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.
The world wants to know who you are! And we’d like to learn about you in your own words.
I was fascinated by a little robot working away at the British Airways lounge in Boston. What a great example of how Artificial Intelligence and Robotics can help workers.
I love the new offering from Doritos. In a fabulous example of deeply understanding a buyer persona, the snack food brand just released a software plug-in that gamers (and others) can use to silence the annoying “crunch” sound when they are gaming or talking.
I recently learned that three of my books - The New Rules of Marketing and PR, Fanocracy, and Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead are part of the Books3 database which was used to train generative Artificial Intelligence systems by Meta, Bloomberg, and others.
Apparently, the Baseball World Series begins tomorrow. I had to go to the Web to learn which teams are playing this year – it’s the Diamondbacks vs. the Rangers. But wait… Rangers? I thought they were New York’s Hockey team.
Marketers have many choices about how we interact with existing and potential customers. We can be selfish, doing things for short-term revenue hits that annoy our best customers. Or we can build fans by focusing on what’s best for long-term loyalty.
I admire people who live a unique life, bouncing around, doing the things that interest them, living by their wits rather than just doing what’s accepted. John Perry Barlow was a unique character indeed, and my friend Brian Halligan is making a movie about Barlow’s life.
A fundamental marketing strategy is “owning” a phrase or a word in the mind of your potential customers. Done well, this form of marketing can mean ongoing sales of your product or service for many years and makes it difficult for other companies to compete.