There's one simple reason why Fibbler has been crushing it from the start... and it doesn't involve the word "AI" or "agent."

I log into LinkedIn every day.

I scroll through the feed.

7 out of 10 posts are about AI and how to grow your company faster using it.

Rarely any proof points behind the frameworks or tactics.

Just doomsday prophecies about a dying marketing function because AI can do it for you.

I have a very contrarian view.

MARKETERS HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT.

And yes, I use AI a lot in my own work.

Research, content, coding.

But none of that is why Fibbler has been successful.

It's because we have a narrative people resonate with.

One that stems from my own POV on marketing.

And we've been effective at distributing that narrative through my existing audience, through ads, and through word of mouth.

I would have done the exact same things without any AI.

Maybe it would have taken slightly longer.

But the results would be the same.

AI makes good marketers more efficient. It doesn't create great marketing.

That's still about the same thing it's always been.

Finding and engaging the right people, so that when they're eventually ready to buy, you're the one who comes to mind.

“AI CMO” posts are starting to annoy me.

Higgsfield launched Supercomputer and people are already framing it as a marketer you hire once: one prompt, it studies TikTok, Meta ads, X, analytics, then ships new content while you sleep.

That sounds great in a post. But the expensive part of marketing was never opening 14 tabs.

The expensive part is judgment.

Who decides the strategy? Who knows when a hook is clever but wrong for the customer? Who has enough pattern recognition to catch the 20% of an LLM answer that’s off before it costs the company real money?

Neil and I were talking about the Grand Theft Auto CEO’s point on AI. Thousands of games can get made every year. Only a few become hits. More output doesn’t replace taste.

Same thing with a CMO.

AI will replace pieces of the marketing workflow: research, ideation, creative variations, reporting, first drafts, analysis.

But someone with real experience still has to know what to ask for, what to ignore, and what to kill.

AI doesn’t make the CMO obsolete.

It makes weak judgment more expensive and strong judgment more scalable.

The more I use AI in marketing work, the more convinced I am that the real differentiator is not the tool.

It’s judgment.
AI is incredibly useful when it is applied to the right parts of the workflow.

Things like:
• surfacing account signals
• summarizing patterns
• accelerating research
• testing messaging angles
• turning raw inputs into a first draft
• shortening the time from insight to action
That is real leverage.

But AI is not equally useful everywhere.
It does not fix weak positioning.
It does not replace strategic context.
It does not make messy data reliable.
It does not tell you what matters if you have not defined what good looks like.

That is where I think marketing leaders need to be much sharper.

The real skill is knowing:
what to automate
what to review
what to challenge
what to ignore
and where human judgment still needs to lead

That is also why more output is not always a win.
More content.
More campaigns.
More automation.
None of that matters if the underlying thinking is weak.

AI does not remove the need for strong marketers.
But it absolutely raises the bar for them.

And to me, that is the real shift behind “AI-first marketing.”
Not more tools.
Better decision loops.

Curious how others are thinking about this.

Here are a few ways we are leveraging AI to assist with sales and marketing (plus a few ways not to use AI). Do you have anything you would add to either list?

First, let’s dive into how you should NOT be using AI.

- Stop using AI to create all your content. Several colleagues have shared data showing engagement levels plummet for social media and website content created by AI. Engagement across all platforms. It is ok to use AI to help, but you MUST edit this content with a qualified human. A good rule of thumb is that the more important the content, the more editing it will require.

- Stop using AI to send important emails. The content generated by AI is clearly not human. People can subconsciously tell, if not outright. This sends a signal to the person you are emailing that you don’t care enough to write them yourself.

- Stop using AI to create all your content images. Again, let’s think about this from the perspective of how important your content is. Simple post, sure, if that post needs an image. But adding an image for the sake of it is not effective.

Here are a few amazing ways to use AI for sales and marketing:

- Start using AI to inspire your content, emails, posts, research, and more. AI can be a great assistant in helping you identify opportunities you may miss. This is mostly done in the conversational side of AI.

- Start using AI to do the mundane tasks. With a simple Claude Code .md file (Google this if you don’t know what it is), I was able to create a file where I insert a URL into Claude Code, and it creates a csv of names, emails, LinkedIn profiles, and bios of all the decision makers. Saves a ton of time.

- Start using AI to set up automated low-touchpoint interactions. Rather, this is online chat or surface-level emails; create AI agents that help you knock out 80% of the work in low-impact, high-volume interactions.

- Start using AI for marketing and sales processes and plans. AI is amazing at creating frameworks and rubrics for marketing and sales. Think of AI like a junior employee here. The output is solid, but requires some changes and additions. Use AI for editorial calendars, campaign plans, road maps, and more.

- Start using AI for research. Competitive research, new market options, market size, scope, areas of opportunity, your own campaigns, etc. AI can be a powerful research assistant. You need to be careful to properly structure the research, so AI doesn’t just give you answers you want to hear.

I use AI. There, I said it.

As a personal branding agency, it’s impossible to expand or diversify your clientele without AI workflows.

I have fed 100+ interviews to train my Claude for each client. It knows exactly what news, articles, and Reddit threads to pick for each client’s content.

But before and after this, AI is absolutely useless. It cannot tell you what questions to ask, how to create a comfort bubble for a person so they can unabashedly share their opinions.

