May, 2025

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6 Marketing Strategies That Will Help Your B2B SaaS Company Stand Out

Marketing Insider Group

B2B SaaS companies need to stay vigilant with their marketing strategies in order to remain competitive in 2025. As of this year, there are over 30,000 SaaS companies globally. This means two things: One, the B2B SaaS space is booming, and two, it is fiercely competitive. Long gone are the days of “build it, and they will come.” Now, more than ever, you need a clever product and a smart marketing strategy to stand outa strategy that will make the difference between stagnation and ste

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The 5 Content Milestones of Growing Businesses (And How the Right Partner Evolves With You)

WordAgents

Running a business is demanding. Between serving clients, managing operations, and planning for growth, content tends to fall to the bottom of your priority list. But content matters. You want your business to show up when someone searches for solutions that you offer. Maybe you start by writing content yourself, squeezing it in between client calls or late at night.

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Eight Keys to a Successful B2B Website Relaunch

Trade Press Services Newsletter

Relaunching an upgraded website is a major milestone for any B2B business. But a successful relaunch requires much more than a fresh design or updated content. Strategic planning and thoughtful execution are crucial to reintroducing your digital presence, reconnecting with your audience, and delivering a stronger brand experience. Whether you’re refining your brand, improving functionality, or overhauling user journeys, the steps you take before, during, and after relaunch will determine h

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Measure the Value of Your Data via Time to Insights and Time to Decisions

Vision Edge Marketing

What business leader wouldnt want to be more profitable and more productivefaster? Hows it totally possible? With data. Harvard Business Research found organizations that extensively use data-driven decision-making are, on average, 6% more profitable and experience 5% more productivity than their peers. Edge Delta found organizations that leverage big data report an average 8% increase in revenues and a 10% reduction in expenses.

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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.

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Future Trends in AI-Based Customer Management: Lessons from Machine Tool Motors

Customer Experience Matrix

As someone who has spent his career tracking new technologies, Ive long been fascinated by how those technologies spread over time. The standard model of technology diffusion , developed by Everett Rogers and based on New Deal studies of how farmers adopted new crops, offers the familiar segmentation of users into innovators, early adapters, early majority, late majority, and laggards.

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Could AI be what finally aligns marketing and sales teams?

Martech

In large B2B companies, marketing and sales teams continue to operate in silos, resulting in wasted resources and missed opportunities. Marketing complains that sales ignores their hard-earned leads. Sales complains that marketing leads are garbage. Neither team trusts the other’s data or priorities. Sound familiar? This disconnect is expensive.

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6 Writing Agencies That Match Your Brand’s Growth Stage (and Scale With You)

WordAgents

Finding good content writing agencies is like finding a partner who understands the needs and goals of your business. While filing a blog calendar or outsourcing articles is important, an agency that can scale with you as you evolve means a lot more. Take a moment to ask yourself: Why do you need a writing agency? Maybe you want to boost your search rankings, engage your audience, or convert visitors into customers.

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8 best brand monitoring software to grow your brand in 2025

Sprout Social

They say all publicity is good publicity. But the reality is that while some brand mentions present valuable opportunities for engagement, others require urgent attention to prevent reputation damage. Without the right tool to comb through your mentions, determining which ones you need to respond to can feel overwhelming. Social media monitoring tools scratch the surface, tracking only social networks.

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Beyond Basic Sync: Advanced HubSpot-Salesforce Integration Strategies

ATAK Interactive

Companies using both HubSpot and Salesforce often settle for basic field mapping that leaves critical gaps in their revenue operations. This approach creates disconnected data, broken workflows, and frustrated teamsultimately costing you time, accuracy, and revenue opportunities. At ATAK Interactive, we build sophisticated integrations that transform how your platforms work together.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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Industrial Website Redesign—Reengineering Your Site Into a Sales-Driven Asset

Industrial Marketing Today

Are you considering an industrial website redesign? This blog will help you better plan for this challenging undertaking. If your industrial website still looks, feels, or functions like a digital brochure, its not just outdatedits underperforming. As you probably already know, the industrial buying journey has changed over the last few years.

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4 Ways Salesforce and WhatsApp Transformed OXXO’s Customer Engagement into Higher Conversions

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

With 21,000 locations spread across Latin America, OXXO is one of the largest convenience store chains in the world. As the company expands internationally into the United States and Europe, it remains committed to keeping customers at the center of its business strategy. With 15 million daily customers, thats no easy feat. But the OXXO team knew that establishing personalized customer connections at scale would be critical to their success.

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Content generation outpaces other applications of AI for marketers

Martech

Click to enlarge. Despite powerful capabilities in other areas, the most popular application of AI for marketers appears to be content generation. The AI+ABM Inflection Point report (registration required) from DemandbaseandForgeXfound two-thirds of the marketers surveyed used AI for copywriting to support their account-based marketing (ABM) efforts.

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5 Highlights from the 2025 High Growth Study, Government Contracting Edition

Hinge Marketing

The 2025 High Growth Study, Government Contracting Edition has arrived, and today we are excited to share a few important findings with you. We launched this annual study of professional services a decade ago, though its roots go back to 2008, when we began researching high-growth firms , publishing our findings and writing books on the habits of the best performing firms and the people who buy their services.

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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How to manage your LinkedIn DMs with Sprout

Sprout Social

According to The 2025 Sprout Social Index , 43% of consumers have a LinkedIn profile. Benefiting both B2C and B2B brands, LinkedIn empowers brands to build relationships, generate leads and boost sales. But to reap those rewards, companies need to master using and managing LinkedIn direct messages (DMs). In this guide, we break down the benefits of LinkedIn DMs for brands, along with the dos and donts of managing them.

