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In this story of unintended consequences, Amazon deliveries might make the electric bill go up!

A few years ago, Mark Schaefer predicted Facebook would disrupt itself. But he missed something — and Facebook could be primed for disruption.

Great marketing builds emotion between your product and your audience. In fact that may be a key to survival in the digital world!

The notion of breaking up big tech is picking up political momentum but it won’t work because deep down, people like things as they are.

Mukbang is a new trend demonstrating gluttonous behavior on video. So why not? Gluttony and other trends on The Marketing Companion!

As a professional writer, algorithms have hurt the author’s career while relationships have saved it.

Marketing research is in jeopardy. A WSJ report says that people won’t respond to polls any more. What are the implications for our businesses when we can’t count on marketing research?

Online retailer Everlane is organizing and acting like a non-profit.Is this a glimpse of the future of marketing and business?

Advertisers are getting squeezed on all sides. Traditional ads are going away, digital ads are skyrocketing in price. What’s the solution?

Slowly but inexorably we are entering a post advertising world, or at least one where power is being consolidated into three major players. How do you survive in that environment?

There have been a number of studies pointing to the suspicious results of automated social media sentiment analysis. Here’s a simple idea that really works.

A Marketing Companion episode explores the shifting nature of professionalism in the workplace as well as developments from Facebook, Amazon, and Walmart.
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