Entrepreneur Eric Bandholz ponders money-making versus life-building.

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The marketing efficiency ratio shows whether a store's overall promotional spend is working.

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This week's rundown includes new services for product images, affiliate sales, agentic commerce, bot protection, LTL shipping, product visibility, conversational search, and more.

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At its annual Marketing Live event last month, Google announced 70 new advertising features.

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Like EEAT before it, non-commodity content is not easily summarized or recycled by generative AI without attribution.

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Walmart, Target, Best Buy, warehouse clubs, apparel chains, home improvement stores, and countless direct-to-consumer brands will launch similar promotions.

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In 2019 Dane Witbeck had a problem familiar to parents: What were his kids doing on their smartphones?

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