HomeAvatar of Thierry P. Gaillard

End-to-end digital project management.

Contact me

Convert more customers with AI marketing

Transform your digital presence into tangible results capable of attracting and converting prospects into customers :

  • Drive sales for a new product with an end-to-end launched website.
  • Acquire new customers by deploying an actionable marketing strategy.
  • Uncover high-leverage growth opportunities through Generative AI.
Sales funnel illustration
Work with Thierry

Click to jump to your desired section

ArticlesPostsVideosWeb StoriesPodcastCertifications

How to sell more through digital marketing?

From invisibility to operational failure

Many entrepreneurs suffer from the “digital ghost” syndrome when it comes to digital marketing: they have infrastructure in place—a showcase website, an online store, or social media handles—yet they attract very few qualified visitors. This disconnect stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of visibility mechanics: publishing without strategy, ignoring real search intent on Google, and deploying content poorly indexed by search engines. Without a structured digital roadmap, your technical expertise and solutions simply do not exist in the eyes of your target market. Lack of visibility is not bad luck; it is an operational failure in semantic positioning.

Digital marketing isn't magic, it isn't wizardry. It's science and art.

Marie Forleo - American entrepreneur and author

Technical ignorance ruins your marketing budget

The illusion of free social reach collapses in the face of ongoing platform shifts: LinkedIn continuously refines its algorithm to prioritize relevance over virality, making legacy posting tactics obsolete as engagement dwindles. An indexing misconfiguration or a few hours of site downtime can wipe out months of search equity and permanently harm your domain authority with Google. Relying exclusively on fleeting paid channels like Google Ads without mastering SEO fundamentals is akin to building a commercial strategy on shifting sands. Technical ignorance is no longer an option: it translates directly into wasted marketing spend, dangerous dependency on third parties, and lost market share to more technologically agile competitors. Every day you neglect how searchers actually navigate Google, you hand prospective clients to your rivals.

My solutions to stand out from the crowd

To cut through the noise, I advocate a clear principle: radical differentiation. To distinguish yourself in a saturated market, your organization must shatter the monotony of “me-too marketing.” Here are strategic pillars that can pivot your growth trajectory:

On average, it takes six touchpoints before a prospect simply fills out a contact form.

Anne-Véronique Baylac - Managing Director Services, Google France

When we work together, we activate these exact growth levers. In the articles below, I invite you to move beyond surface-level tactics and quick hacks to transform your marketing approach and secure measurable, sustainable long-term performance.

The future of online marketing lies in creating a unique customer experience.

David Meerman Scott - American marketing strategist

In-depth articles on digital marketing

Go beyond surface tactics. Access comprehensive analyses to transform your marketing approach and generate measurable long-term results.

Filter articles by category.

Avatar of Thierry P. Gaillard presenting an infographic on the CRMArena-Pro study
By Thierry P. Gaillard

AI agents: limits and opportunities for digital marketing

Before investing in an AI agent, read my guide. I break down their true performance, real costs, and privacy vulnerabilities to help you automate smartly and seize genuine opportunities.

Avatar of Thierry P. Gaillard typing on a laptop displaying NotebookLM
By Thierry P. Gaillard

NotebookLM: FAQ on Google's secure AI workspace

Discover NotebookLM, Google's Gemini-powered notebook. Generate answers grounded strictly in your own curated sources, virtually eliminating AI hallucinations.

LinkedIn post template model with Lorem ipsum
By Thierry P. Gaillard

How to write a high-performing LinkedIn post?

Boost your visibility on LinkedIn! Discover the anatomy of an impactful post: irresistible hooks, optimized structure, relevant hashtags, and engaging calls to action.

Six hexagonal pillars representing marketing excellence
By Thierry P. Gaillard

Six pillars of high-quality marketing

Consistency, relevance, transparency, measurement, empathy, and execution: the six hallmarks that separate top-tier marketing campaigns from noise.

E-commerce concept with shopping cart and payment gateway
By Thierry P. Gaillard

4 Key steps to launch your online store

From platform selection to merchant logistics, conversion rate optimization, and acquisition channels: the end-to-end blueprint to launch a profitable e-commerce store.

