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09/07/2026

68% of marketers expect their automation budget to increase this year.

The question isn't whether to automate. It's whether you can afford NOT to while your competitors already are.

(EngageBay starts free. No credit card. Just less chaos.)

09/04/2026

"Make the customer the hero of your story." — Ann Handley

Most brand social media does the opposite.

Hero: the product.
Supporting cast: the features.
Plot: why we're better than competitors.
Villain: anyone not using us yet.

Flip the script. Your customer's win is a better story than any feature you've ever shipped.

What's a customer win you're proud of lately?

09/02/2026

2019 office: "Has anyone seen the Johnson account file?"

2026 office: "Can someone tell the AI why it scheduled a demo with a lead we marked as 'do not contact'?"

Different problems. Same energy.

08/31/2026

Marketing automation ROI in 2026: $5.44 returned for every $1 spent.

Top-quartile teams? $8.71 per dollar.

The difference between average and top-quartile isn't budget.

It's tighter CRM integration + AI-assisted segmentation.

The gap isn't how much you spend. It's how intelligently the tools connect.

08/26/2026

"Selling is really about having conversations with people and helping improve their life." — Lori Richardson

Which means the best salespeople were basically therapists all along.

No wonder they need a good CRM.

Even therapists take notes.

08/24/2026

The most important sales skill of 2026 isn't closing.

It's knowing when to let the AI handle it and when to step in yourself.

Agentic CRM can now qualify leads, book meetings, log calls, and draft follow-ups autonomously.

What it can't do:

- read the room.
- notice someone's tone shifted.
- know that a prospect just went through a restructure.

AI handles volume. Humans handle nuance.

That's the division of labor that wins.

08/21/2026

"Automated" doesn't mean "set it and forget it."

It means "set it, test it, fix it, wonder why it broke, Slack your dev, fix it again, and then forget it."

You're welcome.

08/19/2026

"The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer." — Peter Drucker

Peter Drucker said this in 1954.

Seventy-two years later, most businesses are still better at creating customers
than keeping them.

Acquisition gets the budget. Retention gets the afterthought.

Your CRM should flip that equation. Ours does.

08/17/2026

Types of meetings that should have been emails:

→ The "alignment" meeting
→ The "quick sync" (45 mins)
→ The "let's get everyone in a room" (to decide nothing)
→ The retrospective of the retrospective
→ The meeting to plan the next meeting

We need a 12-step program for this.

08/14/2026

There are now 15,384 marketing technology solutions available.

Up from 150 in 2011.

That's a 100x increase in 14 years.

And yet the #1 complaint from marketing teams in 2026 is still: "Our tools don't talk to each other."

We didn't have a software shortage. We had an integration problem the whole time.

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