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Avoid Spam: How Email Warm-Up and Verification Improve Deliverability

Aspiration Marketing

Landing in the spam folder can ruin an email marketing campaign before it even starts. Many senders wonder why their messages never reach people's inboxes and lose out on leads or important contacts. Email warm-up and verification are ways to help messages get delivered and avoid the spam filter. Warming up an email account means gradually increasing the number of emails sent over time.

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And when it breaks?

Seth's Blog

Most of the pitch and the demo is all about how terrific our plans are, and how well our gadget works. But if we hope for resilience, perhaps it makes sense to show off how gracefully the system breaks. Because it will break. Because plans won’t work out. Because we’ll be surprised. And then what happens?

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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 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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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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How to Do Marketing Enablement & PMO

The Marketing Operations Leader

In this edition: How to Do Marketing Enablement and PMO What Ops Pros Are Saying About Layoffs & Reorgs A Framework To Easily Create Your Martech Roadmap Exclusive For Paid Subscribers : Darrell Explains in Detail The New Marketing Ops Maturity Model Reminder! Marketing Ops AI Agent Launch This Week! Join Us To See What All the Hype Is About! The 2025 AI and Marketing Performance Index Marketing teams are under pressure to deliver faster results with fewer resources.

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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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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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Cannes you feel it? Neu-roads ahead for adland in contextual’s next chapter

The Drum

As campaigns fight to stand out at Cannes, a new era of neuro-contextual advertising is emerging – where emotionally intelligent tech isn’t just figuring out what people are reading, it’s understanding why they care. We’re doing the Cannes can this week, and one theme is dominating the Croisette: emotion wins. Industry leaders are already predicting that the most impactful campaigns this year won’t be the loudest or most technologically dazzling: they’ll be the most emotionally resonant.

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

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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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Optimizing Your HubSpot Forms and Workflows for Maximum Lead Capture

Aspiration Marketing

You've invested in your website to attract visitors, but are you truly capitalizing on every opportunity to connect with those who show interest? The ability to effectively capture leads is the lifeblood of any thriving marketing strategy. Fortunately, platforms like HubSpot offer a robust suite of tools designed to streamline this crucial process through marketing automation.

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Big scale, big impact

Seth's Blog

The Beatles changed music. Starbucks changed coffee. Perhaps your project is aiming to reach a large audience. Consultants call it market share. What percentage of the available market have you reached with your idea? No one hits everyone, but many organizations seek to be a monopoly, or perhaps noticeable in scale. This flies in the face of embracing the smallest viable market.

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Exciting Changes to MarketingOps Membership

MarketingOps

For years, MarketingOps.com has been a place where MO Pros – like you – connect, learn, and grow. We’re incredibly proud of the community we’ve built together. But as Marketing Ops evolves, so do your needs. That’s why, we’re making a significant investment in you and the future of our community. We’re introducing Pro and Pro+ Memberships – thoughtfully designed to give you more tools, resources, and connections to thrive.

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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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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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5 High-Impact Ways To Integrate Traditional & Digital Marketing For A Personalized Buyer Experience via @sejournal, @alexanderkesler

Search Engine Journal

Want better B2B results? Combine traditional and digital marketing with AI, intent data intelligence, and geotargeting to enhance B2B buyer engagement. The post 5 High-Impact Ways To Integrate Traditional & Digital Marketing For A Personalized Buyer Experience appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Segment Your Email List for Personalized and High-Converting Campaigns

Aspiration Marketing

Do you ever feel like your carefully crafted marketing emails disappear into the digital void? You're not alone. Sending generic messages to your entire subscriber list often results in low engagement and missed opportunities. In contrast, when your audience feels understood and receives information tailored to their specific needs, they are far more likely to pay attention.

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But what do they say at the meeting?

Seth's Blog

This is the way to understand business-to-business selling. After you’ve left with the purchase order, what does the buyer tell the boss? What does the boss tell the investors or the press? This helps decode why giant companies like Google or Facebook buy a company or don’t. It explains why McKinsey can charge 20 times as much for consulting as a former McKinsey consultant can.

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5 Best Sites To Buy Twitch Followers (Real & Cheap)

Jeff Bullas

Are you a new streamer hoping to achieve your goals on Twitch? You’re going to need a lot of followers. That’s going to take a lot of hard work. Lucky for you, we’re here to help! We’ve looked at more than 50 sites that offer social media marketing services and compiled a list of the top 5 that help you buy genuine Twitch followers. Related: Learn how to increase your viewers when you buy Twitch live viewers So.

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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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Cannes Lions 2025: View all the Grand Prix-winning ads

The Drum

Throughout this week, The Drum will gather all the biggest winners from the International Festival of Creativity right here. Bonjour and bienvenue! Welcome to The Drum’s live round-up of the Cannes Lions 2025 Grand Prix winners as they’re revealed. As the world’s top creatives in advertising and marketing gather on the sun-soaked French Riviera for the annual Festival of Creativity, we’ll keep you updated with all the major wins each evening.

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Jill Whalen’s SEO Legacy Still Shapes The Industry via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Search Engine Journal

Jill Whalen, who recently passed away, championed an ethical approach to SEO that continues to influence the industry. The post Jill Whalen’s SEO Legacy Still Shapes The Industry appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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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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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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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Content strategy red flags: What B2B marketing teams get wrong and how to course-correct

Hubspot Marketing

I see a lot of marketing teams stuck in the same cycle: They believe in content. They’re creating constantly. But, they’re just not seeing the results they want. Add that the CEO is asking why the competitor is “suddenly everywhere.” Oh, and internally, there’s no real alignment on who you’re talking to, what you’re trying to say, or how you’re measuring success.

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Richard Edelman: Brands must become the optimists consumers can’t afford to be

The Drum

Edelman has released a ‘special report’ updating its Trust Barometer. At Cannes Lions, we catch up with Mr Edelman himself on the growing trust gap, gen Z anger, and why silence is no longer an option. Richard Edelman is used to reading the public mood. But even he, almost 30 years into his tenure as chief executive of PR giant Edelman, seemed slightly taken aback by a special update to 2025’s Trust Barometer findings, unveiled this week at the Cannes Lions festival.

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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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Uncover Hidden Issues with a HubSpot Portal Audit

The LeadG2 Blog

Is your HubSpot portal living up to its full potential? Discover how a comprehensive audit can uncover hidden issues, optimize performance, and boost your revenue. The Hidden Costs of an Inefficient HubSpot Portal An inefficient HubSpot portal can hinder your business operations in ways that are not immediately apparent. When workflows are poorly configured or data is mismanaged, it can lead to significant losses in both time and money.

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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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7 vanity metrics marketers should avoid, and 7 to replace them

Martech

Marketers, and B2B marketers in particular, often face criticism for focusing on vanity metrics. Vanity metrics are numbers that are easily measurable and look good on paper but don’t directly correlate to business outcomes or provide actionable insights. Let’s take a closer look at seven common vanity metrics, why they’re considered weak and what you can use to replace them.

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Google Local Service Ads Tests Background Checked Labels

Search Engine Roundtable

Google is testing adding the text "background checked" to the local service ads listings in the Google local search results. This seems to be instead of the Google Screened or verified labels.

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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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