I write about strategies to turn fans into customers and customers into fans. I also share ways to use real-time strategies to spread ideas, influence minds, and build business.
At a town hall event four years ago, I had an opportunity to ask US presidential candidate Kamala Harris the question, "What are you a fan of?" The answer she gave from the stage, “I love music… I am especially fond of Bob Marley,” was surprising in its honesty.
For the first time since graduating from university, I took a month off. For my sabbatical during the month of September, I thru-hiked (and climbed) the entire 273-mile Long Trail in Vermont, the oldest long distance hiking trail in the US and widely considered the most diff...
When a customer begins the buying journey for a complex sale, they usually want to learn about their sales representative. This is true for both big-ticket consumer purchases as well as B2B products and services.
Applications to syndicate video and audio feeds to multiple social networking destinations have exploded in recent years. Apps such as Restream and StreamYard allow video creators to simultaneously go live to multiple streaming services, including YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn...
In the world of marketing, there is often a perceived divide between business-to-business (B2B) marketing and marketing to consumers. Many marketers believe that the strategies and tactics used in B2B marketing are vastly different from those used in consumer marketing.
It’s the new, new! The 9th edition of my international bestseller The New Rules of Marketing & PR is available today in print and ebook editions the USA and Canada and will soon be available in other countries! First published in 2007, in the same month as the iPhone 1 w...
Much of the buzz about ChatGPT and other LLM AI chatbots has been their use to query large sets of data found on the public web. Far more interesting to me, and where billions are being invested by venture capitalists right now, is how AI works with proprietary content.
For twenty years, Google was my go-to when I had a question. Google works great to surface relevant blue links that I can click to learn more. And in the past nearly two years, I’ve also been using ChatGPT to provide a descriptive answer to my queries. Perplexity.ai is a coo...
Marketing and Sales Strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 10 books including "The New Rules of Marketing & PR".
