Welcome to the world’s most entertaining marketing podcast.

With a spicy blend of good fun and powerful insight, The Marketing Companion has been the world’s most entertaining business podcast for more nearly a decade!

Mark Schaefer is a globally-recognized marketing author, futurist, college educator, consultant, and keynote speaker. Every other week, Mark brings one of his “marketing companions” alongside him to do a deep dive into the trends of today that forge the marketing innovations of tomorrow.

The Marketing Companion –among the top 1 percent of all podcasts on iTunes — is always fun, always interesting, and always on-target with insights and ideas that will turn up your marketing intellect to an “11.” Find a topic in the guide below or push one of the subscribe buttons to get episodes delivered free to your email account every other week.

How Facebook changes our behavior

November 18th, 2014

Is Facebook the real world? An examination of how Facebook changes our behavior

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Connecting personal branding, your online network, and business value

November 4th, 2014

Is personal branding still relevant and how does it connect to real business value?

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Mobility, mobile commerce, and the worst apps in the world

October 21st, 2014

Mobility, not just “mobile” may define the next tech wave. Listen in on this discuussion of the mobile commerce revolution and the world’s worst apps.

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Ello and the weird economics of social media

October 7th, 2014

Can a stripped-down ad-free network take on Facebook? In this podcast, we explore the changing economics of social media platforms

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Social media, authenticity and the human brand

September 23rd, 2014

What is the role of authenticity in social media and business? Is it an expectation, a myth, or a strategic weapon?

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What are the boundaries of inbound marketing?

September 9th, 2014

What are the boundaries of inbound marketing? News Hubspot spurs a debate.

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Coming clean on Facebook reach

August 25th, 2014

Unpacking data collected over the last year in search of the truth about Facebook reach

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The Time for Twitter is NOW

August 12th, 2014

With new marketing, research and advertising options, Twitter has momentum. This might best time for Twitter for your business.

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Would you erase yourself from Google search results?

July 29th, 2014

In this edition of The Marketing Companion, we cover the “right to be forgotten,” LinkedIn Blogging, Buyer Personas and more

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