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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
Those of us who have to compete for a living have come to realize there is only one real key to create competitive advantage. And this cautionary tale explains it.
I had my eyes opened to the massive growth of the crowdsourcing industry at a SXSW panel earlier this year. Ever since then, I
I’ve figured out Google’s grand plan for world domination. More or less. See if this makes sense to you. It sure did last night when

A Thai Food Court offers a spicy lesson on how to make the best website, and while it may seem like a paradox, less is more in business, website complexity
“No.” That’s the short answer to a question that was posed to me in Focus (which seems quieter and more manageable than Quora). It got my
A {grow} Community Week Contribution by Caroline Di Diego (aka Casudi) Failure is a stigma in our culture, so we tend to put it out
It’s time to step up and address one of the great myths pervading the social web — that an essential best practice is decentralizing social media
Does anybody on the digital media scene pay attention to strategy? Or, are we so determined to lead our clients into social media nirvana that
I’m a little freaked about this post. I’m afraid people will read only the blog headline and get out their pitchforks and torches. So please
Forget your marketing PLAN? Have I gone MAD?? Every good social media plan STARTS with a solid marketing strategy but social media efforts are sub-optimized
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