Founder @ Growth Marketing Agency - Single Grain, Podcaster @ Marketing School + Leveling Up

Single Grain is a digital marketing agency focused on driving scalable and predictable revenue growth using Facebook advertising, Google Ads, YouTube advertising, SEO, video production and content marketing. 

We've worked with companies such as Amazon, Uber, Nordstrom and venture-backed startups to create and execute on custom-tailored growth strategies.






-> For those of you that are interesting in marketing and personal growth tips from top entrepreneurs, please visit http://www.levelingup.com for our free podcast. You'll hear from billionaires, authors, and other high performers.

-> For my daily marketing podcast, go listen to Marketing School at https://www.singlegrain.com/marketing-school-podcast



Skills:
SEO
Paid Search (Pay per click advertising)
Affiliate Marketing
Display Advertising
Mobile Advertising
Remarketing/Retargeting
Facebook Marketing
Video Advertising
Twitter Marketing
Google Analytics
Conversion Rate Optimization
Sales
Strategic Partnerships
Content Strategy/Development
Business Development
Social Media
Community Development
Operations
Affiliate marketing
Affiliate program management
Retargeting
Growth Hacking

Eric Siu ✓

If “I’m good at ChatGPT” is your company’s AI strategy, you’re already falling behind.

AI proficiency alone at work isn't enough.  It's not just about tools or prompts.

It's about working up the stack - from tasks to strategy, judgment, and client relationships.

We've been driving Claude Code proficiency at Single Grain because we believe it's the future of work. 

Work is going to be more and more focused on strategic thinking and client relationships, not tasks. 

What we've been doing:

- 2-day full-day hackathons where people get into pods and build solutions that actually affect their day-to-day work
- Show and tell demos so ideas don't stay theoretical
- Weekly office hours to unblock people fast
- An internal Slack 'Claude Code help' channel where people can get help
- An 'AI working group channel' where people are sharing the latest news

Most importantly, we've made these mandatory. These take priority over all 'normal' work. That includes client work, sales work, etc.

Initially, I could tell there was resistance to this. Inertia is a very real thing in companies. As a leader, you must do everything to break this inertia. 

My wonderful team handled the logistics, and I just showed up to the show-and-tell section. Because of the initial inertia, I wasn't sure how the demos would turn out.

They turned out amazing. People were sharing real solutions that would save them hours of time each. People also started to connect the dots with their projects being able to combine with other teams' projects. I could see the wheels turning and, more importantly, I could see the excitement.

When demo day came, the results were undeniable:

- 3 hours per task saved on client reporting
- 12 hours per month saved per client on client strategy 
- An ROI calculator that quickly calculates how much revenue we'd drive per client based on the work that we'd do for them. This saved 5 hours per proposal.

But the bigger shift wasn’t the time savings.

People stopped seeing themselves as task executors.
They started seeing themselves as product builders, creating compounding leverage in service of our purpose: helping customers generate more customers.

This is where work is going.

Less execution.
More high-leverage thinking.
More exponential outcomes.

AI skill gaps are now knowledge debt.
The longer you wait to pay it down, the more interest you’ll owe.

I shared a short show-and-tell recap below so you can see how we approached it. This is just a starting point.

What’s one concrete way you’re making AI adoption real, not optional, inside your company?

AI transformation at Single Grain

Ranking in the Age of AI: The Playbook for 2026 and Beyond

The SEO content game is DEAD.
Or is it?

Most SEO teams are still optimizing for a world that doesn't exist anymore.

AI Overviews, Gemini, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other answer engines are completely rewriting the rules of search. The marketers who aren't optimizing for these platforms are getting left behind.

The winners? They're building AI-first content systems, scaling without sacrificing quality, and driving real revenue in 2026 and beyond.

In this live session, I'm breaking down:
• If the SEO content game is dead
• Where to allocate your SEO budget today
• The new levers that actually move traffic and conversions in an AI-first world
• The exact playbook to show up in Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and more
• How to future-proof your SEO strategy with scalable systems + AI workflows
• Real examples of what's working (and what's dead)

If you're still relying on 2022 tactics, you'll be invisible in 2026.

Ranking in the Age of AI: The Playbook for 2026 and Beyond

Daniel Murray

Founder @ The Marketing Millennials | Head of Media Strategy @ Workweek | Angel Investor Focused on Marketing/Sales Software | Former D1 Athlete

Hi! I’m Daniel. I’m the creator of The Marketing Millennials and the founder of Authority, a B2B LinkedIn growth agency that creates and distributes content to turn attention into authority for your business.

 
I’m a former D1 athlete. GO BEARCATS. I live in the Miami, FL with my badass wife, Ari, who is arguably a way better marketer than I am. You can say we are a marketing power couple. 

I’ve spent most of my marketing career focused on Marketing Operations (at companies like SnackNation, Oracle, ChowNow, ServiceTitan, and Clearbit). BUT, I have a love for all types of marketing because to be great at Marketing Ops - you need to be well versed in all of marketing. I started The Marketing Millennials as a way to meet other marketers - and I can officially say mission accomplished.

