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  • Artificial Intelligence, Content Marketing, Marketing

34 best AI marketing tools I’m using to drive growth & results in 2026

Everyone is using AI tools. Okay, almost everyone. According to a study conducted by my team at Foundation, more than 84% of marketers say they use AI in their workplace on a day-to-day basis. But despite the proliferation of hundreds...

  • Life

My 2025 Annual Review: When the Work Started to Lift

I’ve always believed momentum is earned. You don’t get it from one lucky break or one viral moment. You get it from showing up. Quietly… When nobody’s clapping. You get it from doing the reps when there’s no guarantee they’ll...

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  • Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Marketing

How You Should Navigate Your Career or Business Amidst A Downturn + Recession

It’s the great resignation. It’s the great recession. It’s the great reset. It’s the great… RELAX. I get it. The world is in chaos right now. It’s been chaos for the last two years if we’re being honest with each...

  • Content Marketing, Inspiration, Marketing

Content Insights: What Every Marketer Should Know

NBA great, Michael Jordan once said: Talent wins games but intelligence and teamwork wins championships. I’m not going to get into the importance of teamwork but I am going to share some insights around the power of content intelligence. Content...

  • B2B Marketing

How the Helpful Content Update Will Influence SEO

The Helpful Content Update has the whole world talking… Okay. Maybe not the whole world. But it sure has the world of SEO marketers geeking out and freaking out about what’s to come. I get it. The Panda Update and...

  • Content Marketing, Marketing

Content Marketing Mistakes That Will Stop Your Brand From Finding Success

Everyone, and I do mean everyone, will make a content marketing mistake at some point in their career. In fact, in a study conducted by Foundation, researchers asked a group of marketers if they had ever made a mistake /...

  • Inspiration

14 Life Lessons From My Nanna

The last couple weeks have been rough. It’s starting to feel like life is back to normal but two weeks ago I had to say goodbye to my grandmother for the last time. It was brutal. Still is kinda but...

  • Marketing

The Master List of Newsletters, Podcasts & Twitter Accounts You Need to Follow

A few years ago, which seems like a couple of decades now, another marketer who speaks often at conferences asked me if I ever get tired of coming up with new presentations and talks… I looked them dead in the...

  • Leadership

10 Hard Lessons That I Learned Leading My Company Amidst The Pandemic

This time last year, I faced one of the most difficult challenges of my life so far. In less than 24 hours, I lost: Three major clients Every marketing conference I was scheduled to speak at A $250k contract that...

  • Content Marketing, Marketing

The Difference Between Content Curation and Content Creation

To curate or create? It’s a question that many marketers ask themselves when planning their strategy. Luckily, the answer isn’t one or the other. It’s a combination of both curation and creation that can help marketers achieve great results. For...

  • Content Marketing

This Content Distribution Strategy Earned 26,282 Pageviews In 7 Days

You spent hours, days, months (maybe even years) creating something awesome. Something you’re beyond proud of and excited to share with the world. Something that could completely change (or kickstart) your business. And finally… You hit publish—it’s go time! But...