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How to Build Buyer Persona Profiles and Personalize Marketing Messages

Aspiration Marketing

To create marketing that truly converts and builds lasting relationships, you need more than just raw data–you need genuine understanding. Buyer personas provide this crucial layer of insight, transforming raw information about your target audience into actionable knowledge about their needs, pain points, and aspirations. These detailed profiles become the foundational element for all your communication efforts, ensuring your messages are relevant, timely, and impactful.

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Website Redesign: 11-Step Process From Audit to Launch

Neil Patel

Think a website redesign is just about fixing your homepage or refreshing the layout? Think again. Too often, these projects focus on changing the look or chasing the latest trends. But if your redesign doesn’t fix what’s actually broken, your site won’t perform any better or win you more business. In this guide, I’ll show you what a website redesign really involves and walk you through my agency’s 11-step process — including mistakes to avoid.

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Data Shows Best Content Format on Social Platforms in 2025: Millions of Posts Analyzed

Buffer Marketing

If you’ve spent any time on social media lately, it’s easy to believe that video is the be-all and end-all. Instagram Reels, TikToks, LinkedIn’s new video feed: it’s everywhere, and it feels like every platform is building for it. If you’re looking to build an audience, “more video” is often touted as the answer.

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Martech maestros focus on internal processes — and drive external success

Martech

In January 2020, Scott Brinker introduced five martech archetypes: maestros, makers, modellers, marketers and managers. His framework maps roles based on their internal or external focus and whether they lean more toward process or technical execution. Managers, meanwhile, lead teams that span across these categories. This model helps organizations understand the diverse skills and responsibilities needed for modern martech teams.

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Why B2B Growth Needs a Co-Marketing Strategy

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Struggling to grow your B2B brand in an overcrowded market? Discover how partner marketing can transform your strategy, unlocking new opportunities for lead generation and ROI. What you'll gain: Craft collaborative campaigns that minimize conflicts and maximize ROI. Harness automation to streamline partner marketing efforts. Learn to gain and retain partner mind share with proven strategies.

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How to Build a Customer-Focused Content Strategy (6 Steps)

Backlinko

Random content creation is the top reason you won’t see ROI from your content marketing. One week, you write blog posts. The next week, you film some YouTube videos. Then, you stop publishing for three months. With a strong content strategy, you’ll make consistent content based on real customer preferences, pain points, and historical data. Creating a content strategy has many benefits, including: Focuses your efforts on content your audience actually wants Saves you time by eliminating gu

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Achieve Higher Engagement & Conversions: An Email Marketing Checklist

Aspiration Marketing

A well-crafted email has the power to cut through the constant digital chatter and forge meaningful connections with your audience, ultimately driving valuable conversions. But, the question is: how do you consistently create emails that not only land in inboxes but also compel recipients to open and take action? To guide you through this process, we've compiled a comprehensive email marketing checklist outlining the essential elements for achieving higher engagement and conversions.

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26 LinkedIn Stats to Know for 2025

Buffer Marketing

LinkedIn has come a long way from being just “the career network.” In 2025, it’s where professionals build personal brands, brands find their audiences, and creators grow through connection. Whether you're hiring, creating content, or planning a marketing campaign, understanding how people use LinkedIn — and how the platform is evolving — can give you a serious edge.

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Why it’s time to reframe email from campaigns to conversations

Martech

Why do so many marketers still email like it’s 1999? Despite all the tools we have to optimize frequency and personalize content, my inbox shows how little most brands have evolved their email approach. Every day, it fills up with a river of generic or irrelevant messages. This brand doesn’t recognize that I haven’t opened its emails for over a year.

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Memorable marketing, visible mistakes, and a faster horse

Hubspot Marketing

Today’s master bucks more trends than probably anyone I’ve interviewed. She ignores the competition. She refuses to put ✨AI sparkles✨ on everything. She runs on intuition as much as data. Yet her small, scrappy marketing team regularly punches above its weight — and wins. When Todoist first launched, it was the original personal task manager. Today, its parent company, Doist, is still seen as the go-to in productivity software, despite competing with Fortune 500 tech brands.