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Just launched my marketing newsletter with workweek. Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/3OvHkWs

Just ship it. 

That perfect campaign you’ve been tweaking for 3 weeks?

Ship it.
That newsletter you keep “polishing”?

Hit send.

That social post that’s “almost ready”?

Post it NOW.

Here’s the truth about marketing in 2026:

SPEED beats perfection.

Every. Single. Time.

While you’re perfecting V47 of your email, your competitor shipped V1 and is already learning what works.

The market rewards action.

Not perfection.

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Founder - The Marketing Millennials | Founder @ Authority - Turn attention into authority on LinkedIn | Former D1 Athlete

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“So what does a marketer actually DO?”

Everything. The answer is everything.

I’ve seen marketing job descriptions that list 47 different responsibilities.

Social media, email, ads, SEO, content, design, events, analytics, copywriting, video editing, community management, partnerships, and oh yeah can you also help with sales enablement?

It’s gotten RIDICULOUS.

Companies hire 1 marketer and expect them to be a full agency.

New marketers don’t know any better. They think this is normal. They say yes to everything. They burn out in 18 months.

If you’re hiring a marketer, get specific about what you actually need.

If you’re a new marketer, ask in the interview: “Which of these 47 things are you REALLY prioritizing in the first 90 days?”

Marketing is not 1 job. It’s 15 jobs wearing a trench coat.

And if you’re currently that one person doing it all? You’re not failing. The job description is just broken.

This is why every detail and touchpoint matters in marketing.

H/t: Don McMillan

This is TOO accurate.

“Should we run paid ads?”

IT DEPENDS.

“How many emails should I send?”

IT DEPENDS.

“Is LinkedIn or Instagram better?”

IT DEPENDS.

“Should we use video or static creative?”

IT DEPENDS.

Marketers LOVE saying “it depends” because… it actually DOES depend.

On your audience.

On your budget.

On your goals.

On your industry.

On your product.

On your competition.

But here’s the thing:

“It depends” is the RIGHT answer.

Anyone giving you a one-size-fits-all marketing strategy is either lying or selling you something.

Marketing isn’t about copying what worked for someone else.

It’s about figuring out what works for YOUR business.

And yeah… that depends.

You can’t automate what you don’t understand.

I’ve always believed this: You need to do something MANUALLY before you use automation or AI.

Because if you don’t know how it works…

You can’t tell when it’s broken.

You’re just blindly trusting the output.

This is why humans aren’t going anywhere.

If you’re GOOD at your job…

You have TASTE.

You know what good looks like.

You can spot when the AI missed the mark.

You can fix what’s broken.

You can make it BETTER.

AI is a tool.

Not a replacement for expertise.
Learn the fundamentals FIRST.

THEN let AI make you faster.

Being TOO good at your job will backfire on you.

I learned this the hard way.

Early in my career, I was CRUSHING deadlines.

Week-long projects done in 3 days.

Revisions requested at 4pm in their inbox by 6pm.

I thought I was being impressive.

Turns out, I was just training everyone around me that “Daniel delivers in 48 hours” was the new normal.

Fast became the expectation.

And when I couldn’t maintain that pace (because I’m human), people got frustrated. With ME.

That’s when my boss pulled me aside:
“You teach people how to treat you.”

OUCH.

But he was right.

By always saying yes and delivering at lightning speed, I’d set an unsustainable standard. I built my own trap.

- Underpromise and overdeliver isn’t just something people say. It’s actually how you survive long-term without burning out.
- Boundaries aren’t rude. They’re necessary.
- Your emergency isn’t always my emergency.

And a sustainable pace will ALWAYS beat heroic sprints.

The best performers don’t just do great work. 

They do great work at a pace they can maintain for years, not weeks.

Stop training people to expect miracles.

Start training them to expect excellence within reasonable timelines.

Your future self will thank you.

Having employees with strong personal brands in your company is an opportunity. 

Not a threat.

But most companies treat it like a threat.

They panic when employees start posting on LinkedIn. They worry about them getting poached. They think they’ll take clients with them when they leave.

So they discourage it. Or worse, they create “approval processes” for social media that kill any momentum.

Here’s the thing:

If you’re worried about an employee with a strong personal brand, you hired the wrong person.

Good employees with personal brands make your company better.

They attract talent. People want to work at companies where they can grow their reputation.

They bring inbound leads. Someone follows your employee, sees where they work, reaches out.

They build trust faster than your company account ever will. People buy from people, not logos.

They make your brand feel more human. Real faces and voices beat corporate speak every time.

Smart companies don’t just allow personal brands. They encourage them.

They give their team content to share. They celebrate when they post. They understand that rising tides lift all boats.

Stop being scared of your employees building in public.

Start building a company culture where personal brands make everyone stronger.

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