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 watch very little television. However, I do enjoy smart dramas that have some kind of marketing or PR component to the story line. I loved The West Wing, especially Allison Janney's CJ Craig character (the White House Spokesperson and then Chief of Staff). I did enjoy "Stu...
I've just finished a whirlwind book promotion blitz that centered around the "birthday" of my book on June 4. Thanks to everyone who has blogged about The New Rules of Marketing & PR (more than 100 of you!). And many thanks to everyone who has purchased the book (more th...
Marketing with Web landing pages is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to get a message read by a target market, and it's a terrific tool for moving buyers through the sales cycle.
Social Networking sites are an excellent way to deliver information to people who might want to do business with your organization. Particularly if you use a thought leadership based approach, sites like MySpace, Squidoo, and the other social networking sites reaches your bu...
A common mistake with Web marketing programs is that people are so busy marketing and communicating and being "on message" that they forget to just ask for the damn order! It's silly. Many companies spend thousands (or millions) of dollars on some slick online marketing camp...
The popularity of social networking sites including MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, and Xanga is phenomenal. Social networking sites make it easy for people to create a profile about themselves and use it to create a virtual network of their offline friends and to make new fr...
Here is an interesting case study on using videos for marketing purposes that will appear in my upcoming book The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to use news releases, blogs, podcasts, viral marketing and online media to reach your buyers directly