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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

Mirum President Mitch Joel explains why the future of a digital marketing agency is reliant on navigating martech, hustling through new competition, and cozying up to Amazon.

Making content work in our world is increasingly difficult but a good place to start is a content gap analysis. This post shows you how.

Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to “fix Facebook” this year. But Facebook’s biggest problems are not caused by fake news or Russian intervention. It’s from their own advertising system.

This video blew up and created the Internet’s biggest scandal in years. What marketing leadership lessons can be distilled rom the underlying issues presented in this case?

How are social networks going to evolve and what will the social network in a decade look like? With growing concerns over data privacy and transparency, and an emerging generations that are far smarter and more savvy when it comes to technology, paid social network subscriptions may be an answer.

Marketing technology is enabling a world of new data, insights and business models. But is it also making our customers hate us?

From Content Shock to the web’s best rants, here is what readers of {grow} chose as the Best Digital Marketing Articles of 2017.

A Ford Motor analyst provides her take on some of the biggest consumer trends on earth. Mark Schaefer and Tom Webster look at consumer cocooning and other ideas

What is the ultimate branded content case study? This video has it all, including a storyline that has earned 8 million views.

With a volatile economy causing cuts to marketing, marketers need to entrench their efforts in growing sales. Here are 17 lead generation ideas

Tony Dowling of Novo Consultancy shares steps your business needs to take to be compliant with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations.

If you had more time to work on marketing, what would you do? Here are some interesting insights on marketing time from professionals from around the world

Books and marketing seem to go together like a hand in a glove as more executives get in on the publishing bandwagon. Should you write a book?

Where are the safest and most interesting social media apps for kids? Here is an overview of the five best apps for children.

An unexpected viral post created some interesting lessons in human behavior, social media engagement and the purpose of LinkedIn in business.