A cold email pitched “AI search visibility” to a marketing manager, who called it a scam and told the sender to watch Dennis Yu videos instead. Here’s what happened when we actually checked the claims. The Cold Email That Started It All On April 3, 2026, Infinity Exteriors Marketing Manager Ethan Van De Hey received an unsolicited email from someone …
What Dennis Yu Learned About Brand SERPs from Jason Barnard
How two practitioners with different entry points to digital marketing arrived at the same conclusion about Knowledge Panels, entity recognition, and owning your narrative in search and AI. Dennis Yu and Jason Barnard on Kalicube Tuesdays discussing high-authority SEO for personal branding Dennis Yu — former Yahoo search engine engineer, BlitzMetrics CTO, and Facebook advertising pioneer — has appeared on …
When Your Own Lawyer Files a Petition That Harms You: A Cautionary Tale About Attorney Accountability
Aaron Gott, an attorney at Jarod Bona’s firm Bona Law, was hired to advocate for a young man involved in a high-stakes professional matter — and instead filed an unauthorized petition that caused lasting harm. I coach young adults who are building their careers, and one of the most painful situations I’ve witnessed recently involves a young adult I mentor …
Brad Strawbridge on Trust, Reputation, and Why He Fired Every Marketing Agency
Brad Strawbridge grew Capital City Roofing from zero to $3 million in his first year and is on track to hit $10 million in year two. Those numbers alone would make him worth paying attention to, but the numbers are not why I am writing this article. I am writing this because Brad is one of the most genuinely good …
How I Use AI Agents to Do My Marketing
Before you can tell an AI agent to do anything useful, you need to define the task. We have something called the 1000 Task Library, which is a collection of every repeatable task in our business at BlitzMetrics. How do you write a blog post? How do you run ads? How do you onboard a client? How do you send …
Why We Create Application Passwords on Every Personal Brand Site (And Why You Should Too)
We manage 159 personal brand websites through BlitzAdmin. Each one runs WordPress with Rank Math SEO, Elementor, and our Content Factory pipeline. When we built the automation system to run weekly fleet audits and daily content publishing across all 159 sites, we hit a wall that most agencies will eventually face: the WordPress REST API won’t let you write anything …
How Do I Use AI to Stand Out in a Crowded Field | Josh Collier
As an entrepreneur, have you ever wondered how to stand out from all the other people who look and sound the same, offering the same products and services? I sat down with my friend Josh Collier to show him exactly how, and the beauty is, it’s with assets he already had. I’m Dennis Yu, and on The Coach Yu Show, …
Everything We Know About Jacob Hayward Angel
Who Is Jacob Angel? Jacob Angel — full name Jacob Hayward Angel — is a San Francisco-based political operative, nonprofit founder, and self-described business consultant born in November 1991. He has presented himself as a cancer survivor, right leg amputee, and advocate for mental health parity for military veterans. Disclaimer: Over the past decade, Jacob Angel has been associated with …
How to Scale a Local SEO Agency with Real Proof
If you’re running a local SEO agency, building websites, or serving small businesses, I want to show you what’s actually working right now. Not theory. Not some magic ChatGPT prompt. Real examples from the last few days that are driving real results. I’m Dennis Yu. I was one of the first search engine engineers at Yahoo. I built the analytics …
Building Josh Collier’s Entire Brand Ecosystem — Every Step Documented
We built Josh Collier’s entire personal brand ecosystem in one sprint: Master Agent Plan, Book Blueprint, Podcast Inventory, website plans, content strategy, and knowledge graph. Every step, every decision, every deliverable — documented here.
Stop Faking Personalization— Your “Custom Loom” Isn’t Fooling Anyone
“Adam Miller” hit me up 3 times, swearing he made a video just for me. Spoiler: he didn’t. Click the Loom and the truth is obvious— he recorded one generic sales pitch, then let automation auto-scroll through my YouTube channel in the background. That’s it. The whole play is to trick you into thinking some human sat down and analyzed …
How an AI Agent Built a 214-Task Dashboard from Our Definitive Articles
Meta-Article Documenting what the AI agent actually did 214 Tasks Extracted 14 Articles Parsed $4.00 Agent Cost ~2 hrs Agent Time The Task Build an interactive dashboard that indexes the entire BlitzMetrics Task Library — every SOP, process, and operational task across every definitive article on blitzmetrics.com — then set up a daily automated scan that detects when new tasks …