Out-Smarts Marketing

Out-Smarts Marketing Out-Smarts is an digital marketing company. http://www.out-smarts.com/ Based in Vancouver BC, we plan, build and implement successful online marketing projects.

Happy Thanksgiving 🍂🍁Today, we’re taking a moment to appreciate our clients and partners, and our team. Thank you for tr...
10/12/2026

Happy Thanksgiving 🍂🍁

Today, we’re taking a moment to appreciate our clients and partners, and our team. Thank you for trusting us and for the work we get to do together.

We hope you get to spend time with your favourite people and make some memories to look back on.

When you're the only one running SEO, ads, website updates, and content, AI that can draft a campaign in minutes feels l...
10/09/2026

When you're the only one running SEO, ads, website updates, and content, AI that can draft a campaign in minutes feels like a lifeline. But there's a catch nobody talks about enough.

AI can be confidently wrong. It writes with the same polish whether a stat is real or invented, whether a claim is backed by evidence or filled in to sound complete. And that's exactly the problem: the mistake doesn't look like a mistake until it's already live.

A 2026 survey from NP Digital found that 47% of marketers said they run into AI inaccuracies several times a week. More than a third said something inaccurate had already gone live before anyone caught it.

So the answer isn't to slow down and stop using AI. It's to know what needs a second look before it goes out the door. Speed and accuracy aren't actually in competition, they just need a process that holds both.

Choosing a digital marketing agency can turn into one more thing on a plate that's already full. So we put together 8 qu...
09/25/2026

Choosing a digital marketing agency can turn into one more thing on a plate that's already full. So we put together 8 questions worth asking before you sign anything, the kind that tell you more than a sales pitch ever will.

Swipe through and save it for your next round of agency calls. Want the full breakdown? You'll find it in our latest blog post. Link in the first comment. Happy reading!

One of the perks of working with great clients: sometimes a team outing means getting a firsthand look at their business...
09/17/2026

One of the perks of working with great clients: sometimes a team outing means getting a firsthand look at their business in action.

Last week, the Out-Smarts team joined Cycle City for a guided bike tour through Stanley Park, trading the usual strategy session for city streets and forest trails. Our guide Jake brought Vancouver's landmarks to life with local history and details we'd never have picked up on our own.

We loved exploring our own city alongside a client who does exactly that for a living. Thanks to the Cycle City team for the ride. It was the perfect way to wrap up the summer.

For years, more backlinks meant better visibility. That still holds true for traditional rankings, but it doesn’t tell t...
08/28/2026

For years, more backlinks meant better visibility. That still holds true for traditional rankings, but it doesn’t tell the whole story now that AI search is part of the picture.

A 2025 study of 75,000 brands conducted by Ahrefs found that brand mentions across the web, linked or not, correlated far more strongly with AI Overview visibility than backlink counts did.

The gap wasn’t small. Brands in the top quartile for web mentions received roughly ten times more AI Overview mentions than the quartile just below them.

None of this means backlinks no longer matter, but earning brand mentions through PR, credible coverage and being part of the conversation may be doing more work than link acquisition alone.

How many of these signals are already part of your strategy? Let us know in the comments.

Sometimes the most useful thing a marketing partner can do is help you decide what not to do.When everything feels urgen...
08/19/2026

Sometimes the most useful thing a marketing partner can do is help you decide what not to do.

When everything feels urgent, budget and time end up spread across too many channels and too many ideas at once. The result usually isn't more traction. It's just more motion, without much to show for it.

A marketing plan that actually works doesn't try to cover everything. It starts by figuring out what matters most right now, and what can reasonably wait. From there, the rest gets easier to prioritize.

That's usually where momentum actually starts. Not from doing more, but from doing the right things in the right order.

When City Centre Urgent Primary Care Centre opened in Vancouver in late 2018, urgent care was still a new concept in the...
08/13/2026

When City Centre Urgent Primary Care Centre opened in Vancouver in late 2018, urgent care was still a new concept in the city. That meant building awareness of the clinic wasn't enough. People also needed to understand what urgent care was for, and when to use it instead of the emergency room.

Our digital strategy focused on making those answers clear and helping people find the clinic when they needed it. That included targeted Google Search Ads, analytics, and educational content across Facebook, Instagram, and Google Business Profile.

Within a few months, the clinic's Google Business Profile was receiving more than 25,000 monthly views, and daily patient volume increased more than twelvefold over the course of our work together.

Those numbers tell part of the story. The more meaningful result was that people understood where they could turn for urgent, non-life-threatening care, and the clinic became a more visible resource in the community.

Read the full case study through the link in the first comment.

Healthcare marketing isn't standard marketing with a few extra steps. The rules are different, and organisations that sk...
08/07/2026

Healthcare marketing isn't standard marketing with a few extra steps. The rules are different, and organisations that skip past that usually find out why the hard way.

Clinical review, privacy, accessibility: these all need to be part of the plan before anything goes live, not something you scramble to fix once it's already public.

Read the full breakdown of what’s different and where to start through the link in comments.

The organisations that cut through right now are not the ones producing the most content. They are the ones whose conten...
07/30/2026

The organisations that cut through right now are not the ones producing the most content. They are the ones whose content clearly answers the questions their audience is already asking.

That sounds simple. In practice, it requires knowing your audience well enough to understand what they are searching for before they even reach you, and building content that meets them there.

That is what human-centric marketing actually looks like. Not a tone of voice. Not a content style. A genuine commitment to being useful to the people you are trying to reach.

There's a difference between a website that ranks and a website that gets cited. In 2026, both matter, and they require ...
07/28/2026

There's a difference between a website that ranks and a website that gets cited.

In 2026, both matter, and they require different things.

Ranking is about being findable. Being cited is about being interpretable, whether AI systems can extract, understand, and trust your content enough to use it in a generated response.

Two dimensions of searchability. Both worth understanding.

Swipe through for a breakdown of what each one requires.

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