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50 Best Email Subject Lines to Increase Open Rates and Drive Engagement

Vertical Response

Want better open rates for your emails? Check out these 50 top-performing email subject lines. Youll learn what makes them effective and get tips on crafting your own compelling subject lines. Key Takeaways Email subject lines significantly influence open rates, with 47% of recipients deciding to open based on the subject alone. Effective subject lines are short, specific, and provide clear value or urgency, often incorporating personalization to increase engagement.

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Strategies for Improving Employer Branding in 2025

Aspiration Marketing

What are the most important factors in attracting top candidates? Besides attractive paychecks, the best talents consider corporate culture, stability, healthy work-life balance, flexibility, and opportunities for personal development. In this regard, an employer's reputation plays a crucial role in how best talent perceives the company, which explains why you should consider building a solid employer brand in 2025.

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What is DeepSeek? A boon for marketers and a threat to Big Tech

Martech

DeepSeek, a powerful new open-source AI from China, may have put a pin to the AI valuation bubble. While that’s bad news for investors, it’s good news for marketers. What it is. DeepSeek is said to work as well as OpenAI’s o1 while costing 95% less. It was built without the state-of-the-art NVIDIA chips used by OpenAI, Google and most other big GenAI companies.

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Creating an Event Marketing Calendar: Essentials to Include

Marketing Insider Group

Marketing your event effectively requires careful planning, coordination, and a clear strategy. A well-organized calendar is a cornerstone of a successful event marketing plan. It ensures you stay on top of deadlines, maintain consistency in your promotional efforts, and effectively engage your target audience. Lets break down the key elements to include in an event marketing calendar to set your campaign up for success. 1.

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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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6 pop-up ad targeting techniques to boost results (Part 1)

SmartBrief - Marketing

Pop-up ads, when used effectively, are an excellent way to get more people to take action on your site. By delivering the right message at the right time, you can capture your audience’s attention and guide them toward the next step. The “next step” for businesses will vary based on their industry and long-term goals. But generally speaking, goals include convincing someone to sign up for a newsletter, grab a lead magnet or finalize a purchase.

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The CRO Checklist: Essential Elements for High-Converting Websites

Aspiration Marketing

Is your website a high-performance machine or a digital ghost town? To thrive online, your website needs to do more than just existit needs to actively attract and convert visitors. That's where Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) comes in. CRO is the art and science of improving your website to increase the percentage of visitors who take desired actions, whether it's making a purchase, signing up for a newsletter, or requesting a quote.

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7 AI in social media examples to inspire your strategy

Sprout Social

Artificial intelligence (AI) is supercharging social media marketing. Think of AI social media tools like Sprout Social as your marketing pit crew. They can fine-tune your social media engine, swap out tired tactics and keep you running at peak performancethey just cant drive the car. The AI in social media examples were sharing in this article come from brands with a skilled driver and a solid race strategy to help them win.

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Your 90 Day MOPs and RevOps Plan - Template Included

The Marketing Operations Leader

In this edition: Your 90 Day MOPs and RevOps Plan - Template Included Major Takeaways from Marketing Ops Interview Bootcamp Poll: What’s the Biggest Challenge Teams Face in Campaign Operations Exclusive For Paid Subscribers: How to Manage a Marketing or Ops Team That Has More Experience Than You WEBINAR: Attend to learn how to overcome the core struggles in email operations Future-proof your email marketing operations in 2025 - live session tomorrow Email marketing teams face increasing ch

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Why HubSpot is the Ideal Platform for Your ABM Strategy

Aspiration Marketing

Tired of casting a wide net and hoping for the best? Account-based marketing (ABM) offers a refreshing alternative, allowing you to focus your efforts on high-value accounts with laser precision. It's a proven strategy, with 87% of marketers who measure ROI reporting that ABM outperforms all other marketing investments. And with HubSpot, implementing a winning ABM strategy is easier than ever.

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The Advantages of Outsourcing PPC Campaigns to Agencies

Marketing Insider Group

Managing pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns effectively demands expertise, time, and precision. Many businesses choose to outsource PPC management to marketing agencies for a strategic edge (and much more). Outsourcing can help drive meaningful results while allowing internal teams to focus on their strengths. Quick Takeaways PPC outsourcing offers access to specialized knowledge without hiring in-house experts.

