Carrie Gallagher

HubSpot Marketing Consultant | HubSpot Solutions Partner

Content Marketing

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AI predictions that will completely change marketing in 2025

By: Nathan Lands
Publication Date: 2025-07-17

For the past few months, I‘ve been deep in the trenches testing the latest AI models, spending $200 a month on ChatGPT Pro, and building games with AI that would have required entire development teams just months ago.

I’ve watched reasoning models solve problems that stump PhD mathematicians. What I’m seeing isn‘t just incremental improvement; it’s a complete phase change.

After countless hours testing ChatGPT against Claude, Gemini 2.0, and similar AI competitors, I’m convinced 2025 will be the year AI goes from “cool tool” to “fundamental infrastructure.” Here are my six predictions, as well as tactical steps marketers can take to stay ahead.

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The state of inclusive marketing in 2025

Curated from HubSpot.com

Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success.

The Unstereotype Alliance studied 300+ global brands and found that those who create inclusive advertisements brought in 5% higher short-term sales and 16% higher long-term sales, as well as a 62% higher likelihood of a brand being a customer’s first choice.

The study results tell me that inclusive marketing resonates with consumers. It shows them that marketers understand their needs, how to meet them and care about their experiences. It’s also clearly good for business.

Despite this, inclusive marketing isn’t a commonplace practice. So, for this piece, I surveyed 100+ marketing and advertising professionals about whether they practice inclusive marketing and how they implement it and got tips from inclusivity experts on how businesses can create an effective inclusive marketing strategy.

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What you’re doing wrong in your marketing emails

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One of the hardest parts of our three-lesson format is deciding what NOT to include, and a lot of really useful advice is gathering dust in my Google Drive.

This week, I’ve got three lessons I just couldn’t waste from the most-shared interview in the history of Masters in Marketing. Email marketing expert Jay Schwedelson is back, and this time he’s coming in hot with what you’re (probably) doing wrong with your email marketing.

And, in all honesty, I’ve committed some of these sins with this very newsletter. (Oopsie!)

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How to Create a Social Media Budget & Spend Smarter in 2025

A whopping 60% of marketers feel that the way they spend their budget — and the ROI it produces — is being scrutinized more now than in the past.

So, it’s no surprise you landed here to discover how you can better optimize your social media budget this year.

As a content pro (and former social media manager), I’ve got you covered. Let’s talk about what a good social media marketing budget looks like, who should be involved, and how you can data-charge your approach.

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