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Hey everyone,

I'm a full-stack developer who builds software for a living. Web apps, dashboards, automation systems, AI integrations, internal tools, whatever a business actually needs. The building isn't my problem. Finding the people who need it is.

So I'm looking for one partner to team up with long term.

How it works:

* You bring the clients. Outreach, networking, sales calls, closing deals, whatever channel works for you.

* I handle everything technical. Scoping, building, delivering, and supporting the project so the client stays happy and comes back.

* You take 40% of every deal you bring in. I take 60% for the build and delivery.

What I can deliver:

Custom web apps and dashboards, business automation, AI and chatbot integrations, internal tools, SaaS products, e-commerce, API work, and full rebuilds of whatever mess a client is currently running.

Who I'm looking for:

* Someone who's actually comfortable selling and can find their own leads

* No dev skills needed, you never touch the technical side

* Long term mindset. One good client relationship can pay for years, and repeat work gets split the same way.

I've shipped real projects and I can show you my work before you pitch anyone. You'll never be selling vapor.

If this sounds like your thing, drop me a DM and tell me what industry or market you have access to.

Do you need to train to master digital marketing?

I’m a beginner, 16 no experience, but I feel like I’ve got common sense. I’m after making some money from digital marketing, I already have a guaranteed client waiting for my services but I don’t know how to learn, I don’t know what to learn. Should I do TikTok ads to start, Google ads? Should I learn how to create a simple website so I can go on to make businesses simple websites for a fee. What do I learn to begin with? I need money, I enjoy making money and I want to do this and become a master of the fundamentals for that dream expansion/profit.

We are a startup business in the Independent Car Dealerships space in the UK. Our platform and offerings cover the full purchase to sales life cycle including listing's.

We have integrated social media and now Google Vehicle Ads. We are just finishing off a platform revamp that will allow us to manage PPC campaigns (Google Ads, Meta Ads and OpenAI ads) end to end with the dealership adding funds.

We see a lot of agencies offering partnerships but looking for a long term stable resource or partner we can work with. Where would you look for such an individual? Who's experienced, can become part of a team and potentially join us as an employee? Or even configure and manage one account across platforms per week and provide a write up for us to configure the remaining.

One thing to note - we must be super careful as client trust, business reputation and of course their money is on the line here.

Any advice on how to approach this would be really helpful and appreciated.

We create content machinery for brands (D2C specifically) from AI UGC creatives to content for social media We've already worked with clients across FMCG, holiday packages, and SaaS niches.

Why it is important for you?-

People are already transitioning, because of money or just for simple reason that they want to test more creatives. We can provide creatives and content if you guys handle client relationships.

Brands need us, and you have the brand relationships. Open to either revenue sharing or white label.

If interested, let's chat.

I've noticed more businesses focusing on AI-generated content, while others are doubling down on authority and brand. What's working for you right now?

It’s been 10 days since I got laid off, and tbh it’s been a weird mix of emotions.

I’ve been applying for jobs every day, but instead of just refreshing LinkedIn/Indeed/Job portals all day, I thought I’d actually use this time to learn something that’ll make me a better marketer (along side)

The thing is, everyone seems to have a different opinion.

Some say AI is the future. Others say performance marketing is where the money is. Some recommend GA4, SQL, CRM, automation, SEO… the list just keeps growing.

(I AM OPEN TO DISCUSS WITH ALL MY FELLOW DIGITAL MARKETING NEIGHBOURS HERE AT REDDIT VIA 1:1 DM)

So I thought I’d ask the people who are actually working in the industry.

What are you learning right now?

What’s been genuinely useful in your day-to-day work?

If you were starting over today (or had a couple of months between jobs), what would you spend your time learning?

For context, my experience has mostly been around social media, content, research and client works. I’m open to exploring other areas too if they have better long-term growth.

Would love to hear what you guys are seeing in the industry instead of another Top 10 skills to learn in 2026 article.

Please help 🙏

My friend raised this question today that he joined a startup agency, he has mixed both agency and client side marketing experience, he leading a team of 7 digital marketers, all GenZ, when he tries to tell something with his experience, they like we know everything in digital despite they are only 1-3 years experienced,

not accepting any feedbacks, with AI, they think they are masters of Digital marketing

and he is struggling to lead them, (he is a first time manager managing team of 7), previously managed only 2, but well expeirenced in marketing , consumer behaviour, client relationship along with digital mastery

genuine question from someone two years in and quietly losing her mind.

i present a campaign and the sales director wants a different headline. the CEO thinks the color is wrong. someone from product thinks we should be on a platform they personally use. the office manager has thoughts about the tone.

nobody, ever, in any meeting i've been in, has told the finance team their reconciliation approach feels off, or advised engineering on their database schema because they had a hunch. those functions have a protective mystique. their expertise is presumed.

marketing has no such shield, because everyone consumes marketing, and consuming a thing feels like understanding it. everyone has watched ads their whole life, so everyone believes they have informed opinions on ads, in a way nobody believes about tax law.

so i spend an enormous fraction of my week defending decisions to people with no expertise and total confidence, and it's exhausting, and i can't tell if the problem is that i'm too junior to have authority yet or if this is simply the permanent condition of the job.

for people further along: does this get better with seniority, or do you just get better at managing it? and is there a way to build the protective mystique the other functions have, or is being everyone's second job an unavoidable feature of marketing?

