May, 2025

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Boost Conversions: A Guide to Using the Right CTAs at the Right Time

Aspiration Marketing

Want to boost your conversion rates? It starts with your CTAs. They're the bridge between someone reading your content and taking the next step. But, a lot of businesses struggle with this, missing opportunities because their CTAs aren't quite rightwhether it's the wrong wording, wrong placement, or wrong CTA altogether. Let's explore how to strategically align your CTAs with your content and goals, ensuring every interaction maximizes your potential for conversion.

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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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The 8 Core Reports of the Growth Marketing Leader

The Marketing Operations Leader

In this edition: 8 Core Reports of the Growth Marketing Leader Podcast Episode: Safe Versus At-Risk Marketing Jobs in the AI Era Guest Article: How to Start Using AI Agents At Different Stages of The Funnel Exclusive For Paid Subscribers : Real Examples of How My Team Ties Operations Goals to Top Business Priorities Spring Fling by MarketingOps.com: The Can't-Miss Event for Marketing Operations Leaders MarketingOps.com's first-ever Spring Fling is the premier gathering designed to elevate and ed

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If your value prop sounds like everyone else’s, you’ve already lost

Martech

Many companies that think they have a marketing problem really have a clarity problem. They either: Don’t understand what makes their product matter. Or communicate it in a way that gets ignored. A value proposition isn’t a tagline or a headline. It’s a powerful reason. It’s your company’s case for why someone should become a customer, and it needs to stand up under pressure.

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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 learn social media marketing: 33 resources for beginners

Hubspot Marketing

Social media marketing is a lot of work. Its a fast-paced industry that quickly evolves by the time you learn a new skill, trend, or platform update. Whether youre a marketer, a content creator, or a business owner, understanding social media involves a range of skills that require you to always be learning. To hone these skills, Ive put together a comprehensive list of social media marketing resources.

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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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Facebook Ad Specs + Image Sizes — Fully Updated for 2025

Buffer Marketing

You're spoiled for choice when it comes to Facebook ads — from images and videos to carousels and collections, there’s a format (and placement) for just about every goal. Advertising on Facebook also gives you the chance to experiment and find just the right approach for your brand.  But with so many options, it’s important to keep up with the latest Facebook ad specs.

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Easy GTM Dashboard for Leaders & Operations

The Marketing Operations Leader

In this edition: Easy GTM Dashboard for Leaders & Operations Top 7 Mistakes Marketing & Revenue Operators Make - and What to Do About It POLL: What is the Hardest Part of Working in Marketing Today? Exclusive For Paid Subscribers : I Screwed Up My First Meeting With a New VP - What I Should Have Done and What You Can Do This Week! Learn from Marketing Ops Leaders at Amazon, Asana, Microsoft, Yext, and RingCentral at our free virtual event.

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How to choose the right marketing AI tools for real business impact

Martech

Generative AI is no longer an exciting new tech for marketers it’s a core part of the toolkit. As adoption grows and the technology matures, the conversation isn’t “What can we try?” but “What’s delivering results?” Companies need to take a thoughtful, strategic and responsible approach to using these tools to make a real business impact and maintain brand integrity.

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How to master the basics of social media advertising [+ 5 examples]

Hubspot Marketing

I can't imagine any company today experiencing substantial growth without proper social media advertising. Advertising is how businesses promote themselves and what they sell to their audience members. With billions of people on social media, it's clear why businesses choose to advertise and promote themselves through this medium. Social media advertising is a powerful marketing tactic that can drive leads, boost revenue, increase brand awareness, and more.

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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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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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Data-Driven A/B Testing Strategies to Improve Website Conversion Rates

Aspiration Marketing

Website traffic is only valuable when it translates into conversions. Are you maximizing your website's potential, or are visitors leaving without taking action? The difference often lies in a strategic approach to web design and a meticulous analysis of user behavior. Data-driven A/B testing allows you to pinpoint areas for improvement and implement changes that directly impact your bottom line.

