Marketing Skills v1.6 Adds Community, Intel, and Growth Tools
Marketing Skills v1.6.0 is out. What shipped: 🆕 /community-marketing — build and leverage online communities for product growth. Strategy principles, platform selection (Discord, Slack, Circle, Reddit), launch playbooks, ambassador programs, and health metrics. 🛠️ SparkToro — audience research and behavioral intelligence. Discover where your ICP spends time online. 🛠️ RB2B — B2B visitor identification. De-anonymize website visitors for sales outreach. 🛠️ Gong — revenue intelligence. Mine sales call transcripts for customer research and competitive intel. Enhanced skills: • /ai-seo — pricing[.]md recommendation so AI agents can read your pricing page • /ab-test-setup — growth experimentation program with ICE scoring and velocity tracking • /social-content — content repurposing workflows + platform limits for 8 platforms • /copy-editing — expert panel scoring + content refresh framework Free, open source. npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills
Brand Loyalty Can Force Google to Rank You
This site does almost zero SEO. You know what it has? • 20% of traffic is branded/navigational (people looking for this site) • It sells its own popular products • Loyal fan base If you can force Google to rank you because...
McDonald’s CEO on Viral Bite, Social Media Strategy
For my latest interview, I talked with McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski about that viral bite and his strategy around social media and the menu. Link below 👇 https://t.co/LxAI0L4FD0
Authenticity Beats Corporate Facades: People Love Real Humans
Want people to love your brand? People love people, not companies. What if you tried honesty and your own personality? Some will hate it… but some will love you 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 of it. More: https://t.co/WMsL8dje4p
Google Trusts Site, Driving Massive Post‑update Rankings
https://t.co/g44C5uqw6b seems... trusted by Google. :) Massive gains with the December 2025 broad core update. I'm seeing this when analyzing a client's situation btw. They are everywhere when checking important queries for that client... https://t.co/YDIijP80Sf
Focus on One Visible Product; Timing and Margins Win
How to launch an 8 figure ecom product the right way in 2026: 1. If nobody can see your product being used in public (or in a day in the life reel), it won't spread. 2. One product, one obsession. Don’t diversify...
Building AI Tools for Viral UGC Marketing
As you know, coding now is not a problem. So... I'm going deep into UGC and MARKETING. Build tools to help me build viral content for Instagram/TikTok. Showing progress on real use-cases, what works and what doesn’t. The project is a...
Semrush Data Shows Unusual Turkey Traffic Spike Anomaly
OK, let's talk turkey. No really, I mean the country. :) Semrush data looks very wonky for the country. Every site I'm checking surged through the roof for Turkey, but not for other countries. There must be some type of...
Use Reddit Trends Data to Boost SEO Insights
Are you using Reddit Pro? -> How to use Reddit Trends data for SEO *Topic Ideas *Brand sentiment *Monitor competitors *Trends and popularity https://t.co/rCR4e4Lk9j via @seosmarty https://t.co/GMd5sR5w28
Talk to Customers, Not Just Social Media Echo Chambers
I've coached 200+ store owners. Here's the pattern: The ones who spent all day on Twitter and in Discord groups failed. The ones who spent all day talking to their customers won. Your echo chamber isn't your market. Trust nothing.
Instagram Launches TikTok‑style Shop, Reshaping Influencer Marketing
Instagram just copied a big TikTok feature. Meta now has their own TikTok Shop. It’s either gonna ruin Instagram… Or revolutionize Influencer Marketing… https://t.co/wnlWi5RDr7
Instagram Leads March Updates; TikTok Slipping, Plan April
Instagram had more updates last month than any other platform. TikTok is losing its grip. And Mosseri finally said out loud what I've been telling you for years. Here's everything that happened in social media in March, and how you should move forward...
Skip Ads, Knock Doors: Build Pipeline Faster
Most founders burn cash on ads before they knock on 10 doors. I tested a 6-step door strategy and booked more meetings in a week than a month of paid clicks. Lead with a question, map the right streets, track every talk,...
