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.
With Elon Musk’s recent purchase of Twitter, some advertisers have reportedly left the platform and a small percentage of people have been deleting their accounts. Many are flocking to Mastodon as an alternative.
The volunteer members of the Harry Howard Hook & Ladder Company in Port Chester, NY are fans of the Grateful Dead, and they share their fandom in their work as well as with members of the public. This Fanocracy means that members pull energy, new ideas, and deep connecti...
Expert advice from REI Coop helps to educate and inform buyers. The company has many hundreds of educational articles and videos about all things outdoors. This fabulous content leads people into the physical stores as well as drives online purchases.
Last week, my article about product simplicity (or, more commonly, product complexity) generated a bunch of reactions on my social feeds and email inbox. It turns out I’m not the only one frustrated with bloated software and gadgets with way too many buttons.
We have a Speed Queen washing machine and we love it because it is so darned simple! There are no stupid touch screens with a bunch of silly options. There’s no smartphone app. It’s just a reliable and easy to use washer.
When a customer begins the buying journey for a complex sale, he or she usually wants to learn about their sales representative. This is true of both big-ticket consumer purchases as well as B2B products and services.
“Never in the history of humanity have we vomited more words in more places with more velocity,” say the authors of Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less.
Marketers understand that content drives action and many organizations now create original content—websites, blogs, video channels, social feeds, podcasts, and the like—as an essential way to reach buyers. However, most B2B companies focus their content effort only to attrac...