Simply Useful Marketing

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.

15 hrs ago • 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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October 2025

The ROI of Boring

Tired of chasing trends? Good. Forget viral — the real ROI lives in repetition, trust, and unglamorous consistency. That’s where real marketing begins.

Oct 22, 2025 • Bryant Duhon

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The 5 Marketing Truths I Can’t Stop Harping On

Marketing is hard, but not rocket science. Keep these fundamentals in mind and you’ll have the foundation you need to build a business based on trust…

Oct 16, 2025 • Bryant Duhon

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Is There an ROI From Building Trust? Yep

Do you buy from people you don't trust? Do you think your customers do? Trust is a competitive edge; hone it.

Oct 7, 2025 • Bryant Duhon

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September 2025

4 Content Marketing Lessons From the Plant in My Parking Pad

Four simple lessons on growth, momentum, and building on solid ground — from a stubborn little plant that refused to quit.

Sep 26, 2025 • Bryant Duhon

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