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AI Can’t Save Bad Strategy: Why Fundamentals Still Matter in 2025 (Thinks Out Loud Episode 455)
Artificial Intelligence (AI), E-commerce, Marketing, Podcast, Strategy

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.…

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MidJourney created image of young professional marketer trying to keep up as fires and floods surround them to illustrate the idea of diversifying your marketing mix when there's too much to do
Revisiting How to Diversify Your Marketing Mix When There’s Too Much to Do (Thinks Out Loud)
E-commerce, Marketing, Podcast, Social Media, Strategy

Revisiting How to Diversify Your Marketing Mix When There’s Too Much to Do (Thinks Out Loud)

A listener of this show told me recently that, “People are already overwhelmed with the amount of social media they manage.” That’s a real challenge, on that can make it…

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MidJourney generated illustration of three runners in a race to represent the idea of Google trying to win the AI economy
Will Marketers Bet that Google Wins the AI Economy? (Thinks Out Loud Episode 433)
Artificial Intelligence (AI), E-commerce, Google, Marketing, Podcast, Search, Strategy

Will Marketers Bet that Google Wins the AI Economy? (Thinks Out Loud Episode 433)

Google faces enormous threats to its business. New entrants using artificial intelligence may provide a better search experience for their customers. Those same new entrants are also competing for Google’s…

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MidJourney generated image of marketer overwhelmed by amount of work and number of marketing channels to illustrate the idea of trying to diversify her company's marketing mix.
Diversifying Your Marketing Mix When There’s Too Much to Do (Thinks Out Loud Episode 430)
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Transformation, E-commerce, Leadership, Marketing, Podcast, Social Media, Strategy

Diversifying Your Marketing Mix When There’s Too Much to Do (Thinks Out Loud Episode 430)

We talk a lot on this show about diversifying away from Big Tech generally, and about diversifying away from Google, specifically. Which is great in theory. But it can be…

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