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How to Master Media Relations: Targeting, Tailoring, Timing

Speaker: Karen Swim, APR

Relevance is the currency of modern media relations—and personalization is how you earn it. In this new webinar with industry leader Karen Swim, APR, we'll explore proven strategies for precision targeting and crafting personalized pitches that resonate with journalists and build stronger relationships over time. You’ll also learn how to ensure your media lists are accurate and up to date, craft outreach that gets responses, and streamline your workflow without sacrificing quality.

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Sunk costs and the framework for forward motion

Seth's Blog

Everything that happened yesterday, and the yesterdays before that, is real. It happened. Perhaps it’s the hard work you did to earn a degree, or a significant error that cost you and others a great deal. Maybe it’s a community you chose to join, or one that you failed to embrace. All of these costs are sunk. We can’t undo them. They’re a gift from our former selves.

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Social media KPIs every marketer should be tracking

Hootsuite

Tracking your social media performance isn’t hard. The hard part is knowing what to track — and why it matters. You could spend all day looking at your social media metrics : likes, comments, shares, follows, reach, saves, sticker taps, video views, clicks… the list goes on. But those numbers alone won’t tell you what to do next. That’s where social media KPIs come in.

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CMO reinvented: ‘You can’t build tomorrow’s brand with yesterday’s marketing’

The Drum

Marketing leaders from Microsoft Advertising, Skoda, Unilever, Samsung, Philips and more gathered to confront the AI shift head-on. Are CMOs truly ready to lead in a machine-shaped world? This is what they said – unfiltered, relevant and urgent. “We’re not just adapting to technology: we’re adapting to a completely new marketing paradigm,” says Globant Gut's managing director, Marwa Khalife.

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Why Mel Robbins’ ‘Let Them’ theory is the mindset marketers need now

Martech

Mel Robbins is a New York Times bestselling author, former CNN legal analyst, and a globally recognized expert in personal development. Her “ Let Them Theory ” offers a simple but powerful mindset: when others doubt, criticize or question you, let them. It’s not about giving up — it’s about staying focused on what matters. In the noise of modern marketing, that kind of clarity is more valuable than ever.

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AI In The Aisles: The Executives Guide To Better In-Store Experiences

Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA

The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.

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Beginner’s Guide to Competitive SEO Research in the Age of AI

SMA Marketing

AI Summary: This post covers the basics of competitive SEO research and compares three tools—Ahrefs, SEMrush, and SE Ranking. It explains the difference between business and search competitors, then walks through how each platform analyzes keyword performance, traffic trends, and content visibility. The focus is on identifying gaps, understanding competitor strategies, and adapting to changes in AI-driven search results.

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9 X/Twitter analytics tools to amplify your strategy

Sprout Social

You’re putting in the hours on X (formerly Twitter), creating posts, engaging with followers and pushing your brand’s message. But without the right tools, it’s hard to know if that effort is moving the needle. Twitter’s built-in analytics only provide basic metrics like follower counts and impressions. Third-party analytics tools are what give you deeper data—the kind that reveals what’s really working—so you can optimize your strategy and reach your goals.

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9 CMOs share their biggest lessons of 2025 so far and how they’re shaping their strategies

The Drum

From tech to tariffs, 2025 has presented no shortage of challenges – and opportunities – for global marketing leaders. At the WFA CMO Forum in Cannes, we caught up with nine senior marketers to find out the most important lessons they’ve learned so far this year – and how those insights are influencing their planning for the months ahead. If 2024 was a year of recalibration, 2025 is the year of confronting complexity.

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How AI is winning digital shoppers through personalization

Martech

The digital retail landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift. Generic product catalogs and one-size-fits-all marketing approaches are fast becoming relics. Today’s consumers are harder to win over — even when experiences are personalized, relevant and responsive to their needs. AI is driving this evolution, enabling retailers to deepen personalization and scale it across millions of real-time interactions.

