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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Align Corporate Culture with Brand Promise: Practical Tips for Ensuring Internal Values Support External Messaging

Trade Press Services

Corporate values are the fundamental principles that guide an organizations decisions and actions. These values form the bedrock of a companys identity and articulate what it stands for. An organizations culture reveals how these values manifest themselves in everyday workplace realitythe behaviors and attitudes that shape employee experiences. Culture is values in action.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is your CRM lying to you? The hidden costs of dirty B2B data

Martech

B2B marketers are under more pressure to deliver results and buyer expectations for online experiences keep rising. The good news is that you probably have more data than ever to leverage to achieve those results. Heres the catch, though: if your CRM is cluttered with stale contacts, duplicate records and mismatched account info, all that data may be doing more harm than good.

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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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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.

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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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Shoe Carnival Puts Its Best Foot Forward with Composable Commerce

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Shoe Carnival is a leader in family footwear and the brand is growing at a rapid pace. The expansion of the companys digital presence through recent acquisitions means that all eyes are on the digital storefront experience. With a small but mighty engineering and product team, Shoe Carnival needs flexibility, operational efficiency, and minimal technical debt.

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10 insights for marketing and MOps leaders from the State of Martech 2025 report

Martech

One of the things we look forward to on MarTech Day every year is the introduction of the latest martech landscape graphic and the headcount of tools in the market. For the record, this year’s landscape counts 15,384 tools. But if you heard Scott Brinker, the editor of Chiefmartec.com, at the Spring 2025 MarTech Conference in March, you heard his excitement about the speed with which AI advances are hitting the market and what it means for the sector.

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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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Connect and convert with WhatsApp marketing software

Sprout Social

Digital marketing is about more than creating content and managing campaigns. Direct engagement, communication and customer care can set your business apart from your competition. And one of the most reliable social media apps for doing so is WhatsApp. WhatsApp is a massive app globally; billions of people rely on it as their main communication channel.

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How RevOps as a Service Scales with Your Business Growth

ATAK Interactive

In the B2B landscape, growth isn't just a goalit's a complex journey with evolving needs at every stage. Your RevOps requirements at $1M in revenue look vastly different from those at $10M or $50M. The good news? RevOps as a Service is built specifically to scale alongside your business evolution.

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Webflow Launches Full-Stack App Hosting With Webflow Cloud

CMSWire

Webflow introduces Webflow Cloud, enabling developers to deploy full-stack apps natively on the platformplus, GSAP becomes free for all users. Continue reading.

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