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Influencer outreach is a mix of art and science, but if you miss out on this one consideration, you may imperil your company and your brand.

In just five years, influence marketing has grown from Klout to a mainstream industry channel. This post shows that influencer marketing grows up

A new research report highlights the current state of B2B influencer marketing and includes six transformative industry trends.

Highlights from SXSW including a talk by Mark Cuban, social activism, the state of the art of chatbots, Robert Cialdini, and more

In an increasingly ad-free world, content marketing (and all of its iterations) seems like a viable option to break through and reach customers.

Some of the less obvious marketing mega trends are also some of the most important. Four developments you need to consider for 2017.

You can fake your way to social media celebrity but is that sustainable?

Some people are getting $30,000 for a single branded Snapchat story. Influence marketing measurement needs a course correction

Sometimes bad reviews are a good thing. The weird truth of social proof!

Influence marketing measurement must move beyond Twitter mentions and follower counts. Breaking it into the tactics benefits can help.

Influence marketing has become so popular is may be over-used or mis-used. To help sort it out, consider these practical applications of influence marketing
A visit to a little specialty store in Highlands, NC, proved to be an excellent opportunity to teach a lesson on the marketing concept of reciprocity.
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