Dennis Yu breaks down what Nathaniel Stevens’ $342M Yodle exit teaches founders — from finding a CTO with flyers to learning SQL and prompting.
How We Built Piotr Zawiślak’s Personal Brand From One Interview
We taught 76 dunkers a system at The Dunk Camp, then ran it end to end on one of them. Here is how one interview became Piotr Zawiślak’s personal brand site.
What Josh Felber Taught Me About Real Gratitude
Josh Felber sent me a box of handcrafted knives, engraved “exclusively for Dennis,” with a handwritten card. I opened it on camera because the gesture said everything I try to teach people about building real relationships. It was not a mass-mailed swag bag. It was specific, it was personal, and it was clearly built for one person. That is exactly …
5 Steps to Own Your Own Marketing
If you’re a business owner paying an agency to handle your marketing, there’s a good chance you have no idea what’s actually happening with your money. That’s not because your agency is trying to scam you. It’s because most business owners never set up the right systems to stay informed. I’ve been in this game a long time. I was …
Recursive Self Improvement for AI Agents
Recursive self-improvement is the process of building AI agents that learn from their own output and get smarter every time they complete a task. Anthropic recently shared that they’re generating eight times more code than they were just a few quarters ago using this same approach. The principle is straightforward: when an agent does work, it documents what it did, …
AI Slop in My Inbox: The Cobbler’s Son Has No Shoes
This week a cold email landed in my inbox with a subject line about “a few thoughts on BlitzMetrics’ digital presence.” Attached was a seven-page PDF titled a “Digital Growth Audit Report,” generated by a firm calling itself Pulse Grow AI. The note was friendly, even flattering. It complimented my Dollar a Day advertising strategy and the BlitzMetrics YouTube library, …
How We Repurposed Marketing Mechanic Episode 39 Into 10 Pieces of Content
I recorded episode 39 of Marketing Mechanic about Google’s biggest search change in 25 years. It was a single video, shot at the Cleveland Airport, no fancy production. Just me talking into my phone about what happened at Google I/O. From that one recording, we created 10 pieces of content without writing a single thing from scratch. Here’s exactly how …
Google’s Biggest Change in 25 Years Released Just Last Week
Last week, Google made the biggest change to search in twenty-five years. They released it at their Google I/O keynote in Mountain View, and while it’s exciting for business owners and people using AI agents, it’s going to disrupt over 95% of marketers, especially SEO consultants. The end of ten blue links For as long as we can remember, search …
Your Career in Digital Marketing With Us– Everything You Need to Know to Get Hired
So you’re thinking about joining a digital marketing team, but you’re not sure what that actually means day to day. What’s the job? How much do you get paid? What skills do you need? And is this a real career or just some influencer hype? Let me break it all down. How the business works We serve local service businesses. …
How I Repurposed a Two-Hour Podcast About My Life Into a Full Content System
I recorded a two-hour podcast where I shared stories from my life about mentorship, creating jobs in Pakistan through digital marketing, what I learned working at Yahoo, and what I’d tell my younger self. Step 1: Clean up the audio I removed 24 silence gaps totaling about 29 seconds of dead air throughout the recording. I set minimum gap duration …
What My Mentor Taught Me 30 Years Ago Changed Everything
There’s this crazy guy named Rehan Allahwala. He’s got 15 million followers on Facebook, and he messaged me saying he wanted to meet in Silicon Valley. I thought he was just another random person hitting me up. I told him I’d be speaking at a conference in San Francisco and to meet me there at 5 PM when I got …
How First Choice Mechanical Can Become the Obvious HVAC Choice in Phoenix: A Quick Audit
First Choice Mechanical is already a top-rated Phoenix HVAC contractor on ConsumerAffairs (9.4/10) — but Day & Night shows 9,399 Google reviews on its site to First Choice’s 999. Here’s the public-signal audit that explains the confidence gap and a 90-day agent plan to close it. Full PDF attached.