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Advertisers are getting squeezed on all sides. Traditional ads are going away, digital ads are skyrocketing in price. What’s the solution?

The Marketing Rebellion is here, ushered in by a new book from Mark Schaefer. How do you succeed in an ad-free, loyalty-free, funnel-free world?

There have been a number of studies pointing to the suspicious results of automated social media sentiment analysis. Here’s a simple idea that really works.

A Marketing Companion podcast episode with asks if one country should govern the internet, explores Apple’s “third wave,” and looks at CEO branding.

Retailing is in a cataclysmic shift. But a new California shop may portend the future of retailing. Oh yes. It has nothing on its shelves.

Mark Schaefer and Tom Webster review some of their favorite recent marketing books on the latest Marketing Companion episode.

Facebook is facing down controversy after controversy but none of it seems to matter. Their profitability and user growth continues to rise. Will Facebook be a permanent fixture in our lives?

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.

Data, big data and bigger data. If the data don’t show that the creative is going to work, throw it out the window. Play it safe, do what the data says. But for how much longer? There’s a need for balancing data and emotion.

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!
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