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🆕 This Week’s Top Stories

Gemini 2.5 Pro Outperforms DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI GPT-4.5

Google launched its most advanced AI model last week with a 1 million token context window and multimodal processing. This appears to be the best-performing LLM model today by a good bit, beating OpenAI's best models on everything but simple Q&A. Definitely worth a look.

Does Automated Lead Nurturing (ALN) Really Work? A New Study Challenges The Hype

A new Journal of Marketing study finds that ALN is effective— but only under specific conditions. Some businesses experience significant increases in sales, while others see little to no impact. The key factors determining success include the nature of the sales cycle, deal complexity, and whether the customer is new or returning.

AI Shopping Assistants Are Taking Over

Adobe’s report shows a 1200% increase in AI shopping traffic since July 2024, with tools from Perplexity and Amazon leading the way - impacting B2B buyer behavior, too.

B2B Email Marketing Stats You Need To Know For 2025

This recent infographic from ProspectWallet provides the latest facts & trends about B2B email marketing trends and features including subject lines, time of day, segmentation and personalization, automation, and AI usage.

Everything You Need to Know About Customer Experience Automation (+ Best Platforms)

Writesonic's content marketing team has been on a tear recently, pushing out great B2B content. In this overview they explore how AI-powered customer experience automation (CXA) technologies can impact B2B customer satisfaction and sales. In it they cover AI-driven chatbots, how to build dynamic email and feedback loops to refine the customer journey, and more. Solid tool recommendations (& not just theirs).

Story of The Week

How AI Can Cut Your Inbound Agency Spend
by Marcus Sheridan, CEO of IMPACT (10 minutes)

Inbound marketing agency and HupSpot partner IMPACT Plus reveals how B2B marketers can use AI to insource their content marketing, lead gen, and marketing automation activities to cut inbound agency spend and regain control over their pipeline.

While this thought-provoking article plugs IMPACT's revamped coaching service, the 'Endless Customers System', I agree with Marcus that now is a great time to think about insourcing the most time-consuming agency work - because many of these tasks have been dramatically streamlined and improved by AI.

🤖 Tools! *promoted (disclaimer)
This week: AI-Powered Email Marketing

Segment (Enterprise quote)

Customer data platform for collecting, cleaning, and activating customer data.

Campaign Monitor (Free trial + usage-based pricing)

Email marketing platform offering tools for creating, sending, and optimizing email campaigns.

Smartwriter AI (Free trial to $400/mo)

Generate 1,000s of personalized outreach emails that get you 8x more replies using AI - within minutes.

SaneBox ($5/mo to $40/mo)

Email management tool that uses AI to prioritize and organize your inbox.

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📺 Video of The Week
by Trust Insights (44 minutes)

In Katie Robbert's MAICON 2024 lecture, you'll learn the reasons so many AI initiatives fail, especially in marketing. You'll also learn a simple, practical framework – the 5Ps of AI – to ensure your AI projects succeed by prioritizing people and processes, not technology. For example: before diving in to purchase AI tools, Katie strongly recommends that your team first get a base level of formal education about what AI can vs. cannot do.

Katie is the CEO of Trust Insights, and I found her insights & recommendations practical, relatable & important to follow if you want to empower your entire team with AI.

📖 Tutorials
This week: AI-Powered Email Marketing

What is email fatigue and how to overcome it?

GetResponse provides solid insights and recommendations on how to combat email fatigue with strategies like audience segmentation, AI-personalized content, and email automation for better engagement. Cuisinart, Airbnb, Netflix, and Spotify are using these strategies effectively.

🤖 ChatGPT Prompts
This week: AI-Powered Email Marketing

  • craft persuasive sales pitches to motivate prospective customers to buy
  • develop email marketing campaigns to increase open, clicks and conversions
  • generate an email based on a subject and description to accomplish a specific objective
  • generate attention-grabbing subject lines for email campaigns to increase open rates
  • generate engaging newsletters with personalized content to attract and keep subscribers
  • generate persuasive business proposals to land more customers
  • generate useful responses to common questions in emails to save time and focus on more important work
  • Check out our prompt library for more B2B marketing prompts:

    💳 From the Buy-Side
    AI is changing buyer behavior, too.

    Peter Bonney on How AI Is Disrupting the RFP and B2B Sales Process

    The CTO Show with Mehmet explores AI's role in simplifying RFP-driven B2B sales in a conversation with Peter Bonny, CEO of Fast Break, a company that uses AI to automate RFP responses for large companies. They discuss how AI streamlines both procurement and sales by creating semantic content understanding between parties and by automating repetitive tasks.

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    Focuses on email marketing’s latest innovations in technology, strategy, design, and acquisition. For: Email marketing professionals.

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    How AI is Changing Marketing Roles Forever: with Chang Chen

    In the latest The Last Mile podcast, successful software product marketer Chang Chen walks us through the best uses of AI in B2B marketing - especially for startups and SaaS providers. They discuss how AI democratizes product creation for marketers, often eliminating the need for a technical co-founder; and, how AI makes content repurposing and personalized landing page creation simple, reducing costs and boosting lead conversion.

    Perplexity and the Future of Paid Search | Tenfold AI Podcast

    Heather Geris and Matt Scanland host the Tenfold AI Podcast, sharing insights on how paid search in B2B is changing due to the rise of AI shopping assistants like Perplexity and ChatGPT. They discuss AI's impact on SEO, content quality, and data structure.

    AI agents for B2B: The shift toward agentic marketing

    The AI SDR Movement podcast delves into the evolving role of agents in marketing. Sean and host Morgan discuss how platforms like Napkin.AI and Polymat are transforming product marketing and design and how AI SDRs are making prospecting and lead gen more efficient and responsive.

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