Receive my best posts on marketing and strategy, delivered to your inbox, free with no strings attached!
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 was quietly eating a meal in an Austin restaurant when an event occurred that changed his life and career. and it just might change yours, too.

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

The key to marketing insights come from consumer communities yet many companies are confused about how to proceed. Mark Schaefer provides some guidance based on his brand conversations.

Free speech isn’t being threatened by “speech.” It’s being threatened by non-human agents amplifying falsehoods to drive business results.

Ted Gioia sounded the alarm about a parasite economy where creators do the work and media companies make the money. But there is a more positive side to the economics of the digital economy.

Big brands seem to be missing out on one of the hottest influencer marketing trends. They could do very well by taking this marketing lesson from Ed Sheeran.

This is an examination of the biggest mistake content creators make today. It’s an improbable problem that is probably looking you right in the face every day.

Can we still use social listening platforms to reach increasingly disconnected customers? Mark Schaefer and Sara Wilson discuss the challenges with current methods on The Marketing Companion podcast.

When it comes to content projects, should you be a model of consistency or change with the times? How do you when to start or stop your projects?

On the fifteenth anniversary of his blog, Mark Schaefer describes five reasons that “blogging changed my life.” It may have even saved his life.

A surprising debate over the relative value of the personal brand versus corporate brand

Outdated copyright laws threaten the future of creators and creativity. Innovation is iterative and we need to celebrate that.
Mark Schaefer is the top-rated marketing and business keynote speaker at conferences all over the world.
Want to solve big marketing problems for a little bit of money? Sign up for an hour of Mark’s time and put your business on the fast-track.