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Brad Doll's avatar

Bravo! This is one of the most honest, accurate, and flat-out "on" posts I've seen in a very long time!

Joe Lazer (FKA Lazauskas)'s avatar

Thanks Brad! Very kind of you to comment that!

Smita Patil's avatar

Loving your substack. Finally reading something sensible on AI usage. Thanks much!

Joe Lazer (FKA Lazauskas)'s avatar

Thanks for the kind words Smita! Made my day.

Irene Keliher's avatar

I just stumbled across this and I am madly sending excerpts via Slack to my team. Could not resonate more. I'm genuinely curious: how do you think the "internal influencers" thing could work - or does work - with B2C brands?

Joe Lazer (FKA Lazauskas)'s avatar

Sorry Irene I just saw this comment! I do think that internal influencers work for B2C, but they tend to operate more like creators/faces of the brand on social channels. Rachel Karten has a great report on how they're starting to get compensated differently as a result https://www.milkkarten.net/p/brand-social-trend-report-q1-2025

Swabreen Bakr's avatar

So many great insights here!

Kyle H Walkenhorst's avatar

Such a fantastic modern update. Thank you!

Salvador Lorca 📚's avatar

Good insight 😌 Can i translate part of this article into Spanish with links to you and a description of your newsletter?

Joe Lazer (FKA Lazauskas)'s avatar

Yeah as long as you quote / credit me and link back, go for it!

Shane DC Snow's avatar

love this

Sue Tobias's avatar

Passionate post!

Nicole Balsam's avatar

"You’re self-sabotaging by putting your best content behind a form." Preach!

Jordan Teicher's avatar

All the Theos better watch out