This week, LinkedIn was awash with bad design examples A few hours after Chat GPT announced GPT-4o with image generation features, LinkedIn feed was awash with posts showing a mediocre visual created with the tool. Each promised a magical AI prompt in exchange for a comment. And thousands of people did sheepishly comment... Let me give you the actual prompt used by the self-proclaimed "experts" (example) so you won't have to comment: "Upload a screenshot of another brand's marketing creative...
22 days ago • 4 min read
I found an AI use case I like. And it's not saving but wasting time. But first, here are two new freebies I created this week, with non-gated access to Marketing Fix readers: 10x Chapter #1 of Marketing Audit Questions (Notion) LinkedIn Content Planning Template (Google Sheets) Also, I'm launching a new marketing course (!) on B2B Ad Creatives. More on this later. I just wanted to change my blog's theme & aesthetics... This week, I made the questionable decision to change my marketing blog's...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Social media in 2025: Go ALL IN or go ALL OUT A week ago, preparing the Social Media chapter of my marketing audit course, I had a revelation. In 2025, social media has become an ALL IN or ALL OUT marketing channel. By ALL IN, I mean that to get results from organic social media (Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn), brands (read: marketers) need to work hard. By hard work, I mean a 100% dedication to a social platform: 3-5 high-quality posts per week that can compete with big brands' social teams &...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of LinkedIn Ads This week, I was researching LinkedIn ad creatives for one of my upcoming marketing courses. First, I scrolled my feed: only the bad and the ugly. Defeated and bored, I resorted to the LinkedIn Ad Library and checked the high-growth B2B brands. What I found was the day to my LI feed's night. What high-growth B2B brands do differently: Experimentation ➡️ 50+ active ad creatives Proven best practices ➡️ top-performing ad types Irresistible...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Happy Friday, fellow marketing animals. One trend I forgot to include in my list of 55+ marketing predictions for 2025 is this: These days, no top marketers read the articles in vestigial marketing blogs. Instead, they search their LinkedIn feeds for the latest news and discussions. And they open their inboxes to find new deep dives on growth tactics, social media hacks, and strategic GTM by the leading content creators in industry. One thing that amazed me while researching the best...
3 months ago • 5 min read
Marketing Things is now Marketing Fix Over the past three weeks, I spent too many hours researching the marketing newsletter landscape. I was surprised to see that most Reddit forums and lists recommend the not-so-great newsletters by the industry's ancients: HubSpot, Moz, Neal Patel (or, as I found out, #stealpatel). That's not what the cool-kid marketers read these days, or is it? I hope not because there are lots of brilliant marketing newsletters out there, most written by individual...
3 months ago • 3 min read
TL;DR: Marketing trends will continue to shift A LOT this year... Writing about 2024 marketing trends, I focused on the Big Five of trends, including Gen Z social media, UGC-style content, AI hype going down (I was wrong) and sustainability going up. An important shift form the early 2020s is that marketing strategies, tactics, and channels have become increasingly differentiated among B2B v.s. B2C, virtual v.s. physical products. Also, there’s a whole new space of AI marketing tools, the...
4 months ago • 7 min read
Are industry trend reports worth the marketing investment? Last week, I wrote about creating a 30-page industry report for a B2B brand I'm working with. It took me ca 55h to research, write, design, and promote it, plus report on results. Was this enormous undertaking worth it? Many B2B software behemoths (HubSpot, Adobe, Salesforce), by launching and promoting "X Year Trends in X" reports seem to validate the strategy. But what about the small B2B brands just entering the market? Based on my...
4 months ago • 5 min read
Ever downloaded an industry trend report or e-book? As for me, I've downloaded 100+ of those.... Why? The landing page text might say things like "we polled nearly 1,800 designers and developers from four continents..." (Figma) but, of course, I never read the promo text. Because it's the impeccably designed cover that gets me. Like 8 billion other human animals, I'm a visual creature. The design team at Intercom wins the beauty pageant – as well as my email address that I exchange for the...
4 months ago • 7 min read