Essays
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Randy Wattilete - 09 Jun, 2026
- Digital marketing fundamentals
AI marketing strategy generator: how to use one (and what it can't do for you)
An AI marketing strategy generator takes your business details (industry, audience, goals, budget) and produces a structured marketing plan in minutes. It's genuinely useful for getting unstuck. But what comes out is a skeleton, not a strategy. If you want to build your marketing plan with AI in a ...
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Randy Wattilete - 09 Jun, 2026
- AI for the funnel
AI outreach tool: how to pick one that doesn't torch your domain
An AI outreach tool sends personalized emails and LinkedIn messages to your prospects automatically. The good ones help you write better messages faster. The ba ...
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Randy Wattilete - 09 Jun, 2026
- AI marketing / SEO services
AI SEO services: what you're actually buying (and what you're not)
AI SEO services use artificial intelligence to do the repetitive parts of search optimization faster: keyword research, content drafting, technical audits, comp ...
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Randy Wattilete - 09 Jun, 2026
- The one-person marketing stack
AI tools for affiliate marketing: one tool per job, skip the rest
AI can turn one affiliate into a content team. But the tools that win do research and differentiation, not bulk pages. The 71% of sites Google penalized i ...
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Randy Wattilete - 09 Jun, 2026
- The one-person marketing stack
Barriers to AI adoption: what actually stops teams (and how to get past it)
The biggest barriers to AI adoption are almost never the technology. They're skills gaps, trust issues, broken workflows, and (for a lot of small businesses) th ...
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Randy Wattilete - 09 Jun, 2026
- AI for SEO & research
Best AI SEO tools for 2026 (I tested the ones that matter)
Semrush for research, Surfer SEO for optimization, Frase for briefs. If you made me pick three best AI SEO tools right now, those are the ones I'd actually pay ...
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Randy Wattilete - 09 Jun, 2026
- The one-person marketing stack
Best AI tools for startups: the five-tool stack that replaces a team
A startup doesn't need fifteen AI tools. It needs five, one per job, for about $80 a month. That stack replaces a junior researcher, a freelance designer, ...
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Randy Wattilete - 09 Jun, 2026
- AI agents & agentic
How to build AI agents (a real playbook, not a Python tutorial)
You build an AI agent by giving a language model (like ChatGPT or Claude) a clear task, connecting it to tools, and letting it run in a loop until the job is do ...