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10 Excellent Examples of Video Marketing on Facebook

Hubspot Marketing

For my companys video marketing campaigns, Facebook is a natural choice. As the second-most widely used social media , the company inspires confidence and excels in audience targeting, reach, and cost efficiency. However, it does take some strategy to make sure your videos land. A quality video marketing campaign on Facebook can strengthen your brand and increase your customer base.

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Influencer Marketing: The New Face of Social Media

Marketing Insider Group

Over the past several years, social media completely changed how people interact with brands. Advertisements that once dominated feeds now compete with user-generated content, personal recommendations, and influencer endorsements. Influencer marketing closes the gap between businesses and consumers by using authentic voices to promote products and services.

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Does your team struggle to evaluate creative ideas? You’re not alone

Martech

Only one-third of marketers and one-quarter of agencies feel proud of their creative work, according to a recent study, and many of them feel its quality is not improving. BetterBriefs and research agency Flood + Partners conducted the study, BetterIdeas Global Report, in partnership with the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA).

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What is Review Syndication? (+ Smarter Alternatives for Businesses)

SocialPilot

We all look for customer reviews when we have to make a big purchase such as a mobile phone or even a skin care product. In fact, close to 75% of consumers read online reviews of a business to find more about them. Thats where review syndication comes in. Review syndication is the process of distributing customer reviews across multiple platforms, ensuring they appear on retailer websites, brand websites, and other relevant channels.

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Aligning Sales & Marketing to Drive Demand & Build Pipeline

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Marketing and sales might be two halves of the same coin, but how often do they feel like they’re tossed in completely different directions? It’s time to bridge the gap, align your teams, and start building a pipeline instead of frustration. Join us for this insightful webinar to transform your siloed teams into a powerhouse partnership. What you’ll learn: A clear understanding of why sales and marketing alignment is crucial for business growth.

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Easy breakdown of marketing strategy and planning

The Marketing Operations Leader

In this edition: Easy Breakdown of Marketing Strategy and Planning The Better Way to Get Mentors and a Board of Advisors POLL: The Marketing AI Use Case With The Most Potential Exclusive For Paid Subscribers : How I Got a Multi-Million Dollar Martech/Ops Ask Approved (And How You Can Too) Learn from Marketing Ops Leaders from GE, Rockwell Automation, Jasper and more at our in-person Marketing Ops Panel in Phoenix, AZ on April 2nd.

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Website Personalization: Strategies to Boost Engagement & Conversions

Aspiration Marketing

There's just so much clutter on the internet nowadays, that its hard to know how to grab people's attention. For that, you need website personalization: a unique strategic approach that customizes your website content according to what the users want and need. Speak to them through the art of personalization. Once they notice that you care about their interests, they want to invest more attention, time, and money in your brand.

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How to optimize your video content strategy with Instagram Trial Reels

Sprout Social

Attracting new audiences on social is a balancing act between posting content you know will resonate while taking a few risks with new content styles. Your fans may not care about a new aesthetic for your videos, but it might be the hook that draws in new customers. Trying something new can feel uncertain, especially when it comes to video. Video content is key to your Instagram marketing strategy in particular, and requires a certain level of creativity to standout.

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I Posted to LinkedIn Consistently for 30 Days - Here's What I Learned

Buffer Marketing

In January 2025, we held our fourth (!) edition of Creator Camp — a free 30-day challenge to help participants build consistent social media habits. I led and participated, sharing resources and prompts. Each participant selected a platform, format, and posting cadence. Me? I went for videos on LinkedIn five to seven days per week. By the time the Camp was over, I had published 25 posts in 31 days.

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How to Build a Successful Sales Enablement Strategy From Scratch

Aspiration Marketing

Research shows that effective sales enablement strategies can generate a staggering 49% win rate on forecasted deals. But what exactly is "sales enablement?" It's about equipping your sales team with the resources they need to succeedfrom content and training to the right tools and processes. Whether you're a startup or an enterprise, a solid sales enablement strategy can be a game-changer, driving revenue, boosting efficiency, and creating a winning sales culture.

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41% of brands using AI for video, up from 18% last year

Martech

A new report found that 41% of brands now use AI for video creation, up from 18% in 2024. Wistias 2025 State of Video Report data comes from over 14 million videos and surveys of 1,300 professionals. It also addressed video engagement and budget trends. The report attributes the surge in the use of AI for video to the increasing accessibility of AI tools, empowering marketers to streamline production and enhance video quality.

