Do This, NOT That: Marketing Tips with Jay Schwedelson

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Check out Jay Schwedelson's new book: Stupider People Have Done It
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Listen to Tracy's podcast, Create Online Business Success, which features her episode with Jay from about a year ago. Visit tracybeavers.com to reach her through the contact button and browse her free marketing resources. Follow Tracy Beavers on LinkedIn.
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Nearly 700 episodes in and business coaching had somehow never come up, which is strange given how many people started calling themselves one around 2020. Tracy Beavers has actually been doing it at an elite level for two decades, and she gets refreshingly blunt with Jay Schwedelson about real price tags, the bad actors taking $50,000 for nothing, and the one sentence that should make you walk away from a sales call immediately. Also settled here: Romance, Arkansas is a real place, and brides drive there just for the postmark.
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Best Moments:
(03:15) Everyone at the top of their game has a coach, athletes and Warren Buffett included
(04:43) Two signs it is time to hire someone, and one of them is how you talk to yourself
(06:09) Where business coaching stops and actual therapy needs to start
(09:02) How to properly vet a coach before you hand over a single dollar
(11:58) Real numbers on what an engagement costs, and why the range is the Wild Wild West
(13:16) Why the access you get between calls matters more than the calls themselves

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Check out Jay Schwedelson's new book: Stupider People Have Done It
All net proceeds are donated to The V Foundation for Cancer Research, let's kick cancer's butt: https://www.amazon.com/Stupider-People-Have-Done-Marketing/dp/1637635206
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Connect with Jay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwedelson/
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Recording from the road because the week refused to cooperate, Jay Schwedelson gets into why OpenAI's new Astra model is not the upgrade most marketers think it is - it won't write you better copy, but it will take the repetitive junk off your plate. There's also a date on the calendar that quietly changes what your content should be about for the rest of the year, and most teams are going to miss it. Then things go completely sideways into a documentary trailer and a televised double date that genuinely should not exist.
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Best Moments:
(00:38) What Astra actually is, and why better images and better copy are the wrong thing to expect
(01:45) The kind of prompt that sends the model on a real competitive research mission instead of a lookup
(02:30) The repetitive task hiding in every marketing org that should be first in line
(03:16) Why September 15th flips what people are actually willing to download
(04:20) The consumer-side play that goes past Black Friday and Cyber Monday
(05:17) A documentary trailer so bizarre it hijacked the back half of the episode

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Check out Jay Schwedelson's new book: Stupider People Have Done It
All net proceeds are donated to The V Foundation for Cancer Research, let's kick cancer's butt: https://www.amazon.com/Stupider-People-Have-Done-Marketing/dp/1637635206
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Connect with Jay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwedelson/
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Follow Daniel on LinkedIn and check out The Marketing Millennials podcast for sharp, no-fluff marketing insights. Subscribe to Ari Murray’s newsletter at gotomillions.co for sharp, actionable marketing insights.
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Your prettiest email might be the thing quietly costing you opens. Jay Schwedelson and Daniel Murray dig into AI summaries, the feature already rewriting preheaders inside Gmail, Apple Mail, and Copilot, and why the first 150 characters of your send now matter more than the design around them. There's also a detour into Burning Man, five straight years of Coachella, and Daniel's firm position on tents.
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Best Moments:
(02:02) Daniel explains what live text actually is and why AI put it everywhere
(02:49) The one email thing Jay says will matter most over the next twelve months
(03:22) Copilot hits thirty million paid users and why that changes B2B email
(03:59) What counts as live text, and why your JPEG and your alt text do not
(05:24) Half your preheaders will not be your preheaders within six months
(06:48) The prettiest email stops winning and email structure rewinds fifteen years

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Check out Jay Schwedelson's new book: Stupider People Have Done It
All net proceeds are donated to The V Foundation for Cancer Research, let's kick cancer's butt: https://www.amazon.com/Stupider-People-Have-Done-Marketing/dp/1637635206
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Subscribe to Jay's newsletter for weekly marketing tips and tactics: https://www.jayschwedelson.com/newsletter
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Connect with Jay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwedelson/
Check out Jay's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@schwedelson
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September is quietly one of the best months of the year to run a webinar, and almost nobody plans for it because August burned them. Jay Schwedelson walks through the show-up rate data that flips the calendar on its head, plus a one-word tweak to your event name that lifts registrations on its own. There's also fresh Goldcast data on the single best day to run a webinar, and it's the day 92% of marketers refuse to touch.
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Best Moments:
(00:36) Why September has the second-highest webinar show-up rate of the year and August has the worst
(01:17) The recycling move that lets you launch a September webinar without creating anything new
(02:27) "Webinar" is the category, not the name, and calling it that is costing you registrations
(03:01) Worldata data showing a 24% registration lift from swapping "webinar" for "insider session"
(03:23) The one extra word that adds another 12% lift to your registration rate
(04:29) New Goldcast data on why Friday between 11 AM and 2 PM Eastern beats Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
(04:55) Only 7.4% of webinars happen on Fridays, and what that gap means for you

Partner with Jay: https://www.jayschwedelson.com/contact
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Check out Jay Schwedelson's new book: Stupider People Have Done It
All net proceeds are donated to The V Foundation for Cancer Research, let's kick cancer's butt: https://www.amazon.com/Stupider-People-Have-Done-Marketing/dp/1637635206
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Subscribe to Jay's newsletter for weekly marketing tips and tactics: https://www.jayschwedelson.com/newsletter
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Connect with Jay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwedelson/
Check out Jay's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@schwedelson
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Updating an old stat on a page you forgot about sounds like housekeeping, not strategy, but new data says it is one of the biggest levers for getting cited when someone asks AI a question. Jay Schwedelson breaks down what actually earns those citations, why Reddit and X just made opposite bets on lead gen forms, and the three video openers pulling the most watch time on Instagram right now. There is also a Love Island take nobody asked for.
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Best Moments:
(00:38) New AirOps data showing over 70% of pages ChatGPT cites were updated within the last 12 months
(01:52) Why adding the current year or month to your offer titles lifts your odds of showing up in AI results
(03:00) The single ad format that beats everything else across LinkedIn, Meta, and X
(03:46) Reddit is killing on-site lead forms while X quietly brings theirs back
(05:03) Adam Mosseri says watch time is the whole game for organic reach on Instagram
(05:50) The three video hooks people are actually staying for, and the intro you should drop immediately