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The post explored the difference between influencer marketing and word of mouth marketing and examines how the strategies are blurring.

Determining the best content for your business might seem overwhelming but it doesn’t have to be if you follow these five simple guidelines.

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.

In this post, you’ll learn lessons from Netflix that you can apply for your own content strategy in the streaming era.

The best SEO book was never meant to be a book about SEO. But an underlying philosophy points to the truth of our digital world today.

Not all content is created equal. Consider the Content Marketing Hierarchy of Needs and think about how you can make it work for your business

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.

“Never build your content site on rented land” is age-old advice from the marketing gurus. But that strategy is outdated. To succeed to day, we must move our content any way possible.

In an overwhelmingly crowded media world, Game of Thrones dominated by being relevant and superior. This post examines why it is important to apply the same principle to your own content.

Giant Spoon agency pulled off the most buzz-worthy word of mouth marketing activation of the SXSW Interactive festival. How did they bring the Westworld television set to life?

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!
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