Many influencers are so caught up with the hamster wheel of content creation that it can sometimes be hard to come up for air and think about what the future will look like in 12 months. Or 2 years? 5 years? What about 10 years?
In my new interview with Dom Burch, a 14 year marketing veteran of Asda (a division of Walmart), we talk about:
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