Lead generation advice ages fast. The tactics that produced solid results in 2021 are not reliably producing the same results in 2026, and the gap between what worked then and what works now has widened considerably with the rise of AI-driven marketing tools on both sides of the equation. Businesses […]
Every AI marketing tool claims to be smart. Most of them are smart in the same way autocomplete is smart. They recognize patterns in language and produce outputs that look plausible. Feed them a brief and they generate content. Feed them a customer list and they segment it. They are […]
Most business owners in McKinney and Collin County know their business better than anyone. They know the quality of their work, the problems they solve, and why their customers are better off for having hired them. What they frequently do not know how to do is explain it in a […]
Outbound email had a rough decade. Inboxes got smarter about filtering it, recipients got better at ignoring it, and the prevailing wisdom in marketing circles shifted firmly toward inbound. Build content. Earn attention. Let customers come to you. Outbound was something you did when you were desperate or did not […]
The term fractional CMO gets used a lot in marketing circles right now. Like most terms that gain traction quickly, it has started to mean different things to different people. Some agencies slap it on a retainer package that is essentially account management with a fancier title. Others are offering […]
There is a ceiling that most marketing agencies hit somewhere between 15 and 25 clients. Below that number, a good team can manage the workload through process and effort. Above it, things start to slip. Emails go out late. Reports are thinner than they should be. Account managers spread across […]
There is a pattern that shows up repeatedly among established businesses in McKinney and the broader Collin County area. The business is doing well. Revenue is solid. The owner has invested in marketing: a web designer here, an SEO vendor there, someone running Facebook ads, maybe an agency handling email. […]
Ask any marketing agency principal what their biggest operational headache is and they will not say clients. They will say software. The average agency runs somewhere between 12 and 20 separate tools to manage client work, and most of those tools were not designed to talk to each other. Data […]
Momento mori ,or, On taking myself to seriously A treatise on The Consumed. A video game in development. Making this horror game has been a ton of fun. It’s weird how much horror shows you. I was talking with the other game designer on this project and we agreed that […]
Here Is What That Actually Looks Like. AI-powered marketing has been a buzzword in the DFW area for a couple of years now. Every agency from Frisco to Allen claims to offer it. Most of them mean they use ChatGPT to write blog posts and call it a strategy. Actual […]