Just because a startup has little name recognition doesn’t mean its founder has to be invisible. In B2B markets, buyers, investors, prospective employees, and partners often research the people behind a young company before taking the business seriously.

A strong personal brand gives those audiences evidence of expertise and credibility. The goal is not to turn the founder into an influencer. It is to make a compelling professional reputation visible to the people who matter to the company.

Build Around a Specific Area of Expertise

Broad positioning is difficult to remember. A founder who regularly talks about “innovation” or “leadership” competes with thousands of people saying similar things.

Specific expertise creates a clearer association. The founder of a logistics software startup might discuss warehouse bottlenecks, freight visibility, or inventory data rather than general entrepreneurship. A cybersecurity founder could focus on identity management or the security problems facing a particular industry.

The strongest topics usually sit at the intersection of the founder’s experience, the company’s product, and the problems customers are actively trying to solve.

Turn Experience into Useful Content

B2B audiences generally have little reason to follow constant company promotion. They may pay attention to a founder who consistently explains something useful.

That content doesn’t need to be complicated. A founder might break down a recurring customer problem, explain why a common industry practice fails, discuss lessons from product development, or analyze a meaningful market change.

Firsthand observations are particularly valuable. Instead of posting generic advice about improving operations, a founder could explain why customers repeatedly struggle with a particular workflow and what the pattern reveals. A consistent point of view also gives marketing teams material that can support articles, conference pitches, podcasts, newsletters, and sales conversations.

Make Professional Claims Verifiable

A founder’s biography, company website, LinkedIn profile, speaking biography, and media appearances should tell a consistent professional story. Titles, previous roles, education, awards, publications, and business accomplishments should be accurate and relevant.

That record can matter beyond marketing. A founder building a career in the United States may, depending on individual circumstances, speak with an immigration attorney or O1 visa consultant about documenting professional achievements.

Public recognition can provide supporting evidence in some contexts, but immigration eligibility is a legal matter and should never be reduced to a branding exercise. Credibility is easier to build when public claims can withstand outside scrutiny.

Choose Visibility Based on the Buyer

Founders don’t need to appear on every platform. The best channel depends on where customers and industry peers actually spend time.

A founder selling specialized manufacturing technology may gain more from trade publications and industry conferences than a high-volume consumer social platform. Someone targeting corporate finance leaders might prioritize professional networks, webinars, podcasts, and publications read by finance teams.

Marketing teams can track which activities generate qualified website traffic, sales conversations, speaking invitations, newsletter subscriptions, or partnership inquiries. Visibility without a relevant audience is mostly noise.

Keep the Founder and Company Connected, but Separate

A founder’s reputation should reinforce the company without becoming identical to it. Companies change products, enter new markets, raise capital, merge, or close. Professional credibility should remain useful through those changes. That also means founders should avoid making every post a product pitch. Expertise earns attention before promotion does.

For startup founders, personal branding is most effective when it makes genuine professional experience easier to find and evaluate. Specific expertise, useful content, verifiable accomplishments, and selective visibility can establish credibility before the company itself has a long track record. Check out the infographic below for more information.

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By the time a B2B buyer agrees to a first call, most of the deciding is done. Around 4,000 buyers took part in the 6sense 2025 Buyer Experience Report, and on average they reached out to a vendor about 61% of the way through their journey.

By then the shortlist is usually settled. The winning vendor was already on the day-one shortlist 95% of the time, and four deals in five went to the vendor the buyer favored before speaking to anyone.

Buyers also seem happy to keep it that way. Two in three would rather skip the rep altogether: 67% said so in a Gartner survey out in March 2026.

That leaves content doing most of the persuading, usually while nobody from the vendor is watching. It also changes what content has to do. Being found is step one. If the buyer lands on the page and finds nothing they can check, they go and look at someone else.

Who reads the content first now?

Increasingly, a machine does. Half of B2B software buyers (51%) now open their research in an AI chatbot more often than in Google, according to G2’s Answer Economy research from April 2026. A year before, it was 29%. The number I keep coming back to is a different one: 69% of those buyers chose a different vendor than the one they had planned on, because of what a chatbot told them.

Estimates of AI use vary with the definition. Forrester puts the share of business buyers using AI somewhere in the process at 94%, in its 2025 Buyers’ Journey Survey. What stands out more in that survey is that twice as many buyers as the year before rated generative AI or conversational search above every other source, vendor websites and salespeople included.

Gartner’s narrower question found that 45% used AI during a recent purchase. Either way, the first summary a buyer reads about a category is often written by an assistant, put together from whatever sources it can find and is willing to repeat. Webbiquity’s recent post on Livestorm’s Claude connector showed marketers running webinars by asking an assistant for what they want. Buyers have started doing their research the same way.

The click data shows the cost. Pew Research Center found that Google users who saw an AI summary clicked a traditional result in 8% of visits, against 15% for users who saw no summary. Links inside the summary itself got clicked in about 1% of visits. Ahrefs measured a 58% lower average click-through rate for the top-ranking page when an AI Overview appears.

Being cited inside the answer helps a great deal. Seer Interactive’s 2026 analysis of 5.47 million queries found that brands cited in an AI Overview earned about 120% more organic clicks per impression than brands that weren’t cited. Seer is careful to say the data doesn’t prove the citation causes the extra clicks, but the gap is large.

What makes a buyer, or an assistant, trust a page?

Google doesn’t hedge on this one. Its Search Quality Rater Guidelines put trust in the middle of E-E-A-T, and say a page that can’t be trusted gets a low rating, however expert it looks. Buyers apply much the same test.

When Redpoint Insights asked B2B professionals what makes them trust a piece of content, original research topped the list at 70%. Expert opinion got 64%, peer insight 62%, case studies 54%. A byline by itself? 22%. So putting a name on a post does very little on its own. Put that same name next to data the person gathered, or a project they actually ran, and buyers start paying attention.

Edelman and LinkedIn found something similar in their 2024 B2B Thought Leadership Impact Report. Asked how they judge what a company can really do, 73% of decision-makers said they trust its thought leadership more than its marketing materials and product sheets. And 86% said a company that keeps publishing good thought leadership is likely to get an invite to their RFP.

