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 love cheese of all kinds except the Pasteurized, Processed yellowish Cheese Food gunk that we here in the USA call “American Cheese”. In my country this stuff, which is mass-produced in a factory, is often sold in individually packaged slices and is what McDonald’s puts on...
This original version of this post on June 12, 2018 has been edited to reflect the importance of trust in building fandom. Social media exploded with the news, released June 4, 2018, that IHOP (International House of Pancakes) was to change their name to “IHOb.” A week later...
Back in 2011, I visited Panama for the first time and it was a life changing adventure. Since then, I’ve been back every year. Not only that, I invested in an eco-preserve in order to protect over 10,000 acres of rainforest and I co-founded Geoversity and its annual conferen...
I frequently get emails and social media inquires from people who tell me that they’ve learned the ideas in The New Rules of Marketing and PR or one of my other books and are eager to implement the strategies and tactics, but somebody higher up in the organization says “no”....
We’ve all been getting a bunch of messages from the companies we do business with alerting us to the new privacy policy they’ve implemented as a result of the General Data Protection Regulation that goes into effect across the European Union on May 25.
These days, when a potential customer begins the buying journey, he or she usually wants to learn more about their sales representative and the first place they are likely to go is LinkedIn. What will they find?
I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the social networks I use regularly including Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook. The main issue is the damned algorithms aren’t showing me what I want to see anymore. At the same time, my social networking posts aren’t seen by as many p...
We are now going through the biggest communications revolution in human history. Nearly every single person on the planet has a smartphone in their pocket and your potential customers are instantly engaged 24/7 to the companies they want to do business with. The problem is t...