Thinks Out Loud: E-commerce and Digital Strategy

Thinks Out Loud: E-commerce and Digital Strategy


Latest Episodes

Rethinking Your Website in the Age of AI (Episode 473)
November 06, 2025

With customers increasingly turning towards AI to get the answers they need for their business, you might be rethinking the value your website provides to those customers — and to your business. It’s absolutely worthwhile to ask the question.

In the Age of AI, Brand Isn’t Everything. It’s the Only Thing (Episode 472)
October 31, 2025

Im generally bullish on AI and its potential benefits for customers and brands. What Im less bullish about are all the folks essentially telling you that AI will make you give up building meaningful connections between your brand and your customers. Wit

Revisiting “The New SEO” (Podcast)
October 24, 2025

Are you as sick as I am of hearing people claim that SEO is dead? I mean, c’mon. How is that we keep regurgitating the same foul nonsense to drive clicks, engagement, and a little bit of anger among the marketing community. I promise I’m not

Revisiting the Real Story of AI and Zero-Click Search (Thinks Out Loud Podcast)
October 16, 2025

I assume most people know that Google makes almost all of its money from ads. And, in practice, those ads are based on clicks. Paid clicks. That fact means that Google cant survive in a zero-click world. While that same reality is not (yet) true for Cha

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 commerce. Its genuinely a capital-B, capital-D, Big Frickin Deal. No do

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 day. The question is, what happens to your content? Will agents replace the content

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