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 always love sharing examples of success and today we have a fun one from the world of sports. Most professional sports teams, when ready to make an announcement like a new player joining, follow the “old rules”. They just write a press release and then share the news with ...
Recently I had an opportunity to meet with Roseann Canfora, chief communications officer for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and spend a day with her entire team. I led a session on Real-Time Marketing and PR but I think I learned more from them than they from me....
Ten years ago today, Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah co-founded HubSpot with a SaaS-based marketing platform as the initial offering the company was working on. Happy birthday HubSpot(!) Brian and Dharmesh recognized that the way people buy products and services had changed...
The way people buy has changed. We’re fed up with unwanted phone calls interrupting us at home and at work. We hate wading through hundreds of unsolicited emails. We’ve had it with intrusive social media messages. We’re tired of poor service from companies that don’t treat u...
The fact that buyers reach your content through varied entry points including search engines, via social networks, and as links from other sites is often overlooked. Many people are dismissive of the value of writing a thoughtful blog, creating a video channel, or producing ...
This post is a collection of some of my best ideas for how restaurants, hotels, destinations, and attractions can use the ideas of The New Rules of Marketing & PR to generate attention.
I first wrote about Donald Trump’s mastery of real-time communications back in early August 2015 with my post Donald Trump Winning the Social Networking Primaries in a Landslide. This was way before anybody set foot in a polling booth. In my post, I shared detailed analysis ...
I’ve been talking about how content drives action and serves as the backbone of marketing for more than 15 years now. I've seen hundreds of companies implement these stratgeies and they work. There’s no doubt that when a buyer is investigating companies, their products and s...