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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
Johnny Spence has been one of the most consistent and entertaining contributors to {grow} over the past year so it only makes sense that I
Over the past year, some of the most powerful marketing lessons I’ve learned haven’t come from a book, a guru or a webinar. They’ve come
Sure the social web is filled with rants and quacks, but I’ve also been thinking about how the science and technology of this channel lifts
I don’t make a habit of putting my life on display on the blog but I wanted to pass along some news that I’m excited
In graduate school I took a class on “Leaders and Leadership” that I hoped would give me respite from the grind of finance and economics.
Sometimes it feels like my social media presence is about to fall off a cliff. Over the past months I’ve shared my journey as I’ve
I’ve been a skeptic about Foursquare but this guest post from small business-owner Helen Wilkinson (above) describes a new perspective on a monetization activity with
I have one of the world’s best points of brand differentiation — I’m the only business blogger you know old enough to have a daughter-blogger!
I would like to introduce Stuart Mease of Virginia Tech University to all of you. Stuart is a member of the {grow} community and flat-out
I just read a fascinating (and lengthy!) report from McKinsey on tech-enabled business trends to watch and thought it was important enough to summarize for
The other night I was having a beer with a friend who is a beginner blogger. He was lamenting that he was not attracting many
[youtube https://youtu.be/OewGHfz631s] You probably know by now that I like to shake it up with something light-hearted on Fridays but I think today’s video sends
I frequently receive questions about how I blog. Where do I get the ideas? How long does it take? Where do I come up with
I think I figured out why nearly every social media blogger sounds exactly the same — commonly referred to as the “echo chamber.” I’m learning that copying
The know-nothings. You know who I’m talking about right? Social media “marketers” who have never practiced marketing. Maybe have never even had a sales
