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Dominate B2B Search: How to Use Topic Clusters to Outrank Competitors

Aspiration Marketing

Are you struggling to climb the search engine ranks while competitors dominate? In the complex world of B2B, visibility isn't just a luxury—it's a necessity. Are you creating a wealth of content yet seeing minimal impact on your search engine ranking? Imagine a strategy that not only organizes your content for clarity but also signals to search engines that you're an authority in your field.

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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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ChatGPT Now Has a Memory: What Does that Mean for You?

Jeff Bullas

A few weeks ago, I noticed something strange while chatting with ChatGPT. It was finishing my sentences, quoting my past musings and dropping references to the products I was testing. Like a clingy ex who had access to my Evernote. At first, I thought: “Wow, this thing gets me.” Then I thought: “Wait… this thing “really” gets me?” Turns out, ChatGPT had quietly rolled out a memory feature on April 10, 2025.

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3 Different Versions of Marketing Ops Team Scope & Remit

The Marketing Operations Leader

In this edition: 3 Different Versions of Marketing Ops Team Scope & Remit Hot Take on Marketing Ops Versus Revops Versus Gtm Ops POLL: Where Should the Martech Team Sit in an Organization? Exclusive For Paid Subscribers : How to Launch New Features and Processes in Enterprise Marketing Operations June is the gut check. Is your plan still aligned to the business?

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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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Grab and go

Seth's Blog

Every retailer knows that the items that sell the best are at eye level or at the cash register. Some people are hungry, rushed, distracted and lazy. If you want to reach them (us), you need to make it convenient. The lesson is simple: We can market to ourselves the same way others market to us. Put the good habits in a place where they’re easy to find and engage with.

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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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How strong brands build stronger B2B pipelines

Martech

B2B marketers are under pressure to deliver pipeline, but the old playbook of MQL chasing, generic content and paid ads isn’t cutting it anymore. To drive growth in an AI-saturated, attention-poor market, we need to refocus on what really moves the needle: building a brand that stands out, connects with buyers and earns trust. The limits of MQLs in an AI-first world Traditional, MQL-focused lead generation isn’t doing well.

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The trust premium: backing quality media isn’t a virtue, it’s a business imperative

The Drum

As Channel 4 shifts the focus from chasing reach to championing relevance, we explore why this evolution presents a valuable opportunity for advertisers to invest in highly regulated, brand-safe environments that deliver premium content which audiences actively choose and trust. Trust has become one of the most valuable currencies in media today. But in the scramble for reach, brands are at risk of funding environments that are unregulated, unverified and increasingly unsafe.

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Ecosystems come and go

Seth's Blog

Your project doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Your company wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the customers, competitors, marketplaces, systems and tech that make it all work. I used to make almanacs. Long, detailed, fact-checked reference books that might save a trip to the library. When there are plenty of bookstores and no internet, the almanac is an important resource and a useful business model.

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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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Build Lead Nurturing Sequences with Email Marketing Automation

Aspiration Marketing

Are your marketing efforts yielding a trickle when they should be a torrent? Picture a sales funnel brimming with potential, yet leads are vanishing before conversion. It's a common frustration: valuable prospects slipping through the cracks due to inadequate nurturing. But what if you could transform this leakage into a steady stream of qualified, eager buyers?

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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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Social media image sizes (2025 update) for every platform

Hubspot Marketing

When clients first started asking me to handle their social media, I figured the image part would be easy. Create one clean graphic, upload it across platforms, and the tools would adjust everything automatically. Boy, was I wrong. Between cropped headers, stretched thumbnails, and text that disappeared on mobile, it didn’t take long to realize that each platform plays by its own rules — and they change often.

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CMOs face growing C-suite pressure as market volatility reshapes marketing strategy

The Drum

WFA research finds global marketing leaders slowing long-term plans, shifting investments and tightening risk controls as CEOs and boards take a closer look. Marketing leaders across some of the world’s biggest brands are seeing their budgets, campaigns and long-term strategies pulled into tighter focus as executives respond to a growing sense of instability across global markets, according to new research from the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and transformation consultancy The Intangib

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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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Google Ads AI Max Coming To All In Q3 2025

Search Engine Roundtable

Google's new AI Max in Google Ads for Search campaigns is coming to all advertisers in Q3 of 2025. As a reminder, Google says AI Max for Search campaigns is a "new, one-click feature suite" that brings you a "suite of targeting and creative enhancements" of "the best of Google AI to your Search campaigns.

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The Ultimate Business Development Checklist: 7 Steps to Success

Aspiration Marketing

It's common to feel overwhelmed by the constant demands of business development. Opportunities come and go, and staying ahead can feel impossible. Many professionals find themselves reacting to situations rather than driving growth. The problem is in shifting from simply managing the present to building a sustainable future. So, how do you implement a process that ensures consistent progress and long-term success?

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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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The state of inclusive marketing in 2025 [new data + expert insight]

Hubspot Marketing

Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success.

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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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The reputation equation: ‘hard to measure when you have it – but you know when you’ve lost it’

The Drum

Corporate reputation – invisible when it’s intact, but it’s all anyone sees when it’s gone. And CMOs are uniquely placed to protect and strengthen it. Business leaders reveal why and how the CMO is increasingly the CEO’s greatest asset at Bloomberg Media’s Leaders Roundtable, Paris. In a landscape defined by crumbling trust in institutions and business, geopolitical uncertainty, economic fragility, AI transformation, and fast-changing stakeholder expectations, corporate reputation is no longer a

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LLM Visibility: The SEO Metric No One Is Reporting On (Yet)

Backlinko

You lost half your Google traffic. But suddenly…more people are searching for your brand. What’s going on? Welcome to the invisible influence of LLMs, where your visibility goes up even when traffic goes down. New research from Semrush reveals a seismic shift happening right now: LLM traffic will completely overtake traditional Google search by 2027.

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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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Google Shows Why Rankings Collapsed After Domain Migration via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Search Engine Journal

Google's John Mueller showed how to diagnose a search visibility issue that was apparently triggered by a domain migration. The post Google Shows Why Rankings Collapsed After Domain Migration appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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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Google Business Profiles Changes Add Updates To Posts

Search Engine Roundtable

Google seems to be flip-flopping between calling it Google Posts and Google Updates within Google Business Profiles. When a business owner wants to post an announcement of sorts on their Google local listing, they can click "Add update" or now "Posts" with a plus-sign.

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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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Salesforce unveils agentic Marketing Cloud Next

Martech

Salesforce today introduced Marketing Cloud Next, a significant update to its marketing platform that embeds autonomous AI agents across the entire customer funnel. The company says the product represents a shift from traditional campaign-based marketing to its much-touted “agentic marketing,” where AI agents act independently to execute campaigns, personalize customer interactions and optimize performance.

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

Whos Mailing What

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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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Paid Media Reporting For Ecommerce: Navigating Attribution Across Paid

Search Engine Journal

How ecommerce brands can report on paid media performance using KPIs, attribution models, MMM, and incrementality testing to drive smarter, data-backed marketing decisions. The post Paid Media Reporting For Ecommerce: Navigating Attribution Across Paid appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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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From refugee to B2B rethinker: how Kyall Mai is retooling marketing with AI, empathy and a bit of nerve

The Drum

Kyall Mai didn’t set out to become a poster boy for B2B marketing’s future. But as chief innovation officer at Esquire Bank, and now ANA’s 2025 B2 Marketer of the Year, that’s exactly where he’s landed. His approach? Less about shiny tech for the sake of it, and more about building marketing around empathy, AI and actual usefulness. All in a category - banking for law firms - hardly known for emotional resonance or creativity.

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