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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

The newsfeed evolution means publishers are being forced to turn over content for free or become irrelevant. Here are strategies from top content publishers

Getting an opportunity to moderate a panel can be fun and rewarding if you’re prepared. Use these 10 tips to make sure it goes smoothly.

There’s a lot going on in video streaming, and it can be hard to keep up. This post goes over the latest happenings, so you can be up to date.

The intense competition for attention will spawn exciting new content forms. Here are six innovations to keep your eye on.

Mars Dorien shares five productivity questions he’s learned to ask at night to be productive with his work the next day. These are questions that we can all use.

In this latest episode of The Marketing Companion podcast, Mark Schaefer and Tom Webster discuss content marketing FOMO, and courage in marketing

Some of the less obvious marketing mega trends are also some of the most important. Four developments you need to consider for 2017.

Snapchat announced it’s releasing a spectacle-based camera and re-imagining itself as a camera company. Smart move or big stretch? Will Snapchat snap?

B2B content marketing offers rewards for those who get it right, but most don’t, according to a new study. Many executives are overwhelmed by content.

Knowing your customers is a never-ending quest for most marketers. Understanding the customer helps marketers position the product, and sales teams persuade consumers to buy.

Following the content marketing rules could lead to bland content that simply doesn’t work. To win today, you need to be uncommon.

You can fake your way to social media celebrity but is that sustainable?

It can be a headache planning a marketing conference but the author states that attention to detail makes the difference between a hit or a miss.

I had a great opportunity to meet Dr. Juergen Brock, CMO of Fujitsu, and talk to him about some of his pioneering efforts in social

The conventional wisdom is that quality beats quantity in content marketing but that is not always the case. Sometimes cheap and crappy content can win