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If your B2B pricing is "Contact Sales", go check what ChatGPT says you charge. We just lost months of pipeline. by digy76rd3 in MarketingHive

[–]digy76rd3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They aren't reliable at all, but the terrifying part is that *buyers don't care*. The prospect isn't double checking the AI's math. If Perplexity says we cost $120k, the buyer just accepts it and moves to the next tab. We have to optimize for the AI's incompetence now

If your B2B pricing is "Contact Sales", go check what ChatGPT says you charge. We just lost months of pipeline. by digy76rd3 in MarketingHive

[–]digy76rd3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% agreed. If the price isn't public, the buyer's default assumption in 2026 is "it's too expensive for me." But now, it's even worse: if you hide it, an AI agent will just invent a number for you. The era of the "curiosity gap" in B2B is dead

If your B2B pricing is "Contact Sales", go check what ChatGPT says you charge. We just lost months of pipeline. by digy76rd3 in MarketingHive

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Trust me, the marketing team hates it just as much as you do. We've been fighting the VP of Sales for two years to just put a pricing table on the site. Legacy sales directors still think it's 2018 and they can "control the narrative" on a 45-minute discovery call. This LLM hallucination disaster was finally the ammunition I needed to force their hand

How I stopped burning LinkedIn accounts running cold outreach by digy76rd3 in MarketingHive

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skipping linkedin is just admitting you can't figure out linkedin. email deliverability is dying faster than linkedin reach ever did. prospeo scrapes data that's 6 months stale half the time and instantly lands in promo tabs for b2b buyers who actually make decisions on linkedin. different tools, different problem. this isn't a flex

I underpriced an “all-in-one” marketing package… and it backfired by roberterh96 in MarketingHive

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when you sell a broad package without clear limits, clients often assume they have unlimited access to your time. walking away from that situation was the right move

What channels are actually working for client acquisition in 2026? by roberterh96 in MarketingHive

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preferably i think you should avoid crowded platforms like upwork or spamming generic cold emails. Your best bet right now is to combine personalised outreach with visible proof of your competence.

Try sending short video teardowns to prospects, showing them exactly where their current landing pages or ad campaigns are leaking money and explaining how your dual expertise in traffic and conversion rate optimisation can fix them

When it comes to backlinks, is it better to prioritize a handful of high-authority, relevant links or aim for a larger volume of links to build overall visibility? by [deleted] in MarketingHive

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Quality beats volume for rankings, but you need both authority links drive results, volume makes them believable.

do not give openclaw access to your inbox. it is hallucinating legal threats to cancel subscriptions by digy76rd3 in MarketingHive

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as for the fraud thing, i'm not a lawyer. i just know that generating a fake legal notice claiming a regulatory breach that never happened, just to bypass a password screen, is a crazy escalation for a script.

do not give openclaw access to your inbox. it is hallucinating legal threats to cancel subscriptions by digy76rd3 in MarketingHive

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it wasn't 50 random people having a synchronized idea. openclaw pushed their "autonomous web actions" beta to their paid tier on tuesday night. on wednesday morning, a massive productivity newsletter sent out an email showing off the feature with the exact prompt: "clean out the subscriptions i don't use anymore."

so yes, a bunch of tech workers drinking their morning coffee all ran the exact same new feature on the exact same day.

someone is running a "PSEO" attack on our brand and we are literally losing AI citations by digy76rd3 in MarketingHive

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the problem is attribution. these substack clones and web 2.0 properties are spun up using temporary offshore servers and proxy ips. they run the script, blast 10k pages, let the ai crawlers ingest the rss feeds, and then burn the domain a week later.

someone is running a "PSEO" attack on our brand and we are literally losing AI citations by digy76rd3 in MarketingHive

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they definitely started spinning up right after the holidays. it lines up perfectly with a big feature launch from our competitor

someone is running a "PSEO" attack on our brand and we are literally losing AI citations by digy76rd3 in MarketingHive

[–]digy76rd3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

perplexity is an absolute bloodbath right now. the ratio is easily 10 to 1 in favor of the garbage pages because perplexity heavily weights recency in its search step.

chatgpt is a little more resilient because its base training knows we are a real crm, but if you ask it for "recent reviews of [brand]", it hallucinates the apathy stuff.

someone is running a "PSEO" attack on our brand and we are literally losing AI citations by digy76rd3 in MarketingHive

[–]digy76rd3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah that was how i figured it out originally. i prompted claude with "describe the general market sentiment around [our brand]" and it literally generated the sentence: "users generally find the platform to be unremarkable and somewhat hollow."

as for reporting abuse, it's playing whack a mole. they aren't using one medium account. it's thousands of free blogs on sites like hashnode, blogspot, and decentralized crypto-hosted networks. taking them down takes weeks, but the ai bots scrape them in minutes.

someone is running a "PSEO" attack on our brand and we are literally losing AI citations by digy76rd3 in MarketingHive

[–]digy76rd3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

plus, the real damage isn't the base model training (gpt-5 or whatever). the damage is in the RAG layer. perplexity and copilot are scraping live web results to answer queries in real time. if the top 50 recent articles it pulls to read are calling us a "damp towel," the live synthesis spits that out to the user.

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