Mark Schaefer, Author at Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}

Can The Shirtless Old Spice Guy pull off a marketing miracle?

Unless you’ve been in a cave this week, it would have been hard to avoid the splendid, amazing and entertaining Old Spice media blitz, which includes brilliant ads and one […]

Why your company may not need social media

Let’s have some fun with my buns. Cinnamon buns, that is. One of the myths we recently discussed on {grow} was the claim that every business needs to use social […]

The 20 craziest things you can do on Twitter

OK, we’ve heard all the great business success stories about connecting and learning through Twitter. But the human race is made up of all kinds of people and some of […]

Creating a content marketing plan — without any content

When somebody talks about “content marketing,” they’re really talking about “content engineering” — scientifically optimizing documents such as blogs, case studies and white papers to create search engine results and […]

Can the social web play a role in customer retention?

The recession has culled the weak from the pack but it’s likely that your competition is still fierce. Is there a way to attract and retain B2B customers without lowering […]

Why it’s ridiculous to argue about ghost blogging

It seems like “ghost blogging” — the practice of penning posts for others — is always under attack. Jon Buscall wrote a fine piece about it recently as did Mitch […]

ShipServ and one of the most interesting B2B social media case studies

ShipServ provides one of the most well known b2b social media case studies

Want to “go viral?” Think again!

Seems like everybody wants to produce content that goes viral. Speaking from experience, you should be careful about what you wish for! Last week I followed with tradition and posted […]

Is this Foursquare or Bore-square?

I think I “get” Foursquare. I really do. I understand there could be significant business benefits and opportunities to build customer loyalty. But I really wonder if Foursquare can reach […]