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.
We all face fear in our professional and personal lives. Fear of the strange, of the new, of the untested. We fear bucking the trend and going against the accepted. It's a natural human response. To truly achieve greatness in the form of personal fulfillment, you must act. T...
I’m a fan of the SlideShare social network for sharing presentations. Because SlideShare combines both images and text in a unique way, it is an ideal platform to encourage sharing. It is simple to embed the content into other social networks too, particularly LinkedIn (Slid...
I’m a “Pro” user of the Hightail (formerly YouSendIt) file sharing and storage service. I’ve been a loyal customer since January 2009, paying over $100 a year for my premium services. This morning I received an email offer to the address I use to subscribe to Hightail with t...
Frequently people tell me they can’t create content for marketing purposes because they “are not good a writer”. There are many social networks that don’t rely on text! You can create a YouTube channel, an infographic, an Instagram feed, or a SlideShare. So get out there and...
I love that many of the events I present at at have active social backchannels. The #hashtags at conferences are now an integral part of how people interact in real-time, moving the content from one-way (speaker on stage to audience) to multi-way (people in the audience disc...
In the early 2000s, I was vice president of marketing and PR for two publicly traded companies. Back in the day, I spent millions of my companies’ dollars and thousands of hours of my teams’ time trying to get mainstream media to pay attention to us. This was pre-social netw...
At my presentation at HubSpot’s Inbound conference this September, I delivered a talk titled The New Rules of Selling. Fortunately, HubSpot had Kelly Kingman sit in on the presentation to create a wonderful graphic recording of my talk.
Today I’m speaking at the Direct Selling Association Be Connected conference. I love presenting ideas of real-time sales and marketing to entrepreneurial groups! I like to sit in on presentations at the events I speak at because I frequently get great ideas for blog posts (l...
Marketing and Sales Strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 10 books including "The New Rules of Marketing & PR".
