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Email continues to be one of the most dependable channels for building customer relationships and supporting revenue growth.

Forbes Advisor’s latest statistics highlight email’s strong return on investment, especially when businesses use it to send relevant, permission-based communication.

Marketing teams should look closely at:

🔵 Whether each email supports one clear objective
🔵 How audiences are segmented by behavior or interest
🔵 Which automated workflows support the customer journey
🔵 What performance looks like beyond opens and clicks
🔵 How email contributes to pipeline, retention, and revenue

Strong email programs are built on relevance, timing, and consistent ex*****on. The data supports email’s value, but the strategy determines the results.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/software/email-marketing-statistics-jul-26/



Source: Forbes

AI is changing how customers search, compare, and make decisions.

For business leaders, the challenge is knowing which changes deserve attention and which ones are noise. That’s where WSI’s global network creates real value for clients.

Our consultants share what they’re seeing across industries, regions, and client work, then turn those insights into practical marketing guidance.

That helps businesses:

🔵 Understand how AI and search are affecting customer behavior
🔵 Apply new technology with clear business goals
🔵 Learn from proven strategies across markets
🔵 Make decisions based on experience, not assumptions
🔵 Keep growth strategies current as technology changes

The result is clearer guidance, stronger strategy, and more confidence about where to invest next.

https://wsiwebenhancers.com/wsi-strengthens-global-network-to-help-clients-navigate-ai-driven-marketing-changes/

Organic growth on TikTok is getting more competitive, which makes performance analysis essential.

Socialinsider’s latest research highlights the value of consistent publishing, audience engagement, and measuring what drives reach and interaction. Viral moments are hard to plan. A repeatable content process gives teams something they can improve over time.

Marketing teams should look at:

🔵 Which videos generate the highest watch time
🔵 How consistently the brand is posting
🔵 Which topics encourage shares and saves
🔵 What top-performing content has in common
🔵 Which performance trends should shape future content

Stronger TikTok strategies are built through testing, learning, and refining with data.

https://www.socialinsider.io/blog/organic-tiktok-growth/



Source: Socialinsider

Local buyers are building trust before they ever contact a business.

They may check Google Business Profiles, reviews, AI-generated summaries, directories, social platforms, and local content while comparing their options. If those sources tell different stories, confidence drops.

A practical local visibility check should include:

🔵 Business information across every platform
🔵 The quality and recency of customer reviews
🔵 Local pages that answer common buyer questions
🔵 How AI tools describe the business
🔵 Third-party mentions that support credibility

Strong local SEO helps buyers find your business, verify your information, and trust what they see.

https://wsiwebenhancers.com/local-seo-no-longer-enough-to-win-leads/

ChatGPT’s ad testing adds a new layer to AI-powered customer discovery.

Businesses have already adjusted to changes in search, social media, and AI-generated answers. Advertising inside AI conversations could influence how buyers discover products and services during the decision-making process.

Marketing teams should start asking:

🔵 Where could AI advertising support existing paid media campaigns?
🔵 Does website content give AI systems clear, accurate information?
🔵 How should paid visibility and organic AI visibility work together?
🔵 Which metrics would matter in an AI advertising channel?
🔵 How might customer behavior change as AI becomes part of the buying journey?

The testing is still limited. That makes now a good time to evaluate where AI advertising could fit into a broader digital marketing strategy.

https://wsiwebenhancers.com/chatgpt-ads-are-open-for-testing-is-your-marketing-system-ready/

AI is making ad creative easier to produce, but better performance still depends on strategy.

A recent Social Media Examiner breakdown outlines a practical framework for using AI to analyze audience data, generate creative variations, and refine performance over time.

For marketing teams, the key is making sure AI-supported creative is connected to the full buyer journey.

That means reviewing:
🔵 Whether the ad speaks to a real customer problem
🔵 Whether the proof supports the claim
🔵 Whether the landing page matches the ad message
🔵 Whether creative variations are being tested with a clear goal
🔵 Whether paid media insights are feeding future content and campaign decisions

AI can make testing faster. Strategy helps make the testing useful.



https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/ai-for-better-ad-creative-3-steps-to-better-results/

Scattered tools. Unclear prompts. Inconsistent use.
That is where a lot of professionals are right now with AI.

Maybe you are using ChatGPT for emails. Someone on your team is testing it for research. Another person is experimenting with summaries, proposals, or social content.
The opportunity is real, but without structure, it can be hard to know what is useful, what is safe, and what is worth repeating.

WSI AI Campus Open Cohorts are designed as a practical starting point.
In a live, instructor-led session, you can learn alongside other professionals who are also figuring out how AI fits into real business work. Starting August 5th at 11am EST.

You may already have access to AI tools.
Now it’s time to learn how to use them with more structure, safety, and confidence.

Drop a DM or comment "AI Training" if you are interested in learning more.

Lesson #12: Strategy Before Everything Else

Neal Lappe’s WSI story comes back to a lesson many businesses learn the hard way.
Jumping straight into tactics can feel productive.

But without a strategy, ex*****on gets expensive fast.

SEO, paid media, content, social, AI, and automation all work better when the goal is clear, the audience is understood, and success is measured properly.

More activity does not always mean more progress.

Before adding another campaign, platform, or tool, get the strategy right.

https://wsiwebenhancers.com/the-people-the-lessons-the-journey-30-stories-that-shaped-wsis-30-year-history/

Query Fan-Out Is Changing How Search Strategy Works.

Google’s guidance on generative AI features is a useful reminder for marketers: search strategy needs to account for broader, more conversational journeys.

If your marketing team is still optimizing pages for a single, static keyword string, you are fighting a losing battle. Google’s Gemini-powered search now operates on a mechanism called Query Fan-Out.

What does this mean for your B2B strategy?

The One-to-Many Shift: Traditional keywords used to have a 1:1 relationship with a search page. Now, Google takes a user's initial question and "fans it out" into multiple related queries to build a composite AI result.

Hidden Ranking Opportunities: A piece of content that sits at result #7 for a broad term might be chosen as the #1 default answer for an AI fan-out query.

The Stateful Journey: AI search sessions allow users to ask continuous follow-up questions within the same chat.

At WSI, we utilize Adaptive SEO to build deep, topic-level authority. We help your site move beyond single-keyword targeting by mapping out the entire conversational path a buyer takes before making a decision.



https://moz.com/blog/google-geo-guidelines

Watched a few AI tutorials and still unsure what to do next?
You are not alone.
A lot of AI learning stops at ideas.

Business professionals need something more practical: guided practice, real examples, and space to ask specific questions about how AI fits into daily work.

That is why WSI AI Campus Open Cohorts are live and instructor-led.
You can join a collaborative session with other professionals, practice using AI on real business tasks, and leave with skills you can apply right away.

AI adoption starts to feel clearer when you have a structured place to practice.
This is a practical place to start.

Comment "AI Training" or send a DM to get involved in our next session, starting August 5th. Only 2 spots left, secure yours today!