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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
My bike ride started me thinking about the importance of building social media momentum. Here’s what I mean. My wife and I recently completed a lengthy mountain biking
I wanted to show you this awesome music video because it’s creative, hilarious and it also reinforces a theme I’ve been writing about over several
Fara Hain grabbed my attention in a big way. In a recent comment on {grow} she mentioned that Twitter had led her to discover a
It’s Friday and as we say around here, “Man does not live by blog alone” and when I saw this pic I laughed out loud
“How do I increase my influence on Twitter?” A business colleague asked me this question and I figured if it was on his mind, it
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Laura Click in downtown Nashville. She had an incredible story about how people used the social web
I’ve made many wonderful connections through the social web, but the magic really happens when I’ve strengthened those bonds by turning those online friends into offline
Last week Vocus, a provider of on-demand PR management software, announced the results of a survey which found that the turf battle between PR and
I was rolling around on the floor with some of my young nieces and nephews and somehow the word “poop” entered the conversation. Every time
This has been a week of reminiscing for me. I had a business opportunity come up that gave me a good excuse to talk to
What did it take for you to “get” Twitter? I was certainly in that vast number of people who resisted it. The first tweet I
Two weeks ago, Chris Penn blogged his 11 Little Secrets to staying happy, healthy, productive and sane. Quite a few other bloggers followed suit, so
On a webinar last week, I briefly covered an idea I call the information eco-system (or social footprint) and received a lot of questions about
The web comments about the announcement that Twitter will have ads on their searches (as a start) were about evenly split between “ho hum” and
Where I live in East Tennessee black bears are a real fact of life. Actually, that’s one of the reasons I’ve remained here. In 45
