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A fake caring culture is worse than a toxic one. At least with toxicity, you know where you stand. Fake caring hides behind smiles. It says "we care", but means "please don’t make this uncomfortable". It praises your work in meetings...then ignores your feedback after. It’s leadership with empathy in words, and apathy in action. Here’s how fake caring shows up at work: 1️⃣ "We hear you" → but nothing changes. 2️⃣ "We’re like a family" → until KPIs drop. 3️⃣ "We value feedback" → unless it’s critical. The result? Distrust. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Because pretending to care kills trust faster than open conflict ever could. Real care isn’t a slogan. It’s honesty, follow-through, and doing the right thing even when it’s inconvenient. What’s one small action leaders can take this week to show they genuinely care? 👇 Image credit: Lorenzo D.

How to set up Claude the right way: (so you actually stop going back to ChatGPT) Credit: Ruben Hassid (go follow him)

POV: Marketers after 2023 No explanation needed If you know, you know Image credit: The Marketing Millennials

5 Must-Know Marketing Tips: Marketing tip #1: People don't remember campaigns. They remember how you made them feel. Emotions create connection. Connection creates loyalty. If your message makes them feel seen, they'll remember you—and choose you. Marketing tip #2: Data drives decisions. But emotion drives action. You need both. Use numbers to build trust. Use stories to spark connection. Together, they turn interest into sales. Marketing tip #3: Most brands compete on features. The best brands compete on values and results. Features get attention. But values build connection and results build trust. Sell what matters most to your audience. Not just what your product does. Marketing tip #4: Your offer matters more than your funnel. A strong funnel can’t save a weak offer. But a great offer can thrive in a simple funnel. Fix the foundation first—then scale the system. Marketing tip #5: Mass appeal is a myth. The most successful brands win by narrowing their focus, not broadening it. Target a specific audience Solve a specific problem Own a special message That’s how you earn attention, loyalty, and market share.

Start your business alone with AI. 15 ideas below: ✅ 1. AI Design: Create & sell designs with the help of AI: → Create images with tools like DALL·E 3 / MJ → Do your designs in Canva or Microsoft Designer Start by offering free services to build your portfolio. Scale and charge later. ✅ 2. Digital Products: Create and sell unique digital products. → Use ChatGPT to create E-books/templates → Market them on for example Gumroad. Find and target a popular niche. Bonus: Want Niche ideas, or more side hustles? Find it here: 🖇 http://samuraipreneur .gumroad .com/l/cuenb ✅ 3. Newsletters. Do something like this: For weekly AI content: → Check out The SamurAI → Become more productive Learn how to master AI for free and be ahead of 98% ✅ 4. YouTube Channel (Faceless): Start a YouTube channel without being in front of camera. Yers, it's possible. → Use Claude for script writing → Use Canva/HeyGen/CapCut for video → Use ElevenLabs for human-like voice over Pulling this of, and you'll be a rich man/woman. ✅ 5. Content creation for Social Media: Automate content creation for social media. → Build GPTs/bots who creates content for you → Offer this content to brands Use for example: • ChatGPT • Claude • Vondy • Coze ++ ✅ 6. AI Art: Create and sell AI-generated art customized to buyer preferences. → Use generative AI tools to create unique art pieces → Market on platforms like Etsy or create your own website AI Art Generators: • DALL·E 3 • Midjourney • Leonardo AI ✅ 7. Affiliate Marketing: Promote others products through content on: → Blogs → Newsletter → Social Media Check out: • Amazon Affiliate • ShareASale ++ ✅ 8. ChatBot Sales: High-demand business for automated customer chats. → Build chatbots with tools like Voiceflow. → Target businesses with heavy customer interaction. Start with smaller companies and scale. ✅ 9. Print-on-Demand Designs: Craft designs for print-on-demand products. → Use ChatGPT for creative ideas. → Sell designs on platforms like Etsy. Remember to stay updated with trends. ✅ 10. Courses: Easy creation of online courses using ChatGPT. → Use AI for course development. → Sell on platforms like Udemy. Identify and fill gaps in existing courses. ✅ 11. AI-Enhanced Photography: Utilize AI to enhance or create digital photographs. → Offer editing services with AI-enhanced tools → Market to real estate, marketers, and publishers • ImgUpscaler • Pixelcut • Vidnoz Capitalize on the demand for high-quality visuals ✅ 12. Translation Services: Provide quick AI-powered translation services. → Use advanced AI translators for high accuracy → Market to businesses and academics Translation tools • ChatGPT • Claude • DeepL * You can find the remaining points in the comments section below Credit: samuraipreneur on Twitter/X

Most marketing teams don’t have a traffic problem. They have a testing problem. Small changes often drive the biggest results - but only if you test them. A/B testing isn’t just about headlines. You can test across your entire experience: 👉 Content Try different headlines, CTAs, or images. Example: “Get started today” vs “Join now” 👉 Layout Test button placement or navigation style. Example: center-aligned vs right-aligned CTA 👉 Design Colors impact behavior more than we think. Example: red vs green buttons 👉 Functionality Speed and simplicity matter. Example: 3-field form vs 5-field form 👉 Email Subject lines and send times can change open rates dramatically. Example: “Exclusive offer” vs “Today’s specials” Optimization rarely comes from big redesigns. It comes from consistent micro-experiments. Test. Learn. Improve. Repeat. 👉What’s one small thing you’ve tested that led to a big result?

