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.
Are you are trying to explain new marketing to those who “just don’t get it” like, maybe, your bosses, your employees, your spouse, your parents, or your kids? This new film about Content Marketing is the best way I’ve seen to share the ideas of reaching people with content ...
Jack King passed away last week at age 84. He was a marketing and public relations pioneer as important as Edward Bernays, David Ogilvy, Steve Jobs, and Walt Disney.
The March / April issue of Columbia Journalism Review contained a story about Kyle Chayka, a 26-year-old freelance journalist who makes his living writing for online publications. Survival strategies of an online freelancer is an interesting take on how an independent journa...
It’s time to treat content as a valuable asset instead of a monthly expense. I’ve been involved in valuing a number of companies over the years and the assets that get added up include such things as the revenue from customers, real estate, equipment, inventory, and the like...
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...
Rich Jurek, my co-author on Marketing the Moon, sends us to this awesome video from Hyundai. Stephanie from Houston misses her astronaut father working at the International Space Station. So she and Hyundai cooked up a fantastic message created using 11 Hyundai Genesis cars ...
Several weeks ago, live video streaming app Meerkat scored as the product with the most buzz at the South-by-Southwest festival. Not to be outdone, on Thursday Twitter launched a rival app dubbed Periscope. While these apps and a related one from Snapchat called Snapchat Sto...
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 in...
Marketing and Sales Strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 10 books including "The New Rules of Marketing & PR".