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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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How to Use Claude to Create a Virtual Assistant (in Under 10 Minutes)

Hubspot Marketing

Who wouldnt want their own personal executive assistant? Sounds pretty awesome, right? Well, with the AI tool Claude, anyone can set up a virtual executive assistant in just ten minutes. In this article, Ill share how you can use Claudes incredible new Projects feature to create an executive assistant. That virtual EA can help you analyze meeting transcripts, manage action items, draft follow-up messages, and more.

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The creator economy: Making dollars and sense out of social partnerships

Sprout Social

Remember a few years ago when op-eds used to claim influencer marketing was a fad? Fortunately for influencers, creators and brands, that turned out to be completely wrong. Consumers proved with their loyalty, engagement and purchasing power that influencer marketing is here for the long-haul. Today, the creator economy is worth $250 billion (yes, thats billion with a b).

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Business Development vs. Sales: Understanding the Key Differences

Aspiration Marketing

Business Development vs. Sales: Many startups know they need to grow, and they often think sales alone will get them there. But many miss a critical component: strategic business development. Therefore, while Sales is crucial, it's the synchronization with a well-defined business development strategy that fuels explosive growth. Let's explore the key differences that separate the two and how they can work together for sustainable success.

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The secret to smarter, faster marketing decisions with AI

Martech

The four-person marketing team at Tomorrow.io routinely outperforms competitors with teams ten times their size. They don’t possess superhuman abilities and they don’t work 24/7. They put AI at the center of their decision-making, asking themselves how AI can improve their processes and transform how they make decisions. Faster, more complete decision-making Since the days of the assembly line, businesses have relied on command-and-control decision structures, funneling decisions upw

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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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Why Everyone Is a Social Media Entrepreneur Right Now — Trends You Need to Know

Hubspot Marketing

In TikToks early days of mostly dance challenges and lip-syncing exchanges, Shola West , a Gen Z career advocate, speaker and educator, spotted a gap. I decided I wanted to come on the platform to share tips and tricks from my career working in the media industry, she says. Now affectionately known as the Big Sis to Young Creatives with accolades including Forbes 30 Under 30 West is building a digital brand around providing career advice to rising professionals.

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How to Use Disruptive Storytelling to Thrive as a Marketer

Social Media Examiner

Are your tried and true marketing tactics losing their impact? Wondering how to adapt and stay relevant with consumers? In this article, youll discover why disruptive storytelling is the key to thriving in todays marketing environment and learn practical strategies for building deeper customer relationships and making content stand out. Why Story is Critical in […] The post How to Use Disruptive Storytelling to Thrive as a Marketer appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Buyer Personas vs. Ideal Customer Profiles: What's the Difference?

Aspiration Marketing

Have you ever crafted the perfect marketing campaign only to be met with silence? The problem might not be your message but who you're sending it to. Understanding your target audience is crucial for effective marketing. This blog post will differentiate buyer personas and ideal customer profilestwo powerful tools that can help you pinpoint your ideal customer and amplify your marketing success.

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As retail evolves, so too do physical stores and retail tech

Martech

The retail sector continues to evolve to become more digital, social and connected, a new report from Salesforce found. The sixth edition of Salesforce’s “Connected Shoppers” report found agentic AI to be one of the significant drivers of retail’s continued evolution, with 75% of retailers saying AI agents will become essential by 2026.

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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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The Growth Gap: Are CMOs falling short despite stronger CEO relationships?

SmartBrief - Marketing

Marketing leaders face a critical paradox in 2025 that threatens their strategic influence and organizational standing. Boathouse Groups fourth annual CEO Study on Marketing and the CMO surveying 150 CEOs across diverse industries reveals a troubling disconnect: While chief marketing officers have successfully built stronger relationships with their CEOs and demonstrated increased understanding of business objectives, their perceived ability to drive tangible financial outcomes continues to

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Best times to post on social media in the UK (2025)

Sprout Social

Is your brand struggling to get the traction you expected from your social media strategy? Do you wonder when is the best time to post on social media in the UK? We have the answer. Understanding the optimal moments to engage your audience is key, and for the first time, we have UK-specific data to guide you. Whether you’re aiming to boost engagement, drive conversions or grow your following, using the right posting times can significantly improve your social media performance.

