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Tips, guides, and product news for marketing your brand with less effort.
Six ways out
6 Hootsuite alternatives for small businesses in 2026
Hootsuite charges $99 to $399 per user each month. Here are six alternatives with their real published prices, and which kind of business each one suits.
The Marvin Team·Aug 3, 2026
Look the part
Marketing materials every small business needs
The core kit is a business card, one-pager, roll-up banner, social post, and presentation deck. Here is what each is for, and how one real business made the whole set on brand.
Sharbel Safyi·Jul 27, 2026
Tool or agency
AI marketing tools vs hiring an agency for a small business
Agencies charge $1,000 to $12,000 a month on retainer. AI marketing tools now cover most of that work for a fraction of it. Here is the honest comparison.
The Marvin Team·Jul 20, 2026
Your feed, on brand
Meta Muse Image explained: what it is and how to use it
Muse Image is Meta's new AI image model, free inside Meta AI and rolling into Instagram. What it is, how to use it, and how to keep the results on brand.
The Marvin Team·Jul 12, 2026
Made to move you
The science behind designs that work
Good design is not decoration, it is behavioral engineering. Here is how hierarchy, contrast, size, color, and the call to action make people feel and act.
Sharbel Safyi·Jul 9, 2026
Runs while you sleep
AI marketing automation: a small business guide
AI marketing automation hands the whole content loop, ideas, creation, scheduling, publishing, to software. Here is what to automate first, and what to keep.
The Marvin Team·Jul 9, 2026Your look, generated
Can Claude Fable generate images? Yes, here's how
Yes, but not by itself. Claude Fable 5 generates images by directing an image model. Here is the exact pipeline we use, and how every visual stays on brand.
The Marvin Team·Jul 9, 2026Claude Design 2
Claude Design 2: everything that changed, and 3 fun things to try
Claude Design just got its biggest update yet: it imports your real design system, lets you edit straight on the canvas, and syncs both ways with Claude Code. Here's everything new, plus the three things I've had the most fun doing with it.
Sharbel Safyi·Jun 29, 2026Design it yourself
Designing with Claude Code on Fable 5: what it takes
Claude Code can do real design work now, especially on Fable 5. It takes three things: the right skills, tool connections like Figma and Canva, and image generation.
Sharbel Safyi·Jun 12, 2026Carousels, built in
How to make carousels that get saved, now in Marvin
Carousels are Instagram's most-saved format, and now Marvin builds them for you: cover, value slides, and CTA, on brand, from one idea. You can even automate them.
Sharbel Safyi·May 22, 2026Speak every market
Why marketing doesn't translate across cultures
The same product sells differently in Tokyo, Seoul, Dallas, and Dubai, down to its sweetness and its wrapping. Here is how global brands adapt, and why AI finally lets you.
Sharbel Safyi·May 14, 2026Premium, for cheap
Premium marketing used to cost a fortune. Now it costs almost nothing.
For years, only big companies could afford the automation and AI that runs modern marketing. That barrier just fell, and for the first time a small business can buy premium for the price of cheap.
Sharbel Safyi·May 5, 2026Always on
Set your marketing on autopilot: unlimited automations, now in Marvin
You can now set up as many automations as you want in Marvin, each one creating and publishing on its own, for any channel, any topic, and any format. Describe it once, set the cadence, and that part of your marketing runs itself.
Sharbel Safyi·Apr 15, 2026Engine first
Content consistency: how to stay consistent with content
Content consistency comes from a reliable engine, not willpower. How one global brand cracked organic growth with a system that publishes every week.
Sharbel Safyi·Apr 2, 2026Sound like only you
Why AI content all sounds the same (and how to fix it)
Raw AI gives a million businesses the same flat voice. We built Marvin to do the opposite: your brand's tone is a fingerprint, and here's how we keep it yours.
Sharbel Safyi·Mar 24, 2026Beyond the prompt
Why context is everything in AI for small businesses
AI can write a post in seconds, so making content is no longer the hard part. The hard part is context: an AI that actually knows your business.
Rami Sgaier·Mar 11, 2026