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.
I am quoted in a terrific article in today's Wall Street Journal by Raymund Flandez titled Lights! Camera! Sales! How to use video to expand your business in a YouTube world. The article includes many examples of viral videos and is worth a read. We also filmed a television ...
If you've seen one of my keynotes or one-day seminars in the past year, you've seen one of my favorite viral videos: IBM's wonderful Mainframe: Art of the Sale (lesson one).
I'm always fascinated when people use the Web to tell their stories directly. Sandra Mendoza-Daly let me know about how fashion designers "are not only using the Web to further brand themselves, but more importantly, to bypass the very closed off, defunct media and PR gateke...
Michael Schaefer's Deep Blog is a useful tool and worth checking out. It is a quick and simple portal to top blogs in many different categories -- a place where blogs are easily found and accessed.
UPDATE - November 13, 2007
This morning I had an opportunity to participate in a terrific event called The Brave New Media World sponsored by the Massachusetts Hospital Association. What I love about social media and marketing is that every time I have a chance to interact with people from a particula...
I am constantly amazed by the ability of Amazon.com to push into new ground. I've always said that Amazon is successful because they run the company as a content site that happens to sell stuff. Everything on the site is focused on creating important content that surrounds e...
Mark R. Hinkle (Author, Blogger, Technologist) enjoyed my riff do not read this blog post. So he tried the tactic on his blog on subject he knew would elicit a strong reaction.