A dofollow link is a living recommendation. When a client withdraws trust, keep the story and stop passing juice. The close-out any agency can copy.
YouTube Captions On by Default
Every YouTube embed we ship turns captions on in the player. Long-form and podcast pages are why. Do not invent a track.
How AI Agents Fixed Our Power Hour Onboarding Automation
The Task Summary AI agents fixed our Power Hour onboarding automation after a client purchase exposed a broken flow. On June 30, 2026, Ryan White of Social Revelation bought a one-on-one Claude AI Agent Setup session after his Power Hour with Dennis Yu, and hit a dead thank-you page. Dennis asked Ops for a root cause analysis and a repeatable …
Ian and Mandy Furse did not ask for a customer review. They earned a character one.
1:48 with Ian and Mandy Furse of Ninja Plumbing, Heating and Air in Lehi. Not a customer testimonial. Character from a hike, Boulder ice cream, and a hotel drop-off. ninjahvac.com scored 58/100 outside-in. Pass is 80.
Should You Ask About Salary Before Applying?
Someone emailed me this week about an open role. Seventeen years in software, an MBA, ran his own business, hundreds of customer interviews. Strong background. His first message asked how much it pays. I told him it wasn’t a fit and not to bother applying. He was surprised, and I don’t blame him. So here’s an honest answer to a …
How we repurposed Optimize Live honors without a second hub
Unique phrase: OPTIMIZE-LIVE-HONOR-2026-08-26. This is the factory write-up for Dennis’s Optimize Live honor list — Jack Allard, Isaac Hall, and Marko Sipila — not a second leave-behind. The canonical talk page stays dennisyu.com/optimize. What was already there The Aug 18 leave-behind was live before this run. It already named Marko Sipila next to Cam Hazzard and Dylan Haugen. It did …
How Cursor ran a Mumbai video factory across Qwen, Descript Haiku, and a human go-live gate
February 2024 Yangpoo classroom finally went through the factory in 2026: local Qwen for bulk, Descript Haiku for clips, Cursor Grok for routing and voice. Nothing public until Dennis says live.
How to Manage Your Google Local Services Ads
Most LSA accounts aren’t underperforming because of budget. They’re underperforming because nobody is working them. Leads pile up unrated, photos stay stock, and the one report metric that actually predicts lead volume goes unwatched. Here’s the full process I use, start to finish. This assumes your account is already live. If it isn’t, start with setting up Local Service Ads …
How to Install Local Qwen (MLX, No Ollama)
Local Qwen on Apple Silicon is an MLX server on loopback: Python 3.11, official 4-bit Qwen3.8-27B, mlx_vlm.server on port 8080. Cursor stays the conductor. This install is the worker. Do not use Ollama or paste 127.0.0.1 into Cursor. Routing map: Cursor and local Qwen.
Cursor and Local Qwen Are Not the Same Qwen
Cursor is the app; Qwen can run in the cloud or on your Mac. Compare the roles, then follow the maintained local installation recipe to set up and test a worker.
How We Made Definitive-Article Strength Measurable
A source-backed system for scoring definitive articles by their verified meta-article orbit and keeping each hub connected to the Task Library in both directions.
How We Built a Personal Brand Engine for Dr. Adrienne Lara
Six answers from one sit-down interview became six publishable clips and three cross-linked articles in under an hour. The Content Factory method, documented end to end.