Simply Useful Marketing

I Swear They Can’t All Be Zingers

But you know what will NEVER be a zinger? That thing you've been noodling with for a year and are too scared to publish. It probably won't be a zinger…

Feb 27 • Bryant Duhon

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Debunking the “Let’s Go Viral!” Myth That Will Poison Your Marketing

Efforts to "go viral" have always set my teeth on edge. You can fiddle around the edges and increase your chances, but you can never reliably make a…

Feb 5 • Bryant Duhon

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January 2026

8 Simple Ways to Listen to Customers and Improve Your Newsletter Content

If you’re guessing at topics, you’re working too hard. These eight listening habits make your next issue easier to write — and your business more…

Jan 28 • Bryant Duhon

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Your Newsletter Procrastination Starter Pack – Focus on These 18 Things That Don’t Matter

Focus on these 18 things and you're guaranteed to never get your newsletter off the ground, missing out on one of the best ways to establish, build, and…

Jan 24 • Bryant Duhon

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Your Newsletter: Unmatched Power to Build Customer Trust and Grow Your Business

Meet your customers where they are in the only one-to-one relationship you control in today's platform-everything world: their inbox.

Jan 19 • Bryant Duhon

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25 Simply Useful Marketing Beliefs

Tactics and strategy are good and needed, but without a strong foundation of belief – especially in the primacy of the customer – you’re going to fail.

Jan 14 • Bryant Duhon

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December 2025

The Advent Marketing Calendar - 25 Days of the Essentials of Marketing

This was fun to create and squeezes in my main beliefs about the fundamentals of marketing; especially content marketing.

Dec 24, 2025 • Bryant Duhon

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4 Pointless Fears Holding You Back From Creating a Customer-Focused Newsletter

It's not knowledge or ability holding many businesses back from creating a newsletter. It's fear. And those fears are without merit. Here's why.

Dec 13, 2025 • Bryant Duhon

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Forget Hacks: These Three Fundamentals Drive Every Successful Content Strategy

Content marketing IS hard, but the fundamentals are fairly simple and straightforward: have a purpose, share widely, and write like a human.

Dec 10, 2025 • Bryant Duhon

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Confusing Language Is a Tax on Your Marketing Strategy

If customers can't understand you, they won't buy from you. Every extra brain-cycle your reader spends decoding your copy is a lost sale. Strip the…

Dec 4, 2025 • Bryant Duhon

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November 2025

Are Your Website's Broken Windows Blocking Sales?

Your website is your online storefront. How's it look to your customers?

Nov 17, 2025 • Bryant Duhon

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Me, GPT, and Editing: I Think I've Found a Useful Prompt

I do the writing. I use ChatGPT to parse my library of content for hidden nuggets, ways to extend/combine ideas, as a viciously polite editor, to draft…

Nov 7, 2025 • Bryant Duhon

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