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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

At the top of this blog it says Marketing, Social Media, Humanity. {grow} has never been a blog that is just about business. Today I

It wasn’t that long ago that we lived in an elitist, all-white, starched-collar business world. A view of radical change.
Offering customer “win-wins” is an important aspect of social media promotions, as this case study illustrates.
To be human is to suffer but our ability to find oy through our hardship defines us. How are you coping?
I unexpectedly ended up on the CBS Morning News. Here’s how it happened — and how I survived 210 seconds of fame
I thought I would pass along a few impressions from Day One of SXSW. This is the epic meeting of all things digital, and all
Here is a take on social media you may have never seen before — the capacity of blogging to transform a life.
Back in college I had this hilarious geology professor who told me that “tsunami” was Japanese for “Where in the hell did all that water

The death of Trey Pennington shook me up and made me reflect on the role of social media in this tragedy.

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