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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

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?

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?

AI is not just adding new capabilities to our professional arsenal, it is rewriting the rules of marketing. In this discussion with tech leader and author Sandy Carter, we look at specific strategies to win the new sales and marketing game in the AI Era.

AI can accomplish much of the work done my white collar workers today. But human marketers still have a place in this world. The post examines three areas that will continue to be dominated by humans.

The Cracker Barrel marketing implosion became personal. When marketing becomes politicized, could this backlash happen to me? Could it happen to you?

Let’s take a break from the constant AI news feed and consider of our favorite most human marketing stories.

Feeling bored led to an exploration of research showing that stillness matters to productivity, creativity, and maybe even personal growth.

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.

The attention economy was already fractured but now it’s being warped by AI. How do we adjust our marketing strategies in this environment?

There’s too much navel-gazing in marketing as we deliberate on building emotional bonds, community, and trust. Sometimes, I want to buy a banana and be left alone.

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.
Mark Schaefer is the top-rated marketing and business keynote speaker at conferences all over the world.
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