Meanwhile, buyers have gotten warier. Almost half (47%) told TrustRadius, for its 2026 B2B Buying Disconnect report, that they trust online resources less than they used to. Among those using AI, 94% go back and fact-check what it tells them at least some of the time.

And Gartner found 69% of buyers spotting differences between what a vendor’s website claimed and what its salespeople said. A buyer who is checking will keep checking until something either holds up or doesn’t.

How common are these signals on real company websites?

Less common than all of that would suggest. Content RevOps spent much of 2026 auditing close to 14,000 company websites across seven B2B sectors for its State of Content Marketing 2026 study, and read about 5,500 marketing job posts alongside them. For each site the question was simple enough: what does it publish, what proof is on it, who stands behind the content, and does any of it show up in search or in AI answers?

Original research shows the widest spread. Among companies that publish content regularly, it appears on about 71% of life sciences sites, where publishing data is close to standard practice. The figure is 42% in manufacturing, 35% in fintech, roughly 3 in 10 in pharma and education, and about 1 in 8 in construction.

A construction firm with even a modest annual benchmark of bid volumes or project timelines would be doing something seven in eight of its peers don’t.

Named authors are common. Somewhere between 56% and 82% of content-active sites in most sectors put a name on their content. Credentials are another matter. Author bios that show credentials appear on about 60% of life sciences sites and about half in pharma, then drop to 28% in fintech, 26% in education, and below 20% in manufacturing.

Most of these sites tell the reader who wrote the piece and not why that person should be believed, which is the part Redpoint’s respondents care about.

In fintech, the two signals most closely linked to content excellence were original research and credentialed authorship.

Where is the trust gap widest?

At the point of decision. Take the average content library of a company that publishes regularly. Roughly 40% of it is there to get attention. About 1 in 6 pieces is written for someone ready to pick a vendor. Manufacturing sits lowest at around 15%, pharma highest at about 25%, and nobody is anywhere near an even split.

Pricing shows how thin decision-stage proof can get. TrustRadius has found transparent pricing to be the top item on buyers’ wish lists for four years running, with 59% wishing vendors were more open about it in 2026.

In the audit, some form of pricing information appeared on about 38% of construction sites and about 23% of active education sites, then fell to 8% in manufacturing, under 5% in life sciences, 1.5% among asset managers, and 0.5% in pharma. Comparison pages appeared on 5% of sites or fewer in every sector where they were measured, and ROI calculators were rarer still.

This matters more as buying groups grow. Forrester’s 2026 research puts the typical B2B purchase at 13 internal stakeholders and nine external influencers, and Gartner found that 74% of buyer teams show unhealthy conflict while they decide.

The person who found a vendor has to justify the choice to people who never read the original blog post. A pricing range, an honest comparison, and a named case study with numbers are the materials that make that conversation possible. When they’re missing, the champion has nothing to forward to the rest of the group.

The audit scored this kind of material, which it called sales enablement, out of four. Education averaged 1.57, manufacturing 1.42, and asset management 0.20, so even the better sectors give buyers far more reasons to notice them than to pick them.

What do AI assistants find when they look?

Often, very little from the companies themselves. AI Overviews appeared on about 85% of high-intent education searches tested in the study and on every life sciences query tested. Yet company websites were largely absent from AI-generated answers in six of the seven sectors. In construction, the cited sources were mostly Reddit, Wikipedia, Indeed, and OSHA rather than any construction firm.

Fintech was the exception, with roughly 60% of established firms appearing in AI answers. Why fintech? Mostly because those firms are all over review sites like G2, Capterra, and NerdWallet. That fits the wider data. Muck Rack’s analysis of more than 25 million links found that earned media accounts for 84% of AI citations, and 45% of buyers in G2’s research said citations from software review sites are the most reassuring signal in an AI-generated answer.

Assistants lean on sources they can verify and on what other people say about a company. A company with no data of its own, no named experts, and little third-party coverage gets described by whoever else has written about its category.

Few teams are organized to deal with this yet. Answer-engine optimization came up in well under 1 in 50 marketing job posts across the sectors studied, and in roughly 1 in 200 in construction and pharma.

Does any of this connect to growth?

Probably, though the study is careful to call these signals and not proven causes. Maturity went up with company size, growth rate, and funding stage in every one of the seven sectors. Among education companies, 52% of the high-growth ones had an active content presence, against 43% of the slow growers.

Construction showed 39% against 31%. And inside each sector, the same companies kept turning up together: the ones that were clear about who they serve, that gave buyers material to decide with, and that bothered to publish for the late stage of the deal.

Volume isn’t what’s missing. In CMI’s 2026 research, 96% of B2B marketers said their company produces thought leadership, yet in many of those companies fewer than 5% of employees ever contribute to it.

Think of an engineering firm whose blog is written entirely by the marketing coordinator, while the project director who has delivered forty hospitals never appears. The expertise buyers are looking for exists. It just isn’t on the page.

Picture the buyer at the end of all this. They built the shortlist on their own, quite possibly with ChatGPT or Gemini reading alongside them, and now they have to walk a finance lead, an IT manager, and two skeptical colleagues through why this vendor.

What they need in that meeting is something to point at: a number the vendor published, a named person with the right background, a customer story with figures in it, a price range. Most of the company websites in the study had very little of that to offer.

Stefan Kalpachev is the founder of Content RevOps, a demand generation agency that builds content, data, and automation systems for B2B companies with long, trust-led sales. He leads its research into how companies across seven sectors market, hire, and show up in AI search, and previously worked on content for Pearson Online Learning and King’s College London.

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B2B marketers work hard to get the right message in front of the right accounts. They buy targeted ads, build nurture sequences, sponsor events, and chase placements in trade media.

The B2B Campaign Channel Already Built into Every Sales Email

Meanwhile, the sales and account teams send thousands of one-to-one emails every week to the exact people those campaigns are trying to reach, and most of those emails end with nothing more than a name, a title, and a phone number.

That sign-off is a campaign slot most marketing plans never use.

Why one-to-one email deserves a place in the plan

B2B buyers spend very little time with vendors. Gartner’s research found that buyers spend only 17% of their time meeting with suppliers, and that share gets split across every vendor on the shortlist. With three suppliers in the running, each one gets about 5%. Buyers spend around two-thirds of the journey researching and learning on their own.