Decoy effect pricing chart illustration
By Thierry P. Gaillard

Use the decoy effect to boost revenues by 42.8%

Harness behavioral psychology in your pricing tiers. Learn how asymmetric dominance influences buyer choices and lifts average order values significantly.

Stylized robotic head blending into mathematical matrices
By Thierry P. Gaillard

Stop anthropomorphizing AI to better harness it

Large Language Models are probabilistic prediction engines, not conscious minds. Learn why treating AI as an algorithm rather than a human elevates your prompt engineering.

Balance scale weighting algorithmic data nodes
By Thierry P. Gaillard

Mitigate AI bias in your digital marketing

Algorithmic bias can harm brand reputation and alienate prospects. Discover practical governance protocols to audit AI outputs and ensure ethical messaging.

Portrait sketch of Richard Feynman beside quantum equations
By Thierry P. Gaillard

Artificial Intelligence through Richard Feynman's eyes

Applying the Nobel physicist's legendary mental models to modern artificial intelligence: radical clarity, first principles thinking, and cutting through hype.

Neural network architecture diagram with glowing nodes
By Thierry P. Gaillard

Master the basics of Generative AI

A clear, accessible introduction to Transformers, embeddings, attention mechanisms, and temperature settings for marketers who want to understand under-the-hood mechanics.

Newsletter layout mockup with subscriber metrics
By Thierry P. Gaillard

Elevate your LinkedIn articles and newsletters

Turn professional insights into dedicated subscribers. Format long-form LinkedIn content that builds thought leadership and drives inbound leads.

LinkedIn algorithm infographic with reach metrics
By Thierry P. Gaillard

Why LinkedIn is overhauling its algorithm

LinkedIn's shift from engagement bait to verified expertise. What this means for your content cadence, distribution reach, and post architecture.

Smartphone displaying Twitter Blue verification checkmark
By Thierry P. Gaillard

Should you subscribe to Twitter Blue / X Premium?

An objective cost-benefit analysis of premium subscriptions on X: algorithmic reach boost, post editing, long-form content, and ROI for business accounts.

Book cover illustration of Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
By Thierry P. Gaillard

Nudge: how to inspire smarter customer decisions

Executive review of Thaler & Sunstein's Nobel-winning behavioral economics classic. How choice architecture ethically boosts digital conversions.

BJ Fogg behavior model chart with trigger curves
By Thierry P. Gaillard

Adopt captology to elevate customer engagement

Exploring BJ Fogg's Stanford Behavior Model. How technology can be deliberately designed to trigger, motivate, and sustain customer loyalty.

Toolbox & quick tips

Practical takeaways, technical insights, and quick actionable tips to boost your day-to-day digital performance.

Digital marketing videos

Click on any video to visit its dedicated page and watch it.

AI & marketing: 6 Practical use cases to take action

Video illustration of AI and marketing use cases

6 Key lessons to master before launching your e-commerce store

Video illustration of e-commerce launch lessons

Six core pillars of high-quality marketing

Video illustration of quality marketing pillars

Master 100% of the Google indexing pipeline

Video illustration of Google indexing pipeline

Essential milestones for launching an e-commerce website

Video illustration of essential e-commerce milestones

Budget allocation for a new online store

Video illustration of e-commerce budget allocation

Digital marketing web stories

Podcasts on digital marketing & AI

Podcast microphone

AI agents: limits and opportunities for digital marketing

Date: July 11, 2025

Recorded with NotebookLM.

Before investing in an AI agent, listen to my podcast deciphering their real performance, true costs, and privacy vulnerabilities to help you automate intelligently.

Podcast microphone

What's new in Google Ads for 2025?

Date: June 8, 2025

Recorded with NotebookLM.

Explore Google Ads innovations that enhance data privacy and optimize campaigns via machine learning.

Podcast microphone

Why should you care about AI agents?

Date: May 30, 2025

Recorded with NotebookLM.

Discover the strategic potential of autonomous AI agents and how they will transform business workflows and marketing operations.

Podcast microphone

FAQ on NotebookLM, Google's AI research tool

Date: May 28, 2025

Recorded with NotebookLM.

