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DAY 01Monday MAY 11 · 20262 SUMMARIES
OpenAI NewsMarketing & Growth

ChatGPT Ads Add Self-Serve, CPC Bidding, Conversion Tracking

OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads access via partners and US beta Ads Manager, introduces CPC bidding for click-based spend in decision-oriented chats, and adds privacy-safe Conversions API/pixel tracking for aggregated performance insights.

OpenAI News
MicroConfMarketing & Growth

SaaS Copy Fixes: VOC Research + 5 Conversion Killers

Gather voice-of-customer data, extract sticky phrases for authentic copy, and fix 5 mistakes like we-we focus and mistimed features to boost homepage, email, and landing page conversions.

DAY 02Sunday MAY 10 · 20261 SUMMARIES
AI with SuryaMarketing & Growth

Pomelli Catalog Scales On-Brand Ads from Product Sites

Pomelli's new Catalog auto-pulls your full product lineup from your website, generates AI photoshoots and channel-ready campaigns, eliminating repetitive shoots for small businesses like jewelry shops.

AI with Surya
DAY 03Saturday MAY 9 · 20263 SUMMARIES
SaaStr Blog (Jason Lemkin)Marketing & Growth

397% Growth: Specific AI Ops Content Hooks B2B Founders

SaaStr's 'The Agents' podcast surged 397% in views by delivering specific AI agent operational breakdowns with hard numbers, drawing 97% new viewers and boosting watch time 124%—YouTube's AI agent explains why this beats vague AI hype.

SaaStr Blog (Jason Lemkin)
Duncan Rogoff | AI AutomationMarketing & Growth

Claude + vidIQ MCP Audits YouTube for Growth Leaks

Install vidIQ MCP in Claude in 30s to audit channels: spot shorts funnel gaps (e.g., 140k-view short unused long-form), compare competitors like Nate Obert's 200k subs/90 days via velocity, fix titles/thumbnails, and build dashboards from one prompt.

Towards AIMarketing & Growth

Build AI as a Marketing System for Consistent Output

Ditch one-off AI prompts like 'LinkedIn post ideas.' Create a repeatable system with a 400-word context document and idea log to generate targeted drafts, cutting content production time while ensuring outputs match your voice and business.

DAY 04Friday MAY 8 · 20261 SUMMARIES
AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)Marketing & Growth

AEO: 3 Pillars to Dominate AI Answers Over Google

Traditional search drops 25% by 2026 per Gartner; service businesses win AI visibility via AEO's 3 pillars—consensus, info gain, semantic structure—proven by client appearing in Grok queries.

AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)
DAY 05Thursday MAY 7 · 20262 SUMMARIES
Agrici DanielMarketing & Growth

Marketing Brain: AI Vault for 18k Keyword SEO Strategies

Marketing Brain uses Claude Code and DataForSEO to mine 18,000+ unique keywords from top 10 competitors, generating compounding 30/60/90-day white-hat SEO plans in an Obsidian vault via the FLOW framework.

Agrici Daniel
Marketing Against the GrainMarketing & Growth

Dominate AI Answer Engines with HubSpot's Free AEO Tool

HubSpot's AEO tool tracks daily brand visibility, share of voice, and sentiment in AI engines like ChatGPT, generates persona-specific prompts, reveals channel influences (e.g., peers drive 55% for Dell), and provides prioritized content recommendations like listicles to boost performance—test actions by dropping URLs to measure impact.

DAY 06May 6, 2026 MAY 6 · 20265 SUMMARIES
Liam OttleyMarketing & Growth

Close AI Clients with Trust, Pilots, and Warm Outreach

Top AI sellers build trust through polished presence, detach from outcomes, use $1-2k exploration pilots to prove value, and prioritize warm outreach plus in-person events over cold tactics.

Liam Ottley
Learning DataMarketing & Growth

Test Campaign Boosts Profit but Needs Funnel Fixes

Test campaign delivers higher revenue ($781,850 vs $758,050) and profit ($704,958 vs $691,232) with stat sig (p~0), higher CTR (10.2% vs 5.1%), but lower ROI (9.3 vs 10.6) and CAC ($4.92 vs $4.41). Scale it while targeting mid-funnel drop-offs.

Neil PatelMarketing & Growth

Google #1 Ranks Fail AI Citations: Retrievability Wins

AI pulls from retrievable sources, not Google tops: 90% cited pages rank 21+ on Google. Prioritize site structure, third-party entity links, platform-specific presence, and fresh content for 7x citation gains.

Generative AIMarketing & Growth

AI Search Slashes Ad Clicks by 68%, Kills SEO Tricks

Google AI Overviews deliver direct answers, dropping paid CTR 68% and organic 61% on affected queries, as users trust summaries over ads and leave without clicking—marketers must shift to authoritative content for citations.

Chris KoernerBusiness & SaaS

Rank-and-Rent Sites: $104K/M Passive Lead Gen Biz

Kyle built a $104K/month business by creating simple local SEO websites in underserved niches, ranking them on Google, and renting leads to businesses for flat monthly fees with near-zero maintenance.

DAY 07May 5, 2026 MAY 5 · 20264 SUMMARIES
Towards AIMarketing & Growth

Make Your Site an AI Answer Machine with Question Pages

Transform your website from a human brochure to an AI-citable answer machine by creating pages that directly answer client questions, using structured formats, FAQ schema, expertise signals, and internal links—boosting recommendations without redesigns.