Here's an AI prompt structure for finding the exact words your customers use: Gather 20-30 customer reviews, emails, or support tickets. Remove any identifying information. Paste them into the AI with this prompt: "I'm going to give you real words from our customers. Read them carefully. Then extract three things: 1. The exact phrases they use to describe their problem (not our words, their words) 2. The exact phrases they use to describe the outcome they wanted (not features, results) 3. The emotional language they use when talking about both (the feeling words) Present this as a glossary we can use in our marketing. Group by theme." What comes back is pure gold. For example, for the sleep brand, AI extracts: Problem phrases: "I lie awake staring at the ceiling", "my brain won't shut up", "I'm tired but wired" Outcome phrases: "I actually woke up before my alarm", "I didn't toss once", "I remembered my dreams" Emotion words: frustrated, desperate, hopeful, relieved, surprised Now every email uses these phrases. Not "improve sleep quality". But "my brain won't shut up". Open rates go up because the language matches what people actually think.

SEO in 2026 = Market Dominance SEO isn’t disappearing in 2026. It’s quietly evolving into something much bigger. (Credit: Akash Zalavadiya) This image captures the shift most teams are missing 👇 SEO now sits at the center of four forces: • AEO → Be found in answers, not just links • GEO → Be cited by AI models and search engines • AIO → Be scaled through automation, templates, and LLM workflows • SXO → Be chosen through UX, intent match, and journey flow AI doesn’t replace SEO signals. It repurposes them. Backlinks become trust signals. Structure becomes retrievability. UX becomes conversion logic. Content becomes training data. The brands winning in 2026 aren’t asking: “How do we rank?” They’re asking: “How do we get found, cited, scaled, and chosen - everywhere AI answers?” SEO is no longer a channel. It’s the operating system for AI visibility. Be Found. Be Cited. Be Scaled. Be Chosen.

You don’t realize how much your ESP is costing you… Because the real losses don’t show up on the invoice. You look at your monthly bill and think that's the cost. $500/month, $2K/month, whatever. But that's not the real number. The real cost is what happens when things break. When support takes 48 hours to respond. When a campaign goes out with a broken link. When your Black Friday flow crashes, and no one is there to fix it. Let me break down what bad ESP support actually costs during peak season: Lost revenue from downtime - Your abandonment flow goes down for 6 hours on a Saturday. Let's say that flow normally does $5K/day. You just lost $1,250. And if it's BFCM week? Multiply that 3-5x. Dev hours fixing platform issues - Your developer bills $150/hour. Your ESP's API is poorly documented, so a simple integration takes 8 hours instead of 2. That's $900 gone. And if you're an agency doing this for multiple clients? That's eating your margin on every account. Agency hours on support tickets - You're billing clients $200/hour for strategy. Instead, you're spending 4 hours on a Slack thread with support trying to figure out why a segment isn’t syncing. That's $800 of billable time you can't bill. Campaign delays - You've got a flash sale ready to send. But your ESP's builder is glitching, and support is "looking into it." The sale was supposed to start at 10am. It goes out at 2pm. You've lost 4 hours of peak buying time. Depending on list size, that could be $10K-$50K in missed revenue. The stress tax - This one's harder to quantify, but it's real. How much mental energy are you burning fighting your tools instead of doing the work? How many late nights are you pulling because the platform made something simple complicated? Add it all up, and that "cheap" ESP saving you $100/month might be costing you $5K-$10K in losses during Q4 alone. I finally realized that support quality isn't a "would be nice." It's infrastructure. Omnisend's support averages 4-minute response times. Not hours. Minutes. Even on Black Friday. Their migration team handles the entire move at no extra cost if you're on a paid plan. Which means you're not burning internal hours or agency retainers cleaning things up. And because the platform is built for ecommerce (not retrofitted), the integrations just work. One-click Shopify sync. Contact data flows automatically. Pre-built workflows you turn on and they run. No dev hours troubleshooting APIs. No campaign delays because a segment broke. No scrambling for support during your biggest revenue week. The real question isn't "Can I afford to switch?" It's "Can I afford to stay?" Because every hour you spend fighting a bad platform is an hour you're not spending growing revenue. If you're still on a platform where support feels like pulling teeth, do the math. Calculate what downtime, delays, and firefighting cost you last quarter. Then ask yourself if saving $100/month is worth it.

The older I get, the less I want to be impressive. I want to be steady. Impressive is external. Peace is internal. There is a season for pushing hard. For chasing titles. For building reputation. But at some point, the question changes. Not “How do I look?” But “How do I live?” Here’s what shifted for me: I stopped optimizing for optics. I started optimizing for energy. Because energy drives everything. Energy affects thinking. Thinking affects decisions. Decisions shape life. Example: High status project. Big visibility. Constant pressure. Versus Focused project. Clear scope. Room to think. One feeds ego. One feeds longevity. You can design a life that does not require constant explanation. That is real leverage. Impressive impresses others. Peace compounds for you. Choose the metric that lasts. Image credit: 2lastvibes on Twitter/X