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Trying Copy.AI in August 2021

I’ve tried copy.ai around February of this year, and I really wasn’t impressed with it. However, there’s been a steady stream of positive buzz around it, including people in the content and marketing space that I trust and respect, so I figured I’d give it another try. Signed up for a trial account, and they ...

How to prepare for the AI-content world

AI tools are definitely moving aggressively into the content world, and there’s no doubt that soon, AI-generated content will saturate the web. Right now the quality of that content is… well, nothing to worry about. But this will change as the technology improves. Ryan Law from Animalz shared an insightful article: His take: For many ...

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Master new marketing skills the Lex Fridman way

Lex Fridman shared an interesting framework for learning and mastering a new skill: Year 1: Spend 2 hours a day doing this. Every day. This builds the foundation Year 2-5: Spend 1 hour per day to build the expertise. From year 5 onwards: Spend a few minutes ever day, but make that a hard lower ...

LinkedIn for B2B Leads

The folks over at DemandCurve just published a massive guide on using (organic) LinkedIn as a B2B customer acquisition channel. It’s all about posting great content on LinkedIn, building a following, and eventually taking that following off LinkedIn to specific offers to convert them into high-value leads and eventually customers. Read the full guide here. ...

Tim Soulo’s Link Building Outreach Learnings

Tim Soulo recently tweeted some of his learnings from a quick link building outreach experiment. Let’s talk about “Link Building Outreach.” I recently tried to acquire some links to one of my blog posts.. So I reviewed ~200 link prospects (collected by a contractor) and sent ~90 emails. …and it was quite a learning experience ...

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The Role of Freedom of Speech in Democratic Societies

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Not-dumb message testing for B2B SaaS? Wynter from Peep Laja

If you want to put your product messaging to the test, there’s a lot of BS agencies that will gladly take your money to tell you things you already knew, or things you really shouldn’t know because they just don’t get it. Fortunately, now there’s Wynter. They actually provide meaningful, impactful message testing. Peep Laja ...

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Marketing attribution: HTML anchor links and UTM parameters—here’s how to make them work together

Usually, you just attach UTM parameters to the end of a link and it’s fine. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi?utm_campaign=supersauce&utm_medium=saucial&utm_source=saucebook But if you’re linking to a specific section of a webpage using an anchor link, attaching the UTM parameter to the end will mess things up—basically it will render the anchor link useless. Instead, it will just link ...