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5 Common Business Development Mistakes to Avoid (and How to Fix Them)

Aspiration Marketing

You've poured your heart into building something great—a product or service you truly believe in. Your team is prepared and ready to go. But when you look at the sales numbers, they just don't reflect the effort. It's a gut-punch feeling, right? You're not alone. Many businesses hit this wall, not from lack of effort, but from a few common business development missteps.

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The Top 10 AI Thought Leaders on LinkedIn (2025)

Jeff Bullas

We live in a time when your credibility is measured by how many LinkedIn carousels you post per week, how many AI acronyms you can drop in a sentence, and the obvious, how many followers you have. And the other unspoken superpower often not mentioned except in furtive whispers is “Cracking the LinkedIn Algorithm Code”. But in this noisy world of ChatGPT-generated thought soup, a few voices still manage to cut through.

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Finding the Right Brand Influencers: A Step-by-Step Guide

Aspiration Marketing

Influencer marketing has become a critical approach for brands to expand their campaigns, generate organic customer engagement, and increase sales. However, businesses face some common issues when identifying authentic influencers in a world full of inorganic ones. The wrong influencers can be a wasted resource and have poor ROI. Needless to say, this could be hard for many brands to get on board since they often struggle to set boundaries around guest posting, which is an opportunity for gettin

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The Great Decoupling Explained By A Googler

Search Engine Roundtable

The term, The Great Decoupling has really been catching on over the past couple of weeks. It is being used to describe what we are seeing with impressions and clicks moving further and further apart since AI Overviews has become more of the norm in the Google Search results.

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Engage Better, Gift Smarter, Win Big: Events That Deliver ROI

Speaker: Hanan Polinovski, Events Manager and David Brown, Sr. Marketing & Events Lead

Are your events living up to expectations? Are you getting quality leads from your sponsorships? Have you ever wondered if that branded notebook actually makes an impact? Get ready to transform your event strategy! Join event marketing pros Hanan Polinovski from Printfection and David Brown from Bonusly for a fast-paced webinar about turning your event efforts into serious ROI.

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Social Media Planner: How To Plan Your Content (With Template) via @sejournal, @jasonhennessey

Search Engine Journal

Streamline social media marketing with this free planner template to schedule, organize, and improve your content strategy. The post Social Media Planner: How To Plan Your Content (With Template) appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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How to track and improve your YouTube marketing ROI

Sprout Social

YouTube offers marketers a unique mix of reach, intent and influence. Yet, proving a clear return on investment (ROI) is where most teams hit a wall. While paid campaigns offer detailed metrics, linking views to value is a common struggle. Organic videos build audience equity over time but rarely deliver immediate proof of performance. And when you run paid and organic strategies at once, it’s hard to determine which strategy is driving real impact.

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Google Ads Shows Audience Size For Custom Segments

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads is now showing the estimated audience size in the custom segments for some advertisers. This can help you see if the reach will be large enough for you to properly test the campaign.

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See What AI Sees: AI Mode Killed the Old SEO Playbook — Here’s the New One via @sejournal, @mktbrew

Search Engine Journal

Google’s AI Mode is reshaping SERP rankings. Discover how embedding vectors, not keywords, now determine visibility. The post See What AI Sees: AI Mode Killed the Old SEO Playbook — Here’s the New One appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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What’s the difference between AdTech and MarTech?

illumin

Technical advancements have blurred the lines between AdTech and MarTech to the extent that the terms are often used interchangeably. Here’s how to spot the difference and the applications of both. (UPDATED: JUNE 2025) MarTech (Marketing Technology) and AdTech (Advertising Technology) are distinct aspects of modern marketing that are differentiated and simultaneously overlap and complement each other.

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B2B SEO vs. LMO: Whats the Difference and Why It Matters

Speaker: Speakers:

Brace yourself, B2B marketers. Your beloved SEO is getting a makeover, and its name is Language Model Optimization (LMO). What does that mean for your digital strategy? Join Jesse McFarland of SpearPoint Marketing on the next B2B Growth Show as we unravel the mystery and get you prepped for the next evolution in search. Here’s what you’ll walk away with: A clear breakdown of SEO vs.

