Bay Area Inbound Marketing Blog

Make Content from YouTube Videos, Post to Social Using Blotato AI

Posted by Laurie Monahan on Fri, Jun 26, 2026 @ 03:02 PM

100 Customers, 3+ Launches, 10 Assets per Launch, 20 Creator Demos, 99% Warm Engagement Follow- Up

That cadence doesn't just create brand awareness, it lands customers.

Blotato gives you a repeatable way to turn attention into conversations, pipeline, then customers.

If you are getting likes, comments, then NOTHING.

Crickets...

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Tags: make content from video

What is the Best Strategy for Answer Engine Optimization?

Posted by Laurie Monahan on Thu, Jun 25, 2026 @ 07:08 PM

What is AEO - Answer Engine Optimization ?

AEO is the practice of improving how often and how accurately your brand appears in answers when prospective customers use AI Engines like ChatGPT to do their research.

A good AEO strategy helps surface your brand in AI Engine answers to questions such as "W
hat is the best firewall for small companies?"

According to Hubspot, 2026, 42% of buyers now use AI search as part of their evaluation process and AI search is the top predictor of purchase intent.

Your efforts for SEO were not wasted. SEO gets you ranked in a list of links.

AEO is about being named and mentioned when an AI engine answers a question. AEO gets you sited in that AI answer. Your goal is to be one of those named options and trusted sources.

The engines that matter are ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Grok, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity.

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Tags: AEO, How do I score well for AEO?, How do we get recommended by AI?, Answer Engine Optimization, Hubspot AEO

Using ChatGPT and Google AI as a Channel

Posted by Laurie Monahan on Thu, Feb 26, 2026 @ 12:13 PM

 

Good Day Mates from beautiful Sydney, Australia! 

I blogged once before on the many ways I found to use AI to do product marketing, ie competitive analysis, market landscape and requirements, making an ebook as an educational offer quickly, and today I want to write about AI from the perspective of using ChatGPT and Google AI as Channels, since it's so relevant for Digital Marketing, Demand Generation, and Growth Marketing. We startup Marketers tend to wear a lot of hats.

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Tags: ChatGPT as a Channel, Google AI as a Channel