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Keep clients' pets safe (and still spoiled) this holiday season with these quick treat tips from Jackie Dueñas, DVM.
The holidays bring joy, visitors, and lots of food. This means extra chances for pets to be tempted and for well-meaning guests to offer table scraps. Jackie Dueñas, DVM, shares practical, easy-to-follow guidance to keep treats safe, healthy, and still fun this season. These tips help you protect your clients' pets from common holiday hazards while keeping them included in the celebrations.
Treats can be a sweet way to bond with pets, but food does not have to equal love. Clients should stick with treats made for them.
Chocolate, grapes, raisins, garlic, onion, and fatty foods—staples of the holidays—can cause serious digestive issues. Instead, set out a jar of pet-safe treats so guests can spoil your pet the right way.
Always consider whether a pet has dietary restrictions or special nutritional needs. If the pet is on a special diet, check whether their pet food company makes matching treats so you can keep them aligned with their nutritional goals.
With these tips for mindful treating, clients can keep their pets healthy and happy while letting them be part of the holiday joy.
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The future for this asset looks good, and the past looks even better.
If you had put $10,000 into XRP (XRP 0.66%) five years ago and simply held it until now, you would be sitting on a life-changing gain today. The obvious next question is whether anything like that can happen again as Ripple, XRP's issuer, keeps onboarding new banks and currency exchange houses, rolling out new products, and inching deeper into traditional finance.
Let's do the math to see exactly how much the investment would be worth now, and then make some reasonable assumptions about its future.
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On Oct. 24, 2020, XRP's price closed near $0.26. Today, five years later, it trades around $2.45, even after it just got hit by the crypto flash crash on Oct. 10. That move turned an initial purchase worth $10,000 into roughly $107,640, a bit under a 9.7X return.
The arithmetic is straightforward here, but holding through the coin's volatility was certainly not. Investors endured multiple gut-checks along the way up, including a brutal lawsuit shock in late 2020 and a couple of deep drawdowns that would have shaken out practically anyone without a long time horizon.
But if you're thinking of an investment in XRP today, the backward math matters only as context. No matter how tempting it is, there's simply no point in drooling over the result of a backward-looking calculation when what you are really concerned about is whether the coin could exhibit similar performance in the future.
The investment thesis for XRP rides on whether the coin and its blockchain, the XRPL, can deliver enough utility to financial institutions that they are driven to adopt the platform as a piece of their operational technologies. If the chain's offerings are well-suited to their needs, they'll have an incentive to park their capital there, and it'll bolster the price of the coin.
On that front, the XRPL is useful for a few reasons, starting with its quick transactions and minimal fees. Beyond that, it has built-in regulatory compliance features, so that asset issuers can meet real-world requirements like freezing or restricting assets when laws or contracts require it. If these features seem boring or not worth paying attention to, consider that none of the XRPL's competitors in the crypto sector have anywhere near the same degree of compliance tooling for institutions, which makes them a less comfortable place for those institutions to park and manage their capital.
Ripple is also building more of the financial technology stack to run on the XRPL to ensure that the chain is an even easier place to do business. Its stablecoin, RLUSD (RLUSD +0.07%), launched in December 2024. It offers investors a fiat currency-equivalent token to use on-chain. If it continues to scale up and into the mainstream of stablecoins, which it probably will, RLUSD could then be one of the default assets for on-chain settlement. That'd bring more balances onto the XRPL.
The network's capital markets plumbing is inching closer too. The Ripple-backed digital asset treasury (DAT) company Evernorth just filed to be listed on stock markets in the U.S., pitching itself as a large publicly traded XRP treasury platform. If it succeeds, that would formalize another big buyer that accumulates and stewards XRP at scale, potentially tightening float over time.
Finally, Ripple is seeking a national bank charter in the U.S. If granted, that would place its stablecoin and payments business under a federal umbrella, simplifying how traditional institutions integrate with XRPL and possibly lowering onboarding friction for banks and fintechs.