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3 Sales Enablement Challenges Media Companies Face in 2025 — And How to Overcome Them

The LeadG2 Blog

In 2025, the media industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, driven by technological advancements and shifting consumer behaviors. Sales enablement remains a critical component for media companies striving to stay competitive. According to a recent study, top-performing salespeople are 33% more likely to use technology to automate their sales processes.

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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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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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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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How Gen Z is using AI to build personal brands — a guide that helped me build a LinkedIn presence that’s reached over 140 million

Hubspot Marketing

I started my career in modeling, which, as anyone in the industry knows, is basically a crash course in branding. You learn very quickly how to present yourself online, especially on platforms like Instagram. From there, I moved into sales and the world of B2B. I figured, if I could thrive in sales, I could do just about anything. And then, something happened.

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Influencer marketing campaigns: 8 examples that drive real results

Hootsuite

Influencer marketing campaigns are a multi-billion-dollar business , and each year, more and more savvy brands partner with influential social creators to drive revenue, boost visibility, and connect with motivated audiences. But not every collab delivers results. The most successful campaigns feel authentic, align with both the creators voice and the brands goals, and offer real value to the audience.

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How Do Blogs Attract Potential Leads? SEO and Inbound Marketing

Aspiration Marketing

Ever wonder how some businesses seem to effortlessly attract a steady stream of potential leads? It's not magic; it's strategy. At the heart of many successful inbound marketing efforts lies a powerful tool: the blog. But it's not just about publishing any content. Understanding the balance between valuable content, SEO, and strategic engagement is key to attracting organic traffic.

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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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Google’s AI Max Ads Hone Search Intent

Practical eCommerce - Marketing

The more it knows about searchers' intent, the better Google can serve relevant ads. That's the aim of "AI Max for Search." The post Google’s AI Max Ads Hone Search Intent appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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The LinkedIn growth secrets nobody talks about

Businesses Grow

This headline isn’t clickbait. And I’m not selling you any LinkedIn consulting services! But I just had something really weird happen to me and it points to a few important LinkedIn growth secrets nobody talks about. The crazy thing that prompted this article was, last week I had a LinkedIn post receive 100,000 impressions (104,833 and counting).

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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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Alex Lieberman’s guide to personal branding: A step-by-step process for boosting your social presence

Hubspot Marketing

Hot take: I dont think everyone needs a personal brand. Plenty of businesses have expanded their reach with company social accounts as their mouthpieces. However, executives and founders can create personal brands that supercharge growth. How do I know? Ive done it myself. I founded newsletter Morning Brew, which gives business updates with personality.

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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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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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7 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Business Development Partner

Aspiration Marketing

Growth stalls, deals evaporate, and market share dwindles. These aren't just anxieties; they're realities for businesses that misjudge their business development partnerships. With 60% of businesses missing growth targets, the stakes are high. Yet, many companies rush into partnerships only to encounter misalignment and missed opportunities. To set your business up for success, discover the seven essential questions that will protect your investment and propel your business forward.

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

Chief Martec

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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Give Your Marketing Strategy a Smart Upgrade

Duct Tape Marketing

Give Your Marketing Strategy a Smart Upgrade written by Jarret Redding read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Keith Lauver In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Keith Lauver , a seasoned entrepreneur, marketing strategist, and the founder of Atomic Elevator , the company behind Ella an AI-powered marketing platform.

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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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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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Attribution is garbage, says this email expert. (Plus, 3 reasons Jay's a loser.)

Hubspot Marketing

Email is the only marketing channel that offers an equal playing field for all marketers , says Jay Schwedelson. With email marketing, your brands message has just as much chance of being viewed as Apples, or Googles, or [fill in your favorite big brand here]. Todays master is here to help you not waste that chance. Hes recognized as one of the foremost experts in email marketing.

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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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Supercharge Your Sales with People Finder Tools for Prospecting

Aspiration Marketing

Regardless of whether you work in B2B or B2C, a well-organized customer search helps you reduce your search time and get the most out of your sales strategy. A variety of search tools are used to achieve this. The ones that automate many processes and allow you to work more efficiently with potential clients. People's search tools are becoming more and more relevant.

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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.