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Martech Spend is Wasted by 60%: Here’s How to Win It Back in 2025
The average exec walks into the boardroom knowing nearly two-thirds of last year’s martech budget never translated into revenue. Unused licenses from tech stacks, poorly integrated point solutions, and orphaned data pipelines have turned once-promising platforms into silent profit leaks. With marketing budgets expected to remain at roughly 7.7% of company revenue through 2025, every expenditure must clearly demonstrate its…
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The Complete Guide to Optimizing Your Lead’s Website Journey with Google Analytics
For many businesses, websites are built with content, menus, and forms, but without a clear understanding of how customers are meant to navigate them. The result is that visitors drift away, get distracted, and leave without taking any meaningful action. In contrast, the most effective websites are structured around the customer journey, the progression from awareness to consideration to conversion.…
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Why Brands Buy PPC on Third-Party Sites to Amplify Trust and Momentum
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising has become one of the most competitive arenas in marketing. Every brand in a category is bidding on the exact intent-driven keywords, driving up costs and forcing companies into expensive, zero-sum battles for attention. Even when you win that click, the challenge isn’t over. Directing a prospect to your own website means they immediately know they are…
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Navigating Time Challenges in an Era of Shrinking Budgets, Expanding Strategies, and Limited Resources
It’s been 20 years since I first wrote about the challenge of time with respect to marketing. Marketers continue to grapple with a persistent and escalating challenge: the lack of time to manage every channel and medium effectively. With budgets stagnating or shrinking amid economic uncertainties, teams are stretched thin, often forced to juggle multichannel strategies without adequate resources. In…
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PostcardMania: Supercharge Your Small Business with Proven, Trackable Direct Mail
Marketing budgets are under more scrutiny than ever, and every dollar spent needs to deliver measurable results. Small businesses face the challenge of cutting through digital noise while avoiding the waste of untargeted traditional campaigns. The solution lies in blending the staying power of direct mail with the precision of digital targeting—making sure your message is seen, remembered, and acted…
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Forget The Hype. This Is What Actually Works in Marketing Now
As we embark on the second half of 2025, your shiny new marketing toy might already be broken. As many marketers (and the business leaders they are accountable to) are noticing, the marketing arena is littered with expensive tools, failed strategies, and broken promises. With the second half of the year sure to be more uncertain and unforgiving, the winning…
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Why Your Modern Business Needs an AI Digital Marketing Platform
Marketing platforms used to promise efficiency. However, in today’s digital landscape, it’s more about intelligence. The days of manual optimization are gone, and AI digital marketing is transforming the industry faster than ever. More than automating tasks, AI-powered platforms can now analyze performance insights, support predictive planning, and optimize for custom KPIs in real time. Whether you’re a startup or…
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Seriously… Why Are You Still Doing These Things
Marketing today is more capable, automated, and data-driven than ever—but most teams are still chasing activity over outcomes. It’s not a lack of intelligence or resources holding companies back. It’s a distraction. It’s noise. It’s the endless pursuit of the next thing instead of committing to the right thing. We work with sophisticated organizations across industries. Their challenge isn’t access…
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The Evolution of Personalization: From Merge Tags to AI-Powered Experiences
What began as Dear {FirstName} has transformed into dynamic, predictive, generative, and increasingly immersive personalization. Organizations with personalization programs supported at the C-level are 2x more likely to report high ROI. Forrester Sophisticated retailers and businesses now operate within a layered experience ecosystem: identity resolution, predictive decisioning, generative messaging, immersive AR/VR entry points, and AI-powered virtual assistants (VA) that accompany…
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Global Loyalty Trends 2025: What’s Working, What’s Failing, and What’s Next
Antavo’s Global Customer Loyalty Report 2025 delivers a sweeping analysis of how loyalty is being redefined in the age of personalization, automation, and AI. Based on data from over 2,600 business professionals and 10,000 global consumers, the report captures the shifting priorities and strategic realignment of loyalty programs across industries. It is especially timely as brands face economic uncertainty, rising…