Listen to the complete FAQ explaining how NotebookLM grounds its answers strictly in your personal documents to eliminate hallucinations.

Podcast microphone

Why did Amazon make an offer to acquire TikTok?

Date: May 2, 2025

Recorded with NotebookLM.

An in-depth analysis of the strategic, logistical, and algorithmic implications of Amazon's reported interest in TikTok.

Podcast microphone

State of e-commerce for 2024

Date: March 2, 2025

Recorded with NotebookLM.

Key retail and e-commerce figures, consumer buying trends, mobile shopping surges, and emerging business dynamics.

Podcast microphone

How to write a high-performing LinkedIn post?

Date: December 20, 2024

Recorded with NotebookLM.

Audio masterclass on crafting impactful LinkedIn posts: hooks, narrative pacing, whitespace, and authentic engagement.

Podcast microphone

Boost customer engagement with captology

Date: October 20, 2024

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

Explore Stanford's persuasive technology framework: how ethical behavioral cues turn casual users into loyal brand advocates.

Podcast microphone

Why does UX drive Search Engine Optimization?

Date: September 15, 2024

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

Google ranks sites that users love. Learn why Core Web Vitals, intuitive navigation, and low bounce rates directly boost search rankings.

Podcast microphone

How to best leverage Google's NotebookLM?

Date: July 28, 2024

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

Practical tips to organize your sources, generate synthesis notes, and extract competitive intelligence with Google's research assistant.

Podcast microphone

Six core elements of high-quality marketing

Date: May 10, 2024

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

The foundational pillars of ethical, sustainable, and high-converting marketing that stands the test of time.

Podcast microphone

4 Key steps to launch your online store

Date: March 15, 2024

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

A pragmatic overview of e-commerce setup: choosing the right tech stack, payment integrations, logistics, and acquisition funnels.

Podcast microphone

Use the decoy effect to boost revenues by 42.8%

Date: January 18, 2024

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

How asymmetric pricing dominance guides consumer choice toward your most profitable subscription tiers.

Podcast microphone

Stop anthropomorphizing AI to better harness it

Date: December 5, 2023

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

Why viewing AI as a probabilistic computational engine rather than a human mind leads to vastly superior prompt engineering and outputs.

Podcast microphone

Use AI to generate effective SEO meta tags

Date: November 2, 2023

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

Step-by-step techniques to prompt LLMs for catchy, search-compliant Title and Meta Description tags that lift click-through rates.

Podcast microphone

Artificial Intelligence through Richard Feynman's eyes

Date: September 28, 2023

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

First-principles thinking applied to artificial intelligence: dissecting complexity to its fundamental elements.

Podcast microphone

Impact of Generative AI on digital marketing

Date: September 2, 2023

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

How generative algorithms are reshaping creative production, copywriting, customer segmentation, and automated testing.

Podcast microphone

Create a contact page accessible to Google

Date: October 20, 2022

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

How to design an accessible, crawlable contact page that reinforces your site's local SEO and search authority.

Podcast microphone

How to build a mobile-friendly website?

Date: May 10, 2022

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

Responsive design best practices, touch ergonomics, fluid typography, and performance optimizations for mobile-first indexing.

Podcast microphone

Craft your title tag by the book

Date: February 15, 2022

Recorded by Thierry P. Gaillard.

Captivate prospects and avoid bounce disappointment by crafting precise, keyword-targeted, and intent-aligned Title tags.

Digital marketing & AI certifications

My commitment to digital performance is reflected in my ongoing professional certifications. Every training program completed strengthens my operational capabilities and keeps me at the forefront of online marketing trends. These credentials validate my mastery of modern digital strategy frameworks and ensure specialized expertise tailored to your business challenges. Through continuous learning, I deliver innovative, high-impact solutions grounded in verified, up-to-date industry standards.

Accelerate with Google

Organization / Instructor: Google

Date of completion: December 2024

Accelerate with Google is an intensive professional curriculum designed to master advanced Google Ads strategies, machine learning campaign optimization, and high-performance acquisition architecture.

