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01Dec

How Smart Marketing Once Moved a National Holiday

In the middle of the Great Depression, when the American economy was barely breathing, a strange thing happened. Marketing changed a national holiday.Since Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863, it had always been celebrated on the last Thursday of November. But in 1939, that long-standing tradition created a real problem for retailers.The last Thursday fell unusually late, leaving only 24 shopping days until Christmas. In the middle of the Great Depression, when many Americans could barely...

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26Nov

The One Word That Separates AI Amateurs from AI Masters

How often do you truly feel like getting up to train? Not think about training. Not talk about training. Actually train. Most days, the answer is almost never. But we show up anyway because we know what consistency produces. One session does nothing. Hundreds of sessions transform everything. AI works the exact same way. The word that matters most with AI is TRAIN. You train your body. You train your mindset. You train your habits. Now you have to train your AI. And you have...

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18Nov

The Human Edge in the Age of AI

My right shoulder had been bothering me since August.A dull, nagging pain that I kept hoping would fix itself. I stretched, lifted lighter, worked around it. It would feel better for a while, then flare back up again.So I did what most people do these days. I asked AI.I found the best should experts, put them into a mastermind thread. I described the pain, my workouts, my recovery habits. They gave me a well-structured plan. Stretches, mobility work, rotator cuff...

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11Nov

Stop Living Your Life on Default Settings

Have you ever looked at your phone's home screen full of apps you didn’t remember installing? Notifications popping. Default layouts. Default sounds. Like our phones, in life we had built habits, routines, and reactions that weren’t chosen. They were inherited. We often run on the factory settings we've never questioned. And that's the way most people live. They operate on autopilot. The phone came set up a certain way. The workday came structured a certain way. The relationship came with unspoken “norms.” And...

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04Nov

Healthcare Marketing & Leadership: The OCR Mid-Market Audit Blitz

The Problem OCR’s 2025 audit push is hitting mid-sized healthcare groups harder than ever. The focus is on risk analysis, device security, and encryption. Recent enforcement data shows a clear trend. Most HIPAA penalties now involve preventable security gaps, especially around unencrypted laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. Industry trackers estimate that more than half of reported breaches still trace back to lost or unprotected endpoints. And the cost of getting it wrong keeps rising. In 2025, OCR fines have averaged between $500K and...

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29Oct

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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24Oct

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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24Oct

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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22Oct

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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11Oct

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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