“Something I Learned Yesterday” Podcast

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220: 9 ways to make your content unique

219: How to deal with overlapping tech functions

218: AI and the revolt of the left hemisphere

216: Pay attention when your customers stop paying attention

215: Flyby users don’t create robust databases

214: A CDP use case for shoe stores

213: How to fix web advertising

212: CDP Basics: online vs. offline data

211: Tools and mental models to get past the ordinary

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How Elon Musk Solves Problems; 4 Key Frameworks
Creative Thinking Cards Deck
Lessons on Branding from the World’s Most Iconic Cold

210: Posts on the internet are not “public data,” and storytelling

209: How to beat AI’s woke superego

208: Ken Holsinger’s insights on what people really want with events

207: Mr. Pareto meets your tech stack

206: What’s the best content recommendations strategy?

205: AI lessons from Dune

204: CDP Basics — from unknown to known

203: Do magazines have a place in the digital world?

202: There’s more to use cases than ROI

201: Marketing automation campaigns will fail. Here’s what to do.

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How to keep your marketing automation campaigns from ruining your week

200: How to give advice that people want to follow

199: Google vs. Publishers Part 4 – What’s Next?

198: Google vs. Publishers Part 3 — Generative AI

197: Google vs. Publishers Part 2 — Search

196: Google vs. Publishers Part 1 — Copyright

195: Where were the experts to guide the publishing industry?

194 Marketers should measure what they can, but also be skeptical

193: Publisher fears are coming to fruition, plus 2 paths forward

192: DEI makes a monkey of Google, plus correlation and causation

191: Get and use granular customer feedback

190: The cookie is not going away

189: The great niche debate. Is it “neesh” or “nitch”?

188: Publishers need to think beyond the website

187: Learn the language of AI image generation

186: Media as messiah

185: Email open rates are less reliable but still valuable

184: Email deliverability for paid e-newsletters

183: The solution to the media crisis is to get more talent

182: A 6 step, no-cost way to improve your operations

181: The dangers in asking editors to post on social media

180: Will the print to digital transformation be complete or partial?

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BoSacks speaks out: Printed magazines are falsely maligned as relics of the past
I’m announcing the death of “the death of print”
You don’t have to be a Luddite to see the value of print

179: The cool and slightly scary future of e-newsletters

178: What is “composable software” and how does it work?

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Tuco at the gun shop

177: Stop registration wall cheaters by demanding an active, engaged email address

176: I approve 2 out of 4 of these B2B marketing suggestions

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Four areas every B2B marketer should explore in 2024

175: How to add emails to your CDP online profiles without creating a mess

174: Print can be a useful differentiator

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Impact of Print and Mail in Modern Marketing Strategy
Online advertising: The funny, fuzzy math
The death of “the death of print”

173: Things to test when editors use AI

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Daily Maverick experiments with in-house AI solutions while learning from its editors

172: 5 ways to improve digital magazines

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Magazines were supposed to die in the digital age. Why haven’t they?
I’m announcing the death of “the death of print”
You don’t have to be a Luddite to see the value in print
We need to improve reader comprehension online

171: Does your design need an escape hatch? Interview with Tricia Okin

170: CDP use cases for retail

169: OpenAI admits they steal copyrighted information

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New York Times: All is fair in love and AI
OpenAI admits it’s impossible to train generative AI without copyrighted materials

168: Four ways publishers can use propensity models

167: How to create a subscriber-only podcast

166: The downsides of personalization

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The Risk of Personalization: do people want and trust it?