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                                    Today's dose of marketing know-how  |  Wednesday, February 5, 2025
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                                   Back to Groundhog Day... Before the powers of the Internet, people looked to their surroundings for indications of things like weather. Including looking at the behavior of animals, such as when they'd come out of hibernation. Perfectly logical. But why a groundhog? Perhaps just a bit safer than a bear?
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                                   Balancing Personalization and Data Security: Essential Strategies for CMOs in Financial Services
                                
                                     Read more ➔Learn how financial services marketers can balance personalized customer experiences with data privacy and compliance. |  
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                                   Why Cutting CAC Is a CEO Priority—and Your Opportunity
                                
                                     Seize the opportunity ➔Your CEO's top priorities (think ROI) get a boost when you cut customer acquisition cost (CAC)—and as a marketer you hold the key to unlocking growth. Lower CAC means more resources for innovation, better ROI, and a stronger marketing pipeline. |  
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                                   How Concerned Are Americans About AI?
                                
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                                   The People vs. the Editorial Calendar
                                
                                     Save your spot ➔For as long as any of us can remember, organizing marketing content into an editorial calendar has been the default. Everyone "knows" you have to publish content consistently if you want to win organic traffic... Or do you? Find out the real story in this free webinar. |  
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                                    VIDEO FROM THE ARCHIVES
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                                   A Privacy-First World Won't Hurt Your Customer Relationships
                                
                                     Tune in ➔On this episode of the Marketing Smarts Live Show, HubSpot CMO Kipp Bodnar and host George B. Thomas get into the nitty-gritty of what's been on so many marketers minds recently: When given access to a customer's data, how are you going to use it? |  
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             What CEOs care about—and how marketers can prove themselvesCustomer acquisition cost (CAC) is a key concern for CEOs who are looking to enhance ROI and allocate resources more effectively. Which is why Marketing should be focusing on lowering CAC. Metadata.io offers a comprehensive solution for doing just that. You can efficiently reduce CAC by reallocating budgets from underperforming campaigns to more successful ones, using Metadata's Auto Pause Rules tool to automate that process. Users have reported significant reductions in CAC, increases in ROI, and more streamlined campaign management, allowing for greater focus on strategic growth initiatives. Discover how Metadata lowers CAC and boosts revenue, and for a case study, see how Writer reduced cost per MQL by 86% with Metadata optimizer. 
 
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