Aspiration Marketing

MAY 22, 2025

What is Business Development? Imagine a company doubling its revenue in a single year, not through lucky breaks but strategic alliances. That's the power of business development. But it's more than just sales; it's the engine of sustainable growth, driving revenue, expanding reach, and fueling innovation. Understanding its true definition and strategic importance is crucial for unlocking its transformative potential.

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Martech

MAY 20, 2025

Creative professionals are intrigued by AI, but most are still figuring out where it fits. While the hype suggests a fast-moving revolution, the reality is more measured. Many teams are experimenting with new tools and exploring ways to boost efficiency, but at a measured pace. Why creative AI adoption feels familiar I still remember the first ATM I ever saw.

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 15, 2025

In the quest for business growth, efficiency is your greatest ally. But how do you maximize efficiency without sacrificing personalization? The answer lies in the strategic implementation of AI and automation. These tools offer more than just time savings; they provide actionable insights that can revolutionize your lead generation, sales pipeline, and content marketing efforts.

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Martech

MAY 15, 2025

A company that’s bet its future on AI agents knows you must be able to trust agents’ actions when they engage with customers and employees. So, it’s no surprise that Salesforce today unveiled a set of governance, security and compliance capabilities to help organizations deploy trusted AI agents. Salesforce’s State of IT survey, a global survey of more than 2,000 enterprise IT security leaders, put numbers to the issue of AI agent trust.

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Marketing and sales might be two halves of the same coin, but how often do they feel like they’re tossed in completely different directions? It’s time to bridge the gap, align your teams, and start building a pipeline instead of frustration. Join us for this insightful webinar to transform your siloed teams into a powerhouse partnership. What you’ll learn: A clear understanding of why sales and marketing alignment is crucial for business growth.

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Buffer Marketing

MAY 15, 2025

Instagram is quietly testing a new feature that could change how creators and brands share content — and I’m pretty excited about the potential. In their words: Unlockable reels are designed to encourage “a new, IYKYK way” of engaging with your community. The new Instagram Reels , also called “locked” or “secret code” reels, will require a (you guessed it) secret code to view.

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Animalz blog

MAY 15, 2025

AI Overviews (AIO) are eroding the click-through rate (CTR) of search results by as much as 15% to 35% , according to several studies. And that figure is only expected to grow. At Animalz, weve seen this trend firsthand. Many companies are generating more search impressions through strong content, yet average CTR continues to fall. Like in the example below: The common cause?

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 21, 2025

A successful sales strategy hinges on identifying and prioritizing sales-qualified leads (SQLs). That's a fundamental truth. However, without a clear method, you risk wasting time on leads that aren't going to close. To solve this, a lead scoring system assigns value to different lead characteristics and behaviors. This ensures you prioritize the leads most likely to convert, making your lead generation efforts more effective.

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Martech

MAY 15, 2025

Many companies are trying to implement AI transformation but most stall because the focus is on technology, not of people. Successful transformation requires rethinking roles, processes and mindsets across the organization. Why AI transformation is more complex than it looks AI transformation goes beyond using the technology. Although AI is already part of daily life for people and companies, it is a big step from using AI to transforming your team, department or company.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 20, 2025

One of the biggest reasons Im a late(r) convert to AI is that AI-generated content usually has some tells. And while Im a little closer to it than most, when I spot social media content thats a direct copy-paste from GPT, it feels canned and inauthentic, and I lose trust in the person or brand. While I firmly believe that authenticity is important everywhere you market your business , its especially important when it comes to making connections and growing relationships on social media.

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The CMO Survey

MAY 20, 2025

The post The Top Challenges Facing Senior Marketers in 2025 appeared first on The CMO Survey.

