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.
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This morning, Amazon announced an October launch of Kindle MatchBook, a new program that will allow people who have purchased print copies of a title to get the same title as a Kindle ebook for a nominal price, ranging from free to $2.99. I figure this will cost me $4,000 a ...
It’s just an excuse for inaction. “But I do not have enough time to start a blog.” (I’ve heard this one hundreds of times.)
For the past decade, I’ve been evangelizing the new rules of marketing and public relations and so have many of you.
On the speaking circuit, the audiences I’ve addressed have suffered through some terrible introductions of me. It’s a bummer for an audience, anticipating a keynote speaker, to suffer through a bumbled intro. It makes the people who organized the event look unprepared. And a...
Over the weekend, I drove from my home near Boston to New York City to pick up my daughter who had been there for a summer internship. I’ve driven the roughly 225-mile trip a bunch of times and have worked out a pleasant, non-stressful route I like, much of it on parkways th...
No boss is perfect. Each has strengths and weaknesses.
In my experience, most “about” pages on blogs and personal websites suck. That’s okay if you want to be anonymous. But if you are writing a blog or creating a site to promote your ideas, then you need a great about page.
My friend Biagio Carrano points us to an interesting quote from Marcelo Bielsa, an Argentine football (soccer) coach who has managed football clubs and also the national teams of Argentina and Chile.