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.
Organizations filled with people who take the time to understand the needs of buyers they wish to reach, and then develop information to educate and inform those buyers, are more successful than organizations that just make stuff up. Buyer personas, the distinct demographic ...
I co-founded Signature Tones, a sonic branding studio, and I wanted you to be among the first to know about it. It’s crazy exciting to establish a business that combines my marketing geekdom with my massive passion for music. Sonic branding is a wide open and little understo...
Last night, my good friend Brian Halligan won Jerry Garcia’s iconic “Wolf” guitar at a charity auction, generating some $3 million for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Brian is co-founder and CEO of HubSpot (I am on the advisory board) and we co-wrote the book Marketing Less...
Yes, there’s an app for that. I’m intrigued by a new smartphone application called I.O. Toilet from Kimberly-Clark Israel’s Lily brand and innovation agency Gefen Team that automatically monitors your use of toilet paper in real-time, provides data for you to analyze (perhap...
Most marketers are focused way too much on the future. They’re only developing marketing plans and creating programs for next week, next month, and next year. The problem is that these people aren’t taking advantage of what’s happening right now, today, this moment. We need ...
1) Buyers are in charge The idea of mystery in the sales process is over. There is no more 'selling'—there is only buying. When potential customers have near perfect information on the web, it means salespeople must transform from authority to consultant, product narratives ...
When asked to sum up my approach to sales and marketing, I frequently say: “Educate and inform instead of interrupt and sell.” This phrase has been a slide in my presentations for many years and is by far my most popular tweet.
Over the past decade as I’ve written about and delivered talks on the new rules of marketing and public relations and real-time communications, I’ve connected with thousands of people from around the world. I’ve heard from many that they have struggled in getting started wit...
Marketing and Sales Strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 10 books including "The New Rules of Marketing & PR".
