Ashwin Balakrishnan

@PhilKiel Pretty sure I’m pregnant now

If your static briefs don't include variety you're NGMI.

@MordyOberstein Would matter if there weren't half a dozen personal attacks every week so no one would ever know which one you're referencing (hint: it's all of them)

It’s almost funny to watch it’s like the same crap over and over and over again My fave part is on LinkedIn you can see who liked the posts. Makes you think twice before liking it? Probably not. I must leave now I have spoken too much truth on social media for the quarter now

You know SEO isn’t dead because people can’t help shitting on each other for 5 seconds.

@VicVijayakumar Imagine not frying your onions in that rendered beef fat and using pathetic oil instead.

If you did your own cooking, the answer to this is obvious.

@kamilrextin "That's not what I said" ChatGPT: You're absolutely right "I didn't order a caramel latte" Doorbot: Take your f*cking syrup slop and shut up

Room delivery robots are kind of blowing my brains

@kamilrextin You could tell me this was anywhere in south Asia and I’d believe it

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@MyJewishGuilt Informing at the inferno Blabbing by the blaze The ol' heat n' greet

Nailed it

@MordyOberstein @timsoulo @ahrefs They'd still talk about it without understanding it because that's what they do.

@TheCopyTrail @timsoulo @ahrefs Thank you. The web was/is bloated crap and everyone is “ahhhh traffic we never actually deserved is down…noooooooooo” The web is filled with growth hackers parading as marketers who can’t wrap their heads around this if you paid them.

Nearly 90 million search visits wiped out in the last 9 months. And traffic from AI didn't replace even 5% of it. (across ~75k websites connected to free @Ahrefs Web Analytics) Here's how other traffic sources held up: ▪️ Paid traffic is UP 13.8% (188M → 214M) ▪️ Social stayed flat (103M → 105M) ▪️ AI chatbot traffic? Just 4M at its peak Full data breakdown here 👉 chatgpt-vs-google.com Now the big question is: Does search traffic stabilize from here, or do we lose another 15-20% by the end of the year? What's your prediction? ... P.S. Learn more about FREE Web Analytics: ahrefs.com/web-analytics?…

@BoredElonMusk @askOkara Why would grifters know anything about what a CMO does?

@askOkara This looks like a cool product, but this is 100% not what a CMO does, and you should know that given the customer base you're trying to sell this to.

Today we're introducing the world's first AI CMO. Enter your website and it deploys a team of agents to help you get traffic and users. Try it now at okara.ai/cmo

@AnthonyHigman Go shit on them in the replies, this one really deserves it

@TheCopyTrail 🤣🤣🤣🤣 yup!!!!! Dead on my man! Fake bot traffic and fake ai agent users do nothing for anyone! LOL

"traffic and users" Not "demand and customers". Intentional word choice. Caveat emptor.

@kaleighf I was talking to someone in DMs about wanting to hire them to build me a content strategy for LinkedIn (too close to your own product and all that) Next day: "Sorry, fell asleep while we were talking" It was past 12am, so fair enough... but why say it? Professional vibe's gone.

I gotta share something. Today I had a prospect call with a freelancer for a retainer project. Person showed up late, and then the very first thing said was, "Sorry, I was sleeping." In a space where AI is taking roles every day, sometimes the human bar isn't hard to beat.

@ctwtn @askOkara Not first but contender for worst

@askOkara not even the 1st platform claiming to be the 1st AI CMO 😂

@askOkara So your virtual CMO came up with the idea for the product launch and had its agents write it, make the video, edit it, publish the thread, and reply to everyone... Right?

@crawfax @freddjohns @timsoulo @ahrefs If they really cared they'd be doing actual marketing by now (this is not a dig at Tim or Ahrefs)

@TheCopyTrail @freddjohns @timsoulo @ahrefs The tech sites care.

@freddjohns @timsoulo @ahrefs I hope we move past this soon. Who cares that we no longer visit tech blogs for the answer to "what is the best toaster under $100"?

@TheCopyTrail @timsoulo @ahrefs Good point

@fbrsaas @iamcamengland Outreach for the first $5-10k then you can ride client referrals to $40-50k if you don't suck balls at your craft At $50k you need to hire to scale ops and then you can do less service delivery and more biz dev

@iamcamengland so then how should they get to that 50k in the first place without organic content? Just cold outreach?

Unpopular opinion: Organic content is a distraction for most agency owners under $50k/month. Get to $50k first and stabilize cash flow. Then layer in content.

@kamal_razzak Check out tella.com way better (not affiliated) Maybe the fastest I've ever started using a video tool

hey can someone vibe code a new loom please? we need to get rid of this dogshit pos software

@KevinEspiritu "promise it's not a fetish"

First time trying to draw feet, promise it's not a fetish Month 9 teaching myself to draw