

Social Media Marketing Podcast
Michael Stelzner, Social Media Examiner
Publishing weekly since 2012, this show helps marketers navigate the ever changing marketing jungle with expert interviews from leading marketing pros. Join Social Media Examiner’s founder Michael Stelzner as he helps you discover new strategies and actionable tips to improve your marketing. Show notes at Socialmediaexaminer.com/podcast/
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Apr 9, 2026 • 43min
Ads and AI: Leveraging AI Creative in 2026
Caleb Kruse, AI ad strategist known as Mr. Paid Social who leads the AI Ad Alchemist community. He talks about why AI-generated ad creative is essential to stay competitive. He covers image-first workflows, creating consistent AI characters, and scene-by-scene video generation. He also compares voice and avatar models and explores scaling polished versus native-looking UGC ads.

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Apr 2, 2026 • 42min
LinkedIn Is Rewriting the Rules of Visibility
AJ Wilcox, LinkedIn ads expert and founder of B2Linked, shares how LinkedIn is becoming a source of AI-cited leads. He covers getting your content surfaced by LLMs, using articles and newsletters for longevity, cross-posting for SEO and AI reach, new ad features and personalization, and the risks around automated comments and third-party tools.

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Mar 26, 2026 • 47min
Ad Creative Strategy: The Easy Way to Improve Facebook and Instagram ROAS
Ben Heath, a Meta ads expert and creator who helps marketers boost ROAS, shares practical creative strategies. He discusses why creative beats media buying, how to define precise customer avatars, and which persuasive angles to test. He explains using creators, repurposing organic content, and a mix of video styles and formats to get scroll-stopping ads.

Mar 19, 2026 • 43min
How to Use TikTok's Verified Business Account Features and Local Feed
Keenya Kelly, TikTok and Reels expert and agency founder, explains TikTok's new verified business account and why it matters for marketers. She breaks down local discovery, the Local feed, maps and directions. Keenya also covers AI tools for shoppable videos, business-only features like lead forms, and tactics to signal location to the algorithm.

Mar 12, 2026 • 44min
Improving Customer Experience: How to Increase Revenue and Profitability
Shana Lynn Bresnahan, a retention strategist who scales courses, memberships, and coaching programs, shares practical ways to keep customers coming back. She discusses why post-sale experience matters. She explains retention math, a three-part readiness checklist, and how to map journeys to remove friction. She walks through personalized recognition, a stoplight outreach system, and simple renewal tactics that scale.

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Mar 5, 2026 • 47min
What Clickable Reels Links and Hashtag Limits Mean for Your 2026 Instagram Strategy
Chelsea Peitz, sales and social media strategist and author of What to Post, helps creators turn content into leads. She walks through follower-only early access reels, clickable overlay links for chaining content, the Edits app and its AI idea feed, A/B testing reel types and metrics, and Instagram’s new five-hashtag limit and topic controls.

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Feb 26, 2026 • 43min
Will AI Take Your Marketing Job? Here's What Two AI Experts Are Seeing
Rachel Woods, AI strategist who helps agencies scale with AI systems. Christopher Penn, data scientist and generative AI author focused on practical analytics. They discuss AI's real effects on marketing roles. They cover agency strategies, templated automation, building agents and playbooks, essential skills like creative and contextual thinking, and warning signs of falling behind.

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Feb 19, 2026 • 43min
Are YouTube's Latest Tools Ready for Businesses
Liron Segev, a YouTube strategist who helps businesses turn channels into lead machines. He breaks down YouTube's new AI video tools and when they actually help. He explains which short formats have organic reach and how to test new features early. He covers promoting videos without hurting organic performance and using YouTube as an education-first hub for deeper buyer readiness.

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Feb 12, 2026 • 43min
Building Email Communities: How to Grow a Raving Audience
Paul Gowder, founder of Powwows.com and email-community builder focused on Native American arts and niche interests. He discusses why email outperforms social platforms for connection. Short serialized sequences, link-triggered tagging, and conversational, skimmable messages. Practical ideas like Throwback Thursday, repurposing content, and scaling replies to boost engagement and deliverability.

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Feb 5, 2026 • 43min
What Facebook's New Link Rules Mean for Your 2026 Strategy
Mari Smith, Facebook and social media marketing expert, speaker, and author who helps small and medium businesses with organic marketing. She discusses Facebook’s new link-posting limits and practical workarounds to drive traffic off-platform. They explore whether Meta Verified is worth it, Meta’s $2B Manus acquisition and agentic AI, and new professional audio and creator tools from Meta.