There are a few risks that might rain on the coin's parade. XRP faces fierce competition, execution risk for RLUSD and its banking ambitions, and some residual policy risk in major markets.
But assuming that Ripple continues to stitch together bank-grade compliance, amass more liquid on-chain dollars, and grow its set of capital markets partners, there is a credible path for meaningful appreciation from here. Expecting another 9X in the next five years is probably too aggressive, though it's certainly a possible outcome if everything goes as Ripple plans, and if the macroeconomic environment continues to support high crypto valuations. The base case is that XRP's utility can grind its price higher by 2X to 4X over the next five years, with the very real caveat that crypto drawdowns of 50% remain possible along the way.
So, for patient investors who can tolerate volatility and want exposure to the institutional side of crypto, starting a measured position with dollar-cost averaging (DCAing) and maintaining a multi-year timeframe is a sensible approach.
Alex Carchidi has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends XRP. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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As the 12th Annual Strategy & Planning Series (SPS) enters our last day, today’s webinars is focused on helping marketers who are planning for 2026 that are faced with creating a new hybrid workplace not based on location, but on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
In these webinars, we are not feeding prompts into ChatGPT, but posing them to leading B2B marketing experts—sparking real conversations, fresh perspectives, and actionable insights that you can use to fuel your team’s B2B marketing success.
As AI continues to dominate headlines, this series will cut through the noise to examine its real impact on B2B marketing and operations. Here is the announced lineup for #SPS25:
AI is rewriting the marketing flight manual, opening up a universe of new possibilities for efficiency and personalization. But with every launch comes turbulence: shrinking click-through rates, growing data privacy concerns, and the rise of AI-generated search results are becoming increasingly common hurdles. To stay in orbit, B2B marketers need a content strategy built for this new frontier.
Join Emerald Studio’s crew of experts—Pamela Ravetier, Design Director; Tonya Cooper, Senior Content Strategist; and Alexis Carroll Cline, Studio Director—today for a dynamic webinar packed with practical strategies, actionable insights, and real-world examples you can apply to creating compelling human connections with interactive content; maximize ROI from AI tools; and optimize for AI search.
Most webinars about “planning” will hand you another template. Another funnel. Another marketing acronym. This is not the webinar Josh Baez of NetLine offered. In this session, Baez explored why marketing’s best-laid plans don’t live in frameworks, but in the mushy in-betweens. This webinar isn’t a talk about filling cells in a doc— it’s a call to reclaim the joy, the chaos, and the spark that make marketing worth doing in the first place.
B2B marketing is in the middle of a seismic shift. Teams aren’t struggling because they lack tools, they’re struggling because they can’t connect the dots between data, insights, and impact. The winners of 2026 will be those who start activating the intelligence they already have.
Demandbase’s Alicia Hale was joined by The Harris Poll’s Rob Jekielek  to reveal findings from Demandbase’s State of B2B Marketing report. Drawing from the perspectives of over 500 senior B2B decision makers, subjects they will explore will include why disconnected data is the silent killer of B2B momentum (and how to fix it) and where alignment between marketing, sales, and ops creates the biggest lift.
This session, led by Omnibound AI’s Al Lalani, walked attendees how they can evolve from an “AI-Aware” to “AI-Native” B2B Marketers— from learning no-code automation tools to orchestrating customer journeys with AI agents, you’ll discover how to build a marketing organization that captures signals, turns them into insights, actions, and measurable revenue impact.
The session focused on unifying fragmented B2B marketing context (calls, emails, CRM notes, market signals, and support tickets) so AI can deliver brand-safe, insight-driven outputs; designing simple AI agents and workflows using tools that even non-technical marketers can build; and establishing guardrails so AI boosts campaign velocity and personalization without sacrificing quality or trust.
These four SPS 2025 webinars are set to explore real-time adjustments to stay ahead in a rapidly shifting go-to-market environment, smarter demand generation tactics, the latest Martech trends and how to leverage them for growth.  Come be part of this highly engaged audience of B2B decision-makers planning their 2026 strategies to help you decode the future of marketing strategy.
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