Choosing Domain Extension in 2025: Old Favorites vs. Tracking Trends

Domain names impact everything from discoverability to trust and credibility and they play a crucial role in brand identity. When selecting a domain name, brands must balance their ambitions, their audience and a multitude of other factors associated with brand positioning.

How Agentic AI Powers Marketing’s Future

The agentic AI revolution represents a watershed moment for marketing professionals, automating complex decision processes and enabling autonomous optimization that reshapes what's possible in customer engagement.

How Reward-Based Promotions Can Eliminate Pain Points in Your Marketing Funnel

Pain points along the marketing funnel aren’t new, and aren’t going away. But in a tighter economy with more choice and less patience, marketers need ways to create momentum by rewarding attention, easing decision-making, and reinforcing loyalty in real time.

The $300 Billion Business Expense That’s Hard to Evaluate

Can gifting burlap sacks of four cobs of corn to customers produce a return on investment? Probably so, but entrepreneurs and corporate gifting specialists we spoke with said measuring ROI is secondary to why they do it.

Avoid These Common Corporate Gifting Mistakes

Here are some corporate gifting mistakes that can leave recipients questioning the gift-giver’s common sense or even damage a relationship beyond repair.

Gifting Creatively and the Problem with Gift Cards

In this excerpt from a podcast interview, Tom Romine, founder of the corporate gifting services provider Cultivate, talks trends, one sales team's creative use of gifts, and why gift cards may not be the right gift.

Strengthening Partnerships Through Corporate Gifting

Whether you’re managing a global reseller network or a handful of regional affiliates, the right gift — delivered the right way — can move relationships from transactional to transformational.

Top Corporate Gifting Trends

It's good to stand out with your corporate gifting strategy, but understanding the trends and why they are commonly deployed is equally important.

The Impact of Corporate Gifts for Employees

Workers who feel more valued, are more motivated, less burned out, and more likely to stay with an employer. The statistics on the impact of employee gifting are convincing that it needs to be part of your culture.

The Impact of Corporate Gifting on Business Relationships

Statistics on corporate gifting's impact on employee relationships tell the tale: higher client retention and increased value.

Align On These 3 Ps for Go-To-Market Success

Misalignment across sales, marketing and product teams translates to weaker pipeline, stalled deals and leads that don’t convert. The path to faster sales cycles and higher conversions starts with aligning teams on the three Ps: clear process, collaborative people and a shared platform.

Corporate Gifting Done Right

Tom Romine, founder and CEO of Cultivate, a corporate gifting services provider, shares some emerging trends and some still common egregious errors in companies gifting strategies.

Five Truths About Using AI to Lead and Close That No One’s Saying

The leaders who will thrive in this next season aren’t the ones buried in AI tools. They’re the ones who show up and lead through it.

B2B Buying Trends That May Change Your Go-To-Market Strategy

Sopro, a B2B lead generation service, published its latest findings from a survey of more than 400 B2B senior decisionmakers. Buyers are getting younger and rely more on technology than sales reps. The findings are important in shaping B2B sellers' go-to-market strategies.

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