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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

In driving for the marketing accountability in our organizations, business leadership has forgotten one key driver of accountability – authority.

Values-based marketing is one of the hottest topics around but it’s not for everybody and you should not be taking a brand political stand without due diligence.

A realization that there are no weaknesses, just over-done strengths, changed my perspective on the world.

Even the biggest companies seem to be overlooking the marketing basics some times as evidenced by these high profile product failures.

The Marketing Rebellion is here, ushered in by a new book from Mark Schaefer. How do you succeed in an ad-free, loyalty-free, funnel-free world?

Who are your marketing heores? Mark Schaefer and Kerry Gorgone review some of the key influencers in their professional careers.

To keep up with dramatic changes in the consumer landscape, marketing, PR and advertising need to achieve a quantum leap level of change, beginning with leadership.
Social media can help us connect in amazing ways but it can also be a hurdle to forgiveness when things go wrong. The answer? Baby pictures.

Marketing lessons from KISS, a brush with Paula Abdul, and an unfortunate incident with holograms are just part of the fun on The Marketing Companion.

The Facebook news stream is a profoundly ineffective place to change somebody’s mind. Is this any way to create social change?

Traveling to 65 countries has provided a unique business and life perspective. This blog post takes you along on some of the adventures.

Unilever’s CMO blasted corrupt influence marketing practices but this article explains that the real fault lies in his own company
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