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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

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

The Marketing Rebellion is here, ushered in by a new book from Mark Schaefer. How do you succeed in an ad-free, loyalty-free, funnel-free world?

Content promotion is essential in a crowded and competitive marketplace but you’ll be wasting your budget unless you check this box first.

Mark Schaefer and Tom Webster discuss remarkable business trends that eerily point to a Big Brother technology monitoring personal lives and politics.

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

Gated content is a popular way to create value for a content marketing strategy. This post describes why this strategy might be working against you.

It’s said that the biggest lie on the internet is a consumer saying, “I have read and agree to the terms and conditions.” In that case, the second biggest lie on the internet is a brand saying, “We value your feedback.” They don’t.

Fabio Tambosi of Nike shares his experience in using hero content to create an epic consumer brand journey while working as a brand manager for Nike during the World Cup.

Does every business need content, a website and Facebook presence? Sometimes there are bigger goals in life that be realized, even with no social media.

Michael Brito shares ways businesses can employ participation marketing within their company or organization, connecting their audiences to one another.

Mark Schaefer provides an outlook of ten big ideas that will be driving the future of social media marketing in the next few years. He stresses the need to embrace the chaos!

Controversial? Hardly. Content Shock is actually the most effective content marketing strategy if your goal is inbound marketing benefits
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