Do This, NOT That: Marketing Tips with Jay Schwedelson

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Your inbox quietly turned into a search engine this week, and almost nobody has updated their emails for it. Jay Schwedelson gets into what Gmail's AI summaries are actually scanning for, why the first 200 characters of live text now decide whether your campaign gets pulled in, and what that does to the shelf life of every send. There's also a new Meta subscription worth a look, a Google Ads report hiding in plain sight, and a Spotify setting that can save you from public embarrassment.
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Best Moments:
(00:30) Meta One lands, and it quietly changes how fast business pages pick up followers
(01:19) Why new paid platform tools tend to radically over-deliver in their first few months
(02:05) Gmail search goes natural language, and your inbox becomes your own personal search engine
(03:17) The long tail nobody planned for, and why old campaign links can no longer 404
(03:50) The action, product, deadline formula for your first 200 characters of live text
(05:15) Spend Benchmarks in Google Ads shows how your weekly spend stacks up against similar businesses

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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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Landing pages are where most marketing budgets quietly go to die, and the fixes are usually smaller than you'd think. Jay Schwedelson and Daniel Murray run through the specific things killing conversion rates right now, from the number of form fields you're demanding to the word sitting on your button. There's also a fairly involved detour into airplane hygiene that produces a new favorite word.
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Best Moments:
(03:05) Every extra must-fill field on your form costs you 8% of your registrants
(03:27) Social proof under the CTA works better when the number is oddly specific and the audience is named
(04:30) One testimonial is enough, but "I loved it" does nothing compared to a hard percentage
(04:47) Navigation bars on a landing page can cost you 30% of visitors who came ready to buy
(06:29) Logos only validate if they match the size of company actually landing on your page
(07:37) The word "submit" on a button, and what to write instead so people know exactly what they're getting

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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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Ask ChatGPT the same question on Tuesday and again on Friday and you will probably get two different answers, with two different sets of sources. That is the uncomfortable finding Jay Schwedelson digs into here, using fresh data on how violently AI citations churn from one day to the next, plus the weekly routine that keeps your brand tracking honest instead of comforting. There is also a Mountain Dew body wash situation that nobody was prepared for.
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Best Moments:
(00:31) Why 69% of AI sources shift from one day to the next
(01:02) Reddit's share of ChatGPT citations collapsed 86% in about a month
(02:54) Half of everything AI engines cite is less than thirteen weeks old
(03:45) Pick the 10 questions that actually influence someone buying from you
(04:04) The incognito browser step most people skip, and why it ruins the data
(05:22) The two prompt lines that stop AI from flattering your brand
(06:27) Mountain Dew body wash at Walmart, and the obvious follow-up question

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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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Turns out the emails winning in an AI-summarized inbox are the ugly ones. Jay Schwedelson and Daniel Murray pick up the live text conversation from last week with fresh data on what Gmail, Apple Mail, and Copilot are actually pulling out of your sends, and the fix involves bullet points and a formula that fits in two hundred characters. There is also a genuine moral crisis about cheating on your barber, which somehow sets the tone for everything after it.
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Best Moments:
(00:38) The haircut dilemma, and whether you can book with another stylist without earning the death stare
(03:45) AI summaries pull 29 words on average, so the first 150 to 200 characters carry the whole email
(04:15) Action plus product plus deadline, the formula lifting click-through rates around 19 percent
(06:13) Bullets are ugly and they work, with pull rates of 77 percent in Gmail, 84 in Apple Mail, 92 in Copilot
(07:29) Why vague, spammy headlines fall apart once a summary has to describe themㅤ
(08:19) Over 70% of people say they are fine with AI reading their inbox to surface deals

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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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