That makes each real contact point with a buyer more valuable. An email from an account manager is one of the few messages a buyer reads with full attention, because it comes from a person they know and usually answers a question they asked. A relevant, well-timed banner under that email reaches someone who is already engaged.

It also adds reach without adding spend. The emails are going out anyway. The only question is whether they carry a message that supports the current campaign.

How a signature campaign works in practice

Consider a B2B team promoting a webinar. Exclaimer, an email signature management platform, can run it as an email signature campaign beneath every account manager’s sign-off, scheduled to start and stop on set dates, shown only to recipients on a HubSpot or Salesforce list, and tagged with UTM parameters so the clicks sit in the same report as the rest of the campaign.

G2 named Exclaimer in its list of the Best Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Products for 2025.

A few details make that setup work:

• Targeting by list. The banner appears only for the accounts in the webinar’s target segment; it’s not included in emails to everyone else, so existing customers and unrelated contacts don’t see an irrelevant offer.
• Dates set in advance. The banner goes live when registration opens and comes down the day of the event, with no reminder emails to the sales team.
• Nothing for reps to do. The banner slots in below each person’s signature automatically, so account managers keep writing their emails as usual.

Measuring it like any other channel

A signature banner is only worth running if you can see what it does. The simplest route is the same tagging you already use elsewhere. Google Analytics explains how to add UTM parameters to campaign URLs, such as utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign, so traffic from each link shows up in acquisition reports under the right campaign name.

For signature banners, a sensible convention might look like this:

• utm_source: email-signature
• utm_medium: email
• utm_campaign: the same campaign name used on your ads and nurture emails
• utm_content: the team or banner version, such as sales-east or banner-b

Using the same campaign name across channels matters. It lets you compare signature traffic with paid and owned channels in one view, and it keeps the signature from turning into an orphan channel that nobody reports on.

Where signature campaigns fit best

Signature banners suit messages that benefit from repetition and a personal sender. Good candidates include:

• Webinar and event registration
• New research reports or benchmark studies
• Customer case studies relevant to an account’s industry
• Product launches and feature announcements for existing customers
• Trade show meeting booking in the weeks before an event

They are less suitable for substantial discounting and heavy promotion. A sales rep’s email carries personal trust, and a banner that shouts at the reader can undercut the relationship the email is trying to build. Match the tone of the banner to the tone of the conversation.

Getting sales onboard

Sales teams sometimes worry that banners will clutter their emails or distract from the message. Two steps help.

First, involve a few senior account managers when you choose the first campaigns, so the banners reflect what buyers actually ask about. Second, share the results. When reps see that a banner drove registrations from their own accounts, the conversation changes from mere acceptance to enthusiastic requests.

Start with one campaign

You don’t need a full program to test this channel. Pick one upcoming event or content launch, choose a target list, set clear dates and tag the link. After the campaign ends, compare the signature traffic with your other channels on cost, volume and quality.

For many B2B teams, the result is a low-cost channel that runs quietly in the background of every sales conversation, reaching the accounts that matter most at the moments they are already paying attention.

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Strategic partnerships can give a young company access to customers, expertise, technology, or distribution channels that would take years to build independently. Yet the type of partnership that helps a startup gain traction may become less useful as the business grows.

Treating partnerships as something that should change with the company can keep them connected to actual growth priorities.

Early Partnerships Can Provide Market Proof

Startups usually enter partnership discussions with limited leverage. They may have an interesting product but little brand recognition, a small customer base, and few documented results. At this stage, the right partner can help establish credibility.

These relationships can also generate useful marketing material. Customer results, implementation lessons, and credible case studies often carry more weight in B2B markets than broad promotional claims. The goal should still be specific. A recognizable partner is valuable only if the relationship helps solve a real business problem.

Growth Changes What a Good Partner Looks Like

Once a company has established demand, partnership decisions need to become more systematic. The question shifts from whether a relationship can create an opportunity to whether that opportunity can be repeated.

Consider a referral partnership that produces a handful of valuable customers but requires substantial attention from senior leadership. That arrangement may work during the startup phase. At a larger scale, however, the company may need a formal channel program with defined incentives, training, lead-sharing procedures, and performance expectations.

Marketing teams also need clearer attribution. Leads generated through webinars, partner referrals, integrations, or co-branded campaigns should be tracked through the sales process. Otherwise, companies can continue investing in relationships that appear active without knowing whether they contribute meaningful pipeline or revenue.

Larger Partnerships Require More Scrutiny

As the financial and operational stakes increase, partner evaluation becomes more important. A relationship involving customer data, shared technology, international expansion, or a major distribution agreement can create risks that a simple referral arrangement does not.

Companies should examine a potential partner’s financial position, leadership, reputation, legal history, security practices, and ability to fulfill its commitments. For higher-stakes relationships, a due diligence firm may be brought in to investigate areas that require deeper verification.

This work matters because partnership problems can affect customers directly. If a critical technology provider experiences repeated outages or a distribution partner fails to meet service expectations, customers may associate the resulting problems with both companies.

Partnerships Need an Exit Point

Business relationships can outlive their usefulness. A partnership created to enter one market may matter less once the company builds its own sales presence there. Another partner may gradually stop producing referrals even though both companies continue promoting the relationship.

Periodic reviews should compare the original purpose of the partnership with current results. Revenue is one measure, but companies can also examine qualified leads, customer retention, product adoption, market access, and the resources required to maintain the relationship. Ending or restructuring an underperforming partnership can free employees to concentrate on relationships with greater potential.

Strategic partnerships can support growth at every stage, but their purpose should evolve with the company. Startups may use them to build credibility and prove market demand. Growing businesses need relationships that can produce repeatable results, while larger organizations require stronger governance and performance measurement.

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A corporate event budget can change significantly based on the room selected. The lowest rental rate does not always produce the lowest final cost because each type of space creates different requirements for seating, audiovisual equipment, catering, staffing, and setup.

For B2B marketers planning conferences, product launches, client events, or executive meetings, evaluating those secondary costs can provide a much more accurate picture of what the event will require.

Conference Rooms Keep Smaller Events Focused

Conference rooms are usually practical for workshops, sales meetings, executive sessions, and small client presentations. Many include tables, chairs, screens, and basic video conferencing equipment, which can reduce setup requirements.

