Your Digital Marketing Coach with Neal Schaffer

Your Digital Marketing Coach with Neal Schaffer

As Your Digital Marketing Coach, I am on a mission to provide you marketing professionals, agencies, entrepreneurs, and business owners expert advice, both from myself as well as my expert guests, on how to leverage Digital First Marketing to grow your business, one episode at a time, This podcast will include advice on a broad range of topics all with the commonality of being related to digital marketing and having actionable takeaways for your business. Topics discussed will include digital marketing, social media marketing, content marketing, influencer marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), blogging, podcasting, YouTube, video marketing, email marketing, marketing automation, artificial intelligence and Generative AI, as well as how to maximize digital marketing ROI from social media on sites like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, and TikTok.

People Not Prompts: The Marketing System AI Can’t Replicate
Your Digital Marketing Coach with Neal SchafferApril 11, 2026
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People Not Prompts: The Marketing System AI Can’t Replicate

Two years ago, 60% of consumers said they were fine with AI-generated content. Today that number has dropped to 26%. Consumers are rejecting AI content faster than marketers can create it — and the brands that ignore this are paying a steep price. In this episode, I'm sharing the full breakdown of t...

The Biggest Mistake Marketers Make with Visual Content (And the Simple Fix)
Your Digital Marketing Coach with Neal SchafferApril 06, 2026
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00:39:1327.01 MB

The Biggest Mistake Marketers Make with Visual Content (And the Simple Fix)

I've been saying for years that marketing is increasingly visual — whether it's social media, YouTube, websites, or even AI-generated content. But most of us aren't designers, and we're winging it when it comes to visual branding. My guest today is Jim MacLeod, author of The Visual Marketer, and he'...

Stop Using AI Like a Search Engine — Build a Flywheel Instead
Your Digital Marketing Coach with Neal SchafferMarch 25, 2026
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00:24:1216.7 MB

Stop Using AI Like a Search Engine — Build a Flywheel Instead

You're using AI every day — but is it actually getting smarter about your business? For most marketers, the answer is no, because they're treating AI like a search engine instead of a workspace. In this episode, I break down the AI Workflow Flywheel that I have developed for my own business — a comp...

From Funnels to Pinballs: A Human-First Framework for Building Brand Trust in the Age of AI
Your Digital Marketing Coach with Neal SchafferMarch 19, 2026
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From Funnels to Pinballs: A Human-First Framework for Building Brand Trust in the Age of AI

In a marketing world increasingly driven by AI-generated content and data dashboards, it's easy to start treating customers like data points instead of people. Phil Treagus-Evans — founder of UK social media agency Giraffe Social and author of Human First Marketing: The Art of Being Seen, Trusted an...

How AI Forced Me to Rewrite My Entire LinkedIn Strategy
Your Digital Marketing Coach with Neal SchafferJanuary 06, 2026
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00:19:1813.34 MB

How AI Forced Me to Rewrite My Entire LinkedIn Strategy

Note: This is Episode 442, published January 6, 2026. You published a book, it hit #1, and the reviews were phenomenal. In the digital marketing world, that’s usually where you take a victory lap. But then the AI revolution happened. Over the last year, the fundamental ways we build relationships an...

Agentic AI: Build Your "Micro-Agency" of One
Your Digital Marketing Coach with Neal SchafferJanuary 02, 2026
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00:54:2537.44 MB

Agentic AI: Build Your "Micro-Agency" of One

Most people are still "chatting" with AI. They put in a prompt, they get an answer, and they move on. But while the rest of the world is dabbling, the top 1% of marketers are building Agentic Workflows. They aren't just using AI to write; they are using it to act. Today, I’m joined by Matt Collette,...