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Top 5 Online Reputation Tools (Tried & Tested)

Backlinko

What people say about your brand online shapes your reputation. This could be reviews, social mentions, or business listings. Keeping up with all of them takes A LOT of time and effort. Online reputation management (ORM) tools help you monitor brand mentions, manage reviews, and keep business details consistent across directories. But each tool has its specialties.

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The biggest email newsletter mistake B2B companies keep making

Martech

I am often surprised by how many C-level, SVP, VP and even director-level executives delegate the content and other aspects of their email newsletter to junior marketing team members. When was the last time you read your organizations email newsletter from the perspective of your email subscribers? When was the last time you asked your email subscribers for their thoughts on your organizations email newsletter either in a focus group, via one-on-one interviews (these are the best options) or in

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Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices

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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.

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Using data-driven marketing to navigate an economic downturn

SmartBrief - Marketing

Brands are learning they need to pivot quickly and decisively to changing consumer sentiments, especially today as economic uncertainty continues in the US and globally. R ecent consumer sentiment data underscores the need for agile, data-driven marketing strategies. For instance, the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index dropped to 98.3 in February 2025 a 7-point decline that marks the largest monthly drop since August 2021.

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Influencer marketing statistics for Australia 2025

Sprout Social

Influencer marketing will be pivotal in most brands’ marketing tactics in 2025. Recent research reveals a remarkable increase in Australian influencers, prompting digital marketers and brands to pour significant resources into this approach. This strategy reaps rewards with higher conversions, engagement rates and connectivity, while raising brand awareness and allowing tailored strategies to forge stronger consumer connections.

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Morning Brew's Co-Founder on The Three Channels That Will Win 2025 (Plus, How to Craft a Voice That Stands Out)

Hubspot Marketing

All I have to show from my college days is a questionably long Facebook album titled For the Nights I'll Never Remember, and the People I'll Never Forget. Meanwhile, when Alex Lieberman was in college, he launched a newsletter now valued at $75M. It's okay We all have our strengths. Meet the Master Alex Lieberman Co-founder and executive chairman, Morning Brew; co-founder of Storyarb Claim to fame : Launching a newsletter now worth $75M from his college dorm room Lesson 1: When launching a biz,

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How the event-first approach to marketing can maximize research ROI

Martech

Imagine you’re sitting in a lunchtime webinar that promised “actionable” insights. Those insights are so “actionable” that you’re having trouble keeping your eyes open. Why? The topic isn’t all that fresh, or worse, it’s a disguised sales pitch. Now, imagine the panelists are talking with you instead of at you.

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Unlocking the Power of Martech for the Non-Technical Marketing Leader

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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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What Are Pageviews? (How to Track and Improve Them)

Backlinko

Pageviews are a web analytics metric that counts each time a visitor loads or reloads a page on your website. Each instance of a user viewing a page is one pageview, regardless of whether the same user views the same page multiple times. Tracking pageviews helps you measure traffic volume and understand which content attracts the most attention. But: Pageviews are not the most important metric you should track.

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11 Agorapulse alternatives to check out in 2025

Sprout Social

Social media is a powerhouse for brand awareness, customer engagement and revenue generationbut only if you can make sense of the data. With performance metrics scattered across platforms, the right social media management tool is essential for streamlining workflows, consolidating insights and proving ROI. Agorapulse is one of many platforms designed to help marketers centralize their social media efforts, but youll want to do research on the best tool for your team.

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11+ Real-World AI Agent Examples

Hubspot Marketing

AI agents are like the backstage crew at the concerts we attend: Operating independently on the backend to deliver a smooth experience on the user end. They power many of the tech we use and have for a while but havent gotten that visibility until recently. In this article, well break down real-world examples of how AI agents are used across industries.

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AI and email marketing: All hype or real game-changer?

Martech

Is AI truly revolutionizing email marketing, or is it just another overhyped technology? If youve been wondering how AI can (or should) fit into your email marketing strategy, youre not alone. Marketers everywhere are evaluating whether AI-powered tools can genuinely improve their campaigns, streamline their workflows and drive better results or if theyre just expensive add-ons with little impact.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.