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Identify Conversion Opportunities with User Behavior Data

Aspiration Marketing

Why do some website visitors effortlessly glide through your pages and convert into loyal customers, while others navigate for a moment before disappearing? What subtle cues in their online actions hold the key to unlocking higher conversion rates? The answers aren't based on hunches; they lie within the digital footprints left behind by every visitor.

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Remembering toward better

Seth's Blog

We don’t get a chance to do yesterday over again. The best reason to think about the past is because it gives us the opportunity to improve the future. Because we don’t get tomorrow over again either. Happy Juneteenth.

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The Future of CRM and Marketing Management: Trends to Watch

Marketing Insider Group

You’ve probably noticed how fast things shift in marketing. Just when you think you’ve cracked the code, someone changes the lock. It’s a game of constant updates, smarter tools, and higher expectations. Marketing management trends don’t move slowly. They’re more like toddlers after candy (chaotic, fast, and very unpredictable). So, what’s next?

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How To Weed Out Less Qualified Audiences From Your PPC Campaigns via @sejournal, @jonkagan

Search Engine Journal

Paid search is shifting. Here’s how audience targeting and exclusion can sharpen your spend without tanking ROI. The post How To Weed Out Less Qualified Audiences From Your PPC Campaigns appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse

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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Jon Cook’s yellow brick road: AI, agency reinvention and a Kansan in line for WPP’s top job

The Drum

From Kansas to Cannes, the VML CEO’s journey blends AI, transformation and heartland values – now positioning him as a human-first leader and potential successor to Mark Read. Jon Cook isn’t just another global CEO breezing through Cannes. He’s pitching, hosting, reconnecting with clients – and, in a fitting twist, about to share a stage with Wicked director Jon M Chu to talk storytelling, brand reinvention and The Wizard of Oz.

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Measuring and Improving the ROI of Email Marketing Efforts

Aspiration Marketing

Do you ever stop and really consider what each email you send is truly delivering for your business? In B2B marketing, email remains a powerhouse, but its effectiveness hinges on one critical factor: return on investment. Are your campaigns generating meaningful results or simply adding to the noise? Understanding your email marketing ROI isn't just about vanity metrics; it's about making informed decisions that directly impact your bottom line.

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ChatGPT Updates To Improve Tracking In Analytics With More UTM Parameters

Search Engine Roundtable

OpenAI has updated the ChatGPT interface to add additional UTM parameters to help with tracking more clicks from ChatGPT to your website. Now, under the "more" section, those links contain these UTM parameters, before they did not.

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AI can’t create meaning — that’s still marketing’s job

Martech

Every day, we hear how AI is reshaping marketing. Need 100 social posts tomorrow? Done. Launch a campaign before lunch? No problem. Automation is accelerating everything — but speed alone isn’t a strategy. In 2025, 88% of digital marketers use AI in their daily workflow and the AI-in-marketing market is set to hit $27 billion this year. The broader AI industry?

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

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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Google Launches ‘Search Live’ Real-Time Voice Search In AI Mode via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

Google Search Live with real-time voice conversations is now available in AI Mode for U.S. users. Talk to search, get audio responses plus web links. The post Google Launches ‘Search Live’ Real-Time Voice Search In AI Mode appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Move over, Becks. It’s time to make room for the nano-influencers

The Drum

Celebrity endorsements from the likes of David Beckham used to be the holy grail of marketing. Not anymore, says Annie Johnson at Cygnus – authenticity is now king. Once upon a time, influencer marketing was all about star power. From David Beckham sipping soft drinks (Becks loves a brand deal) to supermodels fronting luxury perfume ads. Brands turned to celebrity clout to sell products.