Capacity deserves closer attention than the number listed by the venue. A conference room rated for 30 people may technically fit that many seats but feel crowded once presentation equipment, catering, or additional staff enter the space.

Event technology can also change the cost. A basic screen may be included, while better microphones, multiple cameras, or dedicated technical support carry separate charges. For a hybrid B2B event, these expenses may be necessary if remote participants need to interact with people in the room rather than simply watch a presentation.

Ballrooms Create More Production Decisions

Ballrooms provide flexibility because organizers can build the room around the program. The same space might host a keynote in the morning and a networking reception that evening. That flexibility often means more production work. Stages, screens, lighting, sound equipment, draping, and furniture may need to be installed specifically for the event.

A large ballroom can also require additional audiovisual equipment because attendees seated far from the stage still need to see presentations clearly.

Labor costs can increase when the room changes configurations during the event. Moving from theater seating to banquet tables requires time and staff, which should be discussed with the venue before the schedule is finalized.

For events that will generate video, interviews, or other marketing assets, media production services may add another layer to the budget. Camera placement, lighting, recording equipment, and crew space should be considered during room selection rather than after the layout has been approved.

Auditoriums Reduce Some Setup Costs

Auditoriums are built around presentations, making them useful for keynote sessions, industry panels, training programs, and company-wide meetings. Fixed seating and established sightlines can reduce furniture and staging requirements.

The tradeoff is less flexibility. Networking, meals, and exhibits usually need to happen elsewhere. If an event includes a presentation followed by a reception, organizers may have to rent a lobby, ballroom, or additional function space. Food and beverage costs can therefore shift rather than disappear.

Breakout Rooms Multiply Small Expenses

Breakout rooms are common at conferences where attendees separate into smaller educational or discussion sessions. Individually, these rooms may seem inexpensive. Across several rooms, however, repeated expenses can become substantial.

Each space may need presentation equipment, microphones, water, signage, and technical support. If five sessions run simultaneously, equipment usually cannot be shared between them. Scheduling affects this calculation.

Staggered sessions can sometimes allow equipment or staff to move between rooms, although the event schedule needs enough transition time for that approach to work reliably.

Room selection should ultimately be evaluated against the event format rather than rental price alone. A ballroom offers flexibility but may require substantial production. An auditorium can simplify presentations while creating separate reception costs.

Conference and breakout rooms solve different needs but bring their own capacity and technology considerations. Look over the infographic below for more information.

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B2B marketing efforts can often take weeks or months and require marketers to connect with multiple stakeholders. While a digital campaign can effectively target multiple businesses in a short amount of time, marketers can incorporate direct mail to amplify their efforts. Direct mail can continue the conversation and further build brand awareness.

Significant Impact When Direct Mail is Combined with a Digital Campaign

A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) white paper evaluating the impact of direct mail in marketing reported the following statistics:

• 40% conversion rates when digital and direct mail are combined
• 68% of marketing respondents said combining digital and direct mail increased website visits
• 60% of marketing respondents said combining digital and direct mail increased ROI

Some companies even experienced an average 15% increase in sales when they incorporated direct mail with digital marketing strategies.

Together, these statistics show that direct mail can strengthen digital campaigns by generating more traffic, conversions, and sales.

Why is Direct Mail Different from Digital Marketing Channels?

Direct mail stands out from most (digital) marketing channels because its real, tangible nature makes it harder to ignore. It also delivers these four benefits.

Physical Interaction

Unlike digital marketing channels, direct mail requires the target audience to engage physically by opening it up and reading its content. Just the act of touching an object, such as a piece of mail, activates parts of the brain that digital media cannot, making direct mail an effective way to cut through the noise and connect with an individual.

Unique Experience

Direct mail also provides the opportunity to appeal to the recipients’ senses. Examples include using specialty paper, scented materials, and interactive designs. To take it one step further, B2B marketers can also direct their audience to advanced technology, such as augmented reality and near field communications, via a QR code or link in a mail piece.

A fun, unique experience will likely create a lasting impression and stand out from competitors.

Greater Visibility  

Even if the target audience doesn’t open the mail immediately, the mail will likely be on their desk for a few days. This allows for more visibility and awareness of a brand since a piece of mail can’t be easily dismissed like an email with a single swipe.

A piece of mail doesn’t have to compete in a crowded email box, making it more likely that the recipient will notice it. Combined with personalization, mail can speak directly to an individual and show how their organization will benefit from working with a particular business.

Personalization

Direct mail provides marketers the opportunity to send a personalized message. For example, if they’re targeting a particular stakeholder, they can create a message that will get the stakeholder to take action. Custom postcard printing services make it easy to produce personalized postcards with tailored messaging, branded graphics, and unique calls to action for different audience segments.

How Can Direct Mail Amplify the Efforts of a Digital Campaign?

When building a digital campaign, marketers should brainstorm ways they can amplify their efforts. While using a combination of online channels will build awareness and reach more audience, direct mail can serve as a personalized follow up to businesses who have engaged with the campaign online. It can also redirect prospects back to the digital campaign, driving additional online engagement.

As with any marketing strategy personalization is key to achieving higher response rates. B2B marketing teams can segment their direct mail list using the data from the prospect’s initial interaction with the digital campaign. Here are 4 B2B segmentation methods (dimensions of a B2B buyer persona) to try:

• Firmographic: Group prospective organizations by broad business characteristics, such as industry, company size, location, and revenue. These characteristics will help produce messaging that speaks to a group’s priorities.
• Needs-based: Different companies have different needs. Think about the problems they are trying to solve and generate direct mail content that focuses on solving those issues.
• Account-based: Marketers targeting high-profile prospects should create custom outreach for individual organizations rather than grouping companies broadly.
• Technographic: Technographic segmentation evaluates the systems and tools a business already uses and focuses on how a new product can improve that business’s efficiency and return on investment (ROI). It can also highlight how a product reduces risk.

Strengthen Digital Campaign Performance with Direct Mail

Continue the momentum of a digital campaign by following up with prospective businesses via direct mail. Direct mail offers unique experiences and lasting impressions that online mediums can’t provide, making it a valuable tool for B2B marketers.

Denise Denton is Vice President of Marketing, Franchise Services, LLC. Franchise Services is a franchisor that owns the printing, signs and marketing services brands Sir Speedy, PIP and Signal Graphics.

