Updates, guides, and product stories
Podcast guesting means appearing as a guest on other people's shows to reach their listeners, and for a founder the result depends mostly on choosing shows your buyers already listen to, then pitching each host an episode their audience would want.
A guide to the sales intelligence platforms worth a small team's money in 2026, grouped by the job each one does, from contact databases to platforms that build the list and send the outreach for you.
Most businesses still need a website, because AI tools read it to describe the business and customers visit it to check what AI told them and to book or buy, even though fewer people click through from AI answers than from ordinary search results.
A guide to the AI marketing automation tools that fit a small team, grouped by how much of the work each one takes off your plate, with what each costs at a small list size.
Ten social media ads that worked for small businesses, with what each one cost and what it brought in, and how to make your own from yourself, your customers, your best posts, and your product.
Nine kinds of banner ads that earn their keep for a small business, each shown with a real example, plus the sizes, copy, landing page, and budget decisions that decide whether yours pay off.
For most smaller teams, one AI marketing agent costs less than a stack of point tools once you count integration work, data errors, and training, while larger teams with deep specialist needs can tip the other way.
AI marketing agents send email and change websites safely when the setup gives them a clean sending identity, scoped permissions, consent rules they can read, a staging step, and approval gates on anything public.
AI marketing agents now handle most repeatable marketing execution at a fraction of agency cost, while agencies still earn their fee on brand-defining creative and relationship-heavy work; most teams in 2026 use a mix.
A guide to the AI agents worth a small business owner's money in 2026, grouped by the job each one takes off your plate, from finding customers to answering the phone to closing the books.
AI marketing agents now build brand-consistent landing pages from a URL or a brief and keep testing them against live traffic; Unbounce, Flint, and Kite each cover a different part of that loop.
Yes. In 2026 you can run marketing through Slack with Slack's own AI for summaries and app actions, a dedicated AI marketing agent like Kite that researches and ships finished work, or an open-source framework your engineers configure.
A guide to the AI website builders worth considering in 2026, grouped by how much of the work each one takes on after it writes your first draft.
Hire your first marketer when you need someone accountable for figuring out your positioning, customer, and channel; put an AI marketing agent on the research and execution backlog when you need the work moving now, and pair the two as soon as you can afford it.
Six replacements for Instantly and lemlist in 2026, matched to the bottleneck each one fixes: per-seat pricing, list building, multichannel, or deliverability.
Where AI agents fit in agency operations in 2026: research, content, segmentation, reporting, and competitive monitoring, plus how to avoid hollowing out strategy.
No marketing team? How a small business can hand repetitive marketing work to an AI agent, keep final approval, and get review-ready drafts instead of blank documents.
How to build a targeted prospect list for a new outbound campaign: define a strict ICP, source from buying signals, verify every email, and review the output by hand.
Can AI agents run your SEO content and social posting with minimal oversight? What agent-based platforms do in 2026, where the risks hide, and how to test one.
An AI marketing agent is software that takes a marketing goal, decides the steps to reach it, and carries them out with its own tools and your business context, instead of following a fixed script you wrote in advance.
A guide to the AI marketing agents worth considering when you are a founder or lean team choosing your first way to get marketing done without hiring for it.
A guide to the AI marketing agents worth considering in 2026, grouped by how much of the marketing job each one can actually plan and carry out.
A practical SEO automation workflow for lean teams: keyword research, competitor tracking, content decisions, and honest measurement without ranking promises.
Marketing strategies for startups with no marketing hire yet: customer clarity, one channel, a working funnel, and a weekly experiment loop you can sustain.
The latest Kite updates focus on making everyday website building smoother: better AI-generated websites, more reliable editing and previews, clearer draft management, and safer ways to look back or roll back.
Discover 8 better Wix alternatives for 2026. Compare pricing, AI features, and ease of use. Find faster, more affordable options for small businesses.
Learn how Kite, your AI marketer in Slack, uses website building as a capability to create a full site from a simple conversation.
A fractional marketing team migrated 260 pages of WordPress SEO equity into a polished, on-brand Kite site in under a day — without losing a single page of search equity.
