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.
As marketers know, having your company, product, or executive appear in an appropriate publication is great marketing. That's why billions of dollars are spent on PR each year (though much of it is wasted I'm afraid). When your organization appears in a story, not only do yo...
Getting your organization visible on blogs is an increasingly important way to not only reach your buyers, but also to reach the mainstream media that cover your industry, because reporters and editors read blogs for story ideas.
As the Web has made communicating with reporters and editors extremely easy, breaking through using the online methods everyone else uses has become increasingly difficult.
Yes, like many others, I enjoy the Super Bowl TV adfest each year. Many others write about the ads such as Jim Nail from Cymfony so I prefer to take a look at the Web site tie ins – you know those little URLs at the bottom of the screen as the TV ad ends. I'm only interested...
I've often written about the online media room as a terrific form of marketing to reach your buyers directly. The online media room (sometimes called a press room or press page) is the part of your organization's Web site that you create specifically for the media. However, ...
If you are developing a news release program to reach buyers directly, you need to think like a publisher and understand your audience first and then set about to satisfy their informational needs.
Brevity: "the attribute of being brief or fleeting."
In technology businesses, the biggest companies are rather arrogant when it comes to marketing, aren't they? For years, marketing at big tech companies like Microsoft has been about letting customers know when the new product release is ready and then sitting back and taking...
Marketing and Sales Strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 10 books including "The New Rules of Marketing & PR".
