Jacqueline Ann DeStefano-Tangorra

Your AI Is Only as Smart as Your Data One of the most powerful takeaways from the was simple but profound: “Garbage in, garbage out.” Most small businesses want automated outreach, workflows, or agents — but their data is fragmented, outdated, or poorly structured. Without clean data, AI becomes noisy, inaccurate, and ineffective.  Agentic AI for Customer Acquisitions  Here’s why data quality is the #1 factor  in AI performance. 1. Predictive, Generative, and Agentic AI All Depend on the Same...

The Era of Agentic AI Has Arrived, And Small Businesses Stand to Benefit Most For years, automation meant simple workflows: “If this happens, send that email.”But today, a new class of AI is emerging agentic AI , a dynamic, self-learning form of AI capable of reasoning, taking multi-step actions, personalizing outreach, and optimizing entire customer journeys. In your recent session for the Tory Burch Foundation, you emphasized that the businesses who learn to leverage agentic AI now will...

The Funnel Isn’t Dead, But It Has Evolved For years, marketers relied on the same top → middle → bottom flow. But the moment buyers started behaving in nonlinear, multi-platform ways, the traditional funnel stopped making sense. In your session, you introduced a new model: The AI-Driven Dynamic Marketing Hub. It’s not linear.It ’s intelligent.And it evolves constantly. Agentic AI for Customer Acquisitions 1. The New Funnel Behaves Like a Living, Learning System Every touchpoint, a DM, a...