How To Find An SEO Consultant: Navigating Promises and Realities of Search Engine Optimization in 2025
The post explains how to navigate the crowded SEO consulting market by recognizing inflated promises—like guaranteed rankings or instant results—and focusing on consultants who blend technical, creative, and strategic skills across areas such as AI, data analysis, and integrated marketing. It outlines the modern SEO consultant’s broad skill set, the importance of matching specialization (local, global, e‑commerce, etc.) to business needs, and practical vetting steps like setting clear goals, reviewing case studies, and avoiding black‑hat tactics. The author’s perspective is pragmatic and experience‑driven, emphasizing honest assessment over hype to secure sustainable organic growth.
Upwork Study Shows AI Agents Excel with Human Partners but Fail Independently
Upwork’s Human+Agent Productivity Index evaluated three leading AI agents—Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT‑5 and Claude Sonnet 4—on more than 300 real freelance jobs under $500. Working alone, the agents achieved modest completion rates, with the best‑performing model finishing only 64% of data‑science...
AI Hacks Echo Age‑old Human Cyberattack Tactics
Anthropic just shared deep details of a large-scale AI cybersecurity attack. Two hacks they exposed: 1) the hackers convinced Claude of a new role. It’s not an AI system made in Silicon Valley. No, of course not. It is an employee...
4 Pillars for Social Selling
The post recaps Lorenzo Johnson’s interview on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, outlining the four Social Selling Index pillars—brand building, audience targeting, insight engagement, and trusted relationships—that drive LinkedIn success in 2026. He emphasizes using video and carousel posts to...
Google Labs' Pomelli Generates Custom Ads in Minutes
OK, Google Labs is cranking out some amazing work. Pomelli lets you go from your website link to custom ads you can tweak or regenerate in less than 3 minutes. Great for ideation. (Google needs a Tesla business model where...
Thousands of Fake Packages Flood Npm Registry in Major Attack - Here's What We Know
Over 43,000 spam packages were uploaded to npm over a nearly two‑year period, accounting for roughly 1% of the registry and representing a coordinated campaign dubbed “IndonesianFoods.” Endor Labs traced the effort to at least 11 user accounts that generated...
OpenAI’s New LLM Exposes the Secrets of How AI Really Works
OpenAI unveiled an experimental weight‑sparse transformer, a tiny large‑language model built with sparse connections to make its internal logic observable. Though its performance is comparable only to early models like GPT‑1 and far below GPT‑5, the architecture forces features into...
Pakistan Restarts VPN Licensing in Fresh Bid to Control Online Space
Pakistan’s telecom regulator (PTA) has issued the first licences to five domestic VPN providers, creating a state‑approved pool of services that can be used without individual IP registration. The licensing scheme is presented as a cybersecurity and user‑convenience measure, but...
Apple Halves Commissions for Mini App Makers
Apple unveiled the Mini Apps Partner Program, slashing the commission on in‑app purchases for web‑based mini apps to 15% and requiring use of its Advanced Commerce and Declared Age Rating APIs. The program extends the 2017 App Review Guidelines for...
Game Data Unlocks Real-World Insights and Competitive Edge
Amazing how valuable the game data is for real world data. Only games have action on controller and reaction in the world in a physics accurate way. And if you have data from thousands of games and tens of millions...
Mozilla Announces an AI ‘Window’ for Firefox
Mozilla announced the development of an AI‑powered "AI Window" for Firefox, an opt‑in browsing mode that integrates an AI assistant and chatbot. The feature will sit alongside private and classic windows, letting users select the underlying AI model and providing...
Don't Give Prospects Results Before They Buy
I have stopped an experiment that gave people a ton of value before a sale, and here's why... So it's VERY fast for me to build a PVP or PQS list, like 30 mins -> 1 hr. Now this list...
Leaders Must Use AI to Learn, Not Just Deploy
"How are you using AI to learn?" Lori Niles-Hofmann This might be the single best question to ask yourself as a learning practitioner. Actually, scratch that.... you don’t even need to be in L&D. We should all be asking ourselves...
Even Realities’ New Smart Glasses Ditch Cameras and Speakers
Even Realities unveiled its G2 Display Smart Glasses, a human‑centric wearable that forgoes outward‑facing cameras and external speakers, relying only on four microphones and a micro‑LED/gradient waveguide display that creates a layered 3D floating spatial view. The device bundles AI...
Cursor's 29x Valuation Suggests AI Bubble Cooling
Cursor just raised at a 29x multiple. Not as crazy as the SaaS 40x multiples of 2021... We might not be in an AI bubble....
Google Gemini Live Gets Its 'Biggest Update Ever' With 5 New Upgrades – Here's How to Try Them
Google has rolled out the "biggest update ever" to Gemini Live, its real‑time conversational AI, on Android and iOS. The upgrade adds five new capabilities – adjustable speaking speed, automatic tone modulation, a storytelling mode with character accents, seamless multi‑language switching,...
SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of November 9 - 13, 2025
The SaasRise CEO Mastermind recap highlights practical strategies from ten sessions covering customer success vs. support alignment, AI‑driven lead generation, analytics optimization, and revenue expansion. Key takeaways include defining distinct success and support roles with growth‑linked incentives, leveraging AI tools...
Scammers Trick over 500,000 Victims with Fake Google, Bing Ads to Steal Personal Info
Cybersecurity firm Check Point identified a campaign dubbed “Payroll Pirates” that uses paid Google and Bing ads to lure employees to counterfeit payroll, HR, credit‑union and trading‑platform login pages, harvesting credentials and multi‑factor authentication codes. The operation, which has targeted...
How Do You Redefine Research Delivery For The AI Era? Start With Trust.
In this episode, Forrester’s CTO discusses how AI is reshaping research delivery, emphasizing that trust is the non‑negotiable foundation for any generative‑AI tool. He explains the development of Izola, a client‑facing AI that pulls exclusively from Forrester’s own IP and...
Google’s NotebookLM Adds ‘Deep Research’ Tool, Support for More File Types
Google is adding a new "Deep Research" tool to its NotebookLM AI note‑taking platform, allowing the system to act as an autonomous researcher that creates a research plan, browses the web, and delivers a source‑grounded report that can be inserted...
From Fired to $17B: Turning Failure Into Fuel
“Startups are somewhere between completely impossible and very, very, very, very hard.” That's @parkerconrad, CEO of @Rippling, on the first episode of Long Strange Trip. Parker's got one hell of a story. Violently fired by David Sacks from Zenefits. Character assassinated in...
Google’s NotebookLM Will Now Do ‘Deep Research’
Google announced that its NotebookLM AI workspace will integrate Gemini’s Deep Research agent, giving all users access within a week. Users can choose a fast or deep research mode, with the deep option delivering in‑depth analysis, source citations, and the...
AI-Driven Keynote Workflow: Design-Heavy vs Quick Turnaround
My current keynote preparation workflow with AI: IF DESIGN MATTERS Ex: a two-hour presentation to a client on AI trends in their industry - I pace and think about structure and flow and usually draft a few bullets in a google doc....
AI Founders Now Prioritize Real-World Use Cases over Models
Quick takeaways from yesterdays excellent CVAI conference: 1. So many inspiring entrepreneurs presented 2. Agentic pricing is still in the wild west 3. Same with agentic UX 4. Fascinating to see founders talking more about the underlying application use cases versus just the models...
Google’s SIMA 2 Agent Uses Gemini to Reason and Act in Virtual Worlds
Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA 2, an embodied AI agent that leverages the Gemini 2.5 flash‑lite model to reason, understand language, and act in virtual environments. Compared with its predecessor, SIMA 2 doubled task‑completion rates, demonstrating complex, commonsense behavior in games like No Man’s Sky and...
Algorithms Now Outpace Labs as Science’s Primary Tool
The most powerful scientific instrument of the 21st century isn't the electron microscope or the particle collider. It's the algorithm. Today, a scientist in biology, physics, chemistry etc. is more likely to be debugging a Python script than to be running...
The 5 Reasons Your Email Messages Are Still Ending Up in the Junk Folder in 2025
The post explains why email campaigns still land in junk folders in 2025, highlighting five dominant causes: inadequate permission and poor list hygiene, low‑trust or low‑value content, legal/compliance shortcuts, misconfigured authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), and sending irrelevant messages that fail to engage...
AI‑only University in Abu Dhabi Fuels Global World Models
World Models are shipping from around the world. From the only university that teaches only AI. I was there yesterday (it is in Abu Dhabi) and this school is so impressive. Have a class recorded by a professor there that I will...
AI Hype Scares Youth, but Human Roles Remain Essential
I recently received an email titled “An 18-year-old’s dilemma: Too late to contribute to AI?” Its author, who gave me permission to share this, is preparing for college. He is worried that by the time he graduates, AI will be...
Turn Existing Customers Into a Low‑Cost Growth Engine
CMOs are sleeping on customer marketing 💤 instead of growing your company WITH existing customers, you're treating customers primarily as an advocacy channel (e.g. case studies, references) 🛑 customer marketing is too narrowly defined. limiting customer marketing to advocacy misses...
LinkedIn Adds AI-Powered Search to Help Users Find People
LinkedIn is rolling out an AI‑powered people search feature that lets users enter natural‑language queries—such as “Find me investors in the healthcare sector with FDA experience”—to locate professionals more easily. The tool, initially available to premium U.S. members, expands on...
