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.
Readers of this blog know that I have very definite ideas for the right ways and the wrong ways to pitch the media in a Web world. In particular, I feel strongly that non-targeted broadcast email media pitches are spam.
As readers of this blog know, I'm a fan of Chris Anderson and his book, The Long Tail, and I followed, via Anderson's blog, his groundbreaking ideas about the Web’s economic shift away from mainstream markets toward smaller niche products and services well before his book wa...
As marketers know, having your company, product