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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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How to adopt AI for content marketing

Sprout Social

AI in content marketing is transforming how marketers like you have traditionally worked. Its helping you become more strategic in planning your campaigns and more efficient. You’re able to build engaging brand stories, personalize messaging at scale, analyze content performance and map audience preferences quickly and accurately. A Sprout Social Pulse Survey from Q2 2023 reveals that 71% of social marketers have already integrated AI and automation tools into their workflows and 82% of th

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How the Salesforce Lead Object broke B2B marketing (and how to fix it)

Martech

B2B marketing and sales have long been at odds. Sales teams frequently criticize the quality of leads they receive, while marketers question sales ability to follow up effectively. At the heart of this frustration is a structural problem rooted in CRM systems. I personally think Salesforce, the most widely used CRM in B2B, is to blame for this disconnect.

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Beyond the Logo: How to Define Your Brand Identity

Aspiration Marketing

Many businesses mistakenly believe a logo is all they need to establish their brand, but a truly impactful brand identity goes far beyond a simple visual. It's a complex tapestry of values, personality, and story that resonates with your audience. In this blog, we'll dive into the core elements of brand identity and provide a step-by-step approach to help you define yours, ensuring your business stands out in a crowded marketplace.

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Grammys 2025 predictions, according to social media

Hootsuite

Popularity matters whether youre running for class president, looking to nab your first Oscar, or trying to win big at the Grammys. The more attention you can earn, the greater your chance of success. With the 2025 Awards Season in full swing, much of the spotlight is on the upcoming 67th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 2nd. Last year, when Taylor Swift made history by winning her fourth Album of the Year award, social media erupted with opinions was the win deserved?

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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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Consistent Posting Means 5x More Likes, Comments, and Shares: Study

Buffer Marketing

There's a lot you can do to boost your chances of success on social media — optimize your content for engagement, find your perfect posting times, master the art of thumb-stopping hooks. But even these smart tactics don't guarantee success. Few things do when it comes to navigating social media algorithms and ever-changing audience behavior.

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Embracing a little chaos produces a lot of marketing creativity

Martech

I left other people alone. Some days, the ability to make this claim can be a managers highest achievement. The task has always been challenging, as Im naturally inclined to jump in and organize. However, Ive learned to appreciate the advantages of letting a little chaos reign. Chaos, in this context, refers to a situations inherent unpredictability.

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How Much Does a Super Bowl Ad Cost [& Does It Get ROI]? A Data-Backed Deep Dive

Hubspot Marketing

Whether youre a diehard Super Bowl fan or, like me, prefer watching superb owls, you gotta admit: Super Bowl commercials are pretty great. Theyre also pretty expensive. And still, Fox, which holds the rights to Super Bowl LIX, easily sold all the ad spots for the big game on February 9, 2025. Lets take a look at what goes into the most expensive TV ads in the world, how much theyve cost throughout the history of the big game, and what brands are really getting out of them.

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The Power of Branded Graphics in Social Media Paid Ads

Marketing Insider Group

Visuals are an incredibly valuable tool as you attempt to get attention on social media. A well-designed image or graphic can stop readers from scrolling and spark curiosity. But there’s a ton of competition, so not just any graphic that will do the trick. You have to figure out how to stand out. Branded graphics go beyond aesthetics; they tell your story, build trust, and leave a lasting impression on your audience.

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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.

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How to master social media for retail in the UK

Sprout Social

In todays ever-changing retail landscape, brands are divided into two groups. Those who see social media marketing as a key part of their customer engagement strategy and those who view it as a nice to have. The significance of social media in the retail sphere has only amplified. The latest data indicates a notable surge in its use. In a 2022 report, it was found that 78% of consumers in the UK have upped their social media engagement over the past year.

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What’s the difference between agentic AI and generative AI?

Martech

In MarTechs 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: Whats the difference between agentic AI and generative AI? Agentic AI represents a significant evolution in the realm of artificial intelligence, particularly in its application within marketing and other business functions.

