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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!

With the pressure to perform and build influence on the web, many people are buying fake followers, likes and comments. But in the end, true influence will win.

Influencer outreach is a mix of art and science, but if you miss out on this one consideration, you may imperil your company and your brand.

In just five years, influence marketing has grown from Klout to a mainstream industry channel. This post shows that influencer marketing grows up

A new research report highlights the current state of B2B influencer marketing and includes six transformative industry trends.

Highlights from SXSW including a talk by Mark Cuban, social activism, the state of the art of chatbots, Robert Cialdini, and more

In an increasingly ad-free world, content marketing (and all of its iterations) seems like a viable option to break through and reach customers.

Some of the less obvious marketing mega trends are also some of the most important. Four developments you need to consider for 2017.

You can fake your way to social media celebrity but is that sustainable?

Some people are getting $30,000 for a single branded Snapchat story. Influence marketing measurement needs a course correction
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