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You’re in marketing for one reason: Grow. Grow your company, reputation, customers, impact, profits. Grow yourself. This is a community that will help. It will stretch your mind, connect you to fascinating people, and provide some fun along the way. I am so glad you’re here. -Mark Schaefer

A series of short observations on personal branding, AI, creativity, and modern marketing—why showing up matters, why efficiency can be overrated, and where real advantage is emerging.

While most content success has been determined by audience size and engagement, a new “attention equation” looks at consumer focus and commitment to drive marketing value.

In this special show, Mark Schaefer makes an announcement about the future of The Marketing Companion podcast. Co-host Sandy Carter reveals three big ideas marketers should be leaning into.

AI is not just adding new capabilities to our professional arsenal, it is rewriting the rules of marketing. In this discussion with tech leader and author Sandy Carter, we look at specific strategies to win the new sales and marketing game in the AI Era.

Let’s take a break from the constant AI news feed and consider of our favorite most human marketing stories.

There’s too much navel-gazing in marketing as we deliberate on building emotional bonds, community, and trust. Sometimes, I want to buy a banana and be left alone.

Yes, AI is here and nipping at the heels of our skillsets and careers. But in this most-human event, the Uprising retreat shows the collective power of people and the new Human Renaissance.

Human empathy might be the most important “soft skill” in the marketing profession, but what happens to our careers when AI bots do it better?

Despite a number of pundits climbing on to an “end of brands” theme, this article proves why brand marketing is more vital than ever in an Ai-dominant world.

2024 was insane and exhilarating. A group of global marketing experts help us understand what we learned about marketing in the era of AI and hyper-connected consumers.

Marketing’s Biggest Challenge has always been establishing trust with our customers. But that problem just became much more difficult and some of the biggest brands are asleep at the wheel.

On the 10 year anniversary of my most famous blog post, we look at the impact of Content Shock and lessons from one of the most widely shared business blog posts in history.
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