Today's B2B Growth Pulse
Epicor launches Partner Community to fuel B2B ERP growth
Epicor unveiled its Partner Community as a strategic, long‑term growth engine rather than a simple reseller network. The program spotlights partners that have grown from startups into multi‑million‑dollar enterprises and positions them as essential for selling, implementing, extending, and supporting Epicor's ERP solutions worldwide.
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By the numbers: Badger Meter to acquire UK‑Based UDLive for $100M
PAN Expands Integrated Marketing Services with New B2B Website Capabilities
PAN, a data‑driven B2B marketing and PR firm, launched a new B2B Web Services offering that adds analytics‑led website strategy, design, development, and long‑term optimization to its portfolio. The service builds on PAN’s existing PR and integrated marketing work, using the PAN Pathway framework to guide clients from discovery through launch and ongoing maintenance. AI‑informed SEO, schema enhancements, and scalable CMS environments are core components, positioning websites as growth engines rather than static assets. The rollout targets tech and healthcare brands seeking a seamless, demand‑centric digital presence.
Your Client Problem Is Actually Readiness.
99% of founders ask me the same thing: “Help me get clients.” Here’s the truth: You don’t have a client problem. You have a readiness problem. Your brand might be: • unclear • unnoticeable • unattractive • positioned poorly Before...
AI-Powered Instant Pricing Ends Call-For-Quote Era
True Story: I was recently asked to speak at a home services conference but the organizer said they did not want me teaching pricing transparency to contractors because, "That's not how we teach them to sell." In other words, they...
How AI Is Reshaping Influencer and KOL Marketing for Modern Growth Teams
Artificial intelligence is becoming a core component of influencer and KOL marketing, especially for B2B growth teams seeking operational rigor. AI tackles long‑standing issues such as manual creator selection, fake followers, fragmented attribution, and slow campaign rollout. By automating discovery,...
Build a Content Ecosystem, Repurpose Video for Maximum Reach
Stop Blasting Everywhere. Start Building a Content Ecosystem. The more you slice one pillar piece into native, platform-specific content, the more you dominate YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, and even AI search, without burning out. The sooner you realize AI is increasingly...
Build Loyalty by Rewarding Behavior, Not Just Spend
High-LTV customers think differently, treat them that way. They: • Explore your brand • Respond to education • Stay longer without needing constant offers Here’s how you build more of them: • Build flows that advance the buyer relationship • Track what SKUs drive 2nd and 3rd...
Squirro Drives Frictionless Enterprise AI Real-World Adoption with Latest Platform Release
Squirro announced the general availability of its LTS platform update, Release 3.14.4, which adds direct file uploads, multimodal image reasoning, and an enterprise‑grade prompt library. The enhancements enable users to drag contracts or reports into chat for instant analysis and retain...
Hidden Post‑purchase Reactivation Drives Profit without Ads
The most profitable flows are the least visible. Everyone builds welcome flows, very few build product-specific reactivation. Here’s the forgotten sequence: • Wait 30-45 days post-purchase • If no activity, trigger: “How are you using X?” and “People who bought X also loved Y” Add: • Personalized...
Discipline Over Hope: Do the Work First
"I don't plan with hope." 🔥 Our fearless leader, Alessio Artuffo , said this in a recent meeting, and it's been stuck in my head ever since. Maybe because I love tagline-worthy quick hits. Or, maybe because as marketers, we're...
Humane versus Human Marketing
Mark Schaefer and Mathew Sweezey explore the distinction between "human" marketing—aimed at emotional connection—and "humane" marketing, which prioritizes delivering fast, effortless help to customers, often via AI. They argue that while heartfelt storytelling remains valuable, the immediate impact of AI-driven,...
RankLift Lab Launches Measurable Google Maps SEO Framework for Service-Area Businesses
RankLift Lab, a Miami‑based local SEO firm, unveiled a performance‑driven Google Maps optimization framework tailored for service‑area businesses. The methodology synchronizes Google Business Profile data, on‑page factors, and neighborhood‑level geo‑grid coverage to boost map visibility and inbound calls. In a...
Ecer.com Leads the Future of Mobile B2B
Ecer.com is spearheading the mobile transformation of international B2B commerce, where over 70 % of buyers now prefer smartphones for key transactions. Its AI‑powered multilingual service can answer inquiries, translate specs, and recommend products within minutes, while VR‑enabled factory tours cut...
Practical Ways to Apply Rewards Across the Marketing Funnel
Marketers face conversion decay across the funnel despite abundant channels. Tech‑enabled rewards—small incentives, stored‑value credits, and personalized offers—can motivate customers at each stage. Blackhawk Network research shows reward‑based promotions deliver 14% higher conversion rates and 16% stronger ROI, while also...
Moveworks and Unily Deepen Partnership to Transform the Intelligent Employee Experience
Moveworks announced an enhanced strategic partnership with Unily, introducing an Enterprise Search content connector that lets employees retrieve Unily intranet information via Moveworks' conversational AI. The connector pulls relevant knowledge in natural language, eliminating the need to navigate multiple portals....
