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    Articles & Playbooks

    AI, marketing, and building businesses that matter. Playbooks, frameworks, and applied strategy from Brian Hanson

    A laptop screen showing a comparison between AI search results and traditional website rankings.
    5 min

    Profound vs. Semrush: Which Tool Puts Your Business in the AI Answer Box?

    Stop chasing keywords and start optimizing for the answers AI gives your customers by comparing Profound and Semrush for your small business.

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    A small business owner looking at a single clean dashboard on a laptop screen summarizing sales data.
    4 min

    Stop Chasing Notifications: Wire Up a Single Hub for Social Selling

    Stop juggling five different apps to run your shop. Learn how to centralize your inventory and messages into one hub to save hours every week.

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    4 min

    Run a 26B AI Model on Your Mac for Zero Monthly Cost

    Run a 26B parameter AI model on your Mac for free. Save on fees and keep your data private using your existing M-series hardware.

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    5 min

    Stop Opening Every Word Doc: The AI Threat Hiding in Your Inbox

    AI worms can hide in standard Word documents to trick your AI assistant into leaking data or spreading malicious code through Microsoft Copilot.

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    A person looking at a laptop screen showing a ChatGPT conversation about local business services.
    5 min

    ChatGPT Search Ads Are Here: Should You Move Your Marketing Budget?

    OpenAI is launching ads in ChatGPT to challenge Google. Here is how small businesses can test this new channel without risking their current lead flow.

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    4 min

    Choosing Your AI Visibility Tools: Why a $500 Suite Might Be a Bad Investment

    Don't let expensive software suites drain your budget. Learn how to choose between HubSpot and lightweight AI visibility tools to get your business recommended by AI.

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    4 min

    Stop Trusting Black Box AI Logic For Your Business Math

    Stop trusting AI generated formulas blindly. Learn why verified logic is better than 1,000 lines of AI code for your business math.

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    5 min

    How to Bolt On an Invisible Trap to Audit Your Outsourced Content

    Learn how to use the invisible prompt trick to catch lazy freelancers sending you AI-generated content instead of human writing.

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    4 min

    Cursor AI Localized Pricing: What the India Push Means for Your Software Budget

    Cursor AI is cutting prices in India to $10 per month, signaling a shift in how small businesses fund and manage offshore software development.

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    4 min

    Stop Paying for Stock Subscriptions: Clean Your Product Photos for Free

    Learn how to use free, open source AI models to remove product backgrounds and save hundreds on photo editing fees.

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    A small business owner using a laptop to plan a product launch with AI tools.
    4 min

    How to Automate Product Planning Without a Creative Agency

    NEC and Anthropic have launched a new service that automates product planning and promotional design, allowing small businesses to skip creative agencies.

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    3 min

    Big Tech Lobbying Is Your Signal to Move Faster

    Big Tech is spending record millions on Washington lobbying. While they fight for influence, small businesses should move faster to adopt AI tools locally.

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