Bonus KNOWN Content
Continue the inspirational journey of KNOWN with new case studies, ideas, and tips from author Mark W. Schaefer.

How to choose a personal branding theme when you have diverse interests
Choosing a personal branding theme is essential on your journey to become known. That can be tricky if you have diverse interests and passions. These guidelines will help you.

The Content Consistency Imperative
It’s tempting to take a break from the frenzy of content creation, but as the author learned, content consistency is key. In fact, it’s more important that genius or having that big idea.

Three words that guide all content marketing strategy today
In a world of ever-growing complexity, focusing on these three words may provide effective direction to any marketing strategy.

The stark reality behind the influencer lists
The social media world obsesses over influencer lists that try to bestow power on a chosen few. Here’s why most of them very flawed and unfair.

No social media, no email, no website. And she’s a business success.
Does every business need content, a website and Facebook presence? Sometimes there are bigger goals in life that be realized, even with no social media.

The Power of Fried Chicken: Using Visual Brand Anchors
If you want to stand out in a noisy world, you might consider if there is an appropriate visual brand anchor to connect you to your audience.

10 Ideas driving the future of social media marketing
Mark Schaefer provides an outlook of ten big ideas that will be driving the future of social media marketing in the next few years. He stresses the need to embrace the chaos!

Go-to resources to modernize your marketing mindset
Many marketers are “frozen”in their approach, basing strategies on tried-and-true ideas that worked three years ago. Here are some resources to help you modernize your marketing mindset!

Five golden lessons from writing 2,000 blog posts (and counting)
I’ve learned some lessons from writing more than 2,000 blog posts. Here are a few surprises that may resonate with content creators.