<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Ravitz Field Notes</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/</link><description>Practical AI, marketing, and systems thinking.</description><atom:link href="https://www.ravitz.co/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>AI PPC Management: What Actually Works in 2026 (And What’s Still Marketing)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-ppc-management/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-ppc-management/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:04:08 GMT</pubDate><description>An operator's view of AI PPC management in 2026: the three jobs AI does well, three it gets wrong, a weekly workflow, and the tools worth your budget.</description></item><item><title>Claude for Marketing: How Operators Actually Use It in 2026</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/claude-for-marketing/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/claude-for-marketing/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:05:42 GMT</pubDate><description>An operator's guide to Claude for marketing in 2026: six jobs it handles well, three it doesn't, the prompt structure that works, and the trap to avoid.</description></item><item><title>AI Marketing Workflows: The 7 We Actually Run Every Week</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-marketing-workflows/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-marketing-workflows/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:03:12 GMT</pubDate><description>Seven AI marketing workflows we run every week, with inputs, outputs, tool stacks, and hours saved. Plus three workflows we tried and dropped.</description></item><item><title>AI Lead Scoring: How It Works, Where It Fails, How to Set It Up (2026)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-lead-scoring/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-lead-scoring/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 17:20:47 GMT</pubDate><description>How AI lead scoring works, the 5 ways it fails, and the 6-step setup that keeps it auditable instead of a black box reps stop trusting.</description></item><item><title>AI Landing Page Optimization: The Diagnostic Workflow (2026)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-landing-page-optimization/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-landing-page-optimization/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 17:17:13 GMT</pubDate><description>AI landing page optimization done right: a 6-step diagnostic workflow for message match, trust sequence, and clarity. The prompts and the test design.</description></item><item><title>AI Content Strategy: The Operating Model for 2026</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-content-strategy/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-content-strategy/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 17:05:51 GMT</pubDate><description>An AI content strategy operating model: the strategic decisions, the four-quadrant allocation framework, the measurement loops, and the role of taste.</description></item><item><title>AI Customer Journey: How to Actually Map One in 2026</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-customer-journey/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-customer-journey/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 17:02:54 GMT</pubDate><description>The AI customer journey workflow we run for clients: 6 steps from evidence collection through cross-stage synthesis to the decisions the map drives.</description></item><item><title>AI for Sales Prospecting: The Workflow That Actually Books Meetings (2026)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-for-sales-prospecting/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-for-sales-prospecting/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:25:03 GMT</pubDate><description>The AI for sales prospecting workflow that actually books meetings. 7 steps, the real tool stack, and the failure modes that destroy most rollouts.</description></item><item><title>AI Content Brief: The Template We Use to Get Better First Drafts (2026)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-content-brief/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-content-brief/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:23:08 GMT</pubDate><description>The 10-section AI content brief template we use to produce sharper first drafts. Thesis, audience, angle, voice rules, and what to leave out.</description></item><item><title>ChatGPT for SEO: The Operator’s Workflow (2026)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/chatgpt-for-seo/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/chatgpt-for-seo/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 18:40:02 GMT</pubDate><description>The 7-step ChatGPT for SEO workflow we run on ravitz.co. Where ChatGPT adds leverage, where it hurts, and the LLM citation layer most posts miss.</description></item><item><title>AI Competitor Analysis: The Workflow We Run for Clients (2026)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-competitor-analysis/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-competitor-analysis/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 18:28:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The AI competitor analysis workflow we run for clients: 6 steps, the cross-competitor synthesis, and the unclaimed-territory finding pattern.</description></item><item><title>AI Persona Generator: How to Build Customer Personas From Real Data (2026)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-persona-generator/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-persona-generator/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 18:20:45 GMT</pubDate><description>An AI persona generator workflow that uses real customer data instead of fiction. Inputs, prompts, audit checks, and what most vendor tools miss.</description></item><item><title>AI Content Repurposing: The Workflow We Run for One-to-Many Distribution (2026)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-content-repurposing/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-content-repurposing/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:02:15 GMT</pubDate><description>The AI content repurposing workflow we run: extract, atomize, translate. Tools, prompts, the matrix, and the human checkpoints that keep brand voice.</description></item><item><title>SEO Automation: The Claude + Ahrefs Pipeline We Run for Our Own Blog (2026)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/seo-automation/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/seo-automation/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:51:43 GMT</pubDate><description>The SEO automation pipeline we run on ravitz.co: Claude for drafting, Ahrefs for keyword and SERP data, plus the human review checkpoints.