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That’s increasingly where business software is headed. Livestorm’s new verified connector for Claude lets marketers manage events, sessions, and attendees simply by asking for what they want in plain English.

The big picture: The announcement is about more than making webinar management easier. It’s an example of a larger shift in how we’ll interact with business software.

Instead of learning how to operate software, we’re increasingly going to tell software what we want accomplished.

Livestorm turns conversation into action

Livestorm MCP is now available as a verified connector in Claude’s connector directory.

Once connected, users can ask Claude to work with their Livestorm workspace conversationally. No API key generation, copying URLs, or developer assistance is required for the verified Claude connector.

Why it matters: Consider two of the least glamorous parts of running webinars and virtual events.

Before an event, marketers have to create sessions, organize registrants, and import or manage signup data.

Afterward comes another administrative slog: exporting attendance information, comparing attendees against registrants, analyzing engagement, and determining which people warrant follow-up.

The Livestorm connector can collapse much of that work into a conversation. Instead of navigating through interfaces and spreadsheets, a marketer can ask Claude to retrieve information, analyze it, and—in supported cases—take action in Livestorm. That’s a subtle but significant change.

Wait—what exactly is MCP?

Quick definition: MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, an open standard introduced by Anthropic in 2024 for connecting AI assistants with external data sources and business applications.

Think of MCP as a common language that enables AI systems to communicate with other software. Rather than building a completely different custom AI integration for every application, developers can expose data and capabilities through a standardized protocol.

The key phrase is two-way connections. MCP isn’t limited to letting AI retrieve information. Depending on the implementation and permissions, an AI assistant can also take actions in the connected system.

That’s what makes this development more interesting than simply asking an AI chatbot questions about webinar data.

What marketers can actually do with Livestorm MCP

State of play: Livestorm exposes tools covering events, sessions, attendees, and related data through its MCP server. For marketers, several applications immediately stand out:

• Create events conversationally. Tell Claude something like, “Create a product demo next Wednesday with morning and afternoon sessions,” rather than working through the setup screens.
• Register people in bulk. Give it a group of webinar signups and ask that they be registered for the appropriate event.
• Analyze event performance. Ask for registration and attendance numbers across events and calculate show-up rates without exporting everything to a spreadsheet first.
• Segment attendees. Identify people based on whether they registered, attended, or demonstrated particular levels of engagement.
• Manage event information. Update events and sessions or retrieve organizational information without hunting through menus.

These aren’t necessarily revolutionary tasks individually.

What’s different: The interface is becoming the conversation. That eliminates much of the mechanical work that sits between knowing what you want to accomplish and actually getting it done.

The killer use case may come after the webinar

Creating events through a conversation is convenient. But the post-event possibilities may offer greater business value.

Why it matters: B2B marketers don’t ultimately care how many people registered for a webinar. They care whether the webinar generated engagement, opportunities, pipeline, and eventually revenue.

Suppose 500 people register for a webinar.

Traditionally, marketing might export the registration and attendance data, manipulate it in a spreadsheet or marketing automation platform, identify useful engagement signals, and then create a list for sales follow-up.

With the Livestorm connector, a marketer can instead ask: “Show me which registrants attended more than 30 minutes of yesterday’s webinar and rank them by engagement.”

That’s where conversational software starts becoming genuinely interesting. A simple registration tells you someone was interested enough to fill out a form. Actual attendance tells you more.

Thirty or 45 minutes of attention can be an even stronger buying signal—particularly when combined with other first-party intent and engagement data. The connector helps turn that behavioral information into something marketing and sales can act on while the event is still fresh.

From dashboards to conversations

For decades, improvements in business software interfaces followed roughly the same path. Command lines gave way to graphical interfaces. Desktop applications moved into browsers. Mobile apps simplified those interfaces for smaller screens.

Generative AI may produce a more fundamental change.

The emerging model: You don’t necessarily need to know where a function is located in an application. You need to know what you want to accomplish.

The AI handles more of the translation between intent and execution. That doesn’t mean traditional interfaces are disappearing tomorrow. Complex applications will still need dashboards, controls, visualizations, configuration screens, and other conventional UI elements.

But: The conversational layer may increasingly become the starting point.

A marketer won’t necessarily think, “Where do I go to export last month’s webinar attendance?”

They’ll ask, “Which webinars last month had the highest attendance rates?”

And then: “Which attendees stayed for at least 75% of those sessions?”

And perhaps: “Rank those people by engagement and prepare the list for follow-up.”

The interface starts fading into the background.

Claude is a big part of the story—but not the whole story

Livestorm’s verified Claude connector makes this capability particularly accessible because the connection can be made directly through Claude’s connector directory.

But Livestorm’s MCP implementation isn’t limited to Claude.

Go deeper: Livestorm describes its MCP server as client-agnostic. Its documentation currently includes connection instructions for other MCP-compatible environments, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Dust.

That’s important strategically. MCP potentially gives software vendors a way to make their applications accessible through multiple AI environments without reinventing every integration from scratch.

For marketers, it points toward a world in which the AI assistant may increasingly become a unified conversational layer across the marketing technology stack. Instead of jumping among a dozen applications, you may eventually ask an AI agent to retrieve information and execute tasks across several of them.

There are still guardrails

Yes, but: Conversational access doesn’t mean giving an AI agent unlimited control.

The Livestorm connector respects the permissions associated with the user’s account, so Claude can only access workspaces and information that user is authorized to access. And because the connector can perform write actions—not merely retrieve data—users should review proposed actions before confirming them.

There are also limits to the information available through the connector. It works with event data such as attendance, chat, and contact information from completed sessions, but it doesn’t currently handle event recordings or transcripts.

Those are reasonable boundaries for a technology that is moving business software from “show me information” toward “do this for me.”

The bigger shift: Software becomes less visible

For B2B marketers, the Livestorm connector is useful on its own.

But its larger significance may be what it tells us about where martech is going.

The old model: Learn the software > navigate the interface > manipulate the data > perform the task.

The emerging model: Describe the outcome > let AI work across the software > review the result.

That’s potentially transformative for a martech landscape notorious for complexity, underutilized features, integration headaches, and endless tabs.

