June, 2025

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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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The 8 Creator Niches AI Is Disrupting (And How to Monetize Each Right Now)

Jeff Bullas

MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) is a new age content creator and as of June 2025, his YouTube channel boasts over 407 million subscribers and has accumulated more than 87 billion total views. In recent months, his channel has been averaging approximately 3 billion views per month. This viewership surpasses the combined monthly viewership of the top five U.S. cable networks.

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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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5 hot B2B marketing trends

SmartBrief - Marketing

Is your marketing brain spinning? Mine is. I recently put together a brief talk on five top B2B marketing trends for a SmartBrief B2B webinar , and during the couple of weeks or so I spent pulling the trends together, I had to adjust and/or add notes and nuances to nearly all of them. So, before this piece becomes outdated, lets take a look at five B2B marketing trends.

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Why B2B Growth Needs a Co-Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Speakers:

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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The Essential Summer Reading List for B2B Marketers and Professionals

Trade Press Services Newsletter

The summer season has a way of nudging us to hit refresh on calendars, goals, and even mindsets. For some, its a busy season packed with travel and family activities. For others, its a slower pace that makes space for personal and professional reflection. Either way, its the perfect time to invest in personal development. Summer Reading Standouts Summer reading isnt just for overachieving students.

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Relationship Marketing: How to Attract Fans (Not Just Buyers)

Neil Patel

Tired of customers buying once and moving on, forcing you to rely on costly customer acquisition campaigns? Here’s what’s happening: you’re treating customers like one-time transactions rather than valuable relationships. The solution? Relationship marketing. I’ll show you how to use relationship marketing to create long-lasting customer relationships, attract loyal fans, and sustainably grow your business.

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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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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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Inbox Nostalgia: What Marketing Emails Looked Like in 2005 vs Today

Vertical Response

Want to know how marketing emails have changed from 2005 to now? This article on inbox nostalgia what marketing emails looked like in 2005 vs today reveals the evolution from basic text-heavy formats to today’s personalized, visually rich messages. Dive into how design, content, technology, and user engagement have transformed. We will also discuss the evolution of inboxes and marketing emails from 2005 to today.

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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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Opt-In Email List: What It Is, Why You Need One, and How to Build It

AWeber

You've worked hard to create a product or service people love. But how do you make sure your audience actually hears from youwithout ending up in the spam folder or annoying potential customers? The answer lies in building a strong opt-in email list. If you're wondering what an opt-in email list is, how it benefits your business, or how to create one that's both effective and permission-based, you're in the right place.

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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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Brand Strategy 101: How to Create Impactful Branding

Neil Patel

Part of building an impactful brand is ensuring it’s instantly recognizable amongst your target audience. This is where brand strategy comes in. With a solid brand strategy, your company is able to create a consistent presence that becomes a household name. But you need to understand what goes into a brand strategy, how to develop one, and what a good brand strategy looks like.

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The Most Up-To-Date Social Media Data From Buffer

Buffer Marketing

At Buffer, we don’t just write about social media — we study it. This living resource curates every original data report we've published, from platform-specific trends to posting strategies that actually work. Whether you're a creator, marketer, or small business owner, these insights can help you make smarter content decisions backed by real numbers.

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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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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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Post Performance Report: Bold brands delivering social ROI

Sprout Social

We’re back with another installment of the Post Performance Report (PPR)—a series where we compile and analyze social media posts and campaigns inspiring us, and break down what makes them so genius. We don’t just examine the flawless creative execution of every post or campaign, but the business impact, too. This time, we’re rounding up some of the boldest brands on social.

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What are the important metrics to watch as organic search traffic evolves?

Martech

In MarTech’s “MarTechBot explains it all” feature, we pose a question about marketing to our very own MarTechBot , which is trained on the MarTech website archives and has access to the broader internet. Q: What are the important metrics to watch as organic search traffic evolves? As organic search traffic evolves and begins to give way to large language models (LLMs) and AI-driven search experiences, marketers will need to adapt their metrics to effectively measure performance and impact.

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How one co-founder runs a zero-employee marketing agency with AI tools

Hubspot Marketing

Running a marketing agency used to mean juggling a small army of freelancers, risking missed deadlines, and spending more time managing people than creating content and building strategies. Thats how Barbara Jovanovic of Startup Cookie used to operate. Shes now built a streamlined operation that generates six figures annually with a tech stack that costs less than one grand a year.

