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Loop marketing continues through onboarding, adoption, expansion, and loyalty, which means the framework still takes funnel-like stage-based measurements into consideration (awareness, consideration, evaluation, decision, purchase) but does not stop there. AI plays a fundamentally different role in each model: in funnel marketing, AI is often limited to basic automation tasks, while in loop marketing, AI is an integrated partner used for advanced content creation, deep personalization at scale, and real-time campaign improvement. 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