MADUP, Backed by $23M, Poised to Innovate AI Marketing Through Global Expansion
MADUP, an AI‑driven marketing firm, has secured a cumulative $23 million in funding and is accelerating the global rollout of its LEVER Xpert digital‑marketing AI agent. The company is establishing a New York subsidiary, leveraging an NYU Stern‑run AI Innovation Accelerator to fine‑tune...
Udemy Introduces New Instructor Innovations at Semiannual Front Row Event
Udemy announced a suite of instructor‑centric products at its Front Row event, including Instructor Subscriptions, AI‑powered micro‑learning creation tools, and a $2.5 million Content Innovation Fund. The new subscription model lets educators deliver live sessions, short‑form videos, and community features while...
AI+B2
📰 Top AI+B2B News - Sun, Dec 14 https://t.co/MWFHfEuzpm Top Stories: 1. Alphabet poised for another paper gain on SpaceX valuation 2. ServiceNow in advanced talks to acquire Armis at around $7 Billion 3. Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of PROS Holdings, Inc. for $1.5...
CEOs Can Automate Slack Insights in Minutes
We use Zapier and Lindy to make these conversations public in Slack. Churn risk? Flagged Case study material? Flagged Product insight? Flagged Conversion killer? Flagged Any CEO can get these running in minutes. Then the trick is to hand this off and ruthlessly monitor. This also...
Chatra: Integrate Chat with Your Site or Online Store in Just 5 Minutes
Chatra, now part of Brevo, offers a live‑chat and multichannel messaging suite that can be embedded on a website in under five minutes. The platform combines real‑time chat, bots, visitor intelligence and a unified inbox for email, Facebook Messenger and...
Winning Companies Sell Vision, Not Just Features
Features are officially commoditized. Any team can build what your product does with Cursor in weeks. The companies winning aren't playing the same game anymore. The old playbook was simple: Listen to buyers. Build what they ask for. Ship faster...
Don't Trade Free Work for Vague Future Promises
"I can't really make a big financial commitment right now… But if this project takes off/ the pitch you create for me works to get funding/ the campaign delivers new clients, it'll be very profitable for you." I've heard versions...
Hiding Your Unsubscribe Isn’t a Retention Strategy
Email marketers increasingly hide unsubscribe options with friction tactics such as login walls, tiny or unstyled links, multi‑step preference flows, guilt‑laden confirmations, partial opt‑outs, delayed processing, and support‑only removal. While these methods aim to preserve list size, they backfire by...
Build December Offers to Drive January Sales
What your Q4 customers do in January is shaped by what you build in December. Here’s a simple segmentation play to win the handoff: • Match bundles/offers to intent signals • Tier buyers by AOV + time of purchase • Build a January-only “membership”...
Turn December Into Your Most Efficient Retention Month
The smartest brands are quietly turning December into their most efficient retention month of the year. Lower CPMs Higher intent traffic Warmer audiences from Q4 spend They run continuity for success. Here’s the play: • Segment BFCM buyers by SKU and UTM • Trigger product education flows...
How I Finally Blocked China and Singapore Bot Traffic Using Cloudflare
The author experienced a sudden, massive influx of malicious bot traffic from China and Singapore that inflated site visits by up to 500 times, exhausting server resources and driving CDN costs sky‑high. Conventional defenses—IP blocking, rate limiting, and user‑agent filters—failed as...
Drop “Awareness”—Focus on Measurable Marketing Metrics
Dear marketers: let's retire the word "awareness." Especially used in sentences trying to prove marketing's value: "elevate awareness" "increase awareness" "competitive awareness" "aware awareness" First off, it's an ugly word. AWARENESS. Gross. awareness. awareness. awareness. awareness. awareness. awareness. awareness. awareness....
OpenAI Drops Vesting Cliff, Pours $6B on Equity
Per @WSJ, OpenAI has gone from just a 6 month cliff for equity vesting now to … no cliff at all And will “spend” $6 Billion this year on employee equity Even at OpenAI, the war for talent never ends https://t.co/uOw6ReBXCF
Sauce Labs: AI-Enabled Enterprise Testing Built for Real Devices and Real Data
Sauce Labs has launched an AI‑enabled enterprise testing platform that combines real‑device cloud access, automated testing, and intelligent analytics. The service offers over 9,000 physical devices, 2,500+ emulators, and more than 8 billion executed tests, unified under the Sauce AI insight...
Turn Evergreen Videos Into Ongoing Revenue with Dynamic Ads
The more you use dynamic ad insertion to swap sponsors in your back catalog, the more you turn every viral video into a recurring revenue stream, not a one-time payment. The sooner you realize you can now sell, test, and rotate...
Startup Liquidity Can Vanish Overnight, Even After Success
Liquidity is thin in startups It's entirely possible for you to have had a $100m acquisition offer last year and 0 offers today Or to close an oversubscribed rounds just a few months ago and have 0 VC interest today
PIMinto Product Information Management: 2026 Platform Overview
PIMinto is a cloud‑based product information management platform designed for ecommerce firms that need to centralize, enrich, and distribute product data across multiple sales channels. It offers unlimited data feeds, AI‑driven content creation, and a bidirectional Shopify sync while maintaining...
