Issue #313 | September 7th 2025
Aloha and welcome to September!
Holy moly fall is almost here. I know I talk a lot about the passage of time in Shark Bites… and that’s because every week Sunday rolls around so fast!
And if you don’t take the bull by the horns, time can just keep slipping by.
And no progress is made.
To help you make some progress this week and every week from now on, 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.
What’s that? A giant, billion-dollar tech company did something shady?
Ok, no surprise there. But since its Google, a company everyone relies on, especially agencies, it’s worth taking note.
This time Google slowly and secretly raised Google Ad prices in a way that tricked users into thinking they were normal auction fluctuations.
So a judge ordered Google to be more transparent. If this interests you, read it here:
Google Quietly Raised Ad Prices, Court Orders More Transparency
More Google news: This time a judge orders that Google doesn’t have to break up due to antitrust laws.
However… it does have to make some changes to its business practices.
Google will definitely appeal this, but if you’d like to stay up to date with the story, read this now:
Google Avoids Breakup As Judge Bars Exclusive Default Search Deals
One mistake lots of people make with their agency site?
They treat it like a brochure… instead of a key step in the process of driving a response.
That's why on this week's Aloha Friday Coaching Call, I'm going live for:
AI Chat Bot Turns Wasted Leads Into SALES (Setup In 20-Minutes)
This will help you stop wasting valuable leads that read your site, think “that's nice”, and then move on.
When we're done, you'll be able to launch a HighLevel AI conversation bot that answers questions, nurtures leads, and most importantly, leads to SALES.
And I'll make this simple.
So that in just 20-minutes, you'll be able to embed your AI bot onto ANY site.
No coding, no tech headaches—just a live, working bot that starts conversations for you 24/7.
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.
That’s all for now.
Happy September.
Remember that fall (and the holiday rush) is right around the corner.
And use that to motivate you to get some serious work done this week.
Talk soon!
Mahalo,
Tom Gaddis
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