2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October
Nobody's Scrolling Your Feed Anymore. They're Searching.
I was talking to a friend today about the recent Instagram changes. Users can now choose interests to fine-tune their
customer behavior
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October
Stop Competing on Price: Why Authentic Brand Stories Beat Algorithm Hacks
Shadowbanned. Stuck in 300-view jail. Algorithm murdered your reach overnight.
Every business owner has a reason their social media or
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October
Farm-to-Forgotten: When Your Web Marketing Catches Vibe But Misses Everything Else
A picture is worth a thousand words, they say, but your customers are scrolling past looking for the hundred words
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October
Why SEO, Social Media, and AI Search Are Now Business Infrastructure (Not Marketing Tactics)
What business owners need to know about discoverability in 2025
There was a time when search engine optimization meant keywords.
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October
How Many AI Agents Will Be Last-Minute Shopping This Holiday Season?
I grew up in the Santa Maria Valley, long before it became famous for BBQ tri-tip and wineries. Both had
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October
AI Referral Traffic Intelligence in North America Week 42
10/20/2025
We believe in optimizing for the retrieval layer. But we got curious about who's actually
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October
SEO: No Digital Divide When AI Mediates Search
If you reached this post outside of a social share, you probably typed four keywords or less into a search
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October
Social Proof in 2025: What Actually Works
Trust became a metric somewhere along the way. Engagement rates. Conversion velocity. Funnel optimization. As if people are water.
42%
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September
Hawai‘i Franchise Marketing Strategy: Why Corporate Templates Miss the Mark
Franchise Marketing in Hawaii: What It Looks Like on the Ground
Remember when every real estate listing bragged about its
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ June
The Summer of Fewer Mustangs: What's Really Happening to Hawai'i Tourism (Mid-2025)
I was driving to town the other day and noticed something. It wasn't the bright yellow blossoms of
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ June
The Trust Factory: How a Snowboarder's Frustration Sparked the World's Largest Psychological Commerce Experiment
And what brands can learn from Shopify's approach to manufacturing digital intimacy
In 2004, I spent my days
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ May
When Your Customers Have Money But Your Competitors Don’t: The Anti-Payday Strategy
A kitschy leisure apparel company once had it made. Their core audience? Seniors with steady income from Social Security and
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ May
Your Brewery Isn't Failing — The Market Is Changing. Here's How to Adapt
The numbers don’t lie, but they don’t tell the whole story either. Yes, beer volumes are down. Yes,