Robot Takeover Continues

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Robot Takeover Continues

January 1, 2025

Robot Takeover Continues

We’re scurrying to fortify content strategies that are beyond competitive on an internet where 99% of the content is bot-slop. Typically this means demonstrating your authentic human expertise and specific relevance (including local relevance for local service businesses).

Many of the same content quality markers that apply to SEO also apply to performing well in LLMs. That said, we’re increasing focus on improving credibility markers. This includes name, address, and phone number consistency (NAP consistency) on social assets and offsite directories. Reviews continue to emerge as a particularly powerful signal. We're seeing businesses that actively manage their review strategy consistently outperforming those that don't - often by significant margins.

The key to getting reviews is to ASK. Make asking a part of your process; it’s harder to say no to a person than an email. Some of our clients make asking a personal favor to the service provider (if you use my name I get a bonus/gift card). Let us know if we can help you get reviews. We can design: Placards - Posters - Clip boards - Business cards - Tattoos:

Example review QR code tattoo from an iNET client

*actual iNET client. Please don’t use an expiring bit.ly or tiny.cc URL - you really should control where your tattoos link to!

Creative Genius Marketing® - CreativeGeniusMarketing.com

Creative is an intangible. There aren’t many great creatives in radio. In branding there are less. In strategizing there are even less. Most companies have no BRAND. The products and services are amazing, the businesses are often brilliant. There is just nothing for consumers to grab and buckle themselves into. The web sites are also no influence in creating the brand, brand strategy, ad concept or ads.

iNET Marketing creative has dozens of mind traps and hooks. Duplicitous meanings and meanings left for the listener to decipher or wonder at. While these traps can get a listener stuck in a thought midstream over two, three, twenty exposures they force acceptance of the message and action. When they discover the hidden hooks listeners feel like insiders, part of the story and part of the brand.