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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

Feeling confused, angry, overwhelmed, or hurt in your business? I explain my own issues with business codependency (and try to help!).

The pandemic may make you panic but don’t enter the doom loop. A lesson from the king of bacon.

Creativity and creators will be challenged when randomness is eliminated from the workplace.

Two mega-trends point to nostalgia marketing as a possible business priority.

In a cookie-free environment, the B2B marketer needs new solutions.

Remote work can be great but are you vulnerable to offshoring? Here are the best ways to keep your job secure.

Content isn’t king and it hasn’t been for some time. There’s a new ruler in town.

The pandemic is changing lives. Listen in to this new episode of the Marketing Companion as a marketing leader from Adidas talks about how it is redefining sport, retail, and marketing.

Is success driven by purpose or passion? New research provides a surprising answer.

There’s pressure for brands to embrace cause marketing. This can be hazardous unless you follow these 10 steps!

This interview reveals a clever process Keith Jennings used to learn how to learn and create encyclopedic knowledge.

Tuning into emotional cues and other pandemic survival thoughts in a final post from Mars Dorian.

Short musings on progrss anxiety, mental health and marketing, and the usefulness of baby animals.

CottageCore will be the next big lifestyle trend and Mark Schaefer and Brooke Sellas are out to prove it.

When we include our emotions in data, the data is dangerous. Sure, we all want to tell a stellar story. But good data does that all on its own.