This month I want to point you at something easy to overlook. We spend so much energy on clicks and landing page interactions that we forget the one variable that often decides whether someone fills out the form: the price. The ad gets the click, the page gets the read, but pricing is frequently the actual trigger. It's worth a hard look.
The other thing on my mind is spam. Bot traffic is everywhere right now, and it quietly poisons your lead numbers if you're not watching. I've got a good read on that below, plus a note on Granola, which has been keeping a clean memory of all my client conversations so I'm not the bottleneck.
Fresh Ink
Pricing is the lever you keep forgetting to pull
Local service businesses sweat ad spend and ignore the variable that moves margin much harder — here's how to raise prices without losing customers.
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On Our Radar · Semrush Blog
Bot traffic isn't going away — understand it
Spam leads are rampant, and this piece from Semrush lays out why bot traffic matters and how to start keeping an eye on it.
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In the Stack
Granola: meeting notes without the creepy bot
One of my favorite tools — it keeps a solid memory of every client conversation and meeting without a bot sitting in the call.
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Claude Code
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Team
Nick Ostroff
Founder, Pixelocity
Runs strategy, client growth, and the AI tools behind Pixelocity — and writes The Pixel Drop.
Sean Schimmel
Head of Operations
Runs ad management day to day — about $40k/mo in spend across dozens of locations, campaigns managed like an engineering problem.