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've spent the last week worried about a long-planned trip to New York City. Hearing about the pending Hurricane Irene messed up a schedule I had organized. But I needed to be in New York for an engagement on Monday.
The real-time information world allows you to precisely personalize to your exact interests and requirements. The tools of real-time are powerful indeed:
Google+ has quickly swept through the planet and in record time has amassed tens of millions of users. And people are actively using it.
Way back in 2007, I offered a radical idea for CMOs: Hire a journalist. This idea, which I talk about in most of my live presentations was a response to many executives who wanted to know how to implement the ideas in my book The New Rules of Marketing and PR.
I've enjoyed creating this week of blog posts centering around live music, a passion of mine.
When Grateful Dead spiritual leader Jerry Garcia died in 1995 and the band stopped touring, many long-time fans found themselves suddenly without a reason to gather with the many friends they made on tour. It was a sad time for those people for whom the band was an important...
Music fans are incredibly passionate about the bands that they love. Smart marketers tap into that passion as a way to engage audiences.
I enjoy sitting in Aeron chairs eating catered tuna sandwiches and drinking designer water in corporate conference rooms as much as anyone.
Marketing and Sales Strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 10 books including "The New Rules of Marketing & PR".