Sequence Over Quantity: Fix Foundations Before Scaling
Most CMOs inherit a messy system. So they add more: • new campaigns • new channels • new ideas But pipeline doesn’t improve. What helps is sequence: • fix the foundation • capture high-intent demand • align messaging • clean up channels Order matters more than activity. https://t.co/DWAOnm26p8
Free Scorecard Reveals Your Content’s AI Search Ranking
Most content marketers have no idea how their content scores in AI search engines. So I built a free scorecard to make it easy. It covers everything from content depth + entity optimization to technical structure and authority. Try it: https://t.co/hulXxcwVxg https://t.co/n8EbGfoBY1
Gamma Imagine Creates Professional Visuals Instantly, No Designer Needed
🚨 Gamma just made hiring a designer for every presentation completely unnecessary. It's called Gamma Imagine and it turns any idea into a professional visual in seconds. No design skills. No tool switching. No templates. https://t.co/Oq0aigotqu
Measure Conversions, Not Likes: Move Audiences Forward
The most important analytics for creators: Not: • Likes • Followers • Comments But how many people you move to the next step. The: • Stanger to a follower • Follower to a lead • Lead to a client Focus on those numbers
Reddit Beats Paid Ads on $50+ SaaS Keywords
Here’s the brutal part. On high-CPC SaaS keywords ($50+), Reddit’s win rate hits 67%. You’re paying a premium for ads. A Reddit thread is taking the organic click. The money keywords are where Reddit is strongest. https://t.co/PlWF0NT1Gq
ChatGPT 5.3 Upgrade Cuts URLs by 20%, Drops L
Added a note about March 4, 2026 to my algo update list. Not a Google update, but it looks like ChatGPT's upgrade to GPT 5.3 instant resulted in it showing 20% fewer urls in answers. If your LLM visits are down...
Avoid Ghost Citations: Embed Your Brand in AI Answers
What is your "Ghost Citation" percentage by AI model? A ghost citation is when your content gets a link in an AI answer, but your brand doesn't get mentioned in the text of the answer. We saw a client's post had...
Coca-Cola Taps Iconic Jingle Archive to Stand Out
Coca-Cola uses something only a handful of corporations can -- a massive archive of promotions that won over large audiences -- in bid to stand out in the ad pack. Beverage giant revives its famous 'I'd like to buy...
AI Eliminates Junior Marketers, Turns Teams Into Generalists
The junior marketer role is dead. We surveyed 100 B2B SaaS marketing directors on how AI is changing their teams. 13 said they've stopped backfilling junior roles entirely. When people leave, the work gets absorbed. AI picks up the slack. But that's not...
One Tool‑enabled Agent Beats Overcomplicated Multi‑agent Setups
A client asked us to build a multi-agent system for their marketing chatbot. They had the whole thing mapped out. One agent for planning. One for retrieval. One for generation. One for validation. A full squad.😅 I'll be honest, it looked good...
GSC Logging Bug Inflated Impressions Since May 2025
Yep, almost a year of inflated impressions in GSC. Was "The Great Decoupling" as bad as we thought? We'll all find out soon. My latest on SER -> GSC Logging Error Yielded Inflated Impressions Since May 2025 https://t.co/pDMNoq6Qxz https://t.co/KiDPUNx2gE
Building Is Cheaper; Capturing Attention Remains Costly
The build side of startups is getting cheaper. The ability to shape attention around what you build is not getting cheaper at all.
HarperCollins Turns Books Into AI Shorts, Pays Authors
HarperCollins is turning authors’ books into AI YouTube Shorts HarperCollins has partnered with Toonstar to turn books into AI YouTube Shorts The launch starts with Lisa Greenwald’s Friendship List series Episodes run 2–10 minutes, targeting young YouTube audiences Toonstar’s CEO says “creator-led,” with authors...
Musk Leverages SpaceX Funding to Revive X Advertising
Elon Musk pressures potential SpaceX investors to use Grok and advertise on X Major firms like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs reportedly investing millions SpaceX IPO targets $1–2 trillion+ valuation, one of the largest ever The move is seen as attempt to boost X...
Answer Unasked Questions, Rank #1 Without Backlinks
Everyone obsesses over backlinks. Meanwhile, I have a client ranking #1 because they actually answer the questions nobody is answering.
Fix Fragmented Ad Structure, Unlock 3.8× ROAS
This morning, a founder messaged me after spending ₹2L in 60 days with inconsistent results. There was confusion — “Some days work, most don’t… I don’t get it.” They kept changing creatives, hoping something would click. But the inconsistency came from fragmented campaign...
Google Flags .co Domain as Suspicious, Blocks Linking
This will be an interesting little SEO/AEO experiment: Google Gemini won’t link to my new constancy site (yet) - it keeps saying it’s a “suspicious link” 🙄 I think cuz it ends in .co. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’ll be building links etc. to...
Brand Budgets Killing Your Influence, CMO Warns
The CMO’s Final Warning: Why ‘Brand’ Budgets Are Killing Your Influence by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/A6q7CqMivt @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #SalesEnablement #RevOps #Marketing #Leadership #MarketingStrategy #MarketingSuccess https://t.co/thmQQegw6f
Your Personal Identity Replaces URLs in SEO
The Death of the URL: Why Your Identity Is Your New SEO by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/gZ6eMM3Aoy @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #Marketing #Leadership #MarketingSuccess #MarketingStrategy https://t.co/fudllPcMS7
AI-Powered Demos Attract Cofounders, Customers, Investors Instantly
Before: move to SF. have an idea. look for a tech cofounder. build a deck in the meantime. Months pass... After: codex/claude in one window, X in the other. Build demo. Make a video of the demo. Announce it online, make it go...
