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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

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

Social media marketing does not need to be complex or expensive. Here is advice from the startup world on how to do marketing with no budget.

Inbound marketing costs go up over time, not down, as some advocates claim. Increased content competition makes inbound marketing more challenging.

Customer engagement has always been a driver of social media strategy. But maybe customers don’t want to engage with your brand after all.

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.

One of our favorite case studies of all time is the story of how Nike used epic content to win the World Cup buzz. Here is the inside story of how some of the biggest names in sports came together to launch a massive marketing victory.

While corporate storytelling is all the rage, let’s consider three trends that point to the dawn of a humbling new era in consumer marketing.

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!

Creating an online course is a legitimate and popular option for internet monetization. Is it right for you? Go through this checklist to find out.

There is a consumer revolution afoot, perhaps enabled by Amazon. Does experiential marketing matter as much as it used to?

New research shows that Facebook has stopped growing, by a lot. What does this Facebook bombshell mean to the company and to social media marketers?
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