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Clear your search and topicBackstroke’s founder explains its approach to AI-assisted email marketing, budget flexibility and fundraising relationships.
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Backstroke's founder explains how AI-assisted email campaigns can tailor brand messaging, support acquisition and retention, and target consumers by geography or retail account.
Why it’s here Continue with Backstroke’s later personalization and retention discussion.
Eli Moore discusses generative AI, cleaning datasets, adapting retailer reports, and using AI tools to improve speed and efficiency across an emerging brand's work.
Why it’s here Explore AI for data cleaning and retailer-specific reporting.
Sudu Gupta outlines the information and timing needed for retailer item setup, the importance of understanding pricing and the P&L, and AI's role in catalogue operations.
Why it’s here Examine AI in product catalog and retailer setup operations.
Colleen Kavanagh discusses consumer-facing purity verification, combining a food brand with ingredient supply, choosing retail expansion, generating trial, using AI, and raising capital.
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The hosts recap consumer healthcare trends, acquisition discussions, leading through change, and using AI in innovation from the 2026 CHPA Self-Care Leadership Summit.
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The hosts recap CHPA's self-care summit, covering category trends, advertising returns, AI's business impact, acquisition lessons and observations from H-E-B's retail operation.
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