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How ChatGPT Finds and Recommends Businesses: What You Need to Know to Show Up

As AI tools like ChatGPT become a daily go-to for millions of users, they are beginning to shape how people discover and choose businesses. While ChatGPT is not a search engine in the traditional sense,

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Why Most Social Media Strategies Fail (And How to Fix Yours)

Most social media strategies fail. Not because social media doesn’t work. Not because platforms have stopped delivering value. And not because brands don’t care. They fail because they’re built on assumptions instead of strategy, tactics

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ChatGPT vs. Gemini vs. Perplexity AI: How to Use Each LLM to Strengthen Your SEO Strategy

At Matchstick Social, we do not use AI to take over our jobs. We use it to improve what we already do best: strategic marketing, high-quality content, and SEO that drives real results. As Large

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Why Brand Strategy Is the New Performance Marketing

Whether they want to admit it or not, most marketing leaders got a little too comfortable during the glory days of performance marketing. When Meta Ads were converting like crazy and every other campaign felt

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The Future of Search: How LLMs Are Reshaping SEO Strategy

As an award-winning digital marketing agency, Matchstick Social has had a front-row seat to the evolution of search. We’ve seen it shift from the early days of keyword stuffing and backlinks, to entity-based optimization, the

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Social Media That Scales: Why Matchstick Social Is Charleston’s #1 Choice for Growth-Minded Brands

When Matchstick Social opened its doors in 2013, we were one of Charleston’s first agencies built entirely around social media marketing. Twelve years later, we’ve grown into a full-service digital marketing team helping businesses scale

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