10 Steps for your company to embrace cause marketing — and be believed!

There’s pressure for brands to embrace cause marketing. This can be hazardous unless you follow these 10 steps!
An easy and extraordinary system to learn how to learn

This interview reveals a clever process Keith Jennings used to learn how to learn and create encyclopedic knowledge.
Progress anxiety, Facebook culture, and baby animals

Short musings on progrss anxiety, mental health and marketing, and the usefulness of baby animals.
Why “CottageCore” is the next big lifestyle and marketing trend

CottageCore will be the next big lifestyle trend and Mark Schaefer and Brooke Sellas are out to prove it.
Pissy answers to common marketing questions

There is no sales funnel or customer journey, and other unexpected answers to common marketing questions.
I was saved by my personal brand

The pandemic hit. My business tanked. But work on my personal brand paid off in the crisis.
The relationship between trust, thought leadership and real employees

Does thought leadership come from a brand, a person, or a little of both?
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.
Top 5 reasons why marketing leaders won’t change with the times

Marketing leaders are falling behind the times. They see the changes happening but why won’t they shift?
Pandemic survival lessons in resilience from a flower

Pandemic survival is at the top of our minds. One unexpected solution came from a flower.