Last updated July 2026

Stay up to date with the latest marketing insights, tools, and strategies featured on Marketing with Dave.
This marketing content calendar serves as an archive of what has been highlighted on the home page each month, ensuring you never miss valuable resources.
Whether you’re catching up on past content or looking for inspiration, this page keeps everything organized and easily accessible.
Browse monthly themes. Click a month to expand. This hub lists Resources, Tools, Articles, and Book Summaries for each theme.
January · Strategy
January focuses on marketing strategy, the discipline of making intentional choices.
Strategy is how you decide what to prioritize, what to invest in, and perhaps most importantly, what not to do. It connects goals to channels, channels to tactics, and tactics to outcomes. When strategy is clear, execution gets simpler, measurement gets sharper, and tradeoffs become explicit instead of accidental.
Start here
New to Strategy? Start with these 3 quick reads.
📘 Resources
🛠 Tools
📝 Articles
- Selling the Same Thing Differently: Lessons from Mad Men and Claude Hopkins
- SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats Explained
- How to Use SWOT Analysis for a Winning Marketing Campaign
- SWOT Analysis for Owala Water Bottles
- SWOT Analysis for Owala Water Bottles Using Oncely AI Tool
- Situational Analysis With Marketing 5 C’s
- The 5 C’s of Marketing: A Smarter Approach to Situational Analysis
- What is Marketing? The 10 Functions of Marketing
- Amazon’s 16 Leadership Principles
- The Evolution of Marketing Media: Why the PERO Model is the Future
- Branded House vs. House of Brands: A Marketing Perspective
- Elon Musk’s 5-Step Framework for Marketing Process
- The Marketing 4 Ps Are Dead
- 10 WordPress Lessons I Wish I Knew Before Launching My Website
- Entering the Doll Industry: A Competitive Marketing Analysis
- The Persona Paradox: Useful for Empathy, Risky for Growth
- Marketing Attribution Models Explained: First Touch, Last Touch, Linear, Time Decay, Position Based, and Data Driven
- The 7 Deadly Sins of Marketing
📚 Book Summaries
- The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success by Brian Tracy
- Focus: The Future of Your Company Depends on It by Al Ries
- Inbound Marketing by Brian Halligan
- Marketing Warfare by Al Ries
- The New Positioning by Jack Trout
- The Next CMO by Peter Mahoney
- Strategic Management by Michael Hitt
- Marketing Myopia Revisited: Modern Examples & How to Apply It
February · Websites
February focuses on your website, the most important piece of digital real estate you own. Social platforms, ad networks, and marketplaces can bring you attention, but none of them belong to you.
Your website is where you control the message, the experience, and the data. It is not rented land. It is home. Your website is where interest turns into intent and intent turns into trust. When it is built with clarity and purpose, your marketing performs better, traffic becomes more valuable, and measurement shifts from vanity metrics to meaningful signals.
A good website quietly answers the three questions every visitor is asking: where am I, what can I do here, and why should I do it?
📘 Resources
🛠 Tools
📝 Articles
- Website Optimization Settings You Should Know, What to Enable, What to Skip, and Why
- Top 10 Site Search Tracking Capabilities Every Website Should Measure
- The 10 WordPress Plugin Categories Every Serious Website Needs
- Launching a WordPress Website: A Practical Real World Checklist
- 10 WordPress Lessons I Wish I Knew Before Launching My Website
- Setting Up WordPress Category Tracking in Google Tag Manager for GA4
- Track Page Types in Google Analytics 4 Using Google Tag Manager
- Categorizing Referring Domain Data in GA4 Using Google Tag Manager
- 404 Page Not Found Tracking in GA4: Capture Broken URLs and Referrers with GTM
- Why Adding a “Last Updated” Date to Your Content Improves SEO, Trust, and AI Visibility
- AI-Powered Image Alt Text Optimization: Improve SEO and Accessibility Without Manual Work
- 10 Things Marketers Need to Know About Chrome DevTools
📚 Book Summaries
March · Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
March focuses on Search Engine Optimization. Not as a traffic hack, but as the discipline of earning attention. Many call SEO traffic free. It is not. It is earned through clarity, consistency, and patience, built page by page and query by query.
SEO is a long game that compounds over time. A well-optimized web page can generate value for years, but only when it answers real questions in a way that is useful, structured, and trustworthy.