</description></item><item><title>How to Build an AI Content Calendar That Actually Ships (2026)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-content-calendar/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-content-calendar/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 15:13:10 GMT</pubDate><description>A practical framework for AI content calendars: weekly, monthly, quarterly slots with the AI workflows attached. Template, mistakes, and first-month plan.</description></item><item><title>AI Agents for Marketing: 8 Categories That Actually Work in 2026</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-agents-for-marketing/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-agents-for-marketing/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 17:24:20 GMT</pubDate><description>A clear map of AI agents for marketing in 2026. Eight categories that actually do useful work, build-vs-buy decisions for each, and the operating-model mistakes most teams keep making.</description></item><item><title>AI Marketing ROI: How to Actually Measure It (2026)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-marketing-roi/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-marketing-roi/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 17:23:49 GMT</pubDate><description>A practical four-layer framework for measuring AI marketing ROI in 2026: time saved, output quality, conversion impact, learning rate. With realistic numbers and what to put in the leadership deck.</description></item><item><title>ChatGPT Prompts for Marketers: 30 You Can Actually Use (2026)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/chatgpt-prompts-for-marketers/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/chatgpt-prompts-for-marketers/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 15:35:10 GMT</pubDate><description>A working ChatGPT prompt library for marketers. 30 prompts organized by function — research, content, SEO, paid, email, analytics — with the small adjustments that make them actually useful.</description></item><item><title>How to Safely Use Open-Source AI Agents in Your Business</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/safely-use-open-source-ai-agents/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/safely-use-open-source-ai-agents/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 15:28:10 GMT</pubDate><description>A practical safety operating model for open-source AI agents in business: permissions, least privilege, draft-vs-do separation, credentials, model choice, workflow logging, and a deployment checklist.</description></item><item><title>Hermes Agent for Consultants: Faster Research, Audits, and Client Deliverables</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/hermes-agent-for-consultants/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/hermes-agent-for-consultants/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:53:25 GMT</pubDate><description>Consultants can use Hermes Agent to speed up research, audits, briefs, reporting, and client deliverables without handing judgment to AI. Five workflows and a practical first month.</description></item><item><title>How to Use Hermes Agent for Local SEO</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/hermes-agent-local-seo/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/hermes-agent-local-seo/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:03:14 GMT</pubDate><description>Hermes Agent helps local businesses turn reviews, service pages, FAQs, and customer questions into a stronger local SEO workflow. Practical weekly cadence and the safety rules.</description></item><item><title>Hermes Agent vs ChatGPT: What Changes When AI Can Use Tools?</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/hermes-agent-vs-chatgpt/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/hermes-agent-vs-chatgpt/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:52:57 GMT</pubDate><description>ChatGPT answers questions. Hermes Agent uses tools, files, schedules, memory, and messaging workflows. Here's what changes for business teams when AI moves from chat to tools.</description></item><item><title>AI Marketing Consultant: What They Actually Do and When to Hire One</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-marketing-consultant/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-marketing-consultant/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 17:05:27 GMT</pubDate><description>An AI marketing consultant helps small teams turn AI tools into repeatable marketing systems. Here's what they actually do, when to hire one, and what to expect in the first 30 days.</description></item><item><title>AI Automation Agency or Hermes Agent? How Small Businesses Can Build AI Workflows</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-automation-agency-hermes-agent/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-automation-agency-hermes-agent/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 17:25:09 GMT</pubDate><description>When to hire an AI automation agency, when to build with Hermes Agent, and how small businesses can turn repeatable marketing, support, and operations work into real AI workflows.</description></item><item><title>How to Use Hermes Agent as an AI Customer Service and Operations Assistant</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/hermes-agent-customer-service/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/hermes-agent-customer-service/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:20:38 GMT</pubDate><description>Ten Hermes Agent customer service and operations workflows: FAQs from real questions, email reply drafts, support thread summaries, scripts, knowledge base, chatbot prep, employee training.</description></item><item><title>How Small Businesses Can Use Hermes Agent for Marketing Automation</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/hermes-agent-marketing-automation/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/hermes-agent-marketing-automation/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:17:13 GMT</pubDate><description>Ten Hermes Agent workflows small businesses can run today for marketing automation: SEO research, blog drafting, lead follow-up, social repurposing, review responses, weekly reports.</description></item><item><title>Hermes Agent: How to Set Up an Open-Source AI Agent for Your Business</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/hermes-agent-setup-guide/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/hermes-agent-setup-guide/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:13:08 GMT</pubDate><description>Step-by-step Hermes Agent setup for small business: VPS hosting, model providers, tools, skills, messaging gateways, and your first marketing workflow. Open-source AI agent framework from Nous Research.