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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

Ignoring the cool kids seems to be a trend that is undermining business success. Marketing truth is not in the dashboards. It’s with your best customers.

Use these four surefire tactics for growing your social media followers, without spending one dime on advertising or buying followers.

Here is a clever strategy to combine five commonly-used community engagement platforms to increase connection with your customers — and one to avoid!

Freedom is a core, human value. As stewards of responsible, digital citizenship, here are four ideas to begin the process of viewing freedom differently.

Social media engagement is among the most popular marketing metrics. This post shows you why it may not be an indicator of business success.

Search algorithms are holding content “loops” in place, making the popular even more popular, and depressing content discovery. What is the strategy now?

In this Instagram case study, Danielle Conte shares Baseball Lifestyle 101’s success on Instagram and how owner Josh Shapiro has become known on the web

Finding niche markets hungry for your work can involve safari-like sleuthing or practical research, as these tips suggest

For years corporate storytelling was all the rage. But with the failure of some of the industry’s most iconic successes, it’s time to re-visit the strategy.

Jay Acunzo shares how brands should approach working with influencers and why they should focus on attention retention, not audience size or CPMs.

Many people mistakenly believe that a large social media audience is the key to success, but there’s no shortcut to building an emotional connection

It’s easy to create a “snap” or go on Facebook Live and chat, but are you adding business value or littering the web with random acts of content?
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