Essays
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Randy Wattilete - 15 Jun, 2026
- The one-person marketing stack
Will marketing be replaced by AI? The honest answer (and what to do about it)
No. Marketing will not be replaced by AI. But your marketing job is already changing underneath you, and pretending it isn't is the actual risk. 88% of companies now use AI in some form (McKinsey, 2025). [86% of marketing teams](https:/ ...
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Randy Wattilete - 15 Jun, 2026
- AI for SEO & research
Will AI replace SEO? No, but the target just moved
No. AI will not replace SEO. But it already changed what SEO means. The job used to be simple: rank on the first page of Google, get clicks. Now people ask Cha ...
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Randy Wattilete - 14 Jun, 2026
- AI for the funnel
AI BDR: what it actually does well (and where it burns your brand)
An AI BDR is software that does parts of a sales rep's outbound job: building prospect lists, researching accounts, writing cold emails, and following up. It ha ...
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Randy Wattilete - 14 Jun, 2026
- Automation & workflows
AI blog automation: automate the pipeline, keep a human on the gate
AI blog automation is using AI to handle the repeatable stages of running a blog (research, briefs, drafts, formatting, internal links, scheduling) while a huma ...
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Randy Wattilete - 14 Jun, 2026
- The one-person marketing stack
AI cheat sheet: 6 prompt patterns that do 80% of the work
Here's a real AI cheat sheet. Six prompt patterns. They cover roughly 80% of what you'll use AI for on any given workday. Not sixty. Not a hundred. Six. ...
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Randy Wattilete - 14 Jun, 2026
- AI content engine
AI content analysis: a flashlight, not a critic
AI content analysis is using AI to audit, score, and diagnose your existing content at scale. Not rewrite it. Not improve it. Just look at what you have and tel ...
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Randy Wattilete - 14 Jun, 2026
- AI content engine
AI content editing: a brilliant line editor and a terrible taste judge
AI content editing means using AI tools to revise, tighten, and polish your writing. It's genuinely good at the mechanical stuff: grammar, spelling, sentence cl ...
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Randy Wattilete - 14 Jun, 2026
- AI content engine
AI content repurposing: stop reformatting, start re-angling
AI content repurposing means taking one piece of content and adapting it for different platforms using AI. A blog post becomes a LinkedIn post, a newsletter iss ...