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Why Your B2B Email Marketing Strategy Needs to Start With Who's on the List
WSI June 2026 Most brands treat their email newsletter like a goodwill deposit. Show up consistently, deliver value, build trust, and eventually the relationship pays off. That's not wrong, but it's incomplete. And incomplete thinking about a channel this powerful is expensive. A newsletter built right isn't a brand play. It's a revenue engine. The distinction matters because it changes everything downstream: how you structure content, how you segment, how you measure, and ho

Heidi Schwende
Jun 268 min read


Google's Pre-Query Personalization Is Deciding Who Sees Your Business Before They Search
Search has always been reactive. Someone had a need, they typed it, you showed up or you didn't. That model isn't dead. But it's no longer the whole game, and for a growing slice of buyers, it's not even where the game starts. Google is building a profile of each user before they open a search bar. This is what the industry is starting to call pre-query personalization, and it changes the problem marketers are solving for. It connects Gemini to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google

Heidi Schwende
Jun 197 min read


Marketers Got Really Good at Measuring the Wrong Things
Marketing spent the last fifteen years perfecting its ability to track attention. Impressions, reach, clicks, views, engagement rates. Agencies built dashboards that update in real time and reporting systems that can slice data seventeen different ways before breakfast. And somewhere along the way, people stopped asking whether any of it mattered. If you're a B2B executive looking at your marketing reports, you're probably seeing metrics that make your team look busy. What yo

Heidi Schwende
Jan 2211 min read


Google Just Handed Small Businesses a Weapon They Didn't Know They Needed
Google just expanded Opal—their no-code AI app builder—from 15 countries to over 160. If you haven't heard of Opal yet, you're not alone. It launched quietly earlier this year through Google Labs, and frankly, most businesses weren't paying attention. They should have been. Here's why this matters to you: we're watching the democratization of AI happen in real-time, and if you're not building custom automation into your business operations right now, you're already behind. Wh

Heidi Schwende
Nov 11, 20255 min read


How to speak search engine
What does it mean to speak search engine? The challenge of how to ‘speak’ search engine and tell it how to surface our content is what...

Heidi Schwende
Aug 24, 20202 min read


From the Content Marketing Institute on how to Republish Blog Posts
This is one of our favorite articles on how to republish blog posts. The real benefit of republishing is to help bring more traffic from...

Heidi Schwende
Sep 19, 20191 min read


How content marketing and a blog can help your business
Search engines are run by computers. Big, gigantic, temperature-controlled computers who can only do exactly what they’re told. Because...

Heidi Schwende
Sep 18, 20194 min read
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