The Menu
The Menu is a weekly serving of sharp, strategic marketing ideas—just enough to chew on without overwhelming your plate. Budgets are down. Expectations are up. Let’s win anyway.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 7
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 7, 2026
Latest issues
How to Do Zero Click Marketing? Get People to Care. (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I’m thinking about zero click marketing a lot. I mean, not the book or the podcast, although obviously I think about those a lot too. I’m thinking about what it takes to really thrive in this clickless world.The zero-click trend is accelerating fast. But it’s not really that things are changing every day. It’s more like the change that has already been happening — platforms hoarding use
The Hardest Ideas to Green-Light Are the Most Valuable Ones (opens the original)
Read excerpt
All of us marketers are currently doing the same math: what can I defend with a number? Because time and again, the budget flows to whatever looks safest on a spreadsheet.Chris Savage, CEO of Wistia, thinks that’s backwards. On a recent episode of Zero Click Marketing, he said:“The hardest ideas to green-light today are the most valuable ones.”His logic is simple. Everyone wants numbers. So everyone takes the budget and puts it into the things most l
Reddit citations in ChatGPT fell off a cliff. (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Depending on whose data you look at, the decline was somewhere around 80%. Promptwatch measured Reddit’s share of ChatGPT Search citations falling from an average of 3.83% between July 18 and August 7 to about 0.5% over August 14–17. Petra Labs independently observed a decline of about 80%.When I saw the chart, my reaction was: I don’t care.I don’t care because the week-by-week volatility of an LLM’s retrieval s
The Work Is Bigger Than the Receipt (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I recently went on NPR’s The Indicator to talk about the zero-click internet. I spoke with co-host Adrian Ma for about 40 minutes. The final episode was about 9 minutes, with maybe a few clips of my voice in it. So if you measured my appearance literally — by the seconds in which I was actually audible — you’d conclude I barely showed up.But the episode opened with an example I’d given them: how old is P
Which Ideas Deserve More Support? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I’ll admit I’m kind of a thinkboi (gender neutral).I’m often more interested in the philosophies behind marketing — how we choose our campaigns, which ideas are worth exploring, what deserves more of our attention — than in the campaigns themselves.So when Tim Soulo asked me a question on the Ahrefs podcast that I couldn’t immediately answer, I did what any thinkboi would do: I’ve been turning it over ever since.The question was:If you can’t justify
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.