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Monthly Archives - October 2025

Own the Next Step: AI, Teams, Project Momentum

Lately I’ve noticed something interesting when it comes to AI and teams. It’s not just exposing who’s fast or slow, talented or average. It’s exposing who actually thinks.Every week, I watch two types of people in action. Person one hits a problem and stops. They wait. They stare at it. They say things like, “I’m still working on it,” which usually means, “I’m hoping the answer magically appears in my inbox.”Person two hits the same problem and immediately starts moving....

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Legal Marketing: Ethical Content and Advertising Guidelines

A midsize law firm, hungry for new clients, ran a digital campaign boasting “guaranteed results” only to be hit with a state bar investigation and public embarrassment. One trending ad cost them more than it ever delivered. The legal marketing landscape quickly punishes overreach and half-truths. When Expio partners with legal clients, we engineer every message to pass the toughest bar review, so our clients gain new clients for their integrity, not in spite of overlooked risks. Law firms and legal...

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Best Practices for HIPAA-Compliant Digital Marketing

When one small private clinic used a free online appointment scheduler, they didn't think twice about the patient info collected until a data breach exposed hundreds of records. The fallout? Distrust, lost patients, regulatory headaches.  The lesson: Digital marketing in healthcare is a privacy minefield, and there’s no “gray area” with HIPAA. Expio steps in with a strong system, proven tools, rigorous partner vetting, airtight workflows. Our clients market with full confidence, safeguarding PHI at every turn and winning patient loyalty...

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No Excuses: Being Stuck in the AI Age Is No Longer Acceptable

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked into a conversation with various teams, including my own, an asked about the status of a project or task, and heard something like this: “We’re still trying to figure that out.”Translation: We got stuck and stopped.What drives me crazy is not that people hit walls. It’s that they stay there.A strategist spends an hour looking for an example deck instead of asking AI to generate one. A copywriter waits for inspiration...

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The Hidden Danger of Marketing Neglect

For a long time, my default identity as a founder and operator was the fixer of client and team problems, builder and optimizer of client campaigns. Client marketing needs came first. I was always in the game, pushing for results for our clients. Meanwhile, my own brand went silent. Social accounts fell dormant. Emails went unwritten. Website updates lagged. Inbound leads slipped through cracks. I was so consumed with operations, hiring, finance, and delivery that I lost sight of the foundational...

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Ask the Magic Question

This Wednesday I wrapped up LiveHard Phase 2. One of the books I finished along the way was Reset by Dan Heath. His work reminded me of a powerful tool from solution-focused therapy that is just as useful in business and life as it is in a counseling office: the Magic Question. The Magic Question has several versions, but goes something like this: "Pretend you go to bed tonight, and while you sleep everything that is stressing you out is solved. All...

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