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♀️ Brands continue to tragically underestimate the power of the female consumer.

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Monday: Carmen Hill’s Prism Content Strategy offers a structured, three-dimensional approach that ensures every piece of of your content serves multiple purposes and aligns with both business goals and audience needs.

Thursday:  Let’s talk web push notifications—browser messages that you can send to users who have visited your site and opted in to receive them. It’s all about re-engaging users with a CTA. Here are some best practices and use cases to get started.

• 💡 According to our poll, 41% of marketers are currently utilizing this channel, while 42% plan to implement it this year.

Alena posted: “What are smart marketers, who are bringing socials in-house vs. using an agency, using to post/schedule their socials and ads?”

Katie posted: “B2B social media content creators: I would love to hear about your content capturing strategy for conferences.”

Morganne posted: “I’m a marketing manager (team of one) for a construction company and we’re hoping to grow our marketing capabilities in 2025. I’m debating on hiring someone internally or hiring work to an agency as needed.
Thoughts?”

Rachel posted: “For next year… what is the etiquette when using ‘Merry Christmas?’ I’ve kept it ‘Happy Holidays’ with winter themes because, quite honestly, I’ve never taken the time to research/acknowledge all the other possible holidays. What are the best practices here?”

Ingredients

• 1.5 blood orange, peeled
• 1 cup water
• ½ Fresno pepper, sliced
• 1 tbsp Aquafaba (optional, but adds fun froth)
• 1 tbsp lime juice
• 1 tbsp agave or maple syrup
• 2-3 large basil leaves, crushed in hands
• ½ cup ice

Sound good? Get the instructions from Orchids and Sweet Tea.

Answer: Milton the Toaster.

He was a short-lived mascot, but perhaps not quite as doomed as Pop-Tarts’ contemporary mascots.