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.
One of my most popular posts was in 2009 when I gave my top ten tips for incredibly successful public speaking. So many people liked that and referred to it over time, that I ran a follow-up titled more top ten tips for incredibly successful public speaking a few years later...
Yesterday afternoon I presented at the Leadership Summit sponsored by Fortune Magazine. In the room were 650 entrepreneurs eager to learn ways to grow their business. Since it was less than 24 hours after Super Bowl MVP New England Patriots QB Tom Brady was handed a 4 game s...
When you’re new to an industry, you don’t have to play by the rules. You can make up your own or apply ideas from your past experiences. That’s exactly what Michelle Miller did to publish The Underwriting, her first novel releasing later this month.
After nearly every talk I deliver I get questions and pushback about the idea of real-time communications. Sometimes it’s in the post-speech Q&A and other times people approach me privately. What they say is very similar and more or less goes like this: “It’s very risky ...
Imagine you're an educator charged with developing a brand new graduate level program in math. You’ve got to attract men and women to the program. How about doing this within a school that has been an undergraduate only, all female, liberal arts college since 1837! The gradu...
Rich Jurek, my co-author on Marketing the Moon, sends us to this awesome video from Hyundai. Stephanie from Houston misses her astronaut father working at the International Space Station. So she and Hyundai cooked up a fantastic message created using 11 Hyundai Genesis cars ...
We’re officially into the 2016 US presidential election season with three major candidates officially declaring so far. I love this time! There is so much to learn from the campaigns.
Most business-to-business marketing is dreadfully boring. Why is that? I think marketers get hung up on that “business” word and forget that they should be communicating to people. But it doesn’t have to be that way!