Send us a text Want more AI tips & tricks for marketers & business owners? https://www.authorityhacker.com/subscribe/ Want to work directly with us? https://www.systemstack.ai/ --- What if you could launch a service business that charges clients $4,000 to $8,000 per month? Traditional cold email is broken. In this episode, we reveal the complete blueprint for an AI-powered outreach system that gets replies and builds a real business. We show you exactly how to build and scale this servic...
Jun 25, 2025•42 min
Send us a text This episode is sponsored by https://seowriting.ai/ - Create SEO-optimized long-form content that actually ranks with their super pages feature. Use code HACKPODCAST for 25% off. --- Tired of complex automation tools that break when you change one tiny detail? Fed up with spending hours debugging N8N workflows or paying premium prices for Zapier? In this episode, Aaron from Gumloop demonstrates LIVE how to build a sophisticated research assistant workflow that would take hours in ...
Jun 09, 2025•46 min
Send us a text Get all the prompts & tools used in this video: https://www.authorityhacker.com/freeb... --- Think building a professional website costs thousands and takes weeks? Imagine crafting a $10,000-level website or landing page yourself, in just a few hours, for ABSOLUTELY FREE. Slash your current website costs or even launch a profitable web design service undercutting old-tech designers. But how do you achieve this without coding skills, expensive designers, or clunky DIY builders?...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 363
Send us a text Want more AI tips & tricks for marketers & business owners? https://www.authorityhacker.com/subsc... Think AI is just for simple tasks? Imagine going from zero to $1,000 per day by creating AI agents that deliver high-value services like expert-level email newsletters, content marketing, or even SEO, with clients paying $5-10k/month. But how do you actually build these agents without being a tech wizard? In this episode, we break down exactly how to build MCP-enabled AI ag...
May 07, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Send us a text Want more AI tips & tricks for marketers & business owners? Sign up for our Newsletter. Weekly exclusive tips: https://www.authorityhacker.com/subsc.. . Think you've mastered ChatGPT? Recent updates, new models (like O3 & O4 mini), and hidden features mean you might be missing out on its true power, feeling like you're drinking from a firehose just trying to keep up. In this episode, we dive deep into the advanced capabilities of ChatGPT in April 2025. Forget basic pro...
Apr 23, 2025•54 min•Season 1Ep. 361
Send us a text ChatGPT just unleashed groundbreaking image generation, changing the game for visual content overnight. In this episode, we dive deep into this powerful new feature, moving beyond the memes to uncover its real business potential. We reveal 4 specific techniques—rarely discussed elsewhere—that unlock vastly superior results compared to basic text prompts, including how to leverage sketching and reverse-engineer winning styles. From instantly creating scroll-stopping thumbnails and ...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Send us a text Want more AI tips & tricks for marketers & business owners? Sign up for our Newsletter. Weekly exclusive tips: https://www.authorityhacker.com/subsc... Felt limited by coding skills or steep developer costs? AI just unlocked the ability for anyone to build custom web tools, obliterating the traditional $10k price tag and months-long waits. In this episode, we dive deep into "AI Vibe Coding"—the groundbreaking approach letting you command AI to build functional web applicat...
Apr 16, 2025•59 min•Season 1Ep. 360
Send us a text All the results talked about in this episode: https://jmedia.notion.site/deep-research-links?pvs=4 In this episode, we dive deep into AI's newest superpower—Deep Research—testing 4 leading models on real business tasks. We reveal which platforms offer unlimited deep research capabilities, which ones require hefty subscriptions, and how these tools are revolutionizing everything from competitor analysis to cold outreach personalization. From building prospect lists in seconds to un...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 356
Send us a text Get all the test results from this episode: https://www.authorityhacker.com/freebies/llm-test/ In this episode, we rip the lid off our week-long AI showdown, testing the latest LLMs head-to-head on real marketing tasks. We’re spilling the unfiltered truth about why ChatGPT might not be your golden ticket anymore, uncovering cheap underdogs that stole the show, and revealing which models actually deliver for marketers. From copywriting flops to automation wins, we share the raw res...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 355
Send us a text In this episode, we pull back the curtain on our decision to shut down our multi-million dollar course business with 15,000 customers. We discuss the decline of the affiliate marketing model, the rise of AI, and our shift in focus towards AI and automation for marketers and entrepreneurs. From letting go of our team to facing our customers, we share candid insights into the challenges and triumphs, of making this major business pivot and where the future of Authority Hacker goes f...
