@CyrusShepard It's not. It's Gemini.
Web search in the old sense is going, going, gone. SEOs and PPCs will have to adjust.
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Gil Gildner
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Gil Gildner
@gildner
cofounder, coauthor, codependent, choleric, contrarian, capitalist
Fayetteville, AR Katılım Temmuz 2018
401 Takip Edilen9.8K Takipçiler
Google removing call buttons
Google hiding links to websites
It's almost like Google isn't a search engine anymore
Joy Hawkins@JoyanneHawkins
Did you know Google’s "Businesses" label on a Map Pack means your call button has a 99% chance of disappearing? 🤯 This report from @SmallBizEdge is the best data I’ve seen on this yet. Have you checked your niche's label lately? 🔗 smallbizedge.com/reports/map-pa…
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@MacroJason Is there any correlation with Polish youth becoming more liberal? I don't really know, it's been a few years since I've been there or kept up.
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🇵🇱 Which country do you consider the greatest threat to world peace? (Poland, March 2026)
The narrative is flipping:
- 27% of younger Poles see Israel as the world's biggest threat to world peace vs 7% of older Poles
- 25% of younger Poles see US as the world's biggest threat vs 4.8% of older Poles
- Whilst 73% of older Poles view Russia as the biggest threat only 36% of younger Poles do
- Across all age groups only 3.6% of Poles see China as the biggest threat and only 2.1% see Iran as such
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@ppcClickShark It's a learnable talent. I used to be terribly naive, but get burned enough times and you start seeing matching patterns
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@gildner "Never worked with idea people."
A potential quote for your gravestone. Kidding 🤣
Some people are better at reading the room than others. It sounds like that's a talent you have.
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How do you screen potential clients for being overbearing - any tips?
Reddit Ads Guy@RedditAdsGuy
@ppcClickShark I didn't yet but I for sure will be when I encounter a micromanaging client again, that shit's too much.
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@JohnathonPriest I get 14 mpg and the gas prices won’t affect how I drive. If you gotta get somewhere, you gotta get somewhere.
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I remember back in 2008 when gas prices spiked. There were people selling their Hummers at a $15k loss. People were buying Priuses and talking about "hypermiling" by going 10 under the speed limit.
But now if think if gas hit $10 a gallon nothing would happen. We luv our SUVs
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@mattbramanti I have lived in Arkansas for 36 years and have never once heard of “pork brains and eggs”.
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ok there are a few things going on here
beer cheese soup, frito pie, scrapple, skyline - these are actual, common dishes
scorpion lollipops are a gas-station gag gift
jackalope summer sausage is just summer sausage
provel isn't really weird - it's just a mild unremarkable cheese
pickle pie, though, sheesh
Terrible Maps@TerribleMaps
The weirdest foods in each U.S. state
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@ppcClickShark Yes. But at the beginning (like...first 4-5 years) we tolerated a whole lot more weird behavior than we have had to in the past 4-5 years. Sometimes you just gotta pay the bills. Recently I've had the luxury of firing clients simply because they were mildly annoying.
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I am guessing it's rare. But have you as an agency owner or agency employee ever been part of firing a client? If so, interested in why (in comments)
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The counter-argument to this (which most paid channel marketers don't like to admit) is that in ecom, LTV is pragmatically irrelevant. It's heavily brand dependent. Making that first purchase profitable gets you 90% there. The brand (customer service, pricing, brand strength) handles the rest.
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@growthzacks I do not work in ecommerce. Genuine Question: Other than connecting your CRM to Meta and placing an increased value on secondary purchases what could you do?
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The most expensive customer in e-commerce is the one who only buys once.
A lot of brands spend their time trying to engineer long-term retention.
Loyalty programs.
Subscriptions.
Complex lifecycle flows.
But if you actually look at cohort data, most of the LTV shows up much earlier.
For many brands, the second purchase is where the real leverage is.
If someone buys again, that order is often almost pure profit. And small improvements there can drive a disproportionate lift in LTV.
