Want to know more about what drives digital marketing, ecommerce, and digital transformation? Do you want your business to compete effectively in a landscape dominated by the Frightful Five (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft)? Curious how businesses like Booking.com, OpenTable, Airbnb, and Uber used digital to connect with customers? Then you’ve come to the right place. Every week, the Thinks Out Loud Podcast explores what works in the worlds of ecommerce, digital marketing, digital transformation, and digital strategy.
Host Tim Peter offers an insightful look under the hood of some of the world’s top companies and helps you apply their strategies to your business — all in just 20 minutes or less. Why not check out the latest episodes right here — or subscribe in your favorite podcast app today.
Is It Impossible for Marketers to Keep Up With AI? (Thinks Out Loud 459)
My friend Mark Schafer just asked a brilliant question on LinkedIn about whether small and mid-sized businesses are destined to fall behind when it comes to AI. It’s a beautiful…
Digital Reset: Build Customer Relationships Big Tech—and AI—Can’t Touch (Thinks Out Loud 458)
This is a huge week around here. I’ve just announced the release of my new book, Digital Reset: Driving Marketing and Customer Acquisition Beyond Big Tech. Which, yay, and all.…
Google Says You Should Not Use AI To Create Content… Kind Of (Thinks Out Loud 457)
Google may have just told marketers they can never use AI to create content. Or... maybe not. Their actual recommendations are somewhat more nuanced than simply “AI bad” or “AI…
Here We Go Again: Marketing in Another Bizarre Economy (Thinks Out Loud 456)
So, the economy has been going through it over the last couple months — and especially over the last week in particular. That’s a plain fact. But it’s more than…
AI Can’t Save Bad Strategy: Why Fundamentals Still Matter in 2025 (Thinks Out Loud Episode 455)
If there’s one thing I hate to see, it’s marketers, e-commerce, and customer acquisition folks who talk about AI as if it’s going to solve every problem their business has.…
Should You Use AI to Create Your Content? (Thinks Out Loud Episode 454)
Artificial intelligence plays an ever-increasing role in marketing, e-commerce, and customer acquisition. Loads of companies and marketers use AI to plan, create, personalize, and measure their marketing activities. In general,…