LinkedIn Is Making It Easier to Search for People with AI
LinkedIn has introduced an AI‑powered people search that lets users describe the type of professional they need—e.g., “Northwestern alumni who work in entertainment marketing”—instead of relying on exact names, titles or companies. The system uses generative AI to surface and...
Get Certified Home Appraisals in 20 Minutes
Automax (https://t.co/h7TqSl2WHD) is the fastest way to appraise a home- accurate, compliant, and in just 20 minutes. Their mobile app analyzes 150+ features from a quick scan, and AI agents turn it into a complete valuation report signed & verified by...
Inside LinkedIn’s Generative AI Cookbook: How It Scaled People Search to 1.3 Billion Users
LinkedIn has rolled out an AI‑powered people search that lets users pose natural‑language queries—e.g., “Who is knowledgeable about curing cancer?”—to a graph of 1.3 billion members. The system combines a 7‑billion‑parameter policy model distilled into a 1.7 B teacher and a 220 M...
The Future of Disney Plus Could Involve AI-Generated Videos
Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company is "really excited about AI" and envisions Disney+ letting subscribers both create and consume short‑form AI‑generated videos. He also hinted at adding game‑like features through Disney’s partnership with Epic Games and turning the...
Right Hire Eliminates Need for Rigid Processes
The wrong hire forces you to create process. The right hire reduces the need for it.
Quick Poll: Choose Your Favorite GPT 5.1 Feature
Alright, GPT 5.1's been live for about a day now, so time for a quick poll! :) Which one gets your vote?
AI Masks Interview Gaps, Reveals Outdated Hiring Metrics
AI helps candidates answer questions they do not fully understand. For a while this makes everyone look stronger. Then it forces companies to confront how little their old signals ever measured in the first place.
Build Production-Ready Voice Agents in Minutes
With @vogentai's Voice Agent Wizard, you can create an effective voice agent with just a short description. Trained on the design processes of thousands of production agents, their wizard helps you go from idea to production voice agent in minutes. https://t.co/tcT4wV3IPb
Luxury Means Feeling, Not Price: Five Experience Tips
Luxury isn’t about price, it’s about how you make people feel. On the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I talk with Neen James about five ways to create unforgettable customer experiences. Listen here: https://t.co/kEBHUhDp3s Thanks to our sponsor Morningmate.
Cursor AI's $2.3B Raise at 29x Suggests Cooling AI
. @cursor_ai just raised $2.3 billion. ... at a 29x revenue multiple. Not as "bad" as the 40x SaaS multiples of 2021.... Maybe we're not in an AI bubble? https://t.co/laqcS0YrUZ
Creating Marble’s Launch Video with Marble Technology
Check out how we used Marble to make the launch video for Marble! It’s so fun to work behind the scenes to use this technology to help create and tell stories!
Authentic Storytelling and Data Beat AI-Generated Content
When most content is AI generated, real advantage comes from authentic storytelling and high-level strategy. Proprietary data, simple visualizations, and live human events build your moat. https://t.co/GWZ9ve0DAw
Proofread ChatGPT‑written Articles Before Publishing.
If you're using ChatGPT to write your articles, at the very least read the output once before publishing it 😅 https://t.co/b7qYKA9unI
Benchmark Your Pitch Deck Against 4,000 Startups
Wondering how you stack up? Try the new SaaStr VC Pitch Deck Analyzer. We’ll share how you stack up against 4,000 other start-ups. And we’ll provide you honest and confidential feedback on how to do better. Try it here -> https://t.co/S5UFYzoN7a https://t.co/3M6fas5f2w
Creating Superintelligence Will Undermine, Not Amplify Power
If a country or company builds superintelligence, they'll and up *losing* power, not gaining power – this thought-provoking study explains why:
DeepMind's SIMA 2 Shows Incremental Yet Bittersweet Progress
Google DeepMind's SIMA 1 vs SIMA 2 The bitter lesson continues to be bitter sweet https://t.co/puwR92vCla
OpenBuilder: Free Open-Source App Builder with Unlimited Credits
OpenBuilder (@theopenbuilder) is the open source alternative to Lovable. Unlimited build credits and real developer support when you hit a wall. Built for non-technical builders to ship real apps. https://t.co/Wg51wSz5N9
Coca-Cola's AI Christmas Ad Signals Creative Industry Shift
Coca-Cola will once again have its Christmas commercial generated entirely by AI this year. When a billion-dollar company like Coca-Cola is doing that, just think about the pressure currently weighing on the creative industry. #CocaColaXFes2025 #cocacola #AI #AIart #aivideo @CyberRobooo @CurieuxExplorer...
Effortless, High-Quality Link Building Strategies Revealed
Here are some non-spammy link building strategies that don't take much effort but result in high quality links. https://t.co/n2cXlU7SJe via @martinibuster, @sejournal
