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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
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
In graduate school I took a class on “Leaders and Leadership” that I hoped would give me respite from the grind of finance and economics.

The know-nothings. You know who I’m talking about right? Social media “marketers” who have never practiced marketing. Maybe have never even had a sales
On a webinar last week, I briefly covered an idea I call the information eco-system (or social footprint) and received a lot of questions about
Complexity has been a theme through many posts on {grow}, most typically connected with the word “STRESS!” I had a fascinating discussion with one of
Zappos* is a successful company with a well-publicized, aggressive employee use of social media. In fact, it may be the most famous social media model in all of
If I leave a conference with a few “kernels of truth” I can gnaw on and think about, I consider the time well-spent. Here are
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