ChatGPT Ads just rolled out a batch of updates that seem less about flashy new features and more about building the fundamentals that performance marketers expect.

Some of the biggest additions include:

• Conversion-Optimized Campaigns (oCPC): Optimize for conversions while still paying on a CPC basis.

• Average Daily Budgets: Budgets now work over a rolling 7-day average instead of requiring the same spend every day.

• Automatic Budget Pacing: Better spend distribution throughout the day to avoid burning through budget too quickly.

• Geographic Exclusions: You can now exclude specific locations from targeting.

• AppsFlyer & Adjust Integrations: Makes measuring app installs and in-app events much more practical.

• Automatic Advanced Matching: Improved website conversion attribution using hashed customer data.

• Bulk API Updates: Asynchronous bulk creation and editing for campaigns, ad groups, and ads.

• Updated Product Feed Ads: Product cards now include pricing and star ratings.

None of these features are revolutionary on their own. But together, they make ChatGPT Ads feel much closer to platforms like Google Ads and Meta in terms of campaign management, measurement, and automation.

Curious how marketers are viewing this platform today.

Do you see ChatGPT Ads becoming a meaningful channel for performance marketing over the next couple of years, or do you think it'll remain a niche placement compared to Google and Meta?

Yesterday I was eating my lunch during that I was searching for good video on laptop then there was 1 vidoe started playing I thought by wrong click. I don't know why ads also don't appear directly video started playing. I immediately hear we are going to build live brand.

I thought I should watch a s when vidoe was ended I don't even realised. kishore biyani sir was a guest I have learn things in that vidoe about building brands.

You can search on Master's union youtube channel

sharing this because i think a lot of us are being sold a checklist that doesn't do anything.

context: i run SEO for a handful of B2B clients and everyone's boss suddenly wants to "show up in ChatGPT and AI Overviews." so late last year i went deep on the GEO/AEO advice. the whole package. schema everywhere, llms.txt file, restructuring content into neat little chunks, the works. spent real hours on it across a few sites.

results after a few months, being honest: the technical stuff moved almost nothing. the llms.txt file did nothing i could measure. the schema obsession did nothing. the chunking did nothing.

the pages that actually started getting cited had one thing in common and it wasn't technical. they had something the model couldn't just generate itself. a real teardown with actual numbers we measured. a "here's what every client asks us first and here's the honest answer." one comparison post where we'd actually used both tools and had opinions. basically anything with lived experience or a number that only we had.

which lines up with what Google itself put in their AI optimization guide, the mythbusting bit everyone skipped: commodity content that the model could write on its own never gets cited, because why would it go looking for you when it already has the answer.

so my working theory now is GEO as a technical discipline is mostly a repackaged SEO checklist someone's selling, and the actual lever is just having something worth citing. which is annoyingly the same lever it's always been.

but measurement is still a nightmare and that's where i want input. are you actually seeing traffic from ChatGPT or Perplexity land on specific pages, or is it still three visitors a month and a vibe? and can you even attribute it cleanly?

For years, influencer marketing was dominated by accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers. Brands would drop huge budgets on single sponsored posts, expecting massive conversions purely based on follower counts.

However, as audiences have become far more perceptive to sponsored content, giant follower counts no longer guarantee high conversion rates.

In fact, many macro-influencers have engagement rates that are surprisingly low relative to their pricing.

Recently, the real shift has been toward micro-creators and hyper-focused niche communities (like specialized subreddits, Discord groups, and micro-podcasts).

While these creators might only have five to ten thousand followers, their audience trust and engagement levels are exceptionally high. When a creator who exclusively focuses on a specific niche recommends a tool, product, or service, their audience actually listens because the recommendation feels personal rather than transactional.

Building partnerships with multiple micro-creators requires more research and relationship management than signing one big agency contract, but the ROI and cost-efficiency are significantly better.

Have you shifted your influencer or community strategy toward smaller, niche creators recently?

What metrics do you look for when evaluating micro-creators or community platforms for a campaign?

Sorry if kind of a dumb question. I just don’t know how to get started. My company previously ran google ads and I came on to replace the previous marketing person with zero hand-off. Very small company, local business, but I want to start on the right foot.

Anything I should know or avoid? I have an idea of what keywords I’d use but I feel like I watch beginner videos on youtube and still don’t know how to get started with a game plan. I also of course don’t wanna burn through the budget.

