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#9 – The Wild Wild West of Branding (Micro-Podcast) | Over the Bull®

May 7, 2025
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Welcome to the Wild Wild West on this episode of Over the Bull. My goodness, the games being played in the world of marketing and design today are something else. In our last episode, I shared an example of an agency that claimed to do extensive work but was merely reselling a product at a…

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#3 – How to Spot Real Design Talent (And Avoid Template Traps) – feat. Brendan Furnish | Over the Bull®

March 26, 2025
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Podcast Recap: What Makes a Real Designer Episode: What Makes a Real Designer — and Why It Matters for Your Business This episode of Over the Bull tackles one of the most persistent challenges in modern marketing: how to distinguish real, strategic design from shallow, cookie-cutter visuals. Host Ken Carroll sits down with veteran creative…

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The Rise of Transhuman Business: AI Without the Bull | Over the Bull®

January 23, 2026

The internet is no longer simply a network of information. It is becoming something else entirely: a hybrid environment where artificial intelligence, automation, and human behavior are increasingly entangled. This transformation is often celebrated as progress, but progress without discernment has consequences. The current moment demands a sober look at…

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When Everything Feels Rigged: How to Tell If Your Marketing Is Helping or Hurting | Over the Bull®

January 16, 2026

There is a growing unease that keeps surfacing in conversations with business owners, professionals, and consumers alike. It shows up in small moments at first. A subscription renews automatically, right on time. A charge goes through without issue. But when the service behind that subscription is actually needed, the experience…

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How to Not Make 2026 Your 2025 | Over the Bull®

January 9, 2026

Welcome to 2026. A new year always brings the same quiet temptation: to assume that a calendar change automatically creates a business change. But most business owners know the truth. If nothing is confronted, nothing changes. And when nothing changes, the next twelve months become a repeat of the last…

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How We Actually Test AI Tools (And Why Most Fail) | Over The Bull®

December 19, 2025

Cold Emails, Fake Familiarity, and the Quiet Cost of “Easy” Cold emails are not annoying because they exist. Cold emails are annoying because of what they reveal. They reveal how often marketing is built on shortcuts, how frequently “personalization” is manufactured, and how many people are willing to trade credibility…

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Boring Works for Business Marketing Agencies: When What Worked…Doesn’t | Over the Bull®

December 12, 2025

There is a strange inversion happening in marketing right now. The things that used to be celebrated as innovative are increasingly hollow, while the practices dismissed as boring are quietly doing all the real work. Consistency, structure, discipline, and follow-through have become unfashionable words in an industry addicted to novelty.…

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