Thinks Out Loud: E-commerce and Digital Strategy

Thinks Out Loud: E-commerce and Digital Strategy


Latest Episodes

Are ChatGPT’s Apps Good for Your Business? (Episode 471)
October 09, 2025

OpenAI just introduced Instant Checkout and apps in ChatGPT, allowing customers to buy products and services directly within the AI. This is, as they say, the next step in agentic

Will Agentic AI Kill Your Content Marketing? (Episode 470)
October 01, 2025

Google has now added agentic AI to Chrome and in its Search Labs. Google has enormous reach with these tools, which means your customers could start using them almost any

The New SEO? (Episode 469)
September 17, 2025

Whether you want to call it SEO, AEO, AIO, GEO, or something else altogether, its clear that search is changing or is it? Yes, customers are using AI answer engines

Google’s Antitrust Case: A Win for Big Tech? (Episode 468)
September 05, 2025

While Judge Amit Mehta has imposed penalties on Google for its anticompetitive behavior, Im convinced that the big winner in the antitrust trial is Google. And, to a lesser extent,

AI and Zero-Click Search: The Real Story (Episode 467)
August 14, 2025

For all the talk about zero-click search, folks seem to keep overlooking one of its key consequences: How Google (and others) will make money. In short, Google cant survive in

The Rise of Agentic AI Among Your Customers (Episode 466)
August 06, 2025

Agentic AI is almost certainly going to be huge and probably soon. Early versions of agentic AI already exist today. Some of them even work pretty well. And the early

Revisiting The Brand is the Prompt (Thinks Out Loud)
July 25, 2025

Unlike a lot of folks, Im not convinced that AI agents are the end of brands. Sure, theres a risk. But I still believe most customers will choose brands that

Revisiting AI Is Eating the World, But Who’s Paying for Dinner? (Thinks Out Loud)
July 17, 2025

Google seems scared. Customers seem ready to jump. Behaviors are shifting fast and furious. While I tend to think Google is in the best possible position to win the AI

Revisiting Is It Impossible for Marketers to Keep Up With AI? (Thinks Out Loud)
July 11, 2025

Does it seem like you are destined to fall behind when it comes to AI? I know for many marketers and e-commerce professionals, especially at small or mid-sized businesses, it

Revisiting Google Closes the Gate (Thinks Out Loud)
July 02, 2025

You may have heard me say that gatekeepers gonna gate. Well, Googles AI Mode shows exactly what that looks like in practice. AI Mode is so disruptive to the way