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Read this first. It's short, and it's about you.
You can make any business on earth impossible to ignore — except your own. And you've never let yourself say that out loud. You've said versions of it. "We're so busy with client work." "The cobbler's kids have no shoes." "We just haven't gotten around to our own marketing." Every agency owner has a polite cover story for it, and every one of them knows, at about 2am, that the cover story doesn't hold. You sell visibility for a living. Your own business doesn't have it. Here's the part that should take the weight off: this was never a character flaw, and it was never a skills gap. You can't read the label from inside the jar. The thing that makes you excellent at diagnosing other businesses — being outside them — is exactly what you don't have for your own. We call this Commodity Blindness. It has a structure, it has a diagnosis, and it has a fix. That's what this school exists to teach. How this room works 1. Introduce yourself below. Who you are, what you've built, and the honest version of where your own marketing sits. You'll find the comments unusually candid — that's on purpose, and it's protected. 2. Open Module 1 — The Problem. Twenty minutes. It names the blind spot precisely. Most members say it's the first time they've seen their situation described without being sold something in the same breath. 3. Then Module 2 — The System (the frames we use to fix it) and Module 3 — The Proof — a first-party audit of 100 independent agencies across 10 metros. I'll spoil one finding: 100 out of 100 had zero knowledge-graph entity. Not most. All of them. Including the market leaders. The full study is inside. 4. Show up during the week. Monday I teach. Tuesday we name what's actually in your way. Wednesday a member's story. Thursday a resource. Friday is community. Once a month we run the self-audit together and post scores — that one's become the ritual. What happens if you want more At some point the material will make you want to know where your business actually stands. When that happens, there's a short 15-minute call where we look at it together — no pitch theater, just the diagnosis. You'll see it mentioned around the group. There's no pressure attached to it, and the school is genuinely free either way.
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Over 30 years in digital marketing and I haven't had a website in over ten years. Feast or famine roller coaster of tactics.
Biggest schema study ever run just dropped
The biggest schema study ever run just dropped. Here's what it actually proves — and what it doesn't. There's a fight happening in every SEO group right now over a new controlled study on schema markup, and most of the takes on both sides are wrong. Let's do this properly. What the study was. 29 businesses, 36 locations, one industry. Every site stripped of ALL schema and verified clean. Five weeks of nothing. Then LocalBusiness schema added to half the sites, five more weeks, tracked across Google, Bing, Yahoo, Google Maps geogrids, and five AI platforms. Results run through a proper statistical confidence test with a 90% bar. Peer-reviewed before the results existed — by believers AND skeptics, including the guy who literally helped build Schema.org. That's a real study. Not a screenshot with an arrow on it. Here's Moz's coverage of it: https://moz.com/blog/does-schema-markup-impact-serp-rank What it found — the part the "schema is dead" crowd is right about: Schema did not move organic rankings. Not on Google, not on Bing, not on Yahoo. And on Google Maps — measured across an 81-point geogrid — the group WITHOUT schema actually performed slightly better. No effect on Maps rank. No effect on local visibility share. If anyone is selling you schema as the thing that gets you to page one, that pitch is now dead on arrival. It was never supposed to be a ranking lever, and now there's controlled evidence. What it found — the part the same crowd is skipping past: The one place schema moved the needle past the 90% confidence bar — past it twice — was ChatGPT. - ~93% confidence that adding LocalBusiness schema improved the brand's position in ChatGPT's recommendations, by about 3 spots - ~92% confidence it increased how OFTEN ChatGPT included the brand at all — by 10 percentage points Sit with that. Ten points more inclusion in the answers your future customers are reading, from an afternoon of implementation. In a study designed and reviewed largely by schema skeptics.
Working on getting things put together
For all those starting to join... I am working on getting things organized and added. The AUDIT and other items will be added over the next few days.
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