In this Marketing Over Coffee:
Frank Kabatas tells the story of New York City's East Village Pizza!

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Coming to America and Discovering Pizza

Learning English first, and then over to the West Side

Doing time at Domino's

Creating his own recipe

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Talking his brother into becoming an owner/operator

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Where did Cheesy Garlic Knots and Double Stacked Pizza come from?

On Instagram... 1.7 million followers later

The Walk in Cooler is the Brain of the Store

Dubai on the horizon!

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In this Marketing Over Coffee:
Learn about Claude Code Remote Control, the LinkedIn Algorithm, Axe Body Spray, The A Team, and more!

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Blizzard Time!

Claude Code Remote Control brings iOS integration

Latest update to the Unofficial LinkedIn Algorithm Guide is here!

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Google Manage Subscriptions

AXE brilliantly dialing it back

Free Trust Insights tool to check your web page's GEO: Try AI View

Zoe Hitzig says OpenAI is Facebook all over again

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AI says Safety Third!

Claude Accounting Plugins shake the SaaS market

Bitcoin to zero?

John is now running on Zwift

WiiM to make any speaker smart, even with HDMI support

The A Team, Bombshell

Rio Doorbells gaining ground after Superb Owl ad fail

Chris using 222 nm UV bulbs to clear the air

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Learn about the latest updates, Zwift, the future of movies, and more!

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Happy Lunar New Year!

The Release Battle Rages! Moonshot Kimi K2.5, Z.ai GLM-5, Alibaba Qwen-3.5, All still open weights

ByteDance Seedance 2.0 Video now too real

The future of Movies

Chris writes a trashy romance novel

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What about job destruction?

Free Trust Insights tool to check your web page's GEO: Try AI View

John is now on Zwift!

Dave Letterman - My next guest - Mr. Beast

The Cold Start Problem

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Victrola Tempo - They have Auracast

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Learn about building Brandoms, Creating Community, and How to Hold It All Together!

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Her new book is: Transforming Customer–Brand Relationships: Use Emotional Connection To Build Loyalty

Check out the previous interview with Christina on her time at Hubspot and transition to on demand Chief Customer Officer

Where did the book come from? Inspired by her label mate Jenny Li Fowler

Writing while working full time at Pocket CCO

The companies that see the need for the CCO are more proactive

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Fundera, Inc. NMLS ID number 1240038

Build the relationship, create the community, and be prepared for change

Brandom

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Social media is part of a bad dystopian novel

Is Dead Internet Theory for real?

All the steps required to build a community

How not to destroy your brand and have no one care

What's Marvel going to do with Doomsday?

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Post Credit Scene! More Marvel Mayhem!!

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Learn about coding tools being used for business, scaffolding, AI agents and more!

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Winter grips New England - John biohacks with sauna

Claude Cowork spun off from Claude Code - Trust Insights Livestream on Claude Cowork

Constant Contact acquires Jay Schwedelson's GURU virtual email event

My Name in the From Field?

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AI Agents - Agents, Skills, Hooks, and Plug-ins

Scaffolding tasks to improve the results you get from AI tools

The new Trust Insights sales playbook

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Scott Adams died

Earbuds are solved, Sony XM6

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In this Marketing Over Coffee:
ActiveCampaign Vice President of Marketing Jackie Palmer talks about the state of email and more!

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Getting into marketing instead of baking

Instead of just automating practices, evolving so that the tool improves quality at the same time

SMB Customers in over 150 countries

Everything from newsletters to multi-channel campaigns

Strong track record in deliverablity

U of Albany reaching 90% deliverability

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Including SMS and WhatsApp

Adapting to AI affecting the inbox

Agent to User features to improve campaigns

Special requirements for franchise organizations - ActiveCampaign HQ

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Influencers marketing themselves

WhatsApp as a freestanding app for rest of world

RCS driving further use of SMS

Automating the path to the business goals

Marty Supreme is good cringe

A Court of Thorns and Roses is the entry for Romantasy

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In this Marketing Over Coffee:
Learn about Google Workspace Studio, AI Image Generation, Holiday Promos and more!

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Google Workspace Studio - Agent that can work with your inbox and calendar. Opal is new built in as a new type of Gem

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Spotify Wrapped, Strava disappointment, LinkedIn Year in Review

Chris listening to AI Tavern Songs

2026 Will be the year of AI Agents

Legolas in the Nativity - Jesus was more likely a mason than carpenter

Pantone color of the year is Cloud Dancer - A Whisper of Tranquility and Peace in a Noisy World

Vanity Fair and how to make photos less flattering

Latest in AI Image Generation

Happy Holidays - keychain story, Tom K. gets the Fire Tablet

I need a coffee commuter mug

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Holiday Gift Guide

The rest of the Expendables story

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Craig talks about his new book that helps the loved ones of addicts understand their behavior

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The book is now available to order - buy Getting Beyond the Lies here

Going clean, and then becoming the decoder ring for the addict's behavior

Addiction as family disease because of chonic manipulation

Rock bottom as the trigger to change behavior

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The side topics beyond the drug use that create a huge knot of problems

Denial vs. Delusion

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Manipulative language

Creating more awareness around what substances are being abused

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