Happy New Year everyone! 🎉 I've been on my first ever cruise this week with my wife's family to celebrate Christmas & New Years and I've had very little access to Internet (hard for me to unplug lol) I attached some pictures but it's a Caribbean cruise where we've stopped at Grand Turk, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, and a few other islands. It's been a good time for me to reflect on 2025 and I want to thank you for helping me build such an awesome community this year ❤️ I cannot wait to see how much more this community grows in 2026 as I have some fun things planned! 2025 MVPs 🏆 I wanted to shoutout the Top Members of the AI Marketing Insiders for 2025. I appreciate all of you and these individuals are leading the way and pushing this community forward: 2025 Leaderboard (All Time): 1. @Catherine Eadie 2. @Carol M 3. @Carlota López-Peredo 4. @Matthias Lindner 5. @Randy Smith 6. @Rod Macbeth 7. @Lyra Lopez 8. @Rotem Brayer 9. @Rafal Glaz 10. @Johnna Kirk Other Members on the Leaderboards: - @Kerry Greener - @Ariel Sumulat - @Lucie F. - @Mukul Singh - @Johan Versteegh - @Mike Barlow - @Stephen Davies - @Antonio Ruiz Also special thanks to @Shelly Frank for her guidance and community admin help this year! I appreciate all of you and your contributions make this community better 👏 I look forward to seeing the Community Leaderboard for January 🚀

Hello Marketing Insiders… Quick BUILDER update 👋 I launched The Simple Plan web app yesterday and have been tightening the experience: – PWA + web favicon + lock screen media artwork (iOS + Android) – Smoothed out the music player so the anthem experience feels stable and intentional – Keeping beta lean with Plausible before we go native iOS / Android Stack (high level): – Web app + PWA (bolt.new) – Supabase backend – Resend (email) – n8n automations – Plausible analytics – Media Session API for lock screen playback– Invite / referral tracking baked in early 4 sticky parts: 1. Left / right mindfulness moment 2. Music player with an anthem in multiple cultures 3. Gratitude journal 4. Book reader with notes + progress over a study period If you’re open to doing a quick beta test, here’s the invite link:👉 https://thesimpleplan.app/?invite=1&ref=USER-30DBFF I’d love any notes on UX friction, bugs, or “this felt confusing” moments. Honestly… shipping like this has been fun again. Poll:If you were testing this beta, where would you focus next?

I wanted to shoutout the Top 5 Members of the AI Marketing Insiders for the month of September! 🏆 I appreciate all of you and these individuals are leading the way, sharing their knowledge, and pushing the AI Marketing Insiders community forward: 1. @Catherine Eadie 2. @Carol M 3. @Terassah Thompson 4. @Matthias Lindner 5. @Carlota López-Peredo Honorable Mention: - @Johnna Kirk - @Rod Macbeth - @Randy Smith - @Deb Anne - @Jake Noble Your contributions make this community better 👏 Keep posting, asking questions, sharing wins, and helping others! I look forward to seeing next month's Community Leaderboard 🚀

Hey guys! I'm super excited to announce that I just hit my 2025 YouTube Goal of 25K subs! I appreciate each and every one of you for your support ❤️ My 2025 YouTube Goals: - Publish one long form video per week (52 minimum) - Hit 25K subscribers (was at 10K to start the year) 2025 YouTube Results So Far: - 284 long form videos published (lol) - 25K subscribers I have my eyes set on 100K subs so I'll be keeping my foot on the gas 🔥

Next week I'll be presenting for one of the biggest AI communities on Skool (AI Automations by Jack Roberts) on the topic of YouTube SEO. Here's the truth - My YouTube channel would be nothing without my SEO background. I have no creative skills whatsoever 😂 I'll be posting the full recap here so stay tuned and make sure you're subscribed to my YouTube channel! Here's a Sneak Peek 👀 In the meantime I suggest watching my YouTube SEO tutorials on YouTube: - https://youtu.be/Qism8R8ybdM?si=i75-5Xiz_Re8ZzfB - https://youtu.be/ExHLq1phUcg?si=s82ExyPCWxRhpztb