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Custom Objects in HubSpot and Salesforce: Integration Challenges and Solutions

ATAK Interactive

You've got HubSpot and Salesforce talking to each other. Great! Your contacts, companies, deals, and activities are flowing between systems. But here's where things get tricky what about all that specialized business data that doesn't fit into those standard buckets? This is where custom objects enter the picture, representing both the most powerful capability in both platforms and the most complex aspect of HubSpot Salesforce integration.

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Email Deliverability Audit: How to Troubleshoot and Fix Your Email Delivery Issues

Litmus

Key takeaways Email deliverability refers to your inbox placement. Once your email is delivered, does it go to the primary inbox, spam filter, or another place, like Gmails Promotional Tab? With so many factors that go into your deliverability from email list hygiene to your sender scoreits important to do a thorough check of each element on a regular basis.

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Gross Profit Margin: How to Calculate It and What It Tells You

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Gross profit margin (GPM) is a key financial metric that measures your company’s profitability. It represents the percentage of net revenue you make that exceeds the cost of goods sold (COGS). GPM provides valuable insights into your companys operational efficiency and pricing strategies. As a small and medium business (SMB) , understanding this metric is crucial for leveraging data to improve your performance.

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Top B2B Email Marketing Tactics to Drive Engagement and Pipeline in 2025

Speaker: Speakers:

Ready to become the email wizard your team didn’t know they needed? Join our live webinar to uncover the secrets of mixing AI magic with human flair, crafting emails so good your audience can't help but write back. We'll spill the beans on: Scaling personal touches Tracking metrics (like revenue, duh) Building smarter campaigns that actually work Oh, and we’re throwing in multi-channel tips too—think LinkedIn ads and webinars that wow.

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The real reason marketing measurement keeps failing

Martech

Marketers are under pressure to prove performance, but the systems they rely on are built on shaky ground. Attribution models are built on incomplete data. MMMs are often outdated and biased by design. Dashboards are full of metrics, but few deliver real insight. The challenge runs deeper than tools or data. Measurement is held back by fragmented systems, inconsistent standards and a lack of shared accountability across the ecosystem.

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Let’s talk about tariffs: How marketers can brace for the looming future

illumin

Amidst all the events surrounding tariffs, marketers are bracing for their impact on ad spend. Heres how advertisers can get ahead of the curve. If youve been paying close attention to recent events, you may have heard about one of the biggest topics of conversation: tariffs. No matter where you are, the issue revolving tariffs has already been affecting the majority of the worlds current operations, from market volatility to supply chain disruptions to emerging trends in consumer behavior.

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Reddit trends: A marketer’s guide to untapped potential

Sprout Social

Reddit has long been a pioneer in community-driven conversationswell before social listening became a marketing staple. Since 2005, its evolved into a cultural nerve center with over 100,000 active communities and 22 billion posts and comments, influencing everything from buying behavior to political discourse. But Reddits role in the modern marketing mix has shifted.

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The Strategic Advantage of HubSpot’s Content Hub for Modern Websites

ATAK Interactive

Businesses today expect more from their websitesbetter personalization, easier updates, tighter integrations, and improved performance. Most traditional CMS platforms werent built for this level of sophistication. Enter HubSpots Content Hub: an enterprise-ready, all-in-one platform designed to give developers flexibility, marketers agility, and decision-makers complete visibility.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Get More Personal on Social Media: Harness the Power of Employees and Stories

Navigate the Channel

Social media is noisybusinesses are vying for attention every second. But what makes one post stand out from a sea of polished ads, curated grids, and templated captions? The answer is simple yet powerful personalization. People connect with people, not logos or slogans. By adding a human touch to your brands social presence, you can create genuine relationships that foster trust, loyalty, and, ultimately, growth.

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AI for Proactive SMB Service: Anticipating Needs Before They Arise

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Imagine a world where your business resolves customer issues before they even arise. Sounds futuristic? Its happening today. Customers expect more than just reactive support; they crave anticipation and personalized attention. Around 73% of customers expect companies to understand their unique needs , and expectations are only growing. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) that use artificial intelligence (AI) for proactive customer service not only meet these expectations but also gain a competiti

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Integration isn’t a martech problem, it’s an organizational one

Martech

“We need better integration between our systems.” I hear this from marketing leaders constantly, followed by questions about middleware, APIs and data connectors. Yet, after years of helping companies tackle these challenges, I’ve watched the same pattern unfold: millions spent on martech solutions that deliver a fraction of the promised value.

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AI Needs a Customer Strategy, Not Just a Use Case

CMSWire

CX success wont come from automation alone. It starts with thoughtful, trust-driven design. Continue reading.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Beyond AI assistants: how AI is being more deeply embedded in marketing and martech stacks

chiefmartech

This is a short excerpt of data from The State of Martech 2025 report that will be released on May 6, 2025. You can get the complete 100+ page report and access to an extended keynote presentation of our research by registering for free for #MartechDay. It’s no surprise that stand-alone AI assistants, such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have become ubiquitous.

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Social Media Audience Analysis Process to Decipher Your Customers

SocialPilot

If you don’t understand who your brand is talking to, your message is just noise. Without social media audience analysis, you waste time and money crafting content that rarely converts, targets the wrong people, and lacks valuable engagement. Take Spotify, for example. The brand capitalized on audience data and social listening to define its “Wrapped” campaign and customize content to individual user likes.

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Omnichannel Marketing vs. Multichannel Marketing: Which Works Best for B2B?

sagefrog

With the rise of digital engagement and self-directed buying, B2B marketing strategy has undergone a profound transformation. Reaching the right audience now means consistently showing up throughout the entire journey. But gone are the days of linear sales funnels and single-channel strategies. Modern buyers are more empowered, informed, and connected than ever, and they interact with brands across a variety of touchpoints before making purchasing decisions.