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 real-time information world allows you to precisely personalize to your exact interests and requirements. The tools of real-time are powerful indeed:
Do you add "please retweet" (or "please RT") to your twitter updates? Many people do. But I do not.
Google+ has quickly swept through the planet and in record time has amassed tens of millions of users. And people are actively using it.
Way back in 2007, I offered a radical idea for CMOs: Hire a journalist. This idea, which I talk about in most of my live presentations was a response to many executives who wanted to know how to implement the ideas in my book The New Rules of Marketing and PR.
I've enjoyed creating this week of blog posts centering around live music, a passion of mine.
When Grateful Dead spiritual leader Jerry Garcia died in 1995 and the band stopped touring, many long-time fans found themselves suddenly without a reason to gather with the many friends they made on tour. It was a sad time for those people for whom the band was an important...
Music fans are incredibly passionate about the bands that they love. Smart marketers tap into that passion as a way to engage audiences.
In the second installment of my Summer Music Series, (which will run each day this week), I'd like to explore the concept of work.