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How Should a DTC Brand Plan Black Friday and Cyber Monday?

How Should a DTC Brand Plan Black Friday and Cyber Monday?

Plan BFCM 2026 backward from the customers you want next year, with margin floors, ad pacing around platform learning, email warm-up and a cohort review.

10/27/2026

Mike Le

Why Do DTC Sales Stall, and How Do You Find the Cause?

Why Do DTC Sales Stall, and How Do You Find the Cause?

Flat DTC sales on rising ad spend have a cause you can find. Check the market, revenue parts, new and returning customers, measurement and stock.

10/27/2026

Mike Le

How to Measure DTC Growth Beyond Platform ROAS

How to Measure DTC Growth Beyond Platform ROAS

Platform ROAS cannot tell a CFO what ad spend earned. Report contribution margin, MER and acquisition cost from store data, and test with holdouts.

10/22/2026

Mike Le

What Should a DTC Growth Audit Show You Before You Sign?

What Should a DTC Growth Audit Show You Before You Sign?

A DTC growth audit should show where revenue leaks, what to stop now and what to fix first, built from your sales, margin and stock data.

10/22/2026

Mike Le

How to Evaluate a Growth Agency for a DTC Brand

How to Evaluate a Growth Agency for a DTC Brand

Judge a DTC growth agency on profit from your store's data, who runs your account and what it would fix first. Questions to ask before you sign.

10/22/2026

Mike Le

How Banks Earn AI Citations Beyond Their Website

How Banks Earn AI Citations Beyond Their Website

How banks earn AI citations on YouTube, LinkedIn, industry publications and forums, and the compliance rules each channel carries.

10/07/2026

Mike Le

Banking AI Citation Report: What AI Engines Cite and Why

Banking AI Citation Report: What AI Engines Cite and Why

What ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI features cite for banking questions, how sources shift by product and place, and where a bank's effort counts.

10/05/2026

Mike Le

How to Measure a Bank's AI Search Visibility

How to Measure a Bank's AI Search Visibility

How to measure a bank's visibility in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, which KPIs to track by product, and what tools can and cannot do.

10/02/2026

Mike Le

Keeping Bank Content Compliant in AI Search

Keeping Bank Content Compliant in AI Search

Where AI search meets Reg Z, Reg DD, UDAAP and FDIC rules, and how banks keep passages accurate when an AI answer quotes them on their own.

10/01/2026

Mike Le

How to Evaluate an AI Search Agency for a Bank

How to Evaluate an AI Search Agency for a Bank

Agency or in-house, what drives the cost, what to put in the RFP and how to score an AEO agency. A checklist for bank marketing leaders.

09/22/2026

Mike Le

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