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06/20/2026

Canva just had its biggest product launch ever at Canva Create 2026, and a lot of these updates aren't just nice-to-haves.

Offline editing. An AI that builds full designs from a prompt. Native scheduling. Spreadsheets that generate themselves. Direct connections to Slack, Notion, Gmail.

The tool looks different now, and the brands using it well are going to feel that gap.

Follow to stay current on what's actually changing in content and social.

A fully optimized Google profile confirms you exist.But your website is one of the main sources AI reads when deciding w...
06/18/2026

A fully optimized Google profile confirms you exist.
But your website is one of the main sources AI reads when deciding whether to recommend you.

Those are two different jobs and most designers are only covering one of them.
The ones showing up in AI search right now have both dialed in.

Is yours?

Your clients are on five AI platforms right now.Every one of them returns a list when a client asks who the best designe...
06/17/2026

Your clients are on five AI platforms right now.
Every one of them returns a list when a client asks who the best designer in your city is.

That list is mainly built from Houzz, Google Business Profile, Yelp, and press.

Most designers have built almost nothing on those platforms.
Their competitors have.

Instagram is still one of the ways clients find and vet designers. But if AI is not surfacing your name first, most of them never make it to your page.

DM us AUDIT to see where you stand right now.
No call. No pitch. Just the report.

06/15/2026

Most designers have a Google Business Profile. Almost none of them have done anything with it since they claimed it.
One photo from two years ago. No posts. No review responses.

Your GBP is one of the first things AI reads when deciding whether to recommend you in your market. Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and AI Mode all pull directly from it.
Three specific changes move the needle. They take less than 30 minutes total.

We built a complimentary audit that runs your studio name across the top AI platforms and sends you the verbatim results.

See who is showing up in your market and whether you are one of them.

DM us "audit."
No call. No spam. Just the report.

Every client goes through 3 stages before hiring you.Cold. Watching. Ready.Your content has to work at all three. That m...
06/13/2026

Every client goes through 3 stages before hiring you.

Cold. Watching. Ready.

Your content has to work at all three. That means you need posts that build consistent visibility, posts that build credibility with the people already watching, and posts that give the warm ones a reason to reach out.

Scroll your last 9 posts and count how many belong to each stage.
If one category has 0, that is the gap your clients are falling through.

Save this as your reference.

Your website looks great. AI still might not know you exist.AI doesn't experience your site visually. It reads the struc...
06/10/2026

Your website looks great. AI still might not know you exist.

AI doesn't experience your site visually. It reads the structure underneath. If that structure is slow, outdated, or hard to parse, it moves on to a site it can actually use.

The fix doesn't require a redesign. It requires knowing what AI actually looks for and whether your site delivers it.

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06/08/2026

Most designers have no idea this is happening.

Before AI recommends a designer in your city, it checks 7 specific sources first.

Houzz. Google Business Profile. Yelp. Angi. BBB. ASID. Regional press.

If you are not present on these, you are not on the list.

DM us "audit" to see where you rank across the top 5 AI platforms right now.
No call. No spam. Just the report.

Most designers have a great Instagram and almost nothing else. That is not their fault. It is an information gap.When po...
06/07/2026

Most designers have a great Instagram and almost nothing else. That is not their fault. It is an information gap.

When potential clients get a name from a referral, more and more of them are skipping the scroll and asking AI directly. ChatGPT. Perplexity. Gemini. Those platforms build their recommendations from Houzz, Google Business Profile, directories, and press.

Instagram is still one of the ways clients find designers. It is just no longer the first place they look. And if AI is not surfacing your name, most of your future clients never make it to your page.

The difference between the designer AI recommends and the one it skips is not talent. It is which platforms they have shown up on.

We built an audit that runs those exact searches in your market and sends you the verbatim results. That is information most designers in your market do not have.

DM us "AUDIT" to get yours.
No call. No pitch. Just the report.

The CTA (call-to-action) is the last line of a post. The wrong one sends the right audience in the wrong direction.Educa...
06/06/2026

The CTA (call-to-action) is the last line of a post. The wrong one sends the right audience in the wrong direction.

Educational posts teach. Storytelling posts connect. Authority posts prove. Each one creates a different moment in the reader. The wrong CTA ends that moment before it converts.

Matching the ask to the moment is what turns content into inquiries instead of only impressions.

Save this before your next post goes live.

When AI recommends a designer, it is not just browsing the internet looking for the best one.It reads from 7 specific so...
06/04/2026

When AI recommends a designer, it is not just browsing the internet looking for the best one.

It reads from 7 specific sources it already trusts. Houzz. Google Business Profile. Yelp. Angi. BBB. ASID. Regional press.

The good news: you do not need all 7 at once. Three of them cover the majority of AI citations in most US markets. And two of the three take less than an hour to get right.

The next question is: when a client uses AI search, are you showing up?

We built a complimentary audit that runs your studio across all 5 and sends you the verbatim answers and where you rank against your competitors.

DM us β€œaudit”.

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