Towards AI
Neil PatelMarketing & Growth

Get Cited in AI: Structure for Answer Engine Wins

AI favors clear, structured content like lists and step-by-steps with data-backed claims, plus off-site authority—shift from SEO rankings to citations for higher conversions without clicks.

Marketing Against the GrainMarketing & Growth

Invert AI Content Slop with Opposite Start Framework

AI content converges on repetitive ideas; use Claude's 'Opposite Start' skill to scan X, Reddit, web, LinkedIn for popular narratives, invert them across 6 lenses, and get a full ideation brief for blue-ocean angles that outperform red-ocean slop.

PixelmojoMarketing & Growth

AI Visibility Scores Demand Live LLM Queries

Most AI SEO tools use static proxies like schema checks, but true visibility requires live queries to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini to see what models actually output about your brand.

DAY 08May 4, 2026 MAY 4 · 20263 SUMMARIES
Generative AIMarketing & Growth

GPT Image 2 Speeds Marketing Asset Creation 5x

Brands prototype UGC ads, product shots, brand kits, virtual try-ons, and app screenshots with GPT Image 2 on Topview.ai, testing ideas in minutes to cut production costs and boost campaign ROI without replacing creative teams.

Generative AI
Exposure NinjaMarketing & Growth

27% Traffic Gain: SEO Fixes for 10k+ Page Sites

Audited a 10,000+ page global brand site revealing compounded issues like 349 duplicate titles and 1,500 missing alt texts; prioritized via impact-effort matrix, fixed systematically to boost organic traffic 27%, rankings 2.7 positions, and double AI overview visibility.

MicroConfMarketing & Growth

SaaS Affiliate Flywheel: Scale Revenue via Partners

Implement the 4-phase Profitable Partnerships Flywheel to attract Keystone (big complementary partners) and Pollinator (customers) affiliates, driving 19-20% revenue like Hello Audio and Senja, with guaranteed ROI over paid ads.

DAY 09May 3, 2026 MAY 3 · 20261 SUMMARIES
Jono CatliffMarketing & Growth

Claude Code: Build 20% Converting Lead-Gen Sites

Use Claude Code in Anti-Gravity to generate no-code landing pages with 14 proven elements, dynamic personalization, testing, and automation for 10x average conversions without writing code.

Jono Catliff
DAY 10May 1, 2026 MAY 1 · 20261 SUMMARIES
Exposure NinjaMarketing & Growth

Google's AI Search Boom Challenges Brand Strategies

Google's 19% ad revenue surge shows AI Overviews expanding search, not killing it—brands must adapt SEO for AI journeys over panicking into paid ads.

Exposure Ninja
DAY 11April 30, 2026 APR 30 · 20262 SUMMARIES
Marketing Against the GrainMarketing & Growth

6 Checkpoints to Outrank AI Slop on Google

Beat commodity content flooding search with Danny Sullivan's 6 checkpoints: proprietary evidence, firsthand experience, specificity (replace adjectives with numbers/names/dates), point of view, LLM test, and information gain. Top Google result for 'compare countertops' scores just 9/100.

Marketing Against the Grain
Agrici DanielMarketing & Growth

Codex SEO: 26 Workflows Turn Codex into Audit Engine

Codex SEO ports Claude's SEO system to OpenAI Codex, delivering 26 specialist workflows and 24 agents for natural-language SEO audits with deterministic reports and evidence-based analysis.

DAY 12April 29, 2026 APR 29 · 20261 SUMMARIES
Neil PatelMarketing & Growth

Master RAG: Get Your Site Cited in AI Search

AI search via RAG prioritizes retrieval (brand mentions > backlinks, unblock bots) and clean extraction (lead with answers, structured content). Google #1 gets only 31.4% AI mentions—fix with 2 steps for compounding visibility.

Neil Patel
DAY 13April 28, 2026 APR 28 · 20261 SUMMARIES
Chris KoernerMarketing & Growth

Cold Caking: $120K/Mo Lead Gen via Cakes & AI

William Lindholm's Daymaker sends cakes to prospects, booking 35% meetings vs. 2-3% cold outreach, using AI agents amid rising digital noise from dead internet theory.

Chris Koerner
DAY 14April 27, 2026 APR 27 · 20261 SUMMARIES
Exposure NinjaMarketing & Growth

AI Adds Pre-Awareness Stage to Marketing Funnel

37% of searches start in AI tools where buyers build shortlists invisibly—add a pre-awareness stage atop your funnel using topic authority and Semrush to outrank competitors before Google.

Exposure Ninja
DAY 15April 20, 2026 APR 20 · 20261 SUMMARIES
Data and BeyondMarketing & Growth

Medium's Algorithm Punishes Daily Publishing with 5% Read Rates

Daily posts fatigue readers, dropping read rates to 5% and failing Medium's 48-72 hour algorithm test that amplifies only high-engagement content. Publish less frequently to win wider distribution.

Data and Beyond
DAY 16April 19, 2026 APR 19 · 20261 SUMMARIES
Data and BeyondMarketing & Growth

AI Sales Agents Fix Webflow's Silent Conversion Killer

Static Webflow sites lose 70-80% of visitors due to no real-time interaction; AI sales agents monitor behavior and engage contextually, boosting conversions 25-40% and adding $8.5k/month revenue from same traffic.

Data and Beyond

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