Few apps cycle through trends as quickly as TikTok. I spend endless hours scrolling through the app, and it feels like every other day, a new trending sound, topic, song, or challenge is going viral. It can be hard to keep up, and I say this as a content creator and marketer whose job is…

Shoplifters lurk in the shadows. They realize that they will have an easier time if they quietly steal stuff, because speaking up about it won’t help their cause. Sometimes, though, some people seek to change the culture in a way that celebrates taking. “I own this jetski and I can ride it as long, as…

Engineers can optimize a bridge. There are some bridge designs that satisfy aesthetic, financial, durability, safety and efficiency needs better than others. The work of optimization is finding the best set of tradeoffs. Maximization, on the other hand, seeks the solution that ranks the highest for just one goal. After it peaked, Yahoo sought to…

If you don’t realize that you have power, you might not be able to exercise it. The power to speak up, to participate, to invent, to lead, to encourage, to vote, to connect, to organize, to march, to write, to say ‘no’ or to say ‘yes’. It’s tempting to imagine we have less power than…

Whether you’re a user or a marketer, Robin will explain to you what you should absolutely know about Large Language Models.

One way to look at power is “you get to tell people what to do.” But an alternative is that the most powerful institutions, brands and people are the ones who are in alignment with their audience. Trust and the benefit of the doubt are more powerful and resilient than command and control. It’s more…

If you think Google’s removal of third-party cookies for Chrome browser users requires a legal or technical solution, you would be wrong. Marketers should do this instead.

Link building plays a crucial role in your SEO campaigns and overall business success. Setting OKRs can help you implement the best link-building strategies and achieve your SEO goals.

Let’s explore three common mistakes and how you can fix them. Believing everything ChatGPT says is never a good idea, but believing answers to questions it doesn’t have data to answer is a recipe for disaster. For example, here’s me… Read more ›

First, we have someone offering us to pay for it: Then there’s someone else, framing their backlink request as a “guest post opportunity”: And finally, here’s the most professional one of the three. This email looks fairly well written, but… Read more ›