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.
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...
I’ve written a bunch times in the past decade about the power of hiring a journalist as part of your marketing team. For example, here’s how Raytheon implemented a brand journalism approach to content marketing. Many organizations are desperately seeking people to create int...
This past weekend, I participated in a four-day Tony Robbins seminar called Unleash the Power Within. It’s an intense, high-energy event focused on the breakthroughs that transform your business, health, and personal life. I participated with my wife Yukari Watanabe Scott. I...
In the VC world, there are people who are forward thinking, providing valuable advice to the management teams of portfolio companies. These are the VCs that you want to be associated with your start up. And then there are VCs who are living the past who who therefore deliver...
Last night, Julianne Moore won the best actress Oscar for her role as a university professor whose descent into dementia due to early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease was portrayed in the film Still Alice. The amazing backstory behind the award is that all the big publishing houses...
I was 13 years old when Saturday Night Live premiered in 1975. While I remember staying up to watch some episodes of the show’s first season, it was a few years later when I was in High School that I became a fan. I’d come home after an evening partying with my friends and m...
Over the past year, I’ve helped my mother evaluate senior living centers that also have memory care facilities for my father who is suffering with Alzheimer’s. As I’ve checked out one site after another, I was disheartened by so many that used stock photos to depict the resi...
Don't let your money go down the drain! Call Big Birge Plumbing Company. For all your plumbing needs! Last week I delivered a talk at the Entrepreneurs Organization in Omaha, Nebraska. I always love working EO events, because members are so enthusiastic about learning new id...
Marketing and Sales Strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 10 books including "The New Rules of Marketing & PR".
