Aspiration Marketing
JULY 23, 2025
Are your inbound marketing efforts truly translating into tangible business growth, or are they plateauing after initial engagement? The inbound marketing funnel, when executed comprehensively, is about more than just attracting and engaging potential customers. By strategically integrating content, SEO, social media, and digital channels, you can cultivate prospects into loyal advocates.
Buffer Marketing
JULY 23, 2025
Instagram isn’t just a photo-sharing app anymore. In 2025, it’s a digital town square — part search engine, part shopping mall, part entertainment hub, all rolled into one ✨aesthetic✨ platform. It’s where creators build brands, where brands tap into culture, and where billions of users scroll every day.
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Aspiration Marketing
JULY 16, 2025
To create marketing that truly converts and builds lasting relationships, you need more than just raw data–you need genuine understanding. Buyer personas provide this crucial layer of insight, transforming raw information about your target audience into actionable knowledge about their needs, pain points, and aspirations. These detailed profiles become the foundational element for all your communication efforts, ensuring your messages are relevant, timely, and impactful.
Hubspot Marketing
JULY 21, 2025
I’m not saying I exploited my position as managing editor to meet one of my favorite YouTubers… … but I will say that I’m unreasonably excited to share today’s interview. And, my selfishness aside, this former Disney marketer has a lot to learn from. Today’s master turned his covid furlough hobby into a highly successful YouTube channel with nearly 4 million subscribers and a cookbook on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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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.
Buffer Marketing
JULY 16, 2025
If you’ve spent any time on social media lately, it’s easy to believe that video is the be-all and end-all. Instagram Reels, TikToks, LinkedIn’s new video feed: it’s everywhere, and it feels like every platform is building for it. If you’re looking to build an audience, “more video” is often touted as the answer.
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The Drum
JULY 21, 2025
From unhinged content and creator chaos to community-powered growth, big shifts are happening in social and marketers can’t afford to scroll past them. This cheat sheet breaks down 10 of them. Social media never sleeps. While you were scheduling your next brand post, entire trends popped off, platforms rebranded and Gen Z decided the algorithm was a vibe or a villain depending on the day.
Set Up
JULY 16, 2025
Creating a marketing budget isn’t just a financial exercise; it’s a strategic act. It’s your roadmap for growth, your guardrail against wasted effort, and, when done well, your strongest case for internal alignment and external results. But while most marketers know how much they wish they could spend, far fewer know how much they should. So, where do you begin?
Martech
JULY 16, 2025
In January 2020, Scott Brinker introduced five martech archetypes: maestros, makers, modellers, marketers and managers. His framework maps roles based on their internal or external focus and whether they lean more toward process or technical execution. Managers, meanwhile, lead teams that span across these categories. This model helps organizations understand the diverse skills and responsibilities needed for modern martech teams.
The Drum
JULY 22, 2025
The question nowadays isn’t ‘should we use creators?’ It’s ‘how do we build marketing strategy around them?’ Dana Thomas at Initiative (part of IPG Mediabrands) explains why the key to getting the most from creator partnerships is to give them a seat at the strategy table. The creator economy has arrived. Forecasts suggest it could reach $480bn by 2027.
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.
Aspiration Marketing
JULY 17, 2025
A well-crafted email has the power to cut through the constant digital chatter and forge meaningful connections with your audience, ultimately driving valuable conversions. But, the question is: how do you consistently create emails that not only land in inboxes but also compel recipients to open and take action? To guide you through this process, we've compiled a comprehensive email marketing checklist outlining the essential elements for achieving higher engagement and conversions.
Sachs Marketing Group
JULY 21, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t just a buzzword anymore – it’s reshaping the internet as we know it. The influence of artificial intelligence is being felt in nearly every aspect of how we create, share, and consume content on social media. Brands, creators, and marketers are working faster than ever thanks to AI tools. Still, that speed comes with new challenges: oversaturated feeds, blurred lines between real and artificial, and shifting audience expectations.
Vertical Response
JULY 21, 2025
Wondering how SEO engine optimization can help your website rank higher on search engines like Google? SEO involves improving various elements of your site to attract more visitors and boost conversions. This guide will walk you through technical, on-page, and off-page optimization strategies, plus tips on maintaining long-term results. Key Takeaways SEO is a continuous process aimed at improving website visibility through technical, on-page, and off-page optimization to attract potential custom
Martech
JULY 22, 2025
Content consumption has fundamentally changed. Attention is fragmented, habits are dynamic and expectations are higher than ever. Every swipe, skip and scroll proves the buyer, not the brand, now controls the journey. In this buyer-first world, relevance is the differentiator. Leading marketers orchestrate value across channels buyers choose — when and where it matters.
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.
The Drum
JULY 17, 2025
Marketing leaders from Microsoft Advertising, Skoda, Unilever, Samsung, Philips and more gathered to confront the AI shift head-on. Are CMOs truly ready to lead in a machine-shaped world? This is what they said – unfiltered, relevant and urgent. “We’re not just adapting to technology: we’re adapting to a completely new marketing paradigm,” says Globant Gut's managing director, Marwa Khalife.
