• June 6, 2025
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Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your success. This piece is in collaboration with HubSpot Podcast …

• June 5, 2025
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One of the hardest parts of our three-lesson format is deciding what NOT to include, and a lot of really useful advice is gathering dust in my Google Drive.

• June 4, 2025
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In February, OpenAI gave a two-minute demonstration at a private event in Tokyo. The demo didn’t stay quiet for long. It set off a firestorm in the sales industry.

• June 3, 2025
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SEO is changing. We’re entering a new era of search — the AI age — and with it comes generative engine optimization (GEO), the practice of optimizing content for AI-driven engines such as ChatGPT or Perplexity. If we want our content to reach the right people, we need to adapt. There’s no need to throw out the SEO principles you’ve …

• June 2, 2025
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Right now, some people will absolutely, 100% say that we’re in, without a doubt, a recession. Others will say that we’re absolutely, positively not in a recession. I think those people should argue with a brick wall. Regardless of where you might personally stand, there’s a lot of ambiguity about what’s actually going on; I’m here to clear it up.

• June 1, 2025
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When I started working with B2B companies, I quickly realized that understanding how your customers make purchasing decisions is just as important as knowing your product inside and out. This is where a B2B buyer journey map becomes an invaluable asset.

• May 31, 2025
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I’ll never forget the first time someone asked me for a marketing performance update. I had six messy spreadsheets open, no clear narrative, and no KPI dashboard to tie it all together. I had the numbers, technically … but not the clarity. I wasn’t even sure which metrics mattered most. That’s when I started building my first KPI dashboard, and …

• May 30, 2025
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Writing with clarity means making your content easy to read and understand. If your audience can’t grasp what you’re trying to say, what’s the point? Hi, I’m Alana, your friendly neighborhood blog editor. I spent most of my early marketing career in the public health field. We focused on one main writing principle: using plain language. For years, I turned …

• May 29, 2025
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Your website strategy should help drive business and marketing objectives. For your website to work, you need to keep up with what makes a good website today. Website trends and customer expectations change rapidly. It feels like yesterday when I worked in a leading website design agency. Back then, we encouraged clients to build a mobile-friendly website because it was …

• May 28, 2025
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Video is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s now an absolute must and should be at the forefront of any marketing strategy. With almost half of Gen Z and millennials watching short-form video to discover new products, video is essential to increasing visibility and getting brand recognition.