Delegate $10 Tasks, Protect Your $500/Hour Value
What blows my mind is seeing people charge $500+/hr and then spend their day doing $10/hr admin tasks. Last year, I worked with a company where the Head of Sales spent most of his time building HubSpot forms, cleaning spreadsheets,...
Search Evolved: From Typed Queries to AI Conversations
If you go back in time to the year 2020, when you performed a search, how did you do it? You probably went to Google and just typed in a query. And every so often, you may have even used voice search. But...
The Efficiency Imperative: Optimizing Tech Stacks for Smarter Digital Agency Marketing
Marketing budgets have slipped to just 7.7% of company revenue, forcing CMOs to prove every pound spent. The rise of fragmented SaaS tools has created data silos that slow decision‑making and inflate costs. Leaders are now shifting from buying new...
One Focus Per Person Drives Momentum, Reveals Stagnation
Peter Thiel’s leadership hack? Laser in on one crucial focus per person. No distractions, no clutter, just relentless focus. This strategy creates progress where it counts and quickly exposes any lack of momentum. https://t.co/2xQYgAEpuA
Emotion Drives Action: Make Audiences Feel to Influence
Timeless marketing wisdom: You've gotta make people FEEL something if you want them to DO something
B2B Marketing Strategies: A Complete Guide
Neil Patel’s B2B content marketing guide argues that volume‑driven tactics no longer deliver pipeline. He proposes a revenue‑first system where every piece is filtered by its impact on sales and aligned with buyer intent. The post outlines proven tactics—pain‑first topics,...
2027 Poised for Record‑breaking IPO Wave
2025 in the end was better for IPOs than 2022-2024, but still pretty Meh per @WSJ But 2027 (plus or minus)? Databricks, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, Canva, Stripe, etc? Probably will be the great stretch for IPOs of all time. ...
Profit First, Then Re‑Accelerate Growth in 2026
Hooray, you got profitable But did you re-accelerate growth? 👉That's got to be Job #1 in 2026 The markets are clear here https://t.co/ABDiIIggDK
Migration Fees Can Delay Even High‑value Vendor Switches
I almost switched to over to an $80,000 a year vendor the other — after many, many years on the competiton. What stopped me? The $7,500 migration fee It’s not that I can’t afford it. It’s just that, combined with...
Wealthfront’s 17‑Year Pivot to Cash Banking Yields IPO
Wealthfront IPO'd today at $2.6B 🎉 The 17-year journey: 2008: Founded as "kaChing" 2014: Peak at $700M valuation 2018: Down round to $500M 😬 2022: $1.4B UBS deal collapses 2025: IPO @ $14/share, $485M raised The pivot that saved them? Cash accounts now drive 75% of...
AI‑first Hype Hurt Duolingo: Trust, Monetization, Proof Missing
Duolingo went “AI first" 6 months ago. Revenue grew 41%. The stock dropped 64%. Here's what they missed 👇 On paper, things looked great. > ~$260M revenue with 73% margins > 33% YoY growth in bookings > 135M MAUs Yet...
Great Leaders Ask, Not Answer: Lead with Humanity
What if the advice we were told to avoid might be the breakthrough our team actually needs? The conventional wisdom says: Have all the answers. Lead with metrics. Stay professional. Fix weaknesses. Crush the competition. But extraordinary leaders do the...
Lead with Purpose, Not ROI, to Spark Creativity
I went on Adam Singer’s podcast to talk marketing leadership. We ended up talking about Costco hot dogs, Liquid Death, and why ROI talk can kill creativity. Hilarious I know.... but seriously... here's the break down of our discussion: 1)...
Make Customers Earn Discounts to Boost Perceived Value
Ever “bake someone happy”? That’s what an Australian kitchen products retailer did with their Black Friday promotion. They ran an interactive, print-based promotion. Customers had to heat up a sheet of baking paper to make their special discounts appear. Kitchen...
CROs Turn Into Chief Price‑Raising Officers at Stagnant B2B Firms
CROs at slow-growing B2B companies basically become experts at raising prices. Chief Price Raising Officers. That’s where the short-term growth is, at low growth. You make the quarter by forcing the existing base to pay even more. Whether they want to. ...
Inflated Prices + Deep Discounts Fail: 4 Pricing Lessons
RT @JoeContrera Does slapping a grossly inflated price on a product or service and then "discounting" it deeply as a promotion really work? (Spoiler: no.) Here are four important lessons to learn about pricing: https://t.co/4UrUOKyhAM #pricing #CX #value https://t.co/2kXHclnyIg
Layoffs Rarely Boost Growth, Often Just Maintain It
Cutting headcount alone doesn't usually lead to higher growth by itself But it often leads to at least the exact same growth
Future-Proof Your Strategy: 2026 Marketing Secrets
2026 Marketing Secrets with Neil Patel & Eric Siu https://t.co/mblYRREBgM
Lead Now as the Future CEO You’ll Become
Act as the CEO you are going to be in 18-24 months That’s what your customers, team, and partners want to see