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Guilt-based marketing is dying as consumers reject shame tactics. Discover why authenticity drives 3x higher customer lifetime value than manipulation.

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The Shame Economy: Why Guilt-Based Marketing Is Declining

Picture of Writing Team Writing Team: Jan 29, 2026 9:55:59 AM

Remember when your mom used guilt to get you to eat your vegetables? "Children in Africa are starving," she'd say, while your broccoli grew cold....

Marketing Psychology Behavior Behavioral economics
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Limited editions and artificial scarcity create anxiety for autistic collectors driven by completion compulsion. FOMO marketing exploits neurodivergent buying patterns—here's why that's unethical and bad business.

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Autistic Collector Behavior: Complete Sets and Marketing Implications

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Jan 26, 2026 8:00:01 AM

You release a limited edition product. Marketing 101 says scarcity drives desire. For neurotypical consumers, maybe. For autistic collectors, you...

Marketing Neurodivergence Behavior
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The internet is re-decentralizing. Mastodon, Bluesky, and federated protocols fragment audiences platforms once consolidated. Marketing strategies built for centralization won't survive distribution.

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The Federated Web: Marketing in a Decentralized Internet

Picture of Writing Team Writing Team: Jan 26, 2026 8:00:00 AM

For twenty years, the internet centralized. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram—a handful of platforms captured billions of users. Marketing adapted by...

Marketing Website Technology
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Viral marketing didn't start with social media. We trace shareability's evolution from word-of-mouth to algorithmic amplification—and why understanding this history reveals what actually makes content spread.

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The Genealogy of Viral Marketing: Tracing the Evolution of Shareability

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Before "viral" meant internet fame, it meant disease transmission. The metaphor was apt: ideas spread person-to-person, exponentially, through...

Social media Marketing Research Trends
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Discover why traditional volume-based content strategies are failing and how to adapt your marketing approach for audiences experiencing genuine attention scarcity.

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The Attention Recession: Marketing in an Overwhelmed World

Picture of Writing Team Writing Team: Dec 8, 2025 7:59:59 AM

We're not in an attention economy anymore. We're in an attention recession.

Marketing Digital marketing Communication
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Discover how understanding natural human behavior cycles—beyond traditional holidays—can transform your content strategy and increase engagement throughout the year.

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Content Seasonality Beyond Holidays: Mapping Human Behavior Cycles

Picture of Writing Team Writing Team: Dec 1, 2025 8:00:01 AM

Every content marketer knows to plan for Black Friday, back-to-school season, and year-end giving.

Marketing Product marketing Digital marketing
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Generation Alpha doesn't type—they talk to technology. This shift from typing to texting and voice changes everything about how brands must communicate.

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Generation Alpha Marketing: Understanding the First True Digital Natives

Picture of Writing Team Writing Team: Nov 11, 2025 10:09:04 AM

My seven-year-old niece asked Alexa to "find videos of cats doing silly things" last week.

Marketing Audience App marketing
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Learn how to build innovative marketing service offerings by starting with outcomes, working backward to deliverables, and creating modular packages for repeatability.

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Building Marketing Products That Don't Exist Yet

Picture of Lauren Keller Lauren Keller: Nov 10, 2025 8:00:04 AM

I spent last month building a service offering that doesn't exist anywhere in our current product lineup.

Marketing Product marketing
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Marketing leaders face an impossible choice: invest in upskilling existing teams or hire AI-native talent. Here's why the decision you make now will determine whether your organization survives the next 18 months.

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Train the Trainer or Fire the Team: The Leadership Dilemma in Marketing's AI Transition

Picture of Joy Youell Joy Youell: Oct 6, 2025 8:00:02 AM

There's a conversation happening in executive offices across the country that nobody wants to have out loud.

Marketing AI Leadership Thought Leadership Career
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Ambient computing makes technology invisible—and traditional marketing obsolete. Learn how smart homes, wearables, and predictive AI create new marketing contexts where utility beats interruption, plus three strategies that actually work when screens disappear.

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Ambient Computing and Marketing: When Technology Becomes Invisible

Picture of Writing Team Writing Team: Oct 6, 2025 8:00:00 AM

The best technology disappears. It becomes so seamlessly integrated into our environment that we stop noticing it's there at all.

Marketing Technology AI technology
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