Them Reveals a Skill Gap
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Ads Work; Doubting Them Reveals a Skill Gap

So many people say “ads don’t work; write content.” All of my companies for 22 years grew with ads 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 and forever. Ads won't be effective for 𝘢𝘭𝘭 companies, but "I've never seen it work" is an admission of lack of...

By Jason Cohen
One Quirky Prop Turned a Bland Shirt Ad Into Bestseller
SocialFeb 18, 2026

One Quirky Prop Turned a Bland Shirt Ad Into Bestseller

Every shirt ad looked the same. One prop changed everything. In 1951, Hathaway was a small shirt company from Maine that most people had never heard of. They had a $30,000 ad budget, a fraction of what their competitors were spending,...

By Chase Dimond
Build a 2026 Digital Store Using AI Tools
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Build a 2026 Digital Store Using AI Tools

How To Build A Digital Product Store With AI In 2026 WATCH HERE 👉 https://t.co/ijT1ejXe7l In this video, I show you step-by-step how to build a digital product store using AI in 2026, including how to generate product images, write high-converting...

By Kamil Sattar
Stand Out by Thinking Differently, Not Just Being Expert
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Stand Out by Thinking Differently, Not Just Being Expert

People don't become known for their expertise They become known for how they *think differently* about their area of expertise Recognition follows a distinct, ownable idea (not volume, not credentials, not even quality of work) If your thinking sounds like everyone else's in...

By Katelyn Bourgoin
People Underestimate Google's Ability to Solve Problems
SocialFeb 18, 2026

People Underestimate Google's Ability to Solve Problems

One of the funniest things I hear people say in our space is “there’s no way Google could figure that out” https://t.co/O1n8da2ctY

By Lily Ray
First 3 Seconds Make or Break Your Video
SocialFeb 18, 2026

First 3 Seconds Make or Break Your Video

The first 3 seconds decide if your whole video gets a chance. The hook is not optional anymore.

By Rachel Pedersen
Debunking 10 Common Social Media Myths
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Debunking 10 Common Social Media Myths

Let's talk Social Media's biggest myths: 1. Is Shadowbanning real? 2. Is your phone's mic listening? 3. Do editing happs hurt reach? 4. Do hashtags grow your account? 5. Does scheduling content hurt? 6. Are Brand Partnerships throttled? 7. Do you have to post every day? 8. Does...

By Jack Appleby
Never Plan Promos Blindly—Track Competitors Constantly
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Never Plan Promos Blindly—Track Competitors Constantly

Planning promos based on internal calendars, with 0 insight into what competitors are doing that week is an easy death sentence. To protect margins, you need to be monitoring competitor activity like a hawk. For that, you need a system. Here’s what...

By Kody Nordquist
One Simple Tactic to Boost Engagement From 25 Strategies
SocialFeb 18, 2026

One Simple Tactic to Boost Engagement From 25 Strategies

288 pages. 17 chapters. 25+ proven tactics. 1 easy way to increase engagement and response.

By Nancy Harhut
Turn Organic Content Into High‑Performing Ads
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Turn Organic Content Into High‑Performing Ads

If you want to make better ads internally. Start creating organic content. From what we've seen with a wide range of testing is that some of top spending ads at the moment are really good pieces of organic content. Not a guarantee but...

By Kody Nordquist
Cross‑team Context Fuels Smarter Autonomous Marketing
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Cross‑team Context Fuels Smarter Autonomous Marketing

imagine if your marketing dept knew exactly what your dev team has been working on that’s what @layers enables in an agentic world, with their code-aware autonomous marketing the take-away pattern is to use context from department A to help department B...

By Yohei Nakajima
Rippling Shows How B2B Brands Blend Big and Scrappy Marketing
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Rippling Shows How B2B Brands Blend Big and Scrappy Marketing

How to build a B2B brand that stands out: Rippling edition. You are always asking for examples of B2B brands that are doing great marketing. You're tired of hearing about how Liquid Death and Apple and Nike are THE GOLD...

By Dave Gerhardt
LinkedIn Leads B2B; Which Platform Ranks Second?
SocialFeb 18, 2026

LinkedIn Leads B2B; Which Platform Ranks Second?

There's no question LinkedIn is the GOAT for B2B social media. But what platform is #2? X? YouTube? IG? https://t.co/R4iITRyWsn

By Tom Pick
Scripted Prompts Beat Camera Freeze, Not Motivation
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Scripted Prompts Beat Camera Freeze, Not Motivation

Video prompts are the secret weapon for people who freeze on camera. You don’t need motivation, you need a script.

By Rachel Pedersen
Conversion Tweaks Beat Pricey Platform Migrations Every Time
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Conversion Tweaks Beat Pricey Platform Migrations Every Time

I spent $40k on a Shopify Plus migration. No revenue increase. Competitor optimized their product pages. 30% revenue increase. Platform doesn't matter. Conversion optimization does. Test everything.

By Kamil Sattar
Timing Is Just a Procrastination Disguise
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Timing Is Just a Procrastination Disguise

If you keep delaying posting because the time is not ideal, you are using timing as a procrastination costume.

By Rachel Pedersen