It was 2 AM in Los Angeles. Leo Pohlmann and I had spent the entire day at Six Flags Magic Mountain, rode twenty-some rides until we nearly threw up, left the park at 10 PM, and then talked for three hours. Our Uber to the airport was seven hours out. Instead of sleeping, we hit record. What came out is …
Most Agencies Won’t Survive AI: Igor Ivitskiy and Paul Ryazanov on What Comes Next
A lot of agencies will just die. Igor Ivitskiy says it plainly, sitting across from Paul Ryazanov in Manchester. Not most in some vague sense, but the majority in every single niche. What follows is his case for why, and what the ones left standing will look like. Winning clients was never the hard part Paul frames the issue early. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
3 Simple Techniques Alex Makowski and I Use to Drive Leads Without Being Sales Bros
Alex Makowski and I just got off stage at DigiMarCon in New York. We sat down right after to talk about what actually works when it comes to personal branding and generating leads without being pushy or salesy. What we covered isn’t theory. This is stuff we live and breathe every single day. And the truth is, most people are …
What the ONE Thing You Want AI to 100x Multiply for You?
Here’s something most people in digital marketing don’t realize yet: one person using AI agents can now outperform an entire team of virtual assistants. Not by a small margin. By 100x. That’s not hype. That’s what I’ve seen firsthand, and it’s what leaders like Sam Altman, Dario Amadei, Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk are all saying too. AI agents are …
Why Coating Launch Is My #1 Pick for Concrete Coating Lead Gen
If you run a concrete coating company, chances are you’ve been burned by a marketing agency before. They slide into your DMs or pop up in your feed making big promises, and then the phone never rings. I’ve seen it happen hundreds of times across the home service industry. That’s why when something actually works, I pay attention. What makes …
Stop Typing to AI: Give Agents the Context They Need
Short prompts make AI guess. Dennis Yu shows how context-rich voice briefs give AI agents the goal, evidence, constraints, and definition of done they need to deliver useful work.
Stop Using AI Like Everyone Else
I’m standing at the Avatar Mountains in China, the place that inspired the movie Avatar. And everyone around me is doing the exact same thing: taking the same photos, from the same angles, at the same spots. It’s a perfect metaphor for what’s happening with AI right now. The problem with how people use AI A billion people are using …