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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

While most content success has been determined by audience size and engagement, a new “attention equation” looks at consumer focus and commitment to drive marketing value.

Marketing is a wonderful career that changes the world in positive ways. But indirectly, it is contributing to some of the world’s biggest problems. It’s time to start a conversation about ethically-sourced marketing.

Coordinated, anonymous attacks can come for any company or individual these days. What is behind the Rage Farms that attacked Cracker Barrel and other brands? Who is doing it, and why?

Building a durable business is not dependent on Facebook ads or a new logo. It’s tapping into the elements of humanity that never change.

How do you scale marketing consulting on a global scale? Build a custom GPT based on everything you know. Is there a business case for giving away everything you know?

OpenAI Instant Checkout promises to compress the online shopping experience when ChatGPT detects purchase intent. Here is a practical guide to win at this new eCommerce channel.

Social media marketers have been refining their professional approach to business value for nearly 20 years. Why can’t they grasp the simple idea of ROI?

Millions of people are turning to AI to help them make purchasing decisions. AI is becoming the customer we need to reach and to do that, we will turn to AI Signals.

Even successful authors stumble. This is the story of the “invisible book” that everyone loved but nobody bought.

I asked my AI bot to look at everything about me on the web and give me interview questions I’ve never seen before. The results were astounding and inspiring!

Protecting your content from AI use and misuse is a significant copyright issue, but this perspective from Mark Schaefer suggests benefits for a businesses that allows AI bots to scrape content.

A bot thinks like me and acts like me. Will my AI Clone enable my ideas to spread far and wide or take my job? Let’s look at all sides of a new era of intellectual theft and opportunity.
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