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5 Tips to Grow Your E-commerce Business Through Pinterest Pinterest had roughly 250 million monthly users when this guide was originally written. It closed its most recent quarter at 640 million, its eleventh consecutive quarter of double-digit user growth, and it’s no longer just a mood board with shopping bolted on, it’s now an AI-powered …
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Growing Brand Trust With Customers (Now That Institutions Have Lost Even More Ground) This guide originally cited a 2018 Edelman finding that 48% of the public distrusted branded messaging. The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer paints an even more fractured picture, but with a genuinely useful twist for businesses: while trust in institutions has kept eroding, …
The Best Time to Post on Instagram (And Why the Reason Has Changed) The previous version of this guide explained that timing matters because “Instagram’s algorithm prioritizes recent posts.” That’s not quite how it works anymore. Timing still matters in 2026, but because of a specific, confirmed mechanism, the first-hour engagement test that decides whether …
A Scalable Guest Posting Strategy (Now It’s Not Just About Backlinks) Matt Cutts declared guest blogging “done” back in 2014, referring only to the spammy version, and this guide’s original 2019 defense of ethical guest posting has aged well. What’s genuinely changed is the goal: a guest post’s value increasingly comes from getting your brand …
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11 Facebook Video Secrets, Updated for 2026 (Where “All Videos Are Now Reels”) This guide’s original framing treated “videos” and a separate, up-and-coming feature called Reels as two different things worth choosing between. Meta has since erased that distinction entirely: as of 2026, all video content on Facebook is classified and distributed as Reels, regardless …
LinkedIn Video Marketing : What Changed Since the “2019 Trends” LinkedIn added a dedicated, full-screen vertical video feed, its own answer to TikTok and Reels, years after this guide originally described LinkedIn as “still very much a feed.” The core prediction that video would keep growing on the platform was correct. The specific mechanics of …
How AI Is Enhancing Email Marketing (The 2018 Tool List Didn’t Survive) Two of the five AI email tools this guide originally recommended had already been acquired and absorbed into other companies before or around the time the article was published in December 2018. That’s not really a criticism of the original guide, it’s a …
PPC Agency Pricing Models : What’s Changed Now That AI Does the Bidding Hourly billing, the simplest pricing model in this guide’s original 2018 version, is now the model under the most pressure. When AI compresses a 20-hour deliverable into a 5-hour one, paying by the hour increasingly punishes the agency for getting efficient, not …
5 Instagram Video Mistakes (One of the Original Tips References a Feature That No Longer Exists) This guide’s second original tip told businesses to prioritize IGTV while competition was still low. IGTV’s brand was retired in October 2021 and the standalone app shut down entirely in March 2022, with everything folded into what’s now simply …
How to Use Instagram Video Ads (IGTV Doesn’t Exist Anymore) One of the four ad formats this guide originally recommended, IGTV, was fully deprecated by Meta and consolidated into Reels years ago. That’s not a footnote, it reflects the biggest structural shift in Instagram advertising since 2019: nearly half of all Instagram ads now run …