
Dan Kurtz discusses the intersection of AI and marketing, emphasizing productivity and ethical outreach.
Chosen episode title: AI Is a Toddler With Crayons: How to Rein It In and Put It to Work You don't expect a digital marketer to say this out loud: "Let's call cold email what it is. It's spam. It's B2B spam." But Dan Kurtz has spent twenty years learning exactly where the line sits between marketing that works and marketing that gets you deleted — and these days he's building AI systems that let one person do the work of ten, without crossing it. Dan started out getting mom-and-pop shops found online, scaled his skills across a 300-location national fitness franchise, and did stints inside Nielsen and Microsoft Bing before founding Miss Pepper AI, where he builds marketing automation and AI-driven sales systems for businesses. We Also Talked About Why your Google Business Profile only ranks if your website mirrors it, with pages for every service and area you claim. How a modest press release can land a local business in Google's AI answer boxes. What "black hat" actually means, and the irony Dan spotted at a major SEO conference. The permission gates that keep automated outreach on the right side of spam — and the law. Using AI as an "assembly line worker" instead of…
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