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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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Brand Loyalty: A Practical Guide for Long-Term Growth

Neil Patel

Why do some customers keep buying from the same brands despite having plenty of alternative options? It’s not about offering the lowest price or running the flashiest marketing campaigns. Brand loyalty results from creating an emotional connection, offering consistently positive experiences, and establishing a sense of trust and community. I’ve seen countless businesses transform their growth by attracting loyal buyers instead of constantly chasing new shoppers.

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17 Flagship Frameworks From 10 Years of Animalz Content

Animalz blog

Animalz just turned 10. In that time, we’ve built content strategies for hundreds of B2B SaaS companies at every stage — from pre-seed startups to public companies. Our content has helped companies 5x their organic traffic , generate millions in pipeline , and taken companies from zero organic traffic to industry leadership. And in that experience, we’ve developed frameworks that actually work.

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Best Practices to Optimize Your Landing Pages for Lead Generation

Aspiration Marketing

Are your marketing efforts attracting clicks and views, yet the flow of qualified leads feels more like a trickle than a steady stream? You're likely not alone. The journey from initial interest to becoming a valuable lead often hinges on a single, critical touchpoint: the landing page. Landing page optimization is the linchpin that transforms website traffic into tangible business opportunities, directly impacting your lead generation success.

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How to Improve Lead Scoring: 6 Lead Scoring Best Practices

verse.ai

Why High-Scoring Leads Still Get Lost (and How to Stop It) Lead scoring is one of the smartest ways for sales and marketing teams to prioritize the right leads and focus their efforts. However, in practice, there is often a gap between marketing and sales teams that widens after lead scoring is implemented. Scoring leads alone isnt enough to drive revenuewhat happens after lead scoring matters even more.

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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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The high cost of undervaluing experienced marketing leadership

Martech

There’s a troubling trend in boardrooms worldwide. As companies move from startup mode and scale into growth-stage execution, many are choosing to underinvest in marketing leadership, mistaking it as a cost center rather than the strategic engine behind revenue generation and go-to-market (GTM) execution. Instead of hiring experienced VPs or CMOs, founders and investors hire cheaper, less seasoned marketers.

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The unconventional, scrappy tactics I used to grow a newsletter to 40K subscribers

Hubspot Marketing

You know that moment when you stumble on a brilliant growth tactic hidden in a Reddit thread or buried deep in a comment section? That's the kind of stuff I live for. I'm Tom Orbach, a growth marketer and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree who created a viral post generator that attracted 2 million users. Scrappy, under-the-radar tactics have been the backbone of Marketing Ideas , my weekly newsletter for startup marketers.

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17 Key Updates from Google I/O & Marketing Live 2025

Neil Patel

Google I/O is the search giant’s annual developer conference, where the company announces new products and tech updates. I’ve been doing this for a long time and many of the Google I/O announcements this year will shake up online marketing in ways I’ve never seen before. Search is fundamentally changing. I’d go through all of these announcements if you don’t want to be left behind.

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7 Best Practices for Omnichannel Marketing

Power Digital Marketing

Customers expect seamless, personalized experiences across multiple touchpoints. Omnichannel marketing is no longer optionalits essential for brands looking to enhance engagement, boost conversions, and build lasting customer loyalty. By integrating online and offline channels into a cohesive strategy, businesses can create a frictionless journey that meets customers wherever they are.

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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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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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A marketer's guide: How to write (much) better AI prompts

Welcome Software

So, AI's here to help us marketers. or is it here to take over? The truth is, it's less about what you know or who you know these days—instead, we're talking more about how you ask. To get the good stuff from your AI assistants, you can't just shout orders; you need to learn to prompt. Why marketers need prompting skills When it comes to modern day marketing, it really is go AI or go home.

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Gen Z is forcing a rebuild of the martech stack in higher ed and beyond

Martech

Building a martech stack requires careful consideration alignment with business goals, key features, integration, and compliance. But in higher education, those traditional criteria are no longer enough. Todays biggest driver isnt functionality its audience expectations. And for colleges and universities, that means adapting to Gen Z. Gen Z isnt just influencing how institutions market to prospective students.

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