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.
Last week in Rome, I met Stefano Paciotti and his family at their fabulous gourmet food shop in Rome, located close to Vatican City. I was eager to learn how Stefano used Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok to build fans and transform a small family business into an internationa...
Congratulations soon-to-be graduates! If you live in North America, in about a month you will be out in the world.
How much can you accomplish in a day? The answer, of course, depends on how you schedule your time.
My father graduated from Harvard Business School in 1958. He really, really wanted me to go too. I took a swipe, applying to HBS in the late 1980s. Rejected! I failed to be allowed to enter via Harvard’s tightly locked front door.
In 2025, we have a choice of how we create. Will you pay attention to what matters, draw from passion and personality, adding dash of artistic flair to create something beautiful? Or will you dash off an AI prompt, push a button, and barf up something just okay?
My friend Peggy Sullivan delivered a fabulous talk at TEDx Walden Pond last month titled “Eliminating time poverty by doing less”. Her message is a simple yet powerful one - “Eat, work, sleep, repeat” - busyness is the silent addiction that keeps individuals and organization...
As social networks become more important for organizations of all kinds, often the key question is how to integrate them into an overall marketing strategy. Ani Sanyal, CEO of Kolkata Chai Co., uses Instagram and a website to grow the business he co-founded with his brother ...
For the first time since graduating from university, I took a month off. For my sabbatical during the month of September, I thru-hiked (and climbed) the entire 273-mile Long Trail in Vermont, the oldest long distance hiking trail in the US and widely considered the most diff...