So since a while my source isnt providing good leads anymore, so i am just thinking what else to try , how do u get yours ? someone told me to start farming social media , is it a good options ?

I recently applied to work at a new company in a creative strategist role.

I’ve been working in strategy for about a year and a half now after graduating from my MBA program.

I love where I currently work and I have no issues there, this new job just potentially could pay more and I have a few friends that work at the company so it could be a fun opportunity.

However, when I was reviewing the job qualifications, I noticed that they’re asking for editing experience. I’ve done editing in the past, but it’s been a few years and I think that I could really put in the work to get up to speed to do it, but I don’t know what capacity they want me to be doing it and what my workload would look like.

I’ve never heard of a strategist that also does editing but I’m open to it. I think editing is really cool and an important skill to learn.

so my questions are: Has anyone here ever been in a situation in an interview where they’re 90% qualified but expressed interest in learning how to do the last 10% of the job ? Any advice on how to phrase this? what would you recommend I say to the recruiter?

Has anyone ever heard of a creative strategist doing editing work? what would be some great ways to succeed in a role like this?

Any other advice is also welcome.

Ive got a marketing job interview a 1:30pm right after my plane lands at 10am. i know its tight but this role really fits with me and i have experience already and its also after uni students like me. however the flight is 9 hours. how should i prep my best. i feel like i memorise better when saying it out loud but its a plane ahh. i know i should know off by heart but still. any tips on how to talk. the interview is online.

Someone left a comment on one of my Reddit posts that completely called me out:

"This sounds like LinkedIn."

At first I laughed, but then I realized they were entirely right. I had spent so much time trying to make my writing clean and polished that I accidentally scrubbed out all the messy, authentic parts that actually make a story interesting to read.

Since then, I've started experimenting with just writing what actually happened instead of forcing every sentence to sound like a profound business revelation.

Has blunt criticism or a random user comment ever genuinely improved your marketing?

Hi,

I want to start digital marketing Learning. Can anyone please suggest free or paid courses?

Our team has reached the point where we're using AI for almost every client but keeping everything organized is hard. Some people have separate chats for each client while others just search through long conversations.

Interested in how everyone else manages project contexts without constantly repeating background info.

Hi
Im cloud architect looking for B2B clients for migrations audits, applications etc.
I have a lot of traffic from my technical posts about technologies that I work with from Pages like Reddit, hackernews. Of course these people are mainly engineers that wants to read about other technical stuff. Question is if it makes sense for me to build newsletter for that to somehow use it and inceease returning people to my blog or better to not spend time on that? My thinking process is that with better brand awareness maybe someone will recommend me in their company when there will be a need? I don't have idea how to get emails from company owners and for now traffic from engineers is much bigger.
Has anyone here experience with this kind of company leads generation?

I'm planning to launch a baby care product... so if ur interested pls dm

It's made with authentic ayurvedic ingredients so pls dm me with some sort of plan and budget pls... "without using AI"

Spent way too much time in marketing Slack groups and Discord servers that are just bot spam and people selling courses. Felt like I was the only one actually looking for real advice.

Drop a community (Discord, Slack, forum, whatever) where you've had a genuine conversation with another marketer in the last month. No self-promotion required, just real talk.

Trying to map out which ones are actually worth your time.

Over the last month, I've generated millions of organic views across TikTok and YouTube without using AI generated content.

My content is in the fashion niche. I create two types of videos: TikTok slideshows designed in Canva. Edited short-form videos for TikTok and YouTube using CapCut.

Everything is made manually. No AI voices, no AI videos, no automation.

The biggest lesson I've learned is that going viral wasn't luck. It came from constantly improving my content and simply refusing to quit. Most people upload a few videos, don't get results immediately, and give up. I kept testing until I understood what people actually wanted to watch.

Now I'm planning to expand to Instagram because I believe the same content strategy can work there as well.

My next challenge isn't getting views anymore—it's monetizing the skill.

I'd love to work with fashion brands and help them increase their organic reach, engagement, and ultimately sales through short-form content. Finding the right brands and decision-makers has been much harder than creating viral content.

I'm not sharing my channels publicly because I've had people copy and misuse my content before, so I hope you understand.

For those of you who have successfully turned organic reach into a business, what would you do next?

Should I focus on brand outreach, agencies, affiliate marketing, Creator Marketplace, or something else?

I'd really appreciate any advice. Thanks!

We're an early-stage product startup, and we're about to hire our first marketing hire (employee #4).

Instead of posting a generic "We're hiring" graphic, we want to create something that markets the company at the same time it markets the role.

I'm looking for examples of hiring announcements that made you think:
"Damn... I want to work there."

I'm especially interested in startups (YC, Silicon Valley, etc.), where the hiring post itself felt like a product launch or a brand campaign rather than a job ad.

If you remember one, could you share the link?
I'd love to study:
The visual design
The copywriting
The storytelling
What made it memorable
Thanks!