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How more tools and tactics hurt marketing performance

Martech

Marketers love shiny new tools, platforms and tactics, each promising greater efficiency, deeper insights or a competitive edge. But more doesn’t always mean better. In some cases, adding too much can backfire. This is the efficiency paradox: the tipping point at which more tools and tactics stop driving results and instead create friction, wasted effort and diminishing returns.

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The Email Marketing Strategies Beyoncé, Royal Caribbean, and Sprinkles Cupcakes Use to Boost Conversions and Loyalty

Hubspot Marketing

Welcome to Creator Columns , where we bring expert HubSpot Creator voices to the Blogs that inspire and help you grow better. Email marketing isn't deadits evolving. With an average ROI of $36 for every dollar spent, it remains a marketing powerhouse. But here's the twist: making your emails more inclusive isn't just good ethics it's good business.

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5 email marketing tech essentials for 2025 success

Martech

Now is not the time to be an email marketing Luddite. From BIMI to AI scheduling, how we reach customers is changing rapidly. The more you use these tools to your advantage, the more of an impact youll make with your subscribers. Ive seen these tech advances revolutionize email marketing strategies. Heres what every agency and marketer should know to smash their 2025 KPIs. 1.

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Boost ROI with LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google Ads

Aspiration Marketing

Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn have become the go-to platforms for businesses aiming to convert clicks into conversions. Each offers distinct tools to turn your marketing dollars into real, measurable results, helping you connect with the right audience at the right time.

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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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More consumers using genAI tools to research purchases: Adobe

Martech

Adobes first report on traffic from generative AI interfaces found a surge in traffic to U.S. retail sites over the holiday season, and the trend persisted into 2025. Between Nov. 1, 2024, and Dec. 31, 2024, traffic from generative AI sources increased by 1,300% compared to the year prior (up 1,950% YoY on Cyber Monday). Adobe found this trend continued beyond the holiday season.

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How to Navigate a New Era of Agentic Customer Engagement 

Sales Force: CMO

Marketing is in the middle of a tectonic shift from the past decade of robust tech stacking to the adoption and efficiencies of AI. Your marketing teams can finally shift their focus from complex technology integrations and data management to what truly matters: creating meaningful content and campaigns. Welcome to the age of agentic customer engagement.

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10 Australian social media trends for 2025

Sprout Social

With consumers spending so much time on social media, it has become a key part of our culture, both online and IRL. This also makes it an essential tool for marketers. But social media is always changing. When crafting your social media strategy for 2025 and beyond, you need to make sure the latest social media trends are top of mind. This is especially important because according to The 2025 Sprout Social Index , 58% of social media users plan to keep using social just as much in 2025, while 24

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Longer TikToks Get More Views — Data Shows Best TikTok Video Length

Buffer Marketing

A statement that definitely won’t surprise you: TikTok’s algorithm seems to prioritize videos that keep users on the platform for longer. But here’s a follow-up that might: That means videos longer than a minute tend to get more views and watch time than their shorter counterparts. When we set out to uncover what TikTok video length performed the best, I certainly didn’t expect it to be longer videos.

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How to Use Data Analytics to Refine Your SEO Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

SEO without data is like throwing darts in the dark. Sometimes it works, but most of the time, its a hard miss. Every search, click, and bounce tells a story. The challenge is figuring out what the data means and how to use it to make SEO strategies stronger. Quick Takeaways Traffic sources reveal where visitors come from and whats working. Bounce rates and session times show if people actually like what they find.

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How This Small Startup Outperformed a Stalling Industry

Hubspot Marketing

As liquor sales stagnated last year for nearly the first time in two decades, one segment of the market actually grew by a whopping 29% YoY: Pickle-flavored spirits. If youre like me, your first question was, What the ever-loving fffff-? But your second question is, What are they doing right? So I sat down with the marketing director for the top-selling pickle liquor to find out how this small startup is beating the trend and outmarketing the market.

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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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7 Ideal Ways to Spend Your Marketing Budget in 2025 (And Beyond)

Marketing Insider Group

Marketing is constantly evolving, and where you invest your budget makes all the difference in how well your brand performs. The strategies that worked five years ago may no longer be effective, while new opportunities have emerged that can deliver higher ROI and better engagement. With so many options from digital ads and SEO to influencer marketing and AI-powered automation you need a game plan to ensure your budget is being spent in ways that drive growth.

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Your Marketing Channels Are Going to Get Disrupted by AI. Here’s How You Can Prepare.

Sales Force: CMO

How do you expect todays marketing channels to change with AI agents? Agents will be a boon for our industry. They will perform actions for companies and individuals that simplify many of the tasks that we do today by clicking and browsing on our own. They will also change the way consumers and brands engage. What will that mean for marketing? One thing is certain: your marketing channel strategy is going to be disrupted in a big way.

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The future of digital experience optimization for digital teams

Welcome Software

Remember when businesses redesigned websites based on executive preferences? Or launched features because competitors were doing it? Those days are fading. Companies have discovered that systematic experimentation beats gut feelings. Since 2018, we've seen a 131% increase in experiments , starting from simple A/B tests to now intricate, data-driven optimization including server-side testing, personalization campaigns, and even ML-driven optimization methods such as multi-armed bandits.

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Best Expense Management Software Tools for Expense Tracking in 2025

Zumvu

In the modern business environment, expense control is a crucial need for success. Whether it is a small business, startup, or enterprise, it requires the right tools for the management of the spending of the company. It also simplifies finance and decreases errors by tracking employee reimbursement to tracking vendor invoices.

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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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From robot to real: How to detect AI-written content in seconds

Welcome Software

As if (legit) content writers and content marketers couldn't roll their eyes enough at the people who thought writing good marketing content was as simple as throwing a grammatically-correct sentence together and clicking 'Publish'. in came generative AI; the easy, breezy, unbelievably-accessible tool that anyone can use to create content. Next thing we know: Every post on LinkedIn is talking about some kind of "fast-paced landscape" Companies are bombarding the internet with 300x more (disconne

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Best Expense Management Software Tools for Expense Tracking in 2025

Zumvu

In the modern business environment, expense control is a crucial need for success. Whether it is a small business, startup, or enterprise, it requires the right tools for the management of the spending of the company. It also simplifies finance and decreases errors by tracking employee reimbursement to tracking vendor invoices.

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Best practices for encrypting and securing data under zero trust

SmartBrief - Marketing

What are the best practices for integrating encryption with zero-trust architecture? Why are end-to-end encryption, strong authentication, continuous monitoring and regular audits so important? SmartBrief turned to Galaxia Martin, SDI Presences Solutions Director, for answers to these questions and to discuss what the future holds for encryption and zero-trust architecture.

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A turning point for a blog, AI self-soothing, and the death of a mascot

Businesses Grow

Too short for a blog post, too fun to ignore, here are a few thoughts about the world of marketing, content, and beyond … The end of comments This might seem counterintuitive for a person who preaches about “the most human company wins,” but I have disabled comments on this blog. It has nothing to do with trolls or hatersit’s the math.

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Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices

Speaker: Speakers:

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.