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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

Gregory Pouy shares with us four strategic hurdles brands face in this age of consumer-driven business.

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

If your marketing is working well to identify needs and secure customers, why do you need sales? Is it time to eliminate the sales function?

Your creative effort isn’t just a work of art. It’s a money making platform. Mars Dorian shows you why.

Home Depot abandoned its human-centered approach and is an undifferentiated warehouse store. The stoy of how the retailer lost its marketing mojo.

Ekaterina Walter shares three fascinating examples that showcases the power of brand storytelling with the statistics to support it.

John Espirian shares his experience finding his branding hook after a conversation with Mark, which led to being included in the book “KNOWN.”

Influencer marketing for small businesses might seem unattainable but these case studies show that it can be an effective strategy.

Starting a new business can benefit from luck and unforeseen synergy, but it also takes some planning, and being smart enough to know what you don’t know.

There have three marketing rebellions raging for more than 100 years. There is a new one brewing but most companies can’t see the changes happening.

Marketing’s ever-growing list of needs combined with an “on-demand” economy is likely killing the Agency of Record model. So what will take its place?

Retailing is in a cataclysmic shift. But a new California shop may portend the future of retailing. Oh yes. It has nothing on its shelves.
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