AI‑Optimized Content Crucial: 20% Traffic Loss Ahead
By Q3 2026, businesses without AI-optimized content will lose 20% of their organic (Google) discovery traffic. Not because Google dies, but because people will ask AI first, then click the sources it trusts. And guess where AI will find those sources?
Scale SEO with AI‑Generated 150‑Page Templates
I built a skill for Claude Code that creates SEO pages at scale using templates and data — programmatic SEO done right. You tell it the keyword pattern you want to target (like "[tool] alternative" or "best [category] software") and it...
Run a Claude Code Audit to Spot SEO Gaps
Claude Code tip for SEO- after it’s done have it run an audit on the work it completed , you’ll get a list of things to fix or improve.
SEO Needs Ongoing Updates, Not One‑Time Setup
Reminder that SEO is not a set it and forget it business operation. Update it periodically, monthly as the very least.
Anthropic's AI‑Driven Growth Hits $19B ARR in One Year
Anthropic is on an unprecedented growth run. Just in the past year they grew from $1B to $19B ARR. They added $6B in ARR just in *February*. Companies like Palantir and Atlassian took 15-20 years to reach ~$5B ARR. Anthropic is...
Original, Expert, Human‑first Content Beats Mass Production
Sad for the businesses that don’t know better and fall for this. Modern search engines like Google value originality, experience, and expertise in content that is human first. That’s how they ensure the best user experience. Generating content at scale without...
Snapchat's AI Clips Turn Photos Into Paid Video Content
Snapchat launched AI Clips in Lens Studio for Lens+ subscribers, turning single photos into five-second videos, with eligible creators able to earn through Lens+ Payouts. 🤖 It gives creators a faster path to video content while building an incentive structure around...
B2B Links Favor Data Roundups over Thought Leadership
The most highly linked to content in B2B isn't thought leadership content... It's data round ups. Even though thought leadership and ultimate guides are what every CMO tells their team to publish. More here: https://t.co/y7Vu2eaTcA https://t.co/ZqCWeIpgJy
Tailor Advisor Websites to Answer AI-Driven Client Queries
Better AI Prompts Get You Found: How financial advisors can tailor their websites to reflect the questions prospective clients are asking AI tools such as @ChatGPTapp https://t.co/At0QTtUIN7 #AI #WeekendReading
Boost Conversions 25% to Double Profits Without Extra Spend
A lot of businesses chase cheaper leads. Smart businesses increase lead value. A 25% boost in conversion rate can increase profits by 50%+ without spending extra. Same leads, same ads—just a smarter funnel doing the heavy lifting.
Unlock 50% More Revenue with Simple Automation
If you’re spending $2,000/month on ads without a backend system… You’re likely losing 40–60% of potential revenue. Simple automations (email + retargeting) can recover lost leads at scale. The money isn’t in more traffic—it’s in better conversion paths.
Build a $100k Solo Business with Six Simple Steps
The journey of a $100k solo creator: 1. Find niche with active demand 2. Craft an offer that satisfies it 3. Content to funnel demand 4. Redirect to your email 5. Make offers daily 6. Learn & scale In that order.
Quick Collabs Streamline Creator Campaigns with Flat‑Fee Simplicity
LTK announced Quick Collabs, letting creators opt into flat-fee, pay-per-post campaigns that brands can set up in minutes. It reduces the back-and-forth of standard creator campaigns, giving brands a faster path to content and creators a simpler way to pick...
Email Every Customer: The Secret to $100M Growth
Native Deodorant's founder emailed every single customer for 2 years. That feedback loop scaled them to a $100M acquisition. Meanwhile you're afraid to email your first 10 customers because you think you're "bothering" them.
Distribution Beats Product: Sell Before You Perfect
Good product + bad distribution = dead. Bad product + great distribution = a business. Nobody buys what they can't find. Build distribution first. Everything else second.
Data‑Driven, Scannable Content Boosts AI Search Citations
💰 From Retrieved to Cited: How Commercial Content Earns Citations in AI Search - excellent research from @_oshdavidson showing how: * Early-Discovery Content Earns a 20% Higher Citation Likelihood When Claims Are Grounded in Data * Pages That Make Shortlisting Options...
Batch, Schedule, Repeat: My Formula for Consistent Posting
The system I use to stay consistent (even on chaotic days): → batch content → schedule everything → repeat weekly No guessing This is how I manage to post on my pub business, spend quality time with my toddler and build online.