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Welcome to your daily unfair advantage.

Every morning, we cut through the noise to bring you sharp insights, fast news, and fresh sparks to light up your brain and fuel your hustle. From scrappy hacks to big tech moves, AI shifts to culture flips this is your intel to stay ahead, move fast, and break boring.

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Quick Hits

Getting Your Product Into ChatGPT Isn’t The Hard Part
(Getting into ChatGPT is one thing. Getting the AI shopper to actually buy? Welcome to the new CRO. 😭🛒)
Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape
(Chrome updating every two weeks... AI is making even browsers anxious. 💀)
Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know
(AI has so much new vocabulary we apparently need a dictionary just to keep up. 🤖📖)

Marketing Joke

SEO in 2026:
Rank on Google.
Get cited by ChatGPT.
Appear in AI shopping.

Then lose them at checkout. 😭💀

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

Your Biggest AI Search Risk Is Conflicting Information About Your Brand
Brands treat AI visibility as a content production problem. It isn’t. You cannot fix incorrect or outdated information in the LLMs by “simply” publishing more authoritative pages, adding more FAQs and comparison content, and explaining the product “one more time” but with feeling.
Google Says Ranking Recovery Takes Months After SEO Issues Are Fixed
Someone on Reddit asked for help troubleshooting two separate ranking issues that were happening simultaneously. Google’s John Mueller responded with encouragement on how to take a broader view of SEO problems in order to better catch what is going on.
AI chatbots talked 57.5% of AI users out of buying
AI chatbots have opened up a whole new customer acquisition funnel. And marketers now have to grapple with the exact same questions of resource allocation that dictate search engine budgets: prioritizing optimization for organic discovery, or paid advertising.
Google Says Ranking Recovery Takes Months After SEO Issues Are Fixed
Someone on Reddit asked for help troubleshooting two separate ranking issues that were happening simultaneously. Google’s John Mueller responded with encouragement on how to take a broader view of SEO problems in order to better catch what is going on.
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People

Eric Wu’s newest company, out of stealth since May, is going after construction’s labor crunch
Eric Wu built and ran Opendoor, one of the more ambitious real estate startups of the last decade, before stepping away in 2022 after fast-rising interest rates abruptly slowed down home sales.

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Pinterest offers advice on creating effective shopping promotions
Pinterest shared a new overview of how to best use its shopping promotions, with a four-step guide that provides a basic framework, in alignment with audience trends and interests.
Harvard Found The Public Has Little Objection To AI Taking Search Marketers’ Jobs
If you’ve been telling yourself that search marketing enjoys some kind of protected status because the public cares who, or what, does the work, Harvard just published the number that says otherwise.

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