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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

America has been through a tumultuous election cycle. Here’s an extraordinary view of the American election and its impact on business and marketing

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the many available marketing options. But most of the time your marketing strategy has already been decided for you.

Do your current metrics do the job, or are new analytics needed to help connect the dots between all customer touch points and cater to the NEW consumer?

When a janitor stole the show in a social media class, it suggests that there may be untapped resources for an organization’s digital transformation.

Good writing matters. Can you be a great blogger without being a great writer? These tips will help you sharpen your skills.

In an increasingly ad-free world, content marketing (and all of its iterations) seems like a viable option to break through and reach customers.

Writing a book is a very difficult and time-consuming project. Here’s a progress report from the mid-way point in creating a book about becoming known today

Know your copyright rights! A copyright and curation primer for marketers from attorney Kerry O’Shea Gorgone

Subscription-based revenue now far exceeds advertising revenue amonf media consumers. A content dominance strategy is driving the new media economy

Is the average attention span shorter today? Perhaps but there is still plenty of evidence to suggest that people are still consuming big blogs

Does it seem to be more difficult to be working in marketing today? New research from Workfront explains why a career in marketing can make you bitchy!

By Kiki Schirr, {grow} Contributing Columnist I’m not exactly Ms. Political. Elections used to be one of those things I avoided talking about, like religion

Jeffrey Slater identifies the empathic marketer and gives us tips on how to become one among the endless marketing data and automation.

The number one stumbling block to marketing success is often finding the time to create content. Here are 25 amazing tips to help you!

The U.S. political campaign was ugly, made uglier by technology leaks and gaffes. Will technology institutionalize dirty politics in America?