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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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13 ChatGPT alternatives worth trying for SEO, content, and more

Hootsuite

When I was starting out in marketing, most of my time went into things like manually transcribing interviews, digging through industry research, and wrestling with spreadsheets to build reports. Now? AI can take a half-baked voice note and turn it into a solid outline before I’ve even finished my first coffee. The biggest shift I’ve seen in marketing isn’t just in what we create — it’s in how we create it.

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7 best CRMs for retail businesses in 2025

Hubspot Marketing

Retail businesses face unique challenges in today's competitive marketplace. Managing customer relationships across multiple channels, tracking inventory alongside sales data, and coordinating between online and in-store experiences requires specialized tools. A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system designed for retail can streamline these complex workflows, improve customer satisfaction, and drive revenue growth.

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10 Social Proofs on Websites That Turn Your Visitors into Buyers

SocialPilot

Social proof is a powerful psychological phenomenon that states people rely on the actions and opinions of others when making decisions. Coined by American author and psychologist Robert Cialdini, social proof plays a crucial role in shaping consumer behavior. For online businesses with no in-person salespeople or physical product demonstrations, putting social proof on websites is one of the most effective ways to convert leads.

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Good measurement is about knowing which numbers matter

The Drum

Less than a quarter of CMOs report having enough budget to deliver their strategy. Chris Callaghan at Jaywing says that’s all the more reason to make sure you know what’s working. With marketing budgets under more scrutiny than ever, there’s a growing pressure to make every pound work harder. This relies on being able to measure how impactful marketing plans are, but what does that actually mean in practice?

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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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Why visibility is now the most important marketing metric

Martech

As generative AI platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity and search features like Google’s AI Overviews transform how users interact with brands, marketing performance is driven by what comes before the first click. Whether your content is read, cited or referenced by generative AI, AI visibility is now the first point of influence for many brands. To stay competitive, your content must be built for that visibility.

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Google Ads Tracks Call Assets QR Codes Or Send Email

Search Engine Roundtable

For the past couple of years, we've seen Google show QR codes you can scan and email or text this number to call features in the Google Ads. Google's Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin, confirmed that these actions are indeed tracked by Google Ads, down to the conversion, if you set those up.

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The Benefits of Adding Infographics to Your Blog Posts

Marketing Insider Group

You write valuable blog content, but you still feel something’s missing. Readers skim past your thoughtful paragraphs and miss your points. That’s frustrating. You need something that stops the scroll—something that grabs attention and conveys meaning fast. You might find your secret weapon in infographics. Blog infographics benefits are much more than aesthetics.

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Zero Click Marketing? The Truth About Search Traffic in 9 Charts

Orbit Media Studios

By Andy Crestodina Welcome to the “zero click” world, where websites no longer get traffic. I hear this a lot lately. I hear it from people whom I respect. But I don’t agree with the idea, or at least I don’t think the full story is being told. Yes, top-line traffic to most websites is down. Traffic from organic search to websites is dropping. You can probably quickly spot this trend in your own reports.

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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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Outrun the bear: why ‘good enough’ isn’t fast enough anymore

The Drum

When speed meets storytelling, measurement must keep up. At The Drum Studio in Cannes, Uber Advertising, Roku and Cint unpack how real-time insights are reshaping campaign performance – and why brands can’t afford to wait around. For marketers under pressure to show results faster and more often, standing still isn’t an option. It’s becoming a race – not for perfection, but for progress.

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14 HubSpot updates from June 2025 you can’t miss

Martech

With more than 100 product updates released last month, June continues HubSpot’s momentum in AI innovation, CRM flexibility and cross-team efficiency. Whether you’re in marketing, sales, service or ops, this month’s highlights are designed to help your team move faster, gain better insights and simplify work. From a smarter Breeze Copilot to powerful data deduplication and seamless sandbox deployments, we’ve handpicked the 14 updates you’ll actually want to use.

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12 Social Media Optimization Techniques to Outperform in 2025

SocialPilot

Getting seen on social media in 2025 isn’t just about posting more—it’s about posting smart. With over 5.31 billion global social media users and platforms now prioritizing relevance, behavior, and keyword signals, acting to break through the algorithmic clutter is harder than ever. And here’s where most marketers hit a wall: the content is great, but it’s not reaching the right feeds.