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Open Source Is Good Marketing

Summary: Jean-Jérôme Schmidt-Soisson, marketing lead at VictoriaMetrics, shows that open source and marketing are not opposites. Open source itself can be a powerful growth engine through trust, community, content, documentation, and discoverability. The article explains VictoriaMetrics’ pull-based marketing strategy, anchored in open-source values, to support adoption and business growth. This is our second article on the relationship between open source and marketing.

Common Mistakes Companies Make When Choosing Email Marketing Software

Every email marketing platform promises roughly the same thing. Better automation. Higher open rates. More conversions. Easier customer communication. Browse a few vendor websites and you'll quickly notice a pattern: every platform claims to be intuitive, powerful, AI-driven, and trusted by thousands of businesses. Feature comparison pages list hundreds of capabilities, pricing tables look straightforward, and customer testimonials make every solution sound like the obvious choice.

5 Best Link Building Agencies for SaaS Companies

Feature pages do not rank on their own, funded competitors crowd the same keywords, and AI assistants now decide which software brands get cited in an answer. Backlinks sit near the center of all three problems. For a SaaS company, the right partner is the difference between links that move product pages and links that quietly waste a quarter of budget.

Building a Marketing Plan on One Page: A Format Thai Business Owners Actually Use

Ask ten small business owners in Thailand if they have a marketing plan, and most will say yes pointing to a folder of half-finished notes, a Canva slide deck nobody opens twice, or a strategy document a freelancer wrote eighteen months ago that no longer resembles what the business actually does. A marketing plan that isn't looked at isn't a plan. It's a filing cabinet decoration. The businesses that actually stick to a plan tend to have one thing in common: the plan fits on a single page, gets pinned somewhere visible, and gets revisited often enough to still be true.

How to Choose the Right Influencer Search Tool for Your Brand

Influencer marketing works for ecommerce brands because it borrows trust that already exists. A creator's audience has chosen to follow them, which is a very different starting point from a cold ad impression. For a WordPress or WooCommerce store, two things have to work together. You need to find relevant creators without spending a week on it, and you need the traffic they send to land somewhere that converts.

Why Tracking AI Overviews Is a Data Pipeline Problem, Not a Marketing One

Something quietly moved onto the ops backlog over the past eighteen months. Executives began asking whether the company appears in AI-generated search answers, and the request landed with whoever owns data collection rather than with the people who own the question.

10 Tools To Build Visibility in AI-Driven Answers in 2026

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The Hidden Ops Cost of Marketing Automation Sprawl

Every marketing team eventually hits the same wall. A fresh CRM gets stitched to an email platform, a social scheduler gets bolted onto a data-cleaning plugin, and a lead-scoring tool only half syncs with everything else. Each addition solves an immediate problem, and none of them looks like a mistake on its own. The operations side of the business ends up carrying the cost of that accumulation, and it rarely shows up on a line item until something breaks: a sync fails silently, a list goes stale, or two systems disagree about which contact actually opted in.