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November Marketing Thoughts from Splat

From Fizzle To Sizzle: Why Listening Matters In the 1980s, people took their coke really seriously. Sorry, we meant to say Coca-Cola. Decades before social media, customer dissatisfaction could still go viral – and acting quickly to keep customers happy mattered just as much then as it does now. On this day in 1985, a […]

Do You Copy That?

You’re showing your age if you’ve ever had someone ask you to “Xerox” a document. But beyond the nostalgia, there’s a powerful marketing lesson buried in that seemingly simple phrase. First introduced in September 1959, the Xerox 914 was one of the boldest technological gambles of its time, quickly transforming from a clunky, expensive machine […]

Go With The Flow

Recently, the team at Splat had the pleasure of helping Louis Hockman, principal of ADRx, expand his audience by creating a streamlined process to grow his email list. Lou came to us with a challenge: his reach wasn’t as broad as it could be, and he needed a solution to engage more people in a […]

On Being Your Own (The) Boss

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession. -Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen’s recent two-show run in Philadelphia had us thinking once again about the Boss’s unique role as an American entertainer – and entrepreneur. If you’ve ever been to one of his shows and […]

The Best AI Essay Writers and Writing Tools of 2024

At Splat, we’re quite over AI dread. We’ve all heard the “it’s not AI that will replace you, but someone using AI” line, and it’s most likely true. But “using AI” is a broad statement. What is the best AI essay writer, for instance? What is the best free AI writer? If we want to […]

Google Practitioner Listings: What are they and why should you care?

We’ve written a lot over the years about Local SEO and our longstanding belief that it offers one of the best ‘bang for your buck’ opportunities for business’ to show up in organic search. Our obsession also is self-interested: many of our clients are professional service firms, with physical locations that allow them to maximize […]

What SGE Means: Google AI Search And How Do You Rank On It?

On May 10, 2023, the date of Google I/O 2023, the meaning of a Google AI search changed. Google was once like a librarian who offered you a list of sources of information. It even ranked them from best to worst for your convenience. Now, with its AI-powered Google Search Generative Experience (SGE), Google wants […]