Progress anxiety, Facebook culture, and baby animals

Short musings on progrss anxiety, mental health and marketing, and the usefulness of baby animals.
LinkedIn spam, Facebook ban, what’s happening to digital marketing?

LinkedIn spam is proliferating. Facebook is imploding (again). We look at the state of digital marketing on The Marketing Companion.
Big, huge, massive, surprising social media trends

New research reveals some surprising social media trends. Mark Schaefer and Brooke Sellas dissect new trends on The Marketing Companion.
Everything is out of date because the world is new

The world is new, life is hard, and we screwed up our show.
Need new power for your content marketing? Add a celebrity hologram!

Could adding a celebrity hologram create the ultimate content marketing experience? New technology will enable this.
LinkedIn video: Will marketers ruin this, too?

LinkedIn video production is soaring. Can it be an effective customer connection point, or are marketers on the brink of ruining it?
Advertisers are getting squeezed every way. What is the answer?

Advertisers are getting squeezed on all sides. Traditional ads are going away, digital ads are skyrocketing in price. What’s the solution?
The Rise of the Curated Feed

Over the last couple of months, something interesting has been happening to the social newsfeed. The world is seeing a shift that marketers need to note.
How to gain social media marketing experience before you graduate

By Kiki Schirr, {grow} Contributing Columnist Standing out amid a pool of college graduates can be difficult. Gaining social media marketing experience is a clear differentiator when looking for a job, especially a marketing role. How do you prove what you’ve learned to potential employers? I’ve compiled a list of six great methods for standing out from the […]
Consider the bank of goodwill as your online networking strategy

Online networking strategy isn’t complicated, but it does require making deposits the invisible bank of goodwill. This post explains how.