Google Accelerate certification for advanced digital marketing

Marketing expert journey

Organization / Instructor: Google

Date of completion: December 2024

Marketing Expert Journey is Google's premier curriculum designed to elevate strategic marketing leadership, decipher Google Ads AI innovations, and earn the advanced expert certification.

Google Marketing Expert Journey advanced expert certification

Google AI essentials

Organization / Instructor: Coursera / Google

Date of completion: July 2024

The Google AI Essentials program teaches practical generative AI workflows across five modules to boost productivity, synthesize data, and accelerate business decision-making with responsible AI governance.

Coursera certificate for Google AI Essentials training

Content generation with Artificial Intelligence

Organization / Instructor: LinkedIn / Vincent Terrasi

Date of completion: June 2024

Vincent Terrasi's masterclass on generative AI for content strategy: operational workflows with ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Midjourney, cost control, data privacy, and automated multi-channel production.

LinkedIn certificate for Content Generation with AI

Mastering ChatGPT and Generative AI... straight to the point

Organization / Instructor: Benoît Raphaël

Date of completion: May 2023

Training designed by AI specialist Benoît Raphaël. Covers from foundation models to structured prompt engineering frameworks and essential AI tools, demystifying the underlying neural network technologies.

Certificate for Mastering ChatGPT and Generative AI by Benoît Raphaël

Becoming a marketing director

Organization / Instructor: LinkedIn / APEC

Date of completion: December 2022

An executive curriculum designed for leaders responsible for driving marketing teams, building corporate marketing roadmaps, and mastering marketing fundamentals over an intensive multi-month path.

LinkedIn Learning certificate for Becoming a Marketing Director path

Foundations of branding

Organization / Instructor: Drew Boyd

Date of completion: October 2022

Led by industry veteran Drew Boyd, this masterclass explores brand equity, distinct market positioning, cohesive internal and external communication, and brand performance measurement to refine strategic marketing.

LinkedIn certificate for Drew Boyd's Foundations of Branding training

Storytelling

Organization / Instructor: Shane Snow

Date of completion: September 2022

Bestselling author Shane Snow teaches how to captivate audiences using personal and corporate brand narratives, leveraging established storytelling frameworks to maximize audience resonance.

LinkedIn certificate for Shane Snow's Storytelling training

The secret to better decisions: stop hoarding chips

Organization / Instructor: Seth Godin

Date of completion: September 2022

Marketing icon Seth Godin explains why leaders experience decision paralysis. Through compelling parables and mindset shifts, he provides a blueprint to overcome hesitation and lead decisively.

LinkedIn certificate for Seth Godin's Better Decisions training

Foundations of digital marketing and e-commerce

Organization / Instructor: Coursera / Google

Date of completion: May 2022

Taught by Google experts, this curriculum covers core digital marketing principles: performance marketing, data analytics, attribution models, and data storytelling to maximize e-commerce growth.

Coursera certificate for Foundations of Digital Marketing and E-commerce

Foundations of growth hacking

Organization / Instructor: LinkedIn / Didier Mazier & Brad Batesole

Date of completion: November 2022

Practical methodologies for growth hacking: KPI architecture, rapid test design, user motivation psychology, and scalable acquisition loops drawn from real-world scale-up case studies.

LinkedIn certificate for Foundations of Growth Hacking training

Foundations of user experience (UX) design

Organization / Instructor: Coursera / Google

Date of completion: February 2022

Google UX certification covering user research methodologies, empathetic wireframing, usability testing, and accessible design principles directly tied to search ranking success.

Coursera certificate for Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design

QASEO - technical SEO quality assurance

Organization / Instructor: FePSEO

Date of completion: March 2021

Quality assurance certification for technical SEO: crawling efficiency, semantic architecture, structured data markup, mobile ergonomics, and defensive search compliance.

QASEO certification badge for technical SEO quality assurance

Google Tag Manager

Organization / Instructor: Google / Skillshop

Date of completion: January 2021

Advanced tag management certification: configuring tracking tags, custom variables, dataLayer events, trigger rules, and server-side containers for privacy-compliant analytics.

Google Tag Manager advanced certification badge