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Unlock the Power of Historical Data A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse Today’s association leaders need more than real-time snapshots—they need the full story. MemberSuite: A Data Revolution reveals how a native data warehouse transforms your AMS into a strategic decision-making engine. In this free eBook, you’ll discover: The difference between a database and a data warehouse—and why it matters How to gain historical visibility into membership, engagement, events,

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AWeber

MAY 18, 2025

Imagine spending hours crafting the perfect email campaign, only to find out later that hardly anyone even opened it. If youve ever clicked send and then obsessively refreshed your analytics dashboard, waiting for open rates to come in, youre not alone. Tracking email open rates is essential to know if your messages are reaching your audienceor getting lost in crowded inboxes.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 21, 2025

I first tested AI tools in 2019 to automate repetitive parts of my workflow. It seemed like the perfect solution: Let the code execute the manual stuff I was too bored to do. However, I quickly discovered hidden costs to everything I did. My automation script needed a server to live on. The server needed maintenance and monitoring. And if the backend APIs changed, my script would no longer work.

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illumin

MAY 15, 2025

From home and garden improvement to DIY renovations, it can be quite competitive to market in this space. Here are some tips to advertise effectively. According to Custom Market Insights , the global Home Gardening market is projected to grow to USD 15.78 billion in 2025 and reach around USD 26.47 billion by 2034. The study also cited several trends and factors that will contribute to its growth, including trends on sustainability , retail media , organic and urban gardening, the integration of

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 20, 2025

Small business marketing in 2025 isnt about doing everything you possibly can its about doing the right things strategically. If youre running a small business, you dont have a bottomless budget and a massive team, so spending time and money on the wrong marketing strategies can hurt you. However, you dont need to spend a fortune like the big corporations.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 20, 2025

Are your marketing efforts falling flat? Perhaps you're seeing website visitors, but they're not sticking around. Or maybe you're generating leads, but they're not converting into customers. This disconnect often stems from a misalignment between your marketing strategy and the customer's natural journey. That's where the AIDA modelAttention, Interest, Desire, Actioncomes into play.

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Martech

MAY 21, 2025

If you’ve ever opened an automation platform like Make.com or Zapier and didn’t know where to begin, you’re not alone. When I first explored AI-powered automation, I started off optimistic, then got lost in the maze of API integrations. That feeling of immense possibility clouded by complexity is where many marketing teams sit today.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 21, 2025

I cofounded Morning Brew in 2015. Since then, the content landscape has transformed into an even more competitive arena. The cost of paid acquisition has skyrocketed. Content differentiation has become harder than ever, especially when AI can write generic posts in seconds. The result is a sea of sameness 101-level blog posts, cringy trade show booths, outreach emails offering free AirPods if you listen to a pitch, and aggressive marketing drip campaigns.

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Social Media Examiner

MAY 15, 2025

Struggling to build trust and engagement with polished brand content alone? Wondering how to empower your employees to create authentic videos for your business? In this article, you'll discover how to implement a video-first employee-generated content (EGC) strategy to amplify reach, boost credibility, and connect with your audience in a more human and relatable way. […] The post Employee-Generated Content: Creating a Video First Strategy appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Speaker: Kevin Burke, Founder & Managing Director at Digital One and AI & Automation Consultant

AI and automation are currently transforming the way sales and marketing teams operate. Generative AI crafts personalized outreach at scale, while conversational AI bots are engaging prospects in real time. Robotic process automation streamlines manual workflows by triggering tasks the moment a prospect takes a key action, and advanced AI analytics surface hidden patterns in the pipeline, improve forecasting, and help teams make data-driven decisions with confidence.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 19, 2025

Building a community takes more than a catchy welcome email and a few emoji-filled social posts. You need connection. Context. And yes, some serious organization behind the scenes. Thats where CRM and community management start to overlap. While most people think of CRMs (Customer Relationship Management systems) as tools for sales, theyve quietly become a powerhouse for growing and managing thriving brand communities.

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 19, 2025

Testing your website on different browsers is key to providing a smooth experience for every user. As people visit sites from many devices and browsers, it's important for your site to work correctly no matter how visitors access it. This is where multi-browser testing tools become essential, letting you check your site across countless devices and browser combinations.

