Ideas

What I keep saying.

Plain takes on go-to-market distribution: how products actually get found, quoted and chosen, now that the click is dying. Each one is a claim, the reasoning, and the move you can run this week. Steal them.

Ghost citation (coin the term)

Educational - names the citation-without-clicks problem and hands over the 5-prompt check to see if you're quoted or just linked.

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Claude sends 1% of traffic and 18% of your buyers

Educational - the AI referral split, plus the move: test your buying prompts in Claude and Perplexity, not just ChatGPT.

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Half your AI presence isn't on your site

Educational - most AI citations aren't your site, so the move is to earn presence in the off-site pages models read.

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You don't need more ideas (one truth, five shapes)

Educational - the one-idea-five-formats content engine, drawn from Walker and Welsh, so you stop chasing new ideas.

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Your post is a storefront, not a store

Educational - the storefront test (one idea per post), borrowed from Pierri, so founder content stops getting scrolled.

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Won on Distribution: Calendly

Insight/reframe - product-led distribution explained through Calendly: the win was the built-in viral loop, not the features.

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I run growth and did nothing today (day in the life)

Relatable + insight - reframes the highest-leverage distribution work as looking like doing nothing; judge/admire paradox drives shares.

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SEO isn't dead, you did keyword theatre

Insight/relatable - reframes 'SEO is dead' as the death of low-effort keyword tactics, not of findability.

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They banned the em dash, not the slop

Insight/entertainment - the AI-slop crackdown is about originality, not tells; delete-the-generic is the real fix.

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Post the doubt, not the win

Insight/relatable - build-in-the-open explained: posting the doubt drives comments and distribution, posting the win doesn't.

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Answer laundering (coin the term)

Insight/reframe - names the dirty AEO tactic and hands over the 10-minute audit to catch it in your own category.

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Go check your own category: the live citation trail

Shock/novelty + educational - the citation trail exposed live, and the viewer learns the same 5-minute check.

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LinkedIn just muted generic founders

Educational - the delete-the-generic test that keeps founder content visible after the June update.

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Meta built a Reddit clone for the AIs

Educational - communities as the citation surface, one concrete move this week with an honest timeline.

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The most advanced AI marketing move of 2026

Insight/reframe - spend on presence where models read, not on watching a score.

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Should Be Huge: Roam vs Notion

An easy on-ramp (free tier + mobile) and community-owned templates beat a superior product.

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Should Be Huge: Arc vs Chrome

You don't beat a default by being better, you need a wedge worth the switching cost.

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Should Be Huge: Rdio vs Spotify

A free tier plus being where users already are beats superior design.

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Should Be Huge: Sketch vs Figma

A free, browser-based, collaborative model is itself a distribution engine that spreads through an org.

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AI cites Reddit before your website

AI answers are assembled from YouTube and Reddit citations, so this week answer 3 buyer threads on Reddit instead of writing another uncited blog post.

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Go ask AI to recommend your category

Run the 3 buyer prompts (comparison, verdict, switch) through ChatGPT; wherever you're missing from the answer is this month's findability target.

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Your 'link in comments' is killing reach

Write posts that deliver full value in-feed (zero-click); 'link in comments' gets throttled, dwell and saves get rewarded.

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You don't need more ideas

Take one core belief and post it five ways this week (teach / story / contrarian / list / prediction); topical authority now out-distributes follower count.

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LinkedIn is hunting your AI posts

LinkedIn is suppressing generic AI content; the winning move is one specific point of view only you could write (your 'scar tissue'), not more polish.

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The cease-and-desist that got 1,600 leads

Conflict and 'receipts' out-distribute polished content; when someone tries to suppress you, that suppression is your best post.

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A $1B company off one word

Naming a category is a distribution move worth more than the tech; the namer owns the conversation.

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Same post, 200 vs 400,000

Don't scrap flops: rewrite only the first 3 seconds and repost elsewhere. Treat it as distribution, not content.

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Betting on writing in a video-first world

Stack three asset types on purpose: video for reach (decays), writing for trust (compounds), curation for borrowed leverage.

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What the algorithm actually rewards

The platform, not your follower count, controls reach, so post where discovery still flows, not just where your audience already is.

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I don't do SEO

Stop optimizing to rank (the click is dying), optimize to be named in the AI answer.

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Bad news for my marketing budget

The 'paying more to reach fewer humans' truth in one frame, engineered for shares and comments.

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What 'investing in content' actually means

A dry say-vs-reality bit that lands the crawler-ratio point; shareable because it's true and funny.

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The Department of Distribution

A recurring deadpan-institution character that makes dry distribution lessons funny and bingeable.

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