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Thinking in public

MEDIA BUYING · 5 MIN

Why blended CAC hides more than it reveals

One number covering every channel is easy to report and genuinely dangerous to make decisions on.

SEO · 9 MIN

Local SEO for a multi-location business: the architecture decision

The technical structure chosen for location pages determines whether they compete with each other or compound each other's authority.

AI CONSULTANCY · 9 MIN

Why a pilot that 'succeeds' still gets killed six months later

The pilot hit every metric in the proposal. It still got quietly shelved. The reason is rarely in the pilot's own results.

AI AUTOMATION · 9 MIN

The automation that quietly duplicates your data (and how to catch it)

A workflow that reruns after a partial failure is one of the most common, least visible sources of bad data in a CRM.

WEB DEVELOPMENT · 9 MIN

The redesign that shouldn't happen yet: when to fix content instead

A site that isn't converting gets blamed on the design more often than the evidence actually supports.

MEDIA BUYING · 9 MIN

Budget pacing during a sale: the mistake that costs the whole quarter

The instinct during a big promotional window is to spend as much as possible, as fast as possible. That instinct is usually wrong.

SEO · 7 MIN

Why your SEO traffic grew but leads didn't

Organic traffic is up and to the right. Pipeline isn't. The gap between those two lines is usually explained by one thing.

AI CONSULTANCY · 6 MIN

The AI consultancy retainer structure that keeps clients honest

Most consulting retainers create an incentive to keep finding new work. Here's the structure that doesn't.

WEB DEVELOPMENT · 9 MIN

The API rate limit that takes down a site nobody warned you about

A third-party API's rate limit is invisible until traffic crosses it, and by then it's an outage, not a warning.

SEO · 9 MIN

AI Overviews and the death of the ten blue links: what to actually do about it

Search results increasingly answer the query before a user clicks anything. The response can't be more of the same content.

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