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Content Marketing
Flixier: Unleash Pro-Level Video Editing From Your Browser
Struggling with slow rendering, clunky installs, and limited editing tools? Whether you’re a marketer repurposing webinars, a content creator publishing shorts, or an educator adding flair to lessons, traditional video editors often slow you down. Most demand high-end devices, complicated software, and too much time for even simple edits. Flixier Flixier changes that. It’s a cloud-powered, AI-enhanced video editor that…
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Content Marketing
Templately: The Cloud Workspace With Limitless Templates for Smart WordPress Teams
Designing a stunning WordPress website shouldn’t mean wrestling with code or spending hours dragging and dropping blocks from scratch. For freelancers, agencies, and even in-house marketers, the biggest roadblock to launching fast is often the blank page—and a lack of reusable, on-brand design components. Templately Templately is a cloud-based WordPress template platform offering 6,000+ ready-to-import designs that work seamlessly with…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
What Martech Can Learn from Crypto Community Management
Web3 projects aren’t just building products—they’re building tribes. These decentralized, often anonymous communities are core to the success or failure of any blockchain initiative, yet they operate outside traditional customer engagement playbooks. For Martech professionals, crypto community management offers a compelling glimpse into the future of brand interaction, loyalty-building, and engagement at scale. Table of ContentsUnderstanding the Crypto EcosystemThe Challenge:…
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E-commerce and Retail
Zoho Bookings: Free Up Time with AI-Powered Self-Service Appointment Scheduling
Managing appointments shouldn’t feel like a full-time job. But for service-based businesses, consultants, healthcare providers, and educators, juggling calendars, coordinating schedules, and confirming meetings often results in more friction than value. Endless emails, missed connections, and the occasional double booking can erode productivity and revenue. Zoho Bookings Zoho Bookings is an AI-powered appointment scheduling platform designed to simplify the management…
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Email Marketing & Automation
DirectIQ: Boost Guest Returns with Smarter Email Marketing
Email marketing isn’t just about sending messages—it’s about creating lasting relationships. For businesses in the family entertainment and adventure space, this means getting parents to rebook parties, encouraging teens to bring friends the following weekend, and attracting fitness fans to return again and again. But between staffing, safety, and operations, there’s little time left for strategic marketing. That’s where email…
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Content Marketing
Why Inline SVG Logos Are a Smart Choice for Your Corporate Website
Logos are the cornerstone of brand identity on a website, and how they’re implemented can have a significant impact on both performance and usability. Among the many image formats available, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) offers unique advantages, especially when embedded inline within HTML. Utilizing an inline SVG for your website’s logo isn’t just a technical preference; it’s a strategic enhancement…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Rethinking Influence in the Age of Connection
The influencer marketing industry continues to struggle with a fundamental flaw: the over-reliance on vanity metrics. Since the early days of social media, I’ve voiced concerns that most influencer platforms don’t truly measure influence. They measure audience size, reach, or follower counts—metrics that may correlate with influence but certainly don’t guarantee it. What is often overlooked is the critical but less…
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Artificial Intelligence
Apple and Google Accelerate the Collapse of Open Web – What’s Next?
The open web as we know it is under siege, and the latest confirmed news and rumblings from Apple and Google may be the final nails in the coffin. As reported by Bloomberg, Apple is expected to unveil a new AI search product or capability. Much like Google’s Gemini-powered results, this move signals a rapid shift away from traditional, link-based discovery…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The State of Tumblr in 2025: Who Should Still Pay Attention and Why It Might Be Worth the Effort
Tumblr, once a cultural juggernaut of internet creativity, has weathered more ups and downs than most social platforms. As of 2025, it remains very much alive, with an estimated 135 million monthly active users and over 600 million blogs—but its relevance depends heavily on who is asking and what they intend to use it for. After years of uneven growth,…
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Artificial Intelligence
Podium: Supercharge Customer Conversations with AI That Closes the Deal
For small businesses and service-based enterprises, capturing leads is only half the battle—responding quickly and converting those leads into real revenue is where many fall short. When customers expect replies within minutes (not hours) and want interactions that feel personal, responsive, and reliable, traditional staffing models often struggle to keep up. That’s where an AI-first platform like Podium becomes a…
