Issue #312 | August31st 2025
Aloha and happy Labor Day Weekend!
As someone who is self-employed, it may not seem like Labor Day is worth celebrating. And you may not right now feel like you have the bandwidth to take the day off.
Which is ok!
Because now you can work towards the goal of being able to take Labor Day (or any other day you’d like) off in the future.
To help you work towards that goal, let’s dive into this round of Shark Bites…
If you’d like to write in your wins and be featured, you can do so inside of the Remote Marketing Agency Owners Private Facebook Group. Remember to use “#win” so we can feature you in next week’s “Catch of the Week”.
Welcome to “Pirate’s Booty” – a curated stash of local marketing news and content for your reading pleasure.
If you use WordPress—read this! Recently a plugin vulnerability affected more than 700,000 sites. Is yours one of the ones affected?
Find out in this free article:
TablePress WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Affects 700,000+ Sites
Want to know how to optimize for Google AIO and ChatGPT? That may not be on your radar right now… but it should be!
And that’s because AI in search is only becoming more prevalent. If you’d like to see what the research says about this topic, click the link below now:
As you may know, one of our major focuses is using our agency as a way to battle test strategies that we then bring to you.
That way, we only bring you things that are proven to work in the real world.
Not fluffy theory or academic thoughts we found in a dusty textbook. That said, it's not like we stop improving and optimizing after we release a strategy.
We are ALWAYS trying to improve.
Not just because these are the same strategies we use every single day to make money in our agency.
But also because we want to improve it for you.
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That's why on this week's Aloha Friday Local Marketing Jam Session, we went live live for:
Faster Setup, Better Monetization: Smart Directory AI Live Demo
On it, I went over all the new updates and improvements we've made to SmartDirectoryAI recently.
And how it's never been easier or faster to start making money with this incredible strategy.
The replay is up now and you can tune in here:
The Captain’s Log
Here you can find the latest YouTube videos from our Captains Tom and Nick. They’re putting out new videos all the time, so check back each week for new goodies.
Thanks for joining this round of Shark Bites!
Have a happy labor day. And we’ll be back to you soon with more goodies!
Mahalo,
Tom Gaddis
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