Jeff asks for your top three predictions for 2026 in local marketing. He touches on AI and robot disruption in workplaces, but argues humans will still be needed for oversight. The core strategy remains answering customer questions through videos and articles to connect homeowners with service businesses.
So whenever, you know, there's a. There's a thing. His name is Marcus Sheridan. There's a gentleman, Marcus Sheridan. He wrote a book a long time ago. But he says when they ask, we answer. So my point is, my business is we solve the questions or provide answers to the questions your ideal customers are asking. That's how we connect people. They're asking, hey, why is my air conditioning blowing hot air? Or why is, you know that noise happening in the wall when I turn my water on? And we make a video about that or write an article about that and that connects them to that business, that gives them the answer and they say, wow, ABC Plumbing, help me with that. Oh, they have a special on, you know, do you have noise in your wall? We have the special and it connects the dots. So it's a lot of fun. But I'm curious, what are your top three predictions for 2026? Put them in the comments. I'd love to see them and see what you're thinking. Does it have to be technology? Could be, doesn't have to be. But maybe in your business, you know, what are you going to, what are you going to do in your business? Will it be more online? Maybe you don't do anything online. Will it be, you know, will you. You do more things where there's referral marketing, like join a BNI group, where you do chamber of commerce meetings, whatever, whatever it is. I'd love to know what your predictions are. You know, one of the last things, and this is we have this utopian and dystopian view of what's going to happen 2026 for some people when that are. That are pretty involved in AI said 2026 could be an incredibly disruptive year because of things like robots and not just AI, but robots that will now do all the work, that probably mainly in warehouses and plants, they'll do most of the work. And so that could change roles for a lot of people. Here's my prediction on that. I think, yes, we will see a lot more of that in the space, but at the same time, we still need a human involved in that process. But just to be the guardrails and to be that. That one. Gosh, that one last stop.