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Here to please

Seth's Blog

Please who? If you’re on a social media network, are you seeking to optimize for the algorithm, the owners of the tech stock or your personal goals? If you’re publishing a book, are you working for the book or is the book working for you? You might be able to get the folks in the back row to smile a bit if you play your hit song just like it is on the radio, but perhaps your objective is to please the real fans in the front row–by jamming on something new.

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Google AI Mode Within People Also Ask & Chrome

Search Engine Roundtable

Just like Google had AI Overviews (also featured snippets) in the People also ask section of Google Search, Google is now testing AI Mode within People also ask. Plus, Google is testing it in the Chrome search auto-suggestions drop down. I guess this is because AI Mode is live in the US.

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Prospect, Personalize, Profit: The New Way Sales & Marketing Teams Are Aligning with AI

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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Digital adapters: How Gen X uses social media and why it matters to marketers

Sprout Social

Generation X (Gen X), born between 1965 and 1980, was one of the first generations to grow up with traditional media and go digital later in life. Their social media habits reflect this evolution, with them having profiles on both long-standing and emerging social networks. According to the 2024 Social Media Content Strategy Report , Gen Xers are loyal to legacy social networks, with 92% having a profile on Facebook, 78% on Instagram and 74% on YouTube.

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How to Build a Brand That Truly Connects

Search Engine Journal

Dive into how to develop a brand in the second part of our branding series, featuring guest Mordy Oberstein's insightful advice on effective branding strategies. The post How to Build a Brand That Truly Connects appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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LinkedIn’s new B2B playbook shows ability to defend bad decisions drives B2B buying decisions

The Drum

In the sweltering Cannes heat, the social network’s Mimi Turner explains to The Drum that, when it comes to B2B buyers, the fear of making an indefensible purchase decision is what gets them hot under the collar. The most decisive factor in B2B buying today isn’t price or even performance, but fear – specifically, the fear of not being able to defend a buying decision if it turns out to be the wrong one.

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The Future of Direct Mail: How AI Is Revolutionizing Print Marketing

Whos Mailing What

Blog | Who’s Mailing What! Checkout Form testing page Order Confirmation Order Failed Partner Center RSS Feed WMW! Blog – All articles Connect with us Membership Plans Video Insights Blog Quick Facts Sign in Free Test Drive WMW! News Industry Insights Tips & Tricks How-Tos Research & Reports Subscribe Meet The Mailers: Using Embellishments to Spark Engagement Divine Design: How a Gate Fold Triptych Became a Powerful Fundraising Tool 6 Legendary Direct Mail Campaigns That Changed the Market

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Unlocking the Power of Martech for the Non-Technical Marketing Leader

Speaker: Speakers:

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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Google Search Console Now Counting AI Mode Clicks, Impressions & Positions

Search Engine Roundtable

Google has now officially confirmed that Google Search Console is counting AI Mode data. Google said, "AI Mode is now counting towards totals in Search Console." We saw this when AI Mode went fully live in the US late last week, which Google announced would happen at I/O.

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CMOs, CEOs and Marketers are all Struggling With Martech Data Issues

The CMO Survey

About CMO Insights Media Participate Results Reports Awards 2008 – 2018 Trends Home Blog Search for: The CMO Survey Created with Sketch. Media Articles CMOs, CEOs and Marketers are all Struggling With Martech Data Issues Share Post Share Email Media Sources 1851 Franchise ABC News Acceleration Economy Ad Age AdExchanger AdNews Advertising Age Advertising Specialty Institute AdWeek AdWorld AiThority Alight Analytics AList All Africa American Marketing Association Analytics Insight Associati

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10 Key Hurdles That CMOs Must Overcome In 2025 And Beyond via @sejournal, @gregjarboe

Search Engine Journal

Facing economic uncertainty and technological disruption, CMOs need to recalibrate strategies to deliver measurable impact and sustained growth. The post 10 Key Hurdles That CMOs Must Overcome In 2025 And Beyond appeared first on Search Engine Journal.