Where people go wrong is trying to optimize the fifth or sixth order when only a tiny fraction of customers ever make it that far.
Instead of asking “How do we build long-term loyalty?”
Start with a simpler question: How do we get more customers to buy one more time?
Because in a lot of e-commerce businesses, that second purchase is the entire LTV strategy.
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Quite interesting. l3harris.com/all-capabiliti…
Benjamin De Kraker@BenjaminDEKR
Handheld radio, powered by Starlink... L3Harris has unveiled the XL-300P, the first P25 land mobile radio with native 5G and satellite direct-to-device (D2D) connectivity. It will support Starlink via T-Mobile's "T-Satellite" service, it guarantees first responders ultimate triple-layered redundancy (P25, cellular, satellite) so they never lose critical communications.
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@ppcClickShark that's probably what I would judge you for on first sight - unless you were wearing curly-toed boots and a cravat
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@gildner I disagree. I am an ugly dude. But most people who know me describe me as being charismatic or having other leadership type qualities.
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Some of the worst people go to SXSW. Last week I saw a little five-foot dude with a Fu Manchu and a cravat walking ramrod-straight in curly-toed boots.
From his aura you could just tell he thinks he’s a Hemingway, but he really just writes scripts for Viagra commercials
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@ppcClickShark The biggest lie kids are ever told is that you can't judge books by their covers
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@gildner Jesus. A lot to digest here. Also... how dare you judge on first site.
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This is a $100m company?
shopcoveusa.com
Sam Parr@thesamparr
There’s a guy in Hampton who bootstrapped a lifestyle apparel company to 9-figures with his twin brother. Alec Todd and his bro started with just $3k. Started Cove Apparel in Jan 2020. 2025: $38M in revenue, 22% EBITDA 2026: on track to do $110M They now have 32 employees and their own warehouse. Alec is 28 and I met him in Hampton. Pretty awesome story.
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@ConduitNews As a reminder, this is the same judge who stated “I maintain all the county property. Technically, legally, I own it.”
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#ARNEWS Law library shut down. Board replaced. $200K gone. Washington County taxpayers deserve answers.
🔎 The lawsuit is ongoing. The questions remain.
conduitnews.com/2026/02/14/jud…
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driving to Austin tomorrow for a meeting. is there anything happening there?
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@alphafox If you look at the height difference and the angle the bullet had to make and the material of the lamp housing, then it must have been a sniper with special bullets.
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@ppcClickShark @brock_mammoser Also, remember that these guys never seem to provide take-home profit numbers. It’s always “revenue”.
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@brock_mammoser I do not think I missed your point rather than thinking logically. But to each their own. 🍻
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The guys with 100k followers are making a ton of money teaching you how to make money
But my friends with 9-figure businesses?
The ones pocketing $20M+ a year?
They have no followers
They’re not sexy
They’re not flaunting it
They’re just grinding
So who do you listen to?
If you want to learn how to sell a course, listen to the guy with the huge following
If you want to learn how to build a real enterprise, you have to sift through the bullshit and find the operators
The ones in the trenches, not the ones on the timeline
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@the7maxims You can get a 2017 Mercedes GLA with <90k miles for around $10k
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My kid is a rising senior. We’re looking at cars for her. She asked to look at the new Broncos… 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫 $35000 & up.
I decided to look at a RAV4 thinking I could find something less than $20000. They’re $30000 plus. I guess entry level vehicles are a thing of the past.
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@gildner @bowtiedgerman Best modern car on the market there’s a reason it’s dusting all other German’s of its class in sales
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These type of dudes don’t seem to know Merc, Audi and BMW make cars specifically for them that are basically the motorized equivalent of a swatch
Dr. Hadi H@Mr_HadiH
Buy a nice car as soon as possible. A nice BMW, Audi or a Mercedes. It will bring you the minimum respect required to do business at a higher level. It's fun if you're with your boys. And women like to get picked up in them. It's a must especially if you're young. Buy it.
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