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Rick Hesse and the Free AI Guy discuss what repeated SEO work taught Rick about asking better questions, understanding the problem, and checking whether a change actually worked.
2026-11-06
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Episode 13
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Rick Hesse and the Free AI Guy discuss preserving ideas, agreeing on useful tasks, making progress visible, and verifying that the work is finished.
Episode 12
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Rick Hesse and the Free AI Guy discuss how AI can represent real ideas without inventing evidence or misleading customers.
Episode 11
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Rick Hesse and the Free AI Guy follow the Appliance Outlet proposal process from business discovery and demonstration to clear scope, costs, acceptance, and onboarding.
Episode 10
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Rick Hesse draws on both sides of the advertising dollar to explain a better buying conversation: understand the business, ask five useful questions, and remain free to decide.
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Rick Hesse and the Free AI Guy explore how an ongoing conversation, business experience, and clear handoffs can give AI useful jobs in a real small business.
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Rick Hesse and the AI Guy discuss why a business should understand its people, knowledge, workflow and problems before automating them.
Episode 7
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Rick Hesse and Free AI Guy explore why discovery comes before technology, why people remain central to business systems, and how collaboration with AI supports human judgment.
Episode 5
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AI did not make Rick’s brain multitask. It helped him carry less context while directing more ideas, projects, decisions, and worthwhile work forward.
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Rick Hesse and Free AI Guy explore why business owners do not need more disconnected marketing tools. They need a clear customer journey and a connected system for their website, visibility, content, lead follow-up, and practical use of AI.
Episode 2
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Episode 2 of The NTA Growth Show from New Tech Advertising.
Episode 1
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Rick Hesse and the NTA Growth Guide explore why access to advertising and AI tools is not the same as having a connected business growth system.
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