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Jaguar's Rebrand: Bold Move or Costly Mistake?

Hubspot Marketing

Welcome to Creator Columns , where we bring expert HubSpot Creator voices to the Blogs that inspire and help you grow better. Jaguars recent rebrand has people talking, but not in the way most marketers hope for. Gone are the classic cues of British elegance. In their place is minimalism and modernist exuberance. Their rebrand campaigns involve cryptic videos, high-fashion models, and a new mantra: Copy nothing.

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How to Create a Social Media Report: 6-Step Guide

SocialPilot

Let’s be realsocial media isnt just about posting pretty pictures or witty captions anymore. It’s about proving the impact of your social media efforts. How did that last Cyber Monday or Christmas campaign perform? How many users did that campaign drive to your Shopify website, and what was its ROI? Keeping an eye on all these vanity metrics, especially when you’re in the middle of another campaign and preparing for Christmas, can be hard.

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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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Five positives coming out of the DeepSeek apocalypse

Businesses Grow

My RISE marketing community is always a few steps ahead of the curve. A month ago, I posted a comment questioning why nobody was paying attention to the startup DeepSeek platform coming out of China. Well, the world finally caught up, and we woke up Monday morning to a whole new AI world. Some pundits claimed the AI world was upended overnight. One week ago, I read a Goldman Sachs analysis of five possible threats to Nvidia — a Chinese upstart was not one of them!

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Mobile marketing with RCS: What you need to know

Martech

By adding support for RCS (rich communication services) to iPhones with its iOS 18 update in the fall of 2024, Apple gave U.S. marketers a larger audience to engage with new tools over messaging. SMS mobile campaigns are an effective way of reaching customers if they trust you enough to give you their mobile numbers. Texts are a popular way for customers to receive receipts, shipping updates, appointment confirmations and, increasingly, deals.

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How to analyze Instagram Reels analytics to grow

Sprout Social

Growing with Instagram Reels takes more than trend-hopping and editing chops. What differentiates successful creators from others is how they use their analytics. These numbers show you exactly what works with your audience and what doesnt so you can consistently post high-quality videos that truly resonate with them. In this post, well show you how to track your Instagram Reels analytics.

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Your 2025 Social Media Checklist: Start the Year Strong

Buffer Marketing

It’s January, and you’re fired up—new year, new strategy, new wins. Or maybe it’s March, and you’re side-eyeing your social media, wondering if you missed the reset window. Spoiler: You didn’t. Whether it’s the first week of January or the last day of October, the best time to get your social media on track is right now.

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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.

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How to Create a B2B Social Media Strategy [Examples and Tools]

SocialPilot

Social media for B2Bsounds tricky, doesnt it? After all, its not about trending dances or viral memes (although we wont judge if you try). Its about building meaningful relationships with your target audience, establishing authority, and fueling growth. But heres the catch: Creating a winning B2B social media strategy isnt just about posting your industry updates and calling it a day.

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Data literacy for marketers: What you need to know

Martech

Humans are collecting more data than ever. Some figures show that 90% of all the data ever collected was collected in the last two years and its constantly increasing. There has never been a time when data literacy was more important. Still, a Forrester study commissioned by Tableau concluded that data literacy has not kept pace with the tremendous expansion of data collection.

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11 marketing leaders who put social media first

Sprout Social

According to The 2025 Sprout Social Index , around three-quarters of marketing leaders say organic and paid social media marketing are top priorities for their organization. But many practitioners are skeptical, as they struggle to secure the headcount and resources they need. To be a marketing leader who fully understands socials potential, you need trusted inspiration and guidance.

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How Our Events Team Saved Thousands using AI for INBOUND '24

Hubspot Marketing

When HubSpots Global Events Team had its first kickoff planning session for INBOUND 2024, they werent sure about the creative direction theyd take. One thing was clear though: Given how huge AI has become in the last few years, they knew theyd incorporate it somehow. I connected with the team to learn more about the important role AI played in pre-production from creating eye-catching visuals with Midjourney to targeted agendas with Claude.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.