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Martech

MAY 19, 2025

Escalating trade tensions and unpredictable tariff policies pose unprecedented challenges to businesses’ bottom lines. For marketers, particularly those navigating manufacturing and international commerce, this moment demands strategic reinvention. That’s why some brands are discovering hidden opportunities amid the economic turbulence. With that in mind, here are three battle-tested approaches to transforming tariff disruptions from threats into competitive advantages. 1.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 20, 2025

Growth is the mandate for brands each year. One way to grow? Create offerings that appeal to a wider group of people. Thats where inclusive marketing comes in. Inclusive marketing is all about acknowledging the many ways people are different. Brands that do inclusive marketing well authentically infuse the identities theyve chosen to serve throughout all parts of their marketing mix to ensure those consumers feel like they belong and that the brand is for people like them.

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Are you struggling to highlight your impact and showcase the results of your team’s marketing efforts? Do you find it challenging to build more effective campaigns that drive meaningful results? The key may lie in unlocking the power of marketing technology (martech)—but as a non-technical marketing leader, navigating this landscape can feel daunting.

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AWeber

MAY 22, 2025

You open your inbox first thing Monday morning and sigha dozen new emails, most of which youll ignore until later (if at all). Sound familiar? Timing matters. If youve ever wondered, "when is the best time to send emails?" youre not alone. Hundreds of studies and email marketers agree: hitting "send" at the right moment can make the difference between being read immediately or buried beneath a flood of messages.

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Buffer Marketing

MAY 20, 2025

If you’ve been around here a while, you’ll know that crunching the numbers to figure out the best time to post on all major social media platforms is basically our love language. And now we have enough data to add Threads to our roster, too! Because even though Threads uses an algorithm to decide what you (and your target audience) sees in the feed, when you post still has an impact.

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Animalz blog

MAY 22, 2025

This season on the Animalz Podcast, we’re pulling back the corporate curtain to show you how the largest, most complex B2B SaaS teams actually get content out the door. Our mission: demystify these hidden machines and reveal what it really takes to run content at scale. Hear from content leaders of some of the biggest names in SaaS sharing the systems they’ve built, the battles they’ve fought, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way.

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Martech

MAY 19, 2025

In MarTechs MarTechBot explains it all feature, we pose a question about marketing to our very own MarTechBot , which is trained on the MarTech website archives and has access to the broader internet. Q: What would a truly customer-centric buyers journey in B2B look like? Creating a customer-centric buyer’s journey in B2B that minimizes friction and allows for freely available information is an excellent approach to enhancing the overall customer experience.

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Ever wonder what really makes B2B buyers tick? Spoiler alert: it’s not just logic. Join us for our next session of the B2B Growth Show, "Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices" with Grant C. Gooding, where science meets strategy. You'll get the insider scoop on how emotions secretly drive decisions and how you can tap into them to win buyers over.

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Welcome Software

MAY 15, 2025

Why headless, why now? Customer expectations are rising. Content demands are exploding (one look at our editorial calendar backlog will confirm that!). Your digital experiences need to perform everywhere – across websites, apps, digital signage, voice interfaces, wearables and whatever comes next. But here’s the problem: legacy platforms weren’t built for this world.

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AWeber

MAY 19, 2025

Ever spend hours crafting the perfect email, only to see it ignored or forgotten? You're not alone. For most marketers and small business owners, building real relationships through email isnt about a single messageits about sending the right message at the right time, over time. That's where email drip campaigns come in. Email drip campaigns automate personalized messages based on user actions or set schedules, helping you turn sign-ups into loyal customers without the manual effort.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

MAY 22, 2025

Modernizing and protecting our critical infrastructure has become a paramount concern. From a traditional information technology perspective, the term critical infrastructure implies what I call the tech trifecta: Cloud, data center and on-premise. Together, this triad provides the services we know and love, from LinkedIn to Slack to ChatGPT and beyond.

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Vertical Response

MAY 18, 2025

Email marketing is a powerful strategy for businesses to connect with their audience directly. Building a contact list is crucial as it forms the foundation of your email marketing efforts, allowing you to grow your audience by offering valuable content like ebooks and discounts in exchange for newsletter subscriptions. In this guide, well break down the key terms you need to know to navigate email marketing effectively and enhance your campaigns.

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