AI is reshaping search, but the job remains the same: understand intent, create the best answer, and make it easy for both machines and humans to trust. When done well, visibility is earned, not chased.
Start here
New to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? Start with these 3 quick reads.
📘 Resources
🛠 Tools
📝 Articles
- The Ultimate SEO Guide: On-Page, Off-Page, and Technical Strategies That Work Today
- Best Martech for Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Audit
- Schema Markup Explained: A Complete Guide for Better SEO
- Boost Your SEO with Organization Schema Markup: An Easy Tutorial
- AI-Powered H1 Title Tag Optimization: Boost Your SEO Rankings
- The Ultimate Guide to Meta Descriptions (With Free Analyzer Tool)
- SEO Success: Use a Positioning Map to Combine Traffic and Rankings
- Introducing the Indexed Pages Traffic Ratio: A Smarter Way to Measure SEO Health
- Case Study: BMW’s SEO Shortcut That Led to a Google Ban
- Bing First, Google Later: A Real SEO Growth Pattern for New Websites
- Why Adding a “Last Updated” Date to Your Content Improves SEO, Trust, and AI Visibility
- AI-Powered Image Alt Text Optimization: Improve SEO and Accessibility Without Manual Work
- How to Create Content That Gets Cited in AI Search
- What Actually Drives Digital Visibility in 2026
- AI Visibility Is Not Measured. It Is Sampled.
📚 Book Summaries
April · Research
Includes net promoter score (NPS), customer satisfaction (CSAT), and voice of customer (VoC).
April focuses on surveys, the discipline of active listening with structure. Net Promoter Score, Customer Satisfaction, and Voice of Customer are not just metrics. They are tools for understanding how people actually experience your business.
Surveys turn assumptions into signals. They reveal what is working, what is not, and where expectations are not being met. When designed well, they capture both direction and nuance, combining measurable trends with real human feedback.
The goal is not to collect data. It is to better understand your customer’s needs and take action. When feedback is taken seriously, your strategy aligns with your customer’s needs, and outcomes improve.
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📚 Book Summaries
May · Digital Analytics
May focuses on digital analytics, the discipline of turning data into decisions. What you measure shapes what you improve.
What you ignore becomes what you assume. Most teams analyze the wrong end. They chase traffic and clicks while the real signal sits in behavior and outcomes.
Analytics answers the what. What happened. What changed. What worked.
The why is where real understanding lives. Data without context misleads. Metrics without action stall. Dashboards without owners collect dust.
You do not need more data. You need the right data and the clarity to turn it into decisions people act on.
Start here
New to Digital Analytics? Start with these 3 quick reads.
📘 Resources
🛠 Tools
📝 Articles
- Comparing Data Maturity Models: Dell, Gartner, and The Strategic Data Playbook
- Website Analytics Simplified: The Power of Page Session Tracking
- Website Analytics Simplified: The Power of Channel Session Tracking
- Improving GA4 Data Display Events
- Free and Easy Ways to Export Google Analytics 4 Data to Excel or Google Sheets
- Prizm Premier: Guide to 68 Consumer Segments
- Preparing to Migrate to Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
- Good, Better, Best: Your Roadmap to Smarter Personalization
- Beyond Averages: How the Five-Number Summary Reveals What Your Marketing Data Is Hiding
- How to Read a Box Plot: A Powerful Guide to Medians, Whiskers, and Outliers
- Marketing Segmentation Explained: Frameworks, Examples and How to Do It Right
- When Good Data Goes Flat: Rethinking Snapshots in Dashboards
- How Page Type Categorization Improves Website Analytics
- Making Sense and Cents from Google AdSense
- 10 UTM Tracking Mistakes Most Marketers Don’t Notice
- LinkedIn Analytics Explained: Impressions, Members Reached, and Engagement Trends
- Setting Up WordPress Category Tracking in Google Tag Manager for GA4
- Track Page Types in Google Analytics 4 Using Google Tag Manager
- Categorizing Referring Domain Data in GA4 Using Google Tag Manager
- 404 Page Not Found Tracking in GA4: Capture Broken URLs and Referrers with GTM
- 10 Things Marketers Need to Know About Chrome DevTools
📚 Book Summaries
June · Advertising
June focuses on advertising, the discipline of amplifying a message with intent. Advertising can increase awareness, generate demand, and accelerate growth, but only when it is connected to a clear objective.
