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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

There are a lot of marketing ideas sitting right in front of you. This post is a reflection on the ideas I’ve repeated often, and yet I think most people haven’t heard me yet.

The Uprising is an annual marketing retreat hosted by Mark Schaefer. Highlights this year included a deep dive on the place for humans in an uncertain agentic world.

Can AI feel real emotions? Anthropic researchers see neural patterns that respond like humans. The implications are profound and possibly dangerous.

It’s time to rise above the constant arguing about performance versus brand marketing. I will show you why brand is more important in the AI Era than ever.

When AI can help you fake thought leadership, the challenge to break through requires more human effort.

Competing in the attention economy has been the prevalent strategy for 20 years but AI is changing that. There is a new competitive landscape and intimacy wins the day.

Who decides the safe limits of superintelligence? Could the answer to this question be a hinge of history?

If the bots are coming for our jobs, should we prepare to battle AI? Considering the last time we had a disruption like this, there is a better strategy.

Sure, AI is coming for our jobs. But I expect ther will be at least for areas of human dominance in the AI Era.

AI adoption isn’t about learning prompts or proving an ROI. You have to get your people on board and this post teaches you how to do that.
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