It also changes what makes business software valuable. Features still matter. Integrations still matter. And data quality certainly matters.

But increasingly, accessibility to AI agents may matter too. Software that can securely expose its data and capabilities to AI systems becomes easier for humans to use—not because its interface necessarily gets simpler, but because users may need to interact with that interface less often.

The bottom line

Livestorm’s Claude connector is a practical productivity enhancement for webinar and event marketers today. It’s also a preview.

We’re moving toward a world where using marketing software means less clicking, exporting, importing, sorting, and navigating—and more simply saying what needs to get done. Livestorm’s new MCP connector makes that future surprisingly tangible.

Want to see what Livestorm can do? Visit Livestorm to explore its webinar and event platform and learn more about its AI-powered capabilities.

Disclosure: I am a Livestorm affiliate partner.

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Ask a B2B marketing team to inventory its web presence and the list will be familiar: the website, the blog, the LinkedIn company page, the review presence on G2 or Clutch, the paid search program, perhaps a marketing automation stack humming underneath.

Ask the same team who owns the company’s Google Business Profile, and the answer is frequently a pause — followed by the discovery that nobody does, that the listing was auto-generated years ago, and that its photos consist of a Street View image of the office park.

That pause is a measurable gap in an otherwise sophisticated presence. The premise of web presence optimization is being visible everywhere buyers look, and B2B buyers look in more local places than most B2B marketing plans acknowledge.

B2B buyers behave locally more often than the org chart assumes

The conventional wisdom holds that local search belongs to restaurants, plumbers, and dentists, while B2B buying happens through content, referrals, analyst reports, and sales outreach. The conventional wisdom describes the middle of the B2B journey reasonably well. It misses the edges, where deals actually start and get sanity-checked.

Consider the searches that precede a meaningful share of B2B purchases: “commercial HVAC contractors near me” typed by a facilities director. “IT managed services [city]” from an operations lead at a 40-person firm. “Packaging suppliers [region],” “commercial cleaning [city],” “machine shop near me,” “corporate catering,” “fleet maintenance,” “commercial roofing.”

Each is a B2B buying query with explicit local intent, and each returns a map pack above the organic results. Service-area B2B — logistics, facilities, maintenance, professional services with a regional footprint — lives disproportionately in this territory.

There is also a quieter local behavior that spans nearly all B2B purchases: verification. Before signing with an unfamiliar vendor, buyers routinely search the company by name. What Google assembles in response — the knowledge panel, the map listing, the review count and rating, the photos, the recency of activity — functions as an involuntary trust audit.

A vendor whose profile shows a wrong address, three reviews, and no activity since the listing was created has failed an evaluation it never knew was happening. The pitch deck said established and professional; the search result said abandoned.

What the neglect actually costs

The cost of the local blind spot arrives through three separate doors.

The first is straightforward lost demand. For any B2B category with “near me” or city-qualified search volume, an unmanaged profile means invisibility in the map pack — and the map pack sits above the organic results that the content program works so hard to win.

Competitors who manage the local layer capture inquiries that never appear in anyone else’s attribution model, because the buyer called from the listing without ever visiting a website.

The second is the verification failure described above, and it is more insidious because it operates on deals sourced through every other channel. The referral, the trade-show lead, and the outbound-generated opportunity all pass through the same by-name search on the way to a signed contract. A neglected local presence quietly taxes the conversion rate of the entire pipeline, and the tax never shows up as a line item.

The third is a structural change in how buyers encounter vendors at all. AI-assisted search increasingly answers “who should I consider” questions directly, and those systems draw heavily on the structured, verifiable data that business profiles and review corpora provide.

Companies with thin local signals are thin in the training data of the tools buyers now ask first. The local layer, in other words, is no longer only a maps feature — it is part of the substrate from which machine-generated shortlists get built.

What managing the local layer actually involves

The encouraging news for any team that has read this far with mounting guilt: the local layer is among the cheapest surfaces in the entire web presence to fix, because the competition is asleep. The work divides into four parts, none of which requires budget so much as ownership.

Complete the profile as if it were a landing page — because it is one. Every service listed as a distinct service. A business description written for buyers rather than for keyword density. Accurate categories, hours, service area, and contact paths. Real photography — the team, the facility, the work — rather than stock imagery or whatever Street View captured. Google’s own documentation covers the mechanics of claiming and verifying a profile; the strategic act is assigning the asset an owner who treats it like a conversion surface rather than a directory entry.

Build review velocity, not just review count. A static count of aging reviews reads as history; a steady arrival of recent ones reads as a functioning business. For B2B firms this requires a systematic ask built into project close or account milestones — the same discipline consumer service businesses learned years ago, applied to client relationships that are fewer in number but far richer in credibility. Ten detailed reviews from recognizable local businesses can outweigh a hundred anonymous consumer ratings in the eyes of a commercial buyer performing due diligence.

Mind the citation footprint. Name, address, and phone consistency across the industry directories, the chamber listing, the association memberships, and the map platforms remains the unglamorous plumbing of local credibility — for search engines and for the AI systems that inherit their data. An hour of cleanup annually suffices; the failure mode is nobody ever doing it.

Localize the pages that deserve it. Where genuine regional service exists, a page that speaks to it — the markets served, the local proof, the regional specifics a buyer would recognize — gives both the map ecosystem and the organic index something real to rank. The operative word is genuine; a template with city names swapped in convinces neither algorithms nor buyers, and B2B buyers are the more skeptical of the two.

The organizational fix is smaller than the gap

What makes the local blind spot persist in B2B organizations is rarely disagreement about the facts; it is that the asset falls between chairs. Demand generation owns campaigns, content owns the blog, sales owns the CRM — and the Google Business Profile, which belongs to everyone’s funnel, belongs to no one’s job description.

The fix, correspondingly, is not a program but a sentence in the marketing plan: the local layer has an owner, a quarterly review, and a place in the reporting. Small and mid-sized B2B firms — the segment least likely to have addressed this and best positioned to benefit — will frequently find it is the highest-leverage neglected surface they own.

Being everywhere buyers look has always been the standard. The map has been part of everywhere for years; the marketing plan simply has not caught up.

