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Youâre 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 youâre here. -Mark Schaefer
I have covered many angles of content creation, strategy, and marketing career issues. But there is one serious topic I have avoided until now.
You might be losing 25% or more of your online ad budget to fake sites. Here are some steps to fight back.
Hazing is a trial by fire in some cultures but on Facebook, it takes on a new dimension

Developing rich content is hard work and it is easy to take shortcuts. But what are the risks to out-sourcing content?SEO Ethics and Content Marketing: Spammers vs.Thought Leaders
âYouâre Creeping Me Out!â The Dark Side of Social Networking

The badges of social proof are useful shortcuts for people to determine power and success. Is this good business or cheating?Do you have to cheat to be successful on the social web?
Social media success is a two-edged sword, as this example shows.
With your kind support, {grow} has become a fairly popular blog. With this distinction, I’m deluged with requests to do sponsored posts (companies offering to pay for their promotional
Klout just got sexy. And I called this one … Unfortunately. A year ago in the first article I wrote about Klout (Get Ready. Social Scoring
A guest post by {grow} community member Leslie Lewis Leslie Lewis is not my real name. You donât need to know my real name, and you may
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