Many businesses view advertising as a way to buy customers. In reality, its greatest value is learning. Every impression, click, and conversion reveals something about your audience, your message, and your offer.
Good advertising is not about reaching the most people. It is about reaching the right people with the right message at the right moment. When done well, advertising becomes more than promotion. It becomes a tool for testing, refinement, and growth.
📘 Resources
🛠 Tools
📝 Articles
- 5 Reasons Why You Want to Customize Your Ad Schedule
- MRC Guidelines for Digital Ad Measurement: What Marketers Need to Know
- Your First Amazon Ads Campaign: Sponsored Product Auto Targeting
- Making Sense and Cents from Google AdSense
- When Should You Change Your Facebook Ads? The Data Milestones That Tell You It’s Time
📚 Book Summaries
July · Social Media
📘 Resources
🛠 Tools
📝 Articles
- 10 Tips for Choosing the Right Social Media Listening Tool
- Instagram Analytics: Reels vs. Posts Performance Over Time
- What I Learned Posting on LinkedIn Every Day for a Month
- What Happened When I Cut My LinkedIn Posts in Half
- Marketing to Millennials? Keep These 10 Things in Mind
- Unlocking the Power of Pinterest Analytics: Why You Should Convert to a Business Profile
- Who’s Engaging With Your Pins? A Guide to Pinterest Audience Insights
- Pinterest…Are You Listening
- Hootsuite vs Buffer vs Late: Comparing the Top Social Media Scheduling Tools
- How to Track LinkedIn Monthly New Followers With Excel
- LinkedIn Analytics Explained: Impressions, Members Reached, and Engagement Trends
📚 Book Summaries
August · Operations
Includes marketing automation platforms and email service providers.
📘 Resources
🛠 Tools
📝 Articles
- Marketing Operations Analytics
- Rethinking Email Unsubscribes: 5 Ways to Reduce List Churn
- 10 Online Event Planning Mistakes to Avoid in the Final Stretch
- Stranger Danger: When Your Business Has Amnesia
- Navigating the Customer Journey: A Framework Comparison Guide
- Mastering the 5 Email Campaign Types: Indoctrination, Engagement, Ascension, Segmentation, and Re-engagement
📚 Book Summaries
September · Martech
📘 Resources
🛠 Tools
📝 Articles
- 10 Must Have Project Management Tool Features
- Comparing Free Behavior Analytics Solutions: Hotjar, Microsoft Clarity, and Mouseflow
- Martech Intelligence Report: Customer Data Platforms — Summary and Takeaways
- Hootsuite vs Buffer vs Late: Comparing the Top Social Media Scheduling Tools
- The Martech Partner Dilemma: How Adobe and ObservePoint Reveal the Rules of Platform Strategy
- A Practical Martech Stack for Small Businesses
- The Marketing Stack Audit: Keep, Replace, Consolidate, or Cancel
📚 Book Summaries
October · Content Marketing
📘 Resources
🛠 Tools
📝 Articles
- The Ultimate Guide to Content Marketing — Summary and Takeaways
- Content Marketing Planning: How to Label and Maximize Every Piece of Content
- The Content Marketing Funnel: A Journey-Focused Guide
- Content Marketing’s 5 C’s: Clarity, Consistency, Creativity, Customer, Conversion
- What 200 Blog Posts Taught Me About Digital Marketing and Consistency
- How to Create Content That Gets Cited in AI Search
- The Five Awareness Stages of Marketing: A Practical Guide for Content and SEO
📚 Book Summaries
November · Artificial Intelligence (AI)
📘 Resources
🛠 Tools
📝 Articles
- AI-Powered H1 Title Tag Optimization: Boost Your SEO Rankings
- AI Agents Explained: Key Distinctions and Marketing Use Cases for Business Leaders
- Look What I Made with AI Art (prompt included so you can too)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence — Summary and Takeaways
- Sentiment Analysis Was Broken. Then AI Fixed It.
- How Marketers Are Measuring AI ROI and Where They Struggle
- AI First Is Not a Strategy
- Why Adding a “Last Updated” Date to Your Content Improves SEO, Trust, and AI Visibility
- AI-Powered Image Alt Text Optimization: Improve SEO and Accessibility Without Manual Work
- How to Create Content That Gets Cited in AI Search
- AI Visibility Is Not Measured. It Is Sampled.