It cannot form a bond with the person you’re writing for. And *drum rolls* AI CANNOT WRITE. If I were to send a fully AI-generated post to my client, they’d think a potato wrote it.

The hooks are bad. There are unnecessary rhetorics and similes. It cannot form a single sentence without robbing the person of their personality.

You need a writer even if tomorrow you chose to use AI for all your posts. Because honey, writers know how to stop the scroll. Writers know how deep or far the reader has to be taken into the story.

I have had the same clients for years and it’s not because I’ve made them the Elon Musks of social media. It’s because I work too closely with their long-term goals, I safeguard their image, I’m a mini PR. Some would say I’m their therapist too lol.

Personal branding, my nugget, is 80% process and 20% posts. Posts are the laaaassssst part. The backbone of any process is always a person who has been there, done that.

Even the best vibecoders have breathed, lived, and died in code first.

Most marketers are using AI wrong.

They ask it to write captions and stop there.

Here's how I use AI to run smarter marketing campaigns — without losing the human touch:

1. Research in minutes, not days
AI helps me analyze competitor positioning, audience pain points, and market trends before I write a single word of copy.

2. Build the strategy first, then generate content
I feed AI my target audience, goals, and tone — then use it to draft content frameworks, not finished posts. The thinking stays mine.

3. Repurpose everything
One blog post → 5 captions → 3 email hooks → 1 short video script. AI makes this take 20 minutes instead of 3 hours.

4. Test faster
I run A/B variations on headlines and CTAs using AI-generated options, then let performance data pick the winner.

5. Personalize at scale
From outreach emails to ad copy, AI lets me tailor messaging to different audience segments without starting from scratch each time.

The marketers winning right now aren't the ones replacing their thinking with AI.
They're the ones using AI to think bigger.

Which of these do you already use? Drop it in the comments 👇

#MarketingStrategy #AIMarketing #DigitalMarketing #ContentMarketing #MarketingTips

After a year of building AI into my workflow, here’s what I didn’t expect to find, and what it forced me to confront about the work I’d been calling “strategy.”

5 free AI tools I use every day as a marketer
(no BS)

1. Perplexity
Deep competitor research.
With real sources attached.

2. Claude
Build full campaigns.
Funnels. Content calendars.
Long form strategy.

3. Notion
Turn messy ideas
into clean timelines.

4. Canva
Design posts.
Carousels.
Ads. Fast.

5. Gamma
Create professional
client slide decks
in minutes.

I use them across:
• LinkedIn • Instagram • TikTok • YouTube • X

Which AI tool do you use every day?

I tested 40+ AI tools for marketing over the last 6 months.

Most are garbage. Some are decent. A few completely changed how I work.

Here is the honest breakdown of what I actually use now (and what I stopped using):

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆: Not ChatGPT. I use Claude. The output needs 80% less editing. Especially for long-form landing pages and email sequences. ChatGPT is fine for brainstorming, terrible for final copy.

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀: Not any paid tool. Perplexity Pro. Ask it to pull positioning, pricing, and messaging from any competitor's website, and it gives you a structured brief in 2 minutes. I used to spend half a day on this.

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀: Not Canva AI. I go between Ideogram for static visuals and Runway for short video. The quality gap between these and Canva's AI features is massive.

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: Not a spreadsheet. I feed one content pillar into Claude using my brand voice doc, and it generates 30 days of platform-specific posts. LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter. Different formats, different hooks, same core message.

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀: Not a checklist. I screenshot the page, drop it into GPT-4o or Claude with a specific CRO prompt, and get a section-by-section teardown with prioritized fixes. Faster than any consultant.

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗘𝗢 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆: This is where it gets interesting. Google is not the only search engine anymore. AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini are becoming discovery platforms. If your brand does not show up there, you are already invisible to a growing segment of your audience.

Most marketers I talk to are using one tool for everything.

That is like using a hammer for every job. It works on nails. It destroys screws.

The real skill in 2026 is not "using AI." It is knowing which tool to pick up for which task.

I am putting together something for marketers who want to see these exact workflows in action. Not a course. Not a PDF.

If you want to get access, comment "AI Stack" below or DM me directly, and I will DM you the details.

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Knowing which AI to use is now a marketing superpower.



Most people just pick ChatGPT for everything. Smart marketers match the tool to the task, and that changes everything.

Here is how I use each one in my workflow as a Digital Marketing Specialist and Social Media Manager.

ChatGPT is my strategic operator. Great for brainstorming campaign ideas, automating workflows, and daily content execution.

Claude is my writing expert. When I need deep analysis, long-form copy, or polished ad scripts, this is my first call.

Gemini is my visual brain. Perfect when working inside Google tools or handling image and data tasks in one place.

DeepSeek is my logic thinker. Precision math, technical problem solving, and budget calculations for ad campaigns.

Perplexity is my research engine. Before I launch any campaign, I use it to gather market data, trends, and competitor insights.

Grok is my real-time pulse. When I need to know what is trending right now before crafting social content, this is where I go.

As someone who runs paid ads, manages communities, creates Canva graphics, and converts leads into actual sales, I am not loyal to one AI. I am loyal to results.

The marketers winning in 2026 are not the ones who simply know AI exists. They are the ones who know which AI to deploy, when, and why.

Are you using the right tool for the job? Drop your favorite in the comments.
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Omisanya Ifeoluwa
The brand behind the brand