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.
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 int...
I’m a fan of the SlideShare social network for sharing presentations. Because SlideShare combines both images and text in a unique way, it is an ideal platform to encourage sharing. It is simple to embed the content into other social networks too, particularly LinkedIn (Slid...
Frequently people tell me they can’t create content for marketing purposes because they “are not good a writer”. There are many social networks that don’t rely on text! You can create a YouTube channel, an infographic, an Instagram feed, or a SlideShare. So get out there and...
In the early 2000s, I was vice president of marketing and PR for two publicly traded companies. Back in the day, I spent millions of my companies’ dollars and thousands of hours of my teams’ time trying to get mainstream media to pay attention to us. This was pre-social netw...
At my presentation at HubSpot’s Inbound conference this September, I delivered a talk titled The New Rules of Selling. Fortunately, HubSpot had Kelly Kingman sit in on the presentation to create a wonderful graphic recording of my talk.
Content drives action. Content is the best way to reach buyers. Content is King. (And President and Pope and Queen as well). So how do you create great content? How do you understand your buyers, create compelling content that educates, informs, and entertains them, and then...
Less than a month ago, I released a presentation on SlideShare titled The New Rules of Selling. Because many of you viewed the presentation and shared it on social networks, the presentation has been viewed more than 107,000 views as I write this. Thank you. In this article,...
Marketing and Sales Strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 10 books including "The New Rules of Marketing & PR".
