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GenAI Tool, AI Agent, Agentic AI: What's the Difference
Everyone's talking about AI. Not everyone's talking about the same thing. That distinction is becoming expensive for businesses that assume all AI is interchangeable. GenAI tools, AI agents, and agentic AI aren't three names for the same technology. They're three fundamentally different operating models with different capabilities, different limitations, and very different requirements to deploy well. Understanding where each one starts and stops is the difference between usi

Heidi Schwende
2 days ago7 min read


The Advertising Skill Set Built Over 20 Years Is Being Automated. The Shift Isn’t Optional
The voluntary migration window is open but closes when automatic upgrades begin in September This isn't a Google product update. It's a structural shift in how paid search works, and both major platforms are executing it on roughly the same timeline. Google announced this week that starting in September, it will stop allowing advertisers to create new Dynamic Search Ad campaigns. Existing DSA, automatically created asset, and campaign-level broad match campaigns will be autom

Heidi Schwende
3 days ago5 min read


Google's Sundar Pichai Says Search Is Becoming an Agent Manager
Here's the Road From Here to There Sundar Pichai was asked last week whether search would exist in ten years. His answer: "Search would be an agent manager, in which you're doing a lot of things." That's not just a prediction, it's pretty much a product roadmap. If you're running marketing for a mid-market business, the question worth asking isn't whether that future arrives, it's what your business needs to look like at each stop along the way. Because there are stops. This

Heidi Schwende
Apr 104 min read


Using AI Isn’t the Same as Getting Value From It
AI access is no longer the issue Most organizations are already there. Tools are in place. Teams are experimenting. Research shows that 78% of organizations are using AI in at least one business function, and 75% of knowledge workers report using AI at work. That sounds like progress. But when you look at how the business actually operates, something doesn’t line up. Because despite that level of adoption, more than 80% of organizations are not seeing a meaningful financial i

Heidi Schwende
Apr 85 min read


Local SEO Strategies to Consider for 2023
Local SEO is a crucial aspect of digital marketing for businesses looking to target customers in a specific geographic area. As we move...

Heidi Schwende
Mar 14, 20232 min read


Maximizing Organic Growth by Using Digital PR & Cross-Channel Data
Organic growth is critical for any business, and digital PR and cross-channel data can be powerful tools for achieving this growth....

Heidi Schwende
Mar 4, 20232 min read


How to Achieve Powerful Marketing Results by Using PPC and SEO Together
Search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click advertising are often thought of as individual and separate marketing strategies, but...

Heidi Schwende
Oct 13, 20223 min read
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