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 been getting a bunch of surveys recently, more than usual for some reason.
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On Saturday I caught the Life is Good festival. It was a beautiful day in the Boston suburbs made better because all profits generated from the festival (over a million dollars) are going to Children’s charities. For those music geeks reading this, my favorite act was the am...
For a short period of time on Thursday, United Airlines Web reservation system was offering up tickets for a price of zero.
Nokia UK tweeted a fun image during the Apple announcement of the new iPhone offerings yesterday.
Two years ago I wrote a post titled How to get a book deal where I outlined my thoughts on how to convince a major publisher to take on your work. The example I used was Summer Land - who I met at one of my talks in Sydney, Australia - and who took my advice and did the hard...
UPDATE September 7, 2013 - Congratulations to the people of Tokyo for winning the 2020 Olympic games. Let's hope the Tokyo 2020 site improves from now.
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This morning, Amazon announced an October launch of Kindle MatchBook, a new program that will allow people who have purchased print copies of a title to get the same title as a Kindle ebook for a nominal price, ranging from free to $2.99. I figure this will cost me $4,000 a ...
On the speaking circuit, the audiences I’ve addressed have suffered through some terrible introductions of me. It’s a bummer for an audience, anticipating a keynote speaker, to suffer through a bumbled intro. It makes the people who organized the event look unprepared. And a...