Issue #328 | December 21st 2025
Aloha and welcome to the Winter Solstice edition of Shark Bites!
It’s the Winter Solstice which means its the shortest day of the whole year… and things will be heating up from here on out.
To help you make more use of the lengthening days, 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’re into AI, chances are good you know about Sam Altman the guy behind OpenAI and ChatGPT. Recently Sam spoke out about OpenAI’s profitability and their “bet” on their future.
This is interesting and is about both business and AI so figured it would be worth sharing:
Sam Altman Explains OpenAI’s Bet On Profitability
Once again Google confirms its ranking system rewards content made for humans… no big surprise there! At the end of the day, it’s always about your customers.
Yes, you can use AI to create content… but be sure it suits whatever human you intend to read that content. Read more about it here:
On this week's Aloha Friday Local Marketing Coaching Call we went live for…
The Annual Holiday Extravaganza!
This is our yearly tradition of sitting down and celebrating the holiday season and what's to come next year! Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be there this year… but we had some great guest hosts fill in!
Of course, it was more than just a celebration… Our guest hosts dished out some powerful marketing tips, shared how they're preparing for 2026, and even played Santa and gave away some prizes.
If you've never been to a Friday Live Show or haven't been in a while—this is a great one to hit!
The replay is up now and you can catch it 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.
Today’s the shortest day of the year. So get some sleep. Drink some hot cocoa. And I’ll see you here tomorrow as the days lengthen and hopefully, your bank account lengthens too!
Mahalo,
Tom Gaddis
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