Feb 18, 2025•57 min•Season 1Ep. 354
Send us a text In this episode, Mark and Gael share their insights on the changing landscape of website building platforms and why they're actively looking for alternatives to WordPress, despite being longtime WordPress users. They cover everything you need to know, from detailed comparisons between WordPress, Webflow, and Bricks, and exactly how to transition away from WordPress without rebuilding everything. ____________________________________________ Hosts: Mark Webster & Gael Breton Ful...
Feb 03, 2025•57 min•Season 1Ep. 355
Send us a text In this episode, we dive deep with Fery, founder of Search Intelligence, about building a fast-growing digital PR agency from scratch. From embracing chaos as a growth strategy to developing enterprise-level software solutions, Fery shares candid insights about the challenges and triumphs of scaling to nearly 100 staff and 7 figures in revenue in just 3-4 years. ____________________________________________ Host: Mark Webster Guest: Fery Kaszoni Full show notes: https://www.authori...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 354
Send us a text In this comprehensive episode, we analyze key marketing predictions for 2025 from industry experts and share our own insights. We also review our predictions from last year to see how accurate we were. ____________________________________________ Hosts: Mark Webster & Gael Breton Full show notes: https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/353-2025-online-marketing-predictions/ ____________________________________________ A special thanks to our sponsors for this episode, Digital...
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 353
Send us a text In this episode, we dive into groundbreaking new research about how people actually use Google in 2024, analyzing SparkToro's data from 133,000 real users that challenges conventional wisdom about search behavior. Plus, we discuss the growing adoption of AI search tools, and explore OpenAI's new Sora video model. ____________________________________________ Hosts: Mark Webster & Gael Breton Full show notes: https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/352-something-is-happening-to...
Dec 16, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 352
Send us a text In today's episode, we're diving into what might be the biggest shakeup in SEO this year. Google's biggest crackdown yet has hit major publishers like Forbes, WSJ, and CNN, slashing their affiliate traffic. Perfect timing – as the DOJ pushes to break up Google's Chrome dominance and OpenAI develops their own browser. Meanwhile, publishers are mobilizing to monetize AI's use of their content. In this episode, we're breaking down why Google is finally going after these big sites and...
Dec 02, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 351
Send us a text Are you tired of shelling out big bucks for AI tools that promise convenience but deliver a hefty price tag instead? Well, you're not alone. In today's episode, we expose the truth about overpriced AI productivity tools and reveal how you can achieve so much more with customized, cost-effective alternatives that you build yourself. Plus we’ll show you exactly how you can build your own personally-tailored solutions 👉 with ease 👉 for a fraction of the price you'd pay otherwise 👉...
Nov 18, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 350
Send us a text Check out Bryan’s free resource containing all the tools needed to add $10k coaching clients using other people’s audiences 🔥👇 https://ahkr.to/growthtools-free-tool-swipe ____________________________________________ Today, we dive deep into how to make millions online by helping people solve real problems without getting distracted by shiny objects. Our guest, Bryan Harris, built Growth Tools from scratch into an 7-figure business by focusing obsessively on two things: high-tick...
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 349
Send us a text 🚨 LIMITED OFFER 🚨 Don’t miss the launch of our brand new Link Builder Academy course 👉 https://www.authorityhacker.com/product/link-builder-academy/ You can check out one of the modules for free 🔥👉 https://ahkr.to/high-dr-links ____________________________________________ Want to get into Digital PR, the hottest trend in link building right now, but find it too intimidating? We’re here to tell you ❌ Digital PR is NOT just for professionals or big agencies ❌ You don't need a m...
Oct 21, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 348
Send us a text 🚨 Grab our FREE list of 50 linkable asset examples to supercharge your SEO 💪 👉 https://ahkr.to/50-top-performing-linkable-assets ____________________________________________ What if we told you that we built 1,600+ high-quality backlinks for just $8 each on average? And we’re not talking about backlinks from spammy sites that you could buy on Fiverr, we’re talking backlinks from DR90+ industry giants. Think that's impossible? In this episode, we’ll prove you wrong by sharing a ...
Oct 07, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 347
Send us a text 🚨 Check out our free subscriber-exclusive video on how to generate $100+/day with affiliate marketing 👉 https://ahkr.to/authority-hacker-free-training ____________________________________________ In today's episode, we are playing Google Update Roulette. The rules are very simple: 1. We give you a URL and you have three minutes to open it, look at the site and decide if it went up or down with the recent Google update. 2. You are not allowed to use any SEO tools to look at recen...