Aspiration Marketing
JULY 21, 2025
The Evolving Landscape of Viral Content Remember when going "viral" felt like winning the lottery—a random stroke of luck reserved for a select few? That perception is rapidly changing. With the explosion of short-form video platforms like TikTok , Instagram Reels , and YouTube Shorts , virality is no longer just about chance; it's increasingly about strategy, data, and deliberate execution.
SMA Marketing
JULY 17, 2025
AI Summary: This post covers the basics of competitive SEO research and compares three tools—Ahrefs, SEMrush, and SE Ranking. It explains the difference between business and search competitors, then walks through how each platform analyzes keyword performance, traffic trends, and content visibility. The focus is on identifying gaps, understanding competitor strategies, and adapting to changes in AI-driven search results.
SocialPilot
JULY 17, 2025
Social proof is a powerful psychological phenomenon that states people rely on the actions and opinions of others when making decisions. Coined by American author and psychologist Robert Cialdini, social proof plays a crucial role in shaping consumer behavior. For online businesses with no in-person salespeople or physical product demonstrations, putting social proof on websites is one of the most effective ways to convert leads.
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.
Martech
JULY 23, 2025
Imagine a company investing heavily in faster ambulances while ignoring the pothole-riddled road that keeps causing accidents. It sounds weird, but, according to a new survey, this is happening in marketing AI investments across the private sector. Executives pour money into downstream solutions like personalization engines and content generators while the real marketing processes bottlenecks continue to slow everything down.
The Drum
JULY 18, 2025
From tech to tariffs, 2025 has presented no shortage of challenges – and opportunities – for global marketing leaders. At the WFA CMO Forum in Cannes, we caught up with nine senior marketers to find out the most important lessons they’ve learned so far this year – and how those insights are influencing their planning for the months ahead. If 2024 was a year of recalibration, 2025 is the year of confronting complexity.
Hootsuite
JULY 18, 2025
Editor’s note: We sat down with Jeremy Jones, Global Head of Creative, to tap into his expert insights on turning content into business outcomes. This conversation is part of an exciting new series on our blog, so stay tuned for more thought leadership from top executives… “We get you and we got you.” Jeremy Jones , Global Head of Creative at Wink, Mailchimp’s in-house agency, has a knack for boiling down complex social strategy to its true essence: connect with your potential customers.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 23, 2025
Marketing That Connects and Converts written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Listen to the full episode: Overview In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, John Jantsch interviews Talia Wolf, internationally recognized conversion optimization expert, keynote speaker, and founder of GetUplift. Talia shares insights from her new book, “Emotional Targeting: When Hearts Boost Sales, Own the Market,” and explains how brands can dramatically improve conversions by understand
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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.
Neil Patel
JULY 19, 2025
Think a website redesign is just about fixing your homepage or refreshing the layout? Think again. Too often, these projects focus on changing the look or chasing the latest trends. But if your redesign doesn’t fix what’s actually broken, your site won’t perform any better or win you more business. In this guide, I’ll show you what a website redesign really involves and walk you through my agency’s 11-step process — including mistakes to avoid.
Martech
JULY 21, 2025
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’s the biggest technology and media shift impacting marketers that doesn’t involve AI? The biggest technology or media shift impacting marketers today, aside from AI, is the rise of privacy and data regulations, particularly in the wake of changes like the GDPR in Europe and t
The Drum
JULY 17, 2025
Less than a quarter of CMOs report having enough budget to deliver their strategy. Chris Callaghan at Jaywing says that’s all the more reason to make sure you know what’s working. With marketing budgets under more scrutiny than ever, there’s a growing pressure to make every pound work harder. This relies on being able to measure how impactful marketing plans are, but what does that actually mean in practice?
SocialPilot
JULY 21, 2025
You’re not alone if you’re working on your social media presence, but not seeing much traction. Many businesses, from local shops to global brands, are active on social platforms yet struggle to see a meaningful return on their investment. You’re posting, you’re engaging, but the results just aren’t there. The good news? You don’t need to scrap everything and start over.
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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,
Marketing Insider Group
JULY 22, 2025
You might think blogging is a small task on your marketing checklist. But when done regularly and with purpose, it can drive serious traffic to your website. Consistent blogging for SEO builds authority, trust, and visibility. You set the stage to rank higher, earn more clicks, and attract the right kind of attention from decision-makers. Let’s discuss why consistent blogging matters, what it requires, and how you can make it work without burning out.
Neil Patel
JULY 20, 2025
If you’re not using AI in marketing, you’re already falling behind. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are becoming more and more prominent, and many have functions specifically designed to help marketers better promote their products and services. Throughout this article, we’re going to dive deeper into what AI in marketing looks like, sharing the benefits of taking advantage of AI, how AI can be used in marketing, plus some AI marketing tools to get you started.
Martech
JULY 22, 2025
If you own a marketing budget, you know they’re under constant scrutiny. Business leaders want to see every dollar spent contributing to tangible business growth. Yet, many organizations are guilty of making common allocation mistakes that can stunt growth, waste precious resources and obscure the actual performance of marketing. Let’s examine five critical errors in marketing budget allocation and offer more innovative, strategic ways to spend. 1. ‘Set it and forget it’
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