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How I Diagnose Why Organic Growth Stalled

Flat organic numbers tempt teams to do more of everything. More content, more links, a new agency. Here’s how I find the one constraint behind a stall before anyone spends another dollar on the wrong fix.

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How I Brief AI With the CASE Framework

Most AI output sounds generic because the brief was generic. CASE is the four-part brief I use so AI works from my frameworks, my standards, and my voice instead of the average.

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How I Run an AI Visibility Audit

Article Summary An AI visibility audit measures whether AI assistants name a firm when buyers ask for help, which sources they cite to justify it,…

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Six identical brass keys in a row on a walnut desk, five in shadow and one lit by a warm lamp, illustrating how brand memory helps AI tell one Michel Fortin apart from five others.

How I Build Brand Memory So AI Recommends Me

Wikidata had five Michel Fortins before I added mine. An actor, a mathematician, a politician, an archeologist, a dentist. AI can’t recommend a name it can’t place. Here’s how I fixed that, and what it taught me about brand memory.

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How I Structure Content So AI Cites It

AI answers now settle most searches before a click happens. The visitors who still arrive are worth more, not less. SOME is the four-move framework I teach to become the source AI cites.

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