</description></item><item><title>How to Use ChatGPT for Marketing (The Operating Model, Not the Tool Tour)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/how-to-use-chatgpt-for-marketing/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/how-to-use-chatgpt-for-marketing/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:45:41 GMT</pubDate><description>How to use ChatGPT for marketing without it staying a slightly faster Google. Four one-time setup decisions and five recurring workflows that turn it into a system that pays back weekly.</description></item><item><title>12 ChatGPT Marketing Use Cases That Actually Move Numbers</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/chatgpt-marketing-use-cases/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/chatgpt-marketing-use-cases/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:37:16 GMT</pubDate><description>Twelve ChatGPT marketing use cases lean operators actually run, with the exact prompts and the metric each one is supposed to move. Customer voice, landing pages, email, ads, outbound, more.</description></item><item><title>4 Marketing Roles AI Lets You Collapse Into One</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/four-marketing-roles-ai-collapses/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/four-marketing-roles-ai-collapses/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:42:47 GMT</pubDate><description>A small marketing team costs $400K/year — copywriter, SEO specialist, social manager, designer. One AI-augmented operator can do roughly 80% of the same output for under $300/month. Here is exactly what AI replaces in each role, where it doesn't, and what the new operator role actually looks like.</description></item><item><title>5 AI Agents Every Marketer Should Build This Week</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/five-ai-agents-marketers-should-build/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/five-ai-agents-marketers-should-build/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:42:52 GMT</pubDate><description>Five focused AI agents that compound over time: competitive intel, content briefs, customer voice synthesis, ad variant generation, and a Monday morning digest. Copy-paste prompts included for each one.</description></item><item><title>Liquid Death’s Playbook Is the Manual for AI-Native Marketing (A Teardown)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/liquid-death-ai-marketing-playbook/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/liquid-death-ai-marketing-playbook/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:11:39 GMT</pubDate><description>A 5-person team built a $1.4B brand. Their $800 AI ad beat 75% of water commercials. Liquid Death's playbook is the manual every lean AI-native team should be reading.</description></item><item><title>Marketing Team Structure in 2026: The 2-Person AI Operating Model</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/marketing-team-structure-2-person-ai/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/marketing-team-structure-2-person-ai/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:20:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The org chart of a modern marketing team is two people plus tools. Here's the operator playbook: the two roles, the weekly calendar, what each person owns, and where the model breaks.</description></item><item><title>Claude vs ChatGPT for Marketing: When to Use Which</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/claude-vs-chatgpt-for-marketing/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/claude-vs-chatgpt-for-marketing/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:32:08 GMT</pubDate><description>A working marketer's decision framework for Claude vs ChatGPT. Which model for which task, a side-by-side on 8 marketing jobs, and the weekly workflow that uses both.</description></item><item><title>The Complete 2026 AI Marketing Stack, Visualized</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/complete-ai-marketing-stack-2026/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/complete-ai-marketing-stack-2026/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:27:59 GMT</pubDate><description>A category-by-category map of the AI marketing stack replacing traditional teams in 2026. Every tool, every role, under $600 a month, with the operating rhythm that makes it work.</description></item><item><title>The 7 AI Marketing Prompts I Actually Use Every Week</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/ai-marketing-prompts-weekly/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/ai-marketing-prompts-weekly/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:51:09 GMT</pubDate><description>Seven copy-paste AI marketing prompts from a working operator — audience research, content repurposing, competitor teardowns, and more. Use them this week.</description></item><item><title>The Best AI Image Generator for Marketing in 2026: Midjourney vs GPT-Image vs Nano Banana</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/best-ai-image-generator-marketing-2026/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/best-ai-image-generator-marketing-2026/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:48:07 GMT</pubDate><description>Midjourney, GPT-Image 2, Nano Banana, and Higgsfield — tested on real marketing work. Here is which image model wins which job, and which two to pick if you can only pick two.</description></item><item><title>How Duolingo Actually Uses AI for Social Media (A Teardown)</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/duolingo-social-media-ai-teardown/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/duolingo-social-media-ai-teardown/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:44:29 GMT</pubDate><description>Duolingo's social team uses AI — but not the way most brands assume. A teardown of what they actually automate, what they keep human, and what lean teams can steal from the pattern.</description></item><item><title>Marketing With AI: The 2-Person Stack That Does the Work of 20</title><link>https://www.ravitz.co/blog/marketing-with-ai-2-person-stack/</link><guid>https://ravitz.co/blog/marketing-with-ai-2-person-stack/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:50:39 GMT</pubDate><description>Two humans and the right AI stack are outproducing twenty-person marketing teams. Here is exactly how, role by role — and where to start if you're a team of one.</description></item></channel></rss>