Carlos Gil
Founder & Editor, The Best Network
Carlos Gil is the bestselling author of The End of Marketing, a LinkedIn Top Voice, and founder of The Best Network. He brings 15+ years in marketing to practical reviews of AI, SaaS, email marketing, creator, and ecommerce software.
About Carlos
Carlos Gil is the bestselling author of The End of Marketing, a LinkedIn Top Voice, and founder and editor of The Best Network: BestSends, BestStacked, BestCreates, and BestStorefront.
With 15+ years in marketing, Carlos has worked with global brands, startups, and entrepreneurs across social media, content, audience growth, and digital strategy. He is also a global keynote speaker and founder of Gil Media Group.
Carlos helps marketers, founders, creators, and ecommerce operators choose software that earns its place in their business. His reviews and guides focus on practical workflows, clear tradeoffs, and the tools that help people create better content, build audiences they own, operate smarter businesses, and turn attention into revenue.
On BestSends, Carlos reviews email marketing software, newsletter platforms, automation tools, and MarTech for businesses building and monetizing owned audiences.
- Reviews of major email platforms, with evidence status clearly labeled
- Side by side comparisons with the tradeoffs nobody else names
- Guides ranked by use case (creators, ecommerce, agencies, nonprofits, paid newsletters, AI tools)
- Deliverability, list hygiene, and inbox placement coverage
- The State of Email Marketing report, updated annually
Featured in · Carlos's work has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., Adweek, Social Media Examiner, and Search Engine Journal.
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The most recent posts from the BestSends desk.
Top 5 Email Marketing Tools for Creators (2026)
Five creator email platforms ranked, with pros, cons, and real pricing at 1k and 10k subscribers.
Email Segmentation: The Playbook for Sending Less and Earning More
The three segments that move revenue, the one rule to start today, and how to set it up in any platform.
Email Subject Lines That Get Opens (Without the Clickbait)
The four patterns that earn an open honestly, the two things people forget, and what to stop doing today.
Why I'm Moving My Newsletter Off LinkedIn: A Flodesk Studio Review
Sponsored review: I got early access to Flodesk Studio and used it to design the first issue of my new Bad Marketing newsletter.
How to Analyze Newsletter Performance With Claude and Flodesk
Sponsored first look: Flodesk's new Claude and ChatGPT integration pulls real answers from your account in plain English.
Mailchimp's Free Plan Got Smaller: When Creators Should Switch to Kit
Mailchimp's paid prices haven't moved since early 2025, but its Free plan shrank to 250 contacts. When creators should switch to Kit.