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.
This weekend I got my Open Water Scuba certification at Ocean Frontiers Ltd. in the Cayman Islands. I chose Ocean Frontiers because I connected with them on Facebook at the suggestion of a friend and then wrote about how the Ocean Frontiers Green Short Challenge is a terrifi...
I'll tell you up front, it's not easy.
I get pushback from many entrepreneurs and business owners as well as CMOs in larger businesses about the idea of using inbound marketing because they see the investment in people to create content as a barrier. They say things like: "I cannot find money in my budget to spen...
I get several hundred pitches a week from well-meaning PR people.
My friends over at HubSpot published a deck on Slideshare called The HubSpot Culture Code: Creating a Company We Love.
It is rare that I have a customer service experience where I go "Wow!"
Several months ago I connected with Trent Silver, a young Internet entrepreneur, who wanted to test some of the ideas I talk about in my free World Wide Rave book and in my Newsjacking book.
I'm always interested in fun newsjacking examples and here's one sent to us by Mazz PR.