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Season 3 Kick Off | Nothing Replaces Real: Marketing & Money in 2026

We're back for Season 3! In this episode, Grant Covault (Fractional CMO, GC Strategies) and Tyler Davis (CPA, DAT Finance) look back at 2026 from both sides of the table.

Grant covers marketing and sales. Tyler covers finance. On the marketing side, Grant explains why real, authentic content keeps beating "AI slop." He walks through how interest-based feeds on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn now show your content to people who don't follow you.

He also covers what zero-click AI search means for your website, and why one client now gets more than half of its best leads from ChatGPT…

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