🍒 What's Next? 2025 Marketing Trends with Amanda Laird

Let's put the cherry on top of your 2025 marketing toolkit with a long-form episode on 2025 Marketing Trends! To do that, I'm joined by communications strategist Amanda Laird to chat about four things she's forecasting for the year ahead, including: AI operations & optimization — plus the need to disclose how we're using AI in our work 🤖 Big shifts in the social media landscape — including the fall of X, the rise of Bluesky, "free speech" on Facebook & more 🪨 Substack's slow & steady descent from newsletter service to social media platform... 🫠 & The return to IRL events — plus more intimacy in our online spaces 🫂     Tune in for a gently-guided look into the murky crystal ball of online biz in 2025. Then join us in the Clubhouse for our members-only biz forecast episodes throughout the year! MORE FROM AMANDA 🐌 Visit the Slow & Steady website 📩 Sign up for Amanda's newsletter 🎧 Listen to Amanda's previous appearance on Off the Grid (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)   RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)   FREE GIFTS OF THE WEEK ❊ 7-Day Savings Challenge from Dalene Higgins ❊ Toolkit for Navigating Capitalism & Other Fuckery from Kristi Amdahl ❊ More free resources from Close Biz Friends!