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Tracking Pixels Are a Wiretapping Claim Waiting to Happen
A law written in the 1960s to stop illegal phone taps is now the basis for lawsuits against the marketing pixels on your website. That's not an exaggeration. Plaintiff's firms have found a way to argue that a pixel capturing your visitors' clicks and page views, before they've clicked "accept" on anything, works the same way as an illegal wiretap.
Mike Wilhelm
3 days ago4 min read


Why Meta and GA4 Metrics Never Match
Treat Meta's number as your true reach and you overstate how many people saw the landing page. Treat GA4's number as your true reach and you undercount real traffic by the exact size of your consent-denied population, a population that shifts by region, by device, and by how a browser's default cookie settings interact with the banner in front of it.
Mike Wilhelm
4 days ago3 min read


Seven Execution Failures That Break the B2B Revenue Funnel
B2B buying behavior does not move in straight lines. A prospect may spend an hour on your pricing page today, go quiet for three weeks, re-engage with a case study, and only then signal readiness for a conversation.
Terra York
Jun 306 min read


When Ad Campaigns Look Great but Deliver the Wrong People
Too many small teams set up conversion events once, during the initial launch, and never look at them again. On the surface, the campaign looks fine. Clicks come in and the dashboards look healthy. But the pipeline stays quiet and nobody can quite explain why.
Mike Wilhelm
Jun 305 min read


GEO Is Just a $200 Million Rebrand of SEO
If you want to show up in AI-generated answers, just do good SEO. There’s no new trick. No new discipline required.
Mike Wilhelm
Jun 307 min read


Why Should You Hire an Ad Agency That Specializes in Your Industry?
Hiring the right ad agency is about more than finding a team that understands media buying or campaign analytics. In a specialized industry, the agency also needs to understand the market itself.
Mike Wilhelm
Jun 297 min read


The Most Overlooked Marketing Skill: Clarity
Businesses pour time and money into creative design and use the language of their peers in an attempt to win business and impress their colleagues. However, it often backfires. If you’re proud of your product, you want to present it in the most polished, impressive way possible. But in the process, many forget the most basic marketing skill of all: making things clear to people unfamiliar with the business. If your potential customers can’t quickly understand what you do and
Mike Wilhelm
Mar 125 min read


Why Startups Burn Leads and How to Stop It
Startups often burn leads because they don't have the systems to handle them well.
Mike Wilhelm
Mar 124 min read


How to Habituate Subscribers to Open, Click, and Convert
Habituation in email means subscribers open because experience has trained them that your messages consistently provide value.
Mike Wilhelm
Jan 225 min read
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