Sep 23, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 346
Send us a text 🚨 Download one of our FREE subscriber resources 👉 https://ahkr.to/authority-hacker-free-resources ____________________________________________ We haven't been 100% truthful with you lately. And today we want to come clean. Hundreds of you have bought our latest product (the Product Review Profit course we’ve recently released that teaches you how to scale the Amazon Influencer Program) and... most of the content used during the launch was AI created. 🤖 80-90% of the words used ...
Sep 09, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 345
Send us a text 🚨 Grab our FREE list of 47 under-the-radar tools that will boost your business 👉 https://ahkr.to/tools-swipe ____________________________________________ Just as we sat down to record our 1-year anniversary of the HCU podcast, Google threw us another curveball... A massive update that's seemingly undoing some of the HCU damage. But even with these improvements, many sites are still down 80% in traffic compared to last year. To fully recover, they'd need a 400% increase. So the b...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 344
Send us a text Want to learn how to build a repeatable, manageable system to actually make socials generate big bucks for you? We’re not talking spamming shitty AI images to boomers on Facebook or Pinterest. We’re talking *building a real business that will survive platform changes*, unlike many of the tactics floating around these days. In this episode, we chat with Lucy Simkins to reveal how she transformed her side hustle to a 7 figure per year business - in one of the most competitive market...
Aug 12, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 343
Send us a text It's no secret that the industry has been struggling for nearly a year now following the HCU. And it's been particularly difficult for beginners to get started, as established sites have been dominating search results. So the question everyone’s asking is what future-proof tactics should beginners actually be doing in 2024? (That isn’t spammy or potentially illegal.) In this episode, we chat to Jared Bauman, co-host of the Niche Pursuits podcast, about the game-changing way he mad...
Jul 29, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 342
Send us a text We've just uncovered tons of tech that site owners should be using to scale their sites WAY better. The Authority Hacker site redesign has just been completed, and we've already managed to more than DOUBLE our conversions using some weird new elements that we'll share with you in this week's episode. (A particularly big deal now that Google sends less traffic to websites.) We specifically built it to increase engagement based on what we’ve learned from the recent Google leaks, and...
Jul 15, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 341
Send us a text Today we're talking about what might be the most powerful way to monetize your content online. And no, it's not ads or affiliate marketing - we're diving into the world of online courses. But making a good course that people want to trade money for is not an easy task. So in this episode, Mark and Gael (8-figure course sellers themselves) break down the entire field-tested process of building and selling courses. They’ll cover everything from coming up with an idea that people wil...
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 340
Send us a text Even if you hate Google, there is no denying that YouTube is probably the best social network to be doing well on. We spent a lot of time strategizing and thinking about how to get the most out of the platform while minimizing the drawbacks, and after 4 months our new channel already 👉 outperforms our 6-year-old YouTube channel 👉 outperforms videos of many competitors that have hundreds of thousands of subscribers 👉 is profitable, even though we have a team doing a lot of the h...
Jun 17, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 339
Send us a text In this episode, Gael is joined by guest Sammie Ellard-King to dive deep into Instagram’s potential as a powerful business tool. Sammie has built a successful business in the fiercely competitive personal finance niche, using Instagram Reels to capture massive engagement and drive conversions. Today, Gael and Sammie break down the exact tools used, provide tactical insights, actionable takeaways, real-life examples, and much more. ____________________________________________ Hosts...
Jun 03, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 338
Send us a text In this episode, Mark and Gael take a look at the current challenges online business owners are facing, and present the framework they've created that addresses these challenges. They'll also break down three examples of businesses who already successfully use this framework, and finally, what this all means for Authority Hacker's free and paid content. ____________________________________________ Hosts: Gael Breton & Mark Webster Full show notes: https://www.authorityhacker.c...
May 20, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 337
Send us a text In this episode, Mark and Gael dive deep into real-life Facebook ad funnels that actually work for small sites. Using the free Facebook Ad Library tool, they break down ads from small businesses in several niches that have been profitable over time, including their strategies for maximizing conversion with upsells and other tactics. If you're looking for actionable insights backed by success stories, this is an episode you won't want to miss. ______________________________________...
May 06, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 336
