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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

This is a story many of us will never have to experience. The lessons of a year of being homeless.

Social media is a moving beast and we need to keep moving with it! Here are five tools to help you have a more effective social media presence.
Pushing social media engagement rates may look good on paper but might not be the best business or marketing strategy for a business.

Join the growtoonists each Friday for a humorous take on marketing, social media, and current business events.

Distilling your focus to three words is a challenging but rewarding exercise. Here’s my crack at it.

Some interesting trends are colliding that will have vast implications for the way we work, live and think. A few prognostications for the coming year.

The social web can be an ugly place. But it doesn’t have to be. Change is in your hands.
It was an exciting year on {grow} but there were a few blog posts that really made a difference. Here’s a review of the best of 2012.

There are more ways to look at the value of social media other than generating leads and revenue. Here’s a new way to look at social media ROI
Sometimes you just get some data across your desk that makes you lose faith. Do parents care what their kids are doing online?
Join the growtoonists each Friday for a humorous take on marketing, social media, and current business events.
Social media success does not breed success. It may breed paralysis. Here’s thinking about the beauty of small.

An exciting and eye-popping review of the most exciting digital marketing campaigns of the year!