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Branding in Public: Live Startup Rebrand Workshop + An Evening with Athletes Turned Investors | LA Tech Week 2025
See a real company rebranded live. Learn the frameworks that turn startups into Unicorns. Network with founders and VCs. Then join athletes turned investors. October 16, Santa Monica. LA Tech Week.
Simplicity as Strategy: Why Clarity Will Outlive Every Algorithm
Clarity outperforms complexity. In marketing’s noisy, tech-driven era, simplicity builds trust, drives growth, and sustains relevance.
Empathy Is the New Algorithm: Why Human Connection Outperforms Automation in Modern Marketing
Empathy now outperforms automation in marketing, driving trust, loyalty, and growth through genuine human understanding.
The Recession in Trust: Competing in a Distracted, Distrustful Market
Brand trust is collapsing as audiences reject ads. Long-term growth now depends on strategic, coherent brand building.
Blogging Reimagined: How Long-Form Content Quietly Regained Its Power
Long-form blogging returns as a high-ROI tool, building trust and measurable impact amid AI skepticism and rising costs.
Precision Over Panic: How Tariffs Are Redefining Paid Media Strategy in 2025
Tariffs dominate boardrooms, pushing marketers to cut weak spend, prioritize high-ROI channels, and demand precision.
CTV: The Performance Channel Hiding in Plain Sight
Connected TV turns television into a performance channel with precise targeting, clear ROI, cultural reach, and cost-efficient conversions.
The New Competitive Moat: Why Growth Gets Risky (and How to Build Guardrails)
Rapid growth hurts experience, brand, and operations. Resilience built on values and empathy is true advantage.
Retail’s Strategic Pivot: Building Growth on Relevance, Not Reaction
Growth hacking is out. Retailers now build lasting trust, loyalty, and innovation, shifting from reactive growth to resilience.
Zero Click Debate: It is not about the click, it’s about the journey
Users want instant answers. Brands must earn trust and authority across snippets, AI tools, and social platforms.
Retail’s Reinvention: Navigating the 2025 Commerce Revolution in Q3 and Q4
Retail thrives on ecosystems and experiences. Leading brands unite trust, emotion, storytelling, and ecosystem thinking to succeed.
Search Advertising’s Next Act: From Keywords to Contextual Intent
AI transforms search ads, modeling behavior, predicting intent, and boosting ROI while challenging brands to balance precision with identity.
The Future of Consumer Strategy Models: From Exploration to Action
Culture brands rewrite market rules. Exploration–Decision–Action helps reshape culture and build lasting advantage as AI exposes flaws.
The Golden Rule of Blogging in 2025: Serve Before You Sell
Blogs win in 2025 when they serve before they sell, delivering clarity, depth, and trust that compound into traffic, shares, and loyal readers.