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DAY 01Sunday 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 02Saturday MAY 9 · 20261 SUMMARIES
SaaStr Blog (Jason Lemkin)AI Automation

AI Agent Handles 60% of Marketing Ops, Frees Humans for Strategy

10K, an AI agent built with gpt-4o-mini in six weeks, automates 1.5-2 FTEs worth of routine marketing tasks ($700/year vs $250K-$400K) like daily reports and drafts, but zero on strategy, hiring, or politics—target workflows, keep humans in the loop.

SaaStr Blog (Jason Lemkin)
DAY 03Friday MAY 8 · 20261 SUMMARIES
SaaStr Blog (Jason Lemkin)AI Automation

Production AI Agents: Block Bad Pitches, Isolate DBs, Specialize SDRs

SaaStr runs 20+ agents turning revenue from -19% to +47% YoY; audit by 'would you buy?', use contained platforms like Replit to prevent DB deletions, hire marketers to execute AI VP ideas.

SaaStr Blog (Jason Lemkin)
DAY 04May 6, 2026 MAY 6 · 20263 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.

DAY 05May 5, 2026 MAY 5 · 20261 SUMMARIES
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.

Marketing Against the Grain
DAY 06May 4, 2026 MAY 4 · 20261 SUMMARIES
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.

Exposure Ninja
DAY 07May 3, 2026 MAY 3 · 20261 SUMMARIES
AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)AI Automation

Claude Skills Automate 200-300 Daily Cold Email Replies

Free Claude Code skills handle full cold outbound: infrastructure, ICP, 15-25 strategies, copywriting, list building, sub-agent personalization – proven for 200-300 positive replies/day over 5 months, no user AI tokens needed.

AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)
DAY 08May 1, 2026 MAY 1 · 20261 SUMMARIES
Silicon Valley GirlBusiness & SaaS

6 No-Code AI Businesses to Launch in 2026

Non-coders can start AI consulting, GEO services, voice receptionists, ad agencies, UGC content factories, or vertical SaaS wrappers for local businesses, leveraging AI tools to fill deployment gaps where companies downsized from 160 to 40 people yet 10x'd performance.

Silicon Valley Girl
DAY 09April 30, 2026 APR 30 · 20261 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
DAY 10April 28, 2026 APR 28 · 20261 SUMMARIES
Marketing Against the GrainProduct Strategy

AI x Outcome = Strategy Beats Token Maxxing

Tie AI token spend to specific business outcomes using 'AI x Outcome = Strategy'—without a clear outcome sentence, it's just wasteful token burning subsidized by VCs today.

Marketing Against the Grain
DAY 11April 26, 2026 APR 26 · 20261 SUMMARIES
AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)AI Automation

Claude Code Automates Cold Email Lead Gen End-to-End

Use Claude Code's skills to voice-build Prospeo lists of 1,000 leads, Sonnet sub-agents for zero-extra-cost ICP filtering on SaaS firms, and Karpathy's auto-research repo to autonomously optimize campaigns outperforming humans on 10% volume.

AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)
DAY 12April 23, 2026 APR 23 · 20261 SUMMARIES
AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)Business & SaaS

90-Day No-Code Path to $10K/Month AI SaaS

Target hyper-niche boring problems solved by existing services (e.g., voice agents for dentists), build MVP in days via Replit AI, land first $ by day 30 on X/Twitter organic, hit $80K/mo by day 90 through relentless iteration—no VC needed.

AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)
DAY 13April 20, 2026 APR 20 · 20261 SUMMARIES
MicroConfBusiness & SaaS

Tally's $1.5M ARR Path: Freemium Flywheel + Zero Ads

Bootstrapped form builder Tally hit $1.5M ARR with 3 people via unlimited free tier driving viral branded forms, niche positioning for Notion lovers, cold outreach, and Product Hunt launch—no ad spend until recently.

MicroConf
DAY 14April 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
DAY 15April 14, 2026 APR 14 · 20261 SUMMARIES
AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)Marketing & Growth

Google Q2 2026 SEO: Search Console AI Tools & AI Site Tips

Separate branded queries with AI in Search Console for precise performance tracking; ensure AI 'vibe-coded' sites add unique value, use full canonical URLs, and test JS rendering to rank well.

AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)
DAY 16April 13, 2026 APR 13 · 20263 SUMMARIES
AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)AI Automation

35 Free Marketing Skills Turn AI Agents into Your Marketer

Install 35 open-source marketing skills via one NPX command into Claude Code, OpenCode, or Cursor to automate SEO audits, CRO, copywriting, and content strategy—start with product context for tailored outputs across 20k+ star repo.

AI Summaries (evaluation playlist)
Exposure NinjaMarketing & Growth

Reverse SEO Drops: 4-Step Audit Boosted Traffic 27%

Diagnose traffic drops with technical fixes (e.g., 349 duplicate titles), on-page signals (1,500 missing alt texts), intent-aligned content clusters, and AI optimizations to double AI visibility—from 45 to 110 terms—like a $10B brand that gained 27% organic traffic.

Data and BeyondMarketing & Growth

WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Costs $1M+ Yearly

75% cart abandonment in WooCommerce wastes $27K CAC, $150K-$255K LTV, and gifts competitors 55% of abandoners. AI engagement layers cut it 25-40% by resolving uncertainty in real-time.

DAY 17April 8, 2026 APR 8 · 20262 SUMMARIES
Data and BeyondAI Automation

AI Agents Prevent Cart Abandonment via Real-Time Guidance

Traditional cart emails fail due to poor timing and ignoring uncertainty; AI agents detect hesitation signals like hovers or comparisons and intervene proactively, lifting conversions 35-50% per Gartner.

Data and Beyond
Your Average Tech BroBusiness & SaaS

Scaled SaaS to 25K Users/$8K MRR: Social + Tech Fixes

Grew Yorby.ai to 25K users/$8K MRR using 40 organic creator accounts; fixed Supabase connection pooling with a dedicated GCE server; pivoted ICP from prosumer creators to low-churn agencies via PostHog analysis.

DAY 18April 7, 2026 APR 7 · 20261 SUMMARIES
Exposure NinjaMarketing & Growth

Audit AI's View of Your Brand: Revolut Exposed

Mine My Brand tool reveals how ChatGPT, Gemini & others describe your business—often mismatched from your site. Live Revolut audit shows neutral sentiment from customer service gaps, mid-range pricing perception, and third-party influences.

Exposure Ninja
DAY 19March 30, 2026 MAR 30 · 20261 SUMMARIES
Duncan Rogoff | AI AutomationAI Automation

Claude Code Builds Your Solo Marketing Team

Replicate Anthropic's one-person marketing operation: Extract your brand data and voice, then use Claude Code to build a /content skill that spawns agents for LinkedIn posts, email subjects, and video hooks from one topic prompt.

Duncan Rogoff | AI Automation
DAY 20January 4, 2026 JAN 4 · 20261 SUMMARIES
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Automate Instagram Comments to Leads with n8n + RapidDM

Use RapidDM to detect keywords in IG comments, send DMs with follow gate and form link; n8n builds form, stores in Notion, personalizes templates with JS, downloads files via HTTP, and emails attachments instantly—capturing leads 24/7 without manual replies.

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DAY 21March 24, 2015 MAR 24 · 20151 SUMMARIES
__oneoff__Marketing & Growth

10 Fixes to Stop 55% of Visitors Leaving in 15 Seconds

55% of visitors leave sites in under 15 seconds; prioritize <3s loads (1s delay cuts 7% conversions), match URL expectations, simplify nav, cut ads/sound/autoplay, organize content, build trust to boost retention.

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