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16 Scary Good Halloween Marketing Ideas 
To Win The Spooky Season

Get ready for Halloween with 16 spooky marketing ideas!

From themed promotions to engaging social media campaigns, these strategies will help you attract customers and make the most of the haunting season. 🎃

Want some Halloween marketing ideas to elevate your business?

Here ya go...

Use this list of ideas to build your Halloween marketing campaign.
 

The Tiktok-fueled Shift B2b Marketers Can’t Afford To Ignore

A sophomore finance major checks her phone between classes.

Three brand messages await her response:

One offers $200 for an Instagram Reel.
Another asks her to review ergonomic desk accessories.
A third invites her to promote a meal kit service to her 8,000 followers. 
She declines the meal kit — her audience leans toward personal finance, but accepts the other two.

By week’s end, she’ll earn more from content creation than from her campus job.

She’s not an exception.

Across universities and entry-level workplaces, young professionals are building parallel income streams through social media monetization.

The implications are profound: 41% of Gen Z’s purchasing decisions are influenced by friend recommendations rather than expert opinions or brand prestige.

They’ve mastered the conversion of trust into transactions and authentic relationship building at scale, creating opportunities that will define commerce as traditional employment grows less reliable and multiple income streams become the norm.

Let's have a peek at some of the details.

Why You Should ‘Eat the Frog’ 
First Thing in the Morning

Don't delay, take a big bite out of that guy.

He doesn't think you've got it in you.

You may or may not have heard of "eating the frog."

It's one of those things that triggers the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon once you learn about it: Suddenly, everyone seems to be saying it, which is jarring, since it's a little graphic and evocative.

Luckily, it doesn't mean you have to eat any frogs for real; it's just a way to refer to the productivity philosophy that says you should tackle your biggest, toughest task first thing in the morning.

Come on, let's see what they are talking about and no frogs were harmed in the making of this guide.

ChatGPT Atlas Browser Can Be Tricked by Fake URLs into Executing Hidden Commands

Turns out AI powered browsers, not just Atlas, can be 'fooled.'

In a hypothetical attack scenario, a link could be placed behind a "Copy link" button, effectively allowing an attacker to lead victims to phishing pages under their control.

Even worse, it could contain a hidden command to delete files from connected apps like Google Drive.

The disclosure comes as SquareX Labs demonstrated that threat actors can spoof sidebars for AI assistants inside browser interfaces using malicious extensions to steal data or trick users into downloading and running malware.

The technique has been codenamed AI Sidebar Spoofing.

Alternatively, it is also possible for malicious sites to have a spoofed AI sidebar natively, obviating the need for a browser add-on.

Read on for more details.

Google's New Ai Studio Lets Anyone Build & Deploy Apps Live In Minutes

Google AI Studio has gotten a big upgrade with a new interface, buttons, suggestions and community features that allow anyone with an idea for an app, even complete novices, laypeople, or non-developers like yours truly, to bring it into existence and deploy it live, on the web, for anyone to use, within minutes.

The updated Build tab is available now at ai.studio/build, and it’s free to start.

Users can experiment with building applications without needing to enter payment information upfront, though certain advanced features like Veo 3.1 and Cloud Run deployment require a paid API key.

The new features appear to me to make Google's AI models and offerings even more competitive.

Perhaps preferred, for many general users to dedicated AI startup rivals like Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex.

These two "vibe coding" focused products that are beloved by developers, but seem to have a higher barrier to entry or may require more technical know-how.

Check out the sample videos within this guide AND for extra credit, give a look-see to this weeks tutorial at the end of this Newsletter.

NOTE* Below are two video tutorials that talks more about Google's no-code AI app builder and how to deploy your newly created app.

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In Case You Missed It...

Here is my blog post on merging various PLR assets into a single premium piece. 

The post covers the "what to do" part, which is detailed and  thorough, so check it out and bookmark it until you can put it to work for you.

*Note: In that post are a few mentions of my 5-part video set that shows me using the free AI tools and custom prompts to pull the good bits from the different assets and the double-check the work and then build an outline then fill in the outline. Oh and the images also. The cover image and how to generate images for the different chapters of our premium content/eBook.

Either way, the 'Franken'-method of merging different pieces into a single piece within hours using the free AI tools or the tried & true manual method, this blog post will help you breath life back into your PLR content that has been gathering digital dust.

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Learn To Build AI Apps Without Coding Using Google AI Studio.

This tutorial demonstrates app creation via a visual canvas, bypassing traditional code. 
Explore the interface and see how easily one can build a functional app.

Learn To Deploy The AI Apps You Just Built.

This tutorial demonstrates how to deploy the app(s) you build in Google AI Studio.