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This is the dirtiest blog post you will ever read. And what does it have to do with marketing? Everything.
Is creativity the key to successful marketing? No, I think you just need to stick to the facts!
Marketers and bloggers have taken the easiest approach to using new technology, resulting in abuse and a backlash. It’s time to get serious about marketing again.
By Stanford Smith, Contributing {grow} Columnist I’m morbidly fascinated by failure. As of late, I’ve been scouring the web looking for failed social media programs.
2011 will be a year when many marketing professionals hit the social media re-set button. After climbing aboard the “engagement train” for fear of being
Here is one of the toughest marketing challenges I can imagine — engage customers with a medical practice, which of course is surrounded by patient
I crawled through the nooks and crannies of the UK and France over the past two weeks and while I enjoyed my share of fine
The other night I was having a beer with a friend who is a beginner blogger. He was lamenting that he was not attracting many

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
When somebody talks about “content marketing,” they’re really talking about “content engineering” — scientifically optimizing documents such as blogs, case studies and white papers to
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