Steve Fleurant is the founder of Leads Akolytos, a Northern Virginia agency that provides SEO and lead generation exclusively for home service and construction businesses — a niche where the local layer is the whole battlefield, and where the lessons B2B marketers are just discovering get tested daily. He writes about visibility for service businesses on the Leads Akolytos blog and can be found on LinkedIn.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries by amplifying human expertise rather than replacing it. The most effective AI implementations don’t attempt to automate people out of the equation. Instead, they improve operational efficiency and reduce costs while preserving and often improving the quality of the work.

This shift is especially visible in fields where judgment, relationships, and creative strategy determine success. Rather than displacing the professionals who built that expertise, AI is increasingly deployed to extend that reach. AI tools can handle a volume of data and repetitive tasks that no team could reasonably process manually. This automation leaves strategic and relational decisions to the people best equipped to make them.

This article examines the rise of AI in human-centered industries and outlines six specific ways that AI enhances human expertise in B2B marketing.

The Rise of AI in Human-Centered Industries

Across sectors, organizations are adopting AI to strengthen the human expertise, judgment, and relationships that ultimately drive value. The pattern is consistent: AI absorbs administrative, analytical, and repetitive workloads so that skilled professionals can focus their attention on creative, complex, and relational work.

B2B exemplifies this shift. Leading firms use AI to automate repetitive tasks, process buyer intent signals, and generate real-time feedback. This frees human marketers to concentrate on deep industry expertise and authentic brand storytelling.

Six Ways to Use AI for B2B Marketing

1. Low-value task automation
2. Predictive decision support
3. Real-time feedback
4. Personalization at scale
5. Cognitive load reduction
6. Expertise gap closure

1. Low-Value Task Automation

One of AI’s most immediate contributions to B2B marketing is eliminating time spent on low-value tasks. Pulling performance reports, scheduling social posts, tagging assets, and formatting data consume hours without generating much strategic value. AI tools can now handle this work, freeing human marketers for higher-value priorities.

Media monitoring illustrates this well. Rather than manually reviewing alerts and compiling coverage reports, marketers can use AI to synthesize coverage across sources, identify key themes, categorize sentiment, and produce summary reports in a fraction of the time.

AI can also support keyword research, A/B test analysis, drafting meta descriptions, and campaign performance reporting. Once relieved of these tasks, marketers can devote more attention to brand voice, building relationships, and creative strategy.

2. Predictive Decision Support

AI narrows the gap between raw data and quick, confident decision-making. Marketing teams today have access to vast volumes of audience data, and it is more than any individual could reasonably analyze by hand.

AI tools can identify patterns across large, complex datasets while surfacing the signals that require immediate attention. This allows senior marketers to identify which accounts in their database show buying intent before a purchase occurs.

By analyzing website behavior, content consumption, and third-party data, AI can flag which campaigns are most likely to generate pipeline. They can also surface emerging issues before they escalate into larger problems.

Instead of reviewing dashboards manually and hoping to catch meaningful trends, marketing leaders can rely on AI to point them toward the accounts and campaigns that matter most in a given week.

3. Real-Time Feedback

AI shortens the lag between insight and action. Waiting for quarterly reports to assess campaign performance is a luxury few B2B marketing teams can afford. That budget is often spent before ineffective approaches are identified and corrected.

B2B sales cycles are long and vulnerable to both messaging misalignment and targeting errors that can go unnoticed for weeks. Instead of surfacing these issues after the fact, AI tools surface audience engagement, conversion, and sentiment signals in real time. This gives teams the ability to course-correct in real time, before a flawed campaign consumes an entire quarter’s budget.

This shifts marketing leadership from a reactive role to a proactive one. Brand sentiment monitoring and share-of-voice tracking, among other real-time analytics, give leaders the visibility needed to make faster and more informed decisions. They also allow them to demonstrate that visibility to stakeholders who expect data-backed reasoning behind every single budget decision.

4. Personalization at Scale

AI has changed what is possible in B2B personalization. AI tools can analyze firmographic data, behavioral signals, content engagement patterns, CRM history, and third-party intent data simultaneously. This enables marketers to dynamically adjust messaging, content recommendations, and outreach timing.

This raises the ceiling on personalization without requiring proportional increases in headcount. A prospect who has primarily engaged with thought leadership content receives different follow-up content than one who has been focused on technical documentation.

AI can also support localization personalization (e.g., directing New York City area prospects to the nearest relevant shop locations in NoHo, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg).

Rather than building static segments and manually mapping content to them, marketers can design dynamic systems that respond to prospect behavior as it unfolds. This shifts their focus from execution to strategic judgment about which signals matter most and which experiences are worth building around them.

5. Cognitive Load Reduction

AI reduces the cognitive burden on senior marketers, allowing them to think more strategically. Traditionally, marketers juggled report review, pipeline metrics, and campaign troubleshooting simultaneously. This was often at the expense of deeper strategic work. AI now absorbs much of that mental load.

AI tools consolidate information, filter out noise, and surface the data points that matter most. The most advanced models can also often make comprehensive recommendations rather than static observations.

Freed from constant metric-tracking, marketers can apply sharper creative judgment and prioritize more effectively, spending their limited time on the decisions that actually move the business forward.

6. Expertise Gap Closure

AI also closes expertise gaps within marketing teams. Most teams have deep expertise only in certain areas and clear gaps in others. For example, a team may be strong in content strategy but be thin on technical SEO. AI functions as a shared knowledge layer that fills those gaps without requiring every team member to become an expert in every discipline.

Junior marketers can use AI tools for foundational frameworks and first drafts rather than relying heavily on senior staff for every question. Similarly, demand generation specialists without deep expertise can use AI to produce optimized copy that would otherwise require pulling in a specialist.

Senior marketers rarely have the bandwidth to apply expert judgment to every issue that arises across a growing roster of campaigns and clients. AI can handle much of the research, synthesis, and structural thinking that would otherwise fall to senior staff. Closing those expertise gaps both supports junior team members while freeing leadership to focus on the highest-priority decisions.

Key Takeaways

B2B marketing is one of many human-centered industries adopting AI to improve efficiency without expanding headcount. Firms are using AI to personalize at scale, deliver real-time feedback, and automate low-value tasks. They are also using it to support predictive decision-making, reduce cognitive load, and close expertise gaps across their teams.

The most successful marketing teams will not be the ones that adopt AI most aggressively, but those that use it deliberately to enhance human expertise rather than replace it. The result is a workforce that operates with sharper focus, greater speed, and significantly higher impact, and they do so without sacrificing the human judgment and creativity that no algorithm can fully replicate.

Sherjan Husainie is the Founder of KIRO,  the world’s most advanced chiropractic brand. He studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Toronto and Financial Engineering at UCLA Anderson. Before founding KIRO, Sherjan worked at Google and was a Vice President in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley. His mission is to make modern, accessible chiropractic care available to 100 million members globally.

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A CEO walks a trade show floor, stops at a competitor’s booth for eleven seconds, and forms an opinion that no amount of digital reputation management will undo before the next quarter’s renewal conversation. That’s not a hypothetical.

It’s roughly how fast in-person judgment forms, and it’s happening constantly at exactly the events where B2B companies have spent the least strategic effort protecting their reputation.

Reputation management has become an executive-level concern. According to PwC’s 2025 CEO Survey, 84% of global CEOs now rank reputation risk as their top external threat, ahead of both cyber and regulatory risk. Nearly all of the resulting investment, however, flows into digital monitoring: review response protocols, social listening tools, AI search visibility.

Comparatively little strategic attention is paid to the physical, face-to-face side of B2B reputation—the trade show floor, the executive briefing center, the sponsored conference booth, even if this carries outsized weight in how buyers actually judge a vendor.

That disparity deserves significantly more examination than it’s getting now.

Reputation Is Built on Direct Evidence, Not Just Digital Signals

B2B buyers place a lot of weight on vendor reputation before making any purchase decision. B2B reputation studies’ data shows that 77% of B2B buyers think that vendor reputation has the biggest impact on their buying choice, and 45% of firms claim that they have lost major agreements or relationships because of unfavorable perception.

Most reputation strategy does this via digital channels: review sites, search exposure, and consistent messaging across owned media.

A trade show booth, an executive briefing center, or a sponsored conference presence is a different kind of reputation signal entirely. It is direct, unfiltered evidence, gathered by a buyer through their own senses rather than mediated through a review site or a curated LinkedIn feed.

LinkedIn’s 2025 B2B Marketing Benchmark, conducted with Ipsos across 1,500 senior B2B marketers, found that 94% agree trust is the key factor in B2B success, and 42% of senior marketers now rank increasing brand awareness and reputation among decision-makers as their top business priority for the year. Very little of that research, however, extends the same rigor to physical brand presence that it applies to digital reputation management.

The Data on In-Person Impact Is Stronger Than Most Reputation Strategies Account For

Event-specific research reinforces how much weight in-person experience carries. Bizzabo’s 2026 State of Events Benchmark Report found that 78% of event organizers consider in-person conferences, summits, and conventions their organization’s most impactful marketing channel, and 71% of attendees believe in-person B2B conferences offer the most effective way to learn about new products or services, ahead of digital channels evaluated in the same research.

The reputational effect of a strong event presence is also measurable after the fact. Industry branding metrics show that 84% of attendees at B2B marketing events had a higher view of a brand after attending an event, a lift that most digital-only reputation campaigns would take far more consistent work to achieve.

That is to say, one properly executed physical presence can influence brand impression more efficiently than months of incremental digital reputation work, yet it rarely gets the funding or planned focus commensurate with that impact.

Where Physical Presence Quietly Undermines Reputation Instead of Building It

The inverse is equally true, and less frequently discussed. A generic, poorly staffed, or visibly under-invested booth does not read as a neutral non-event to a buyer walking the floor. It reads as evidence. Buying committees are doing more and more homework before they even talk to a vendor. And having a physical presence that doesn’t match a company’s digital positioning – a slick website and a forgettable booth, for example – introduces exactly the sort of inconsistency that reputation research always identifies as damaging.

According to buyers, consumers lose trust when they see contradictory information across touchpoints, and a difference in digital and physical brand presentation is a type of that inconsistency, just experienced in person, not online.

That is increasingly, not less, important as AI-driven search and summarization starts to influence early-stage vendor perception. AI tools are increasingly being used by executives to research potential vendors before they even speak to a salesperson, and the physical impression made at a conference or trade show often becomes the anecdote, case study or word-of-mouth referral that ends up in exactly the kind of earned-media content those artificial intelligence systems are pulling from.

A forgettable physical presence does not simply fail to help, it robs a possible source of the reliable, human-sourced information that reputation strategy increasingly rely on.

Treating Physical Presence as a Reputation Channel, Not Just an Event Line Item

This data leads to some practical shifts.

Reputation and events teams rarely coordinate closely, despite influencing the same buyer perception from different angles. Physical presence planning, including the work of booking meetings before the show even starts, deserves the same reputation-conscious scrutiny as post-event follow-up, rather than being treated purely as an events or logistics function.

Post-event reputation measurement should be as rigorous as digital sentiment tracking. Structured post-event surveys can measure changes in attendee perception, whether a booth or briefing center left visitors with a more or less favorable view of the brand. But this data is rarely linked back to broader reputation metrics the way review sentiment or search visibility already is.

Consistency between digital and physical brand presentation deserves explicit review before a major event, not an assumption that existing brand guidelines will translate automatically. A brand that has invested heavily in transparency and credibility online undermines that investment if its physical presence at a flagship event fails to reflect the same standard.

Conclusion

Reputation management has matured considerably as a digital discipline over the past several years, extending into AI search visibility, review response protocols, and executive social presence. The physical dimension of that same reputation, formed in person, at scale, in front of exactly the buyers a company most needs to influence, has not kept pace.

Here’s the uncomfortable part: every dollar spent perfecting a digital reputation strategy can be undone by eleven unmanaged seconds at a booth nobody thought to brief properly. The data above makes the case plainly. In-person experience moves buyer perception faster and more durably than almost any digital channel measured.

Organizations that recognize this next will not be the ones with the biggest events budget. They’ll be the ones who finally started treating the show floor as what it actually is: a reputation channel, not a logistics line item.

Peter Johnson is a Digital Marketing Executive at Exhibit Elevate, a global exhibition stand design and build company operating across Dubai, the UK, Germany, Poland, and the US. He writes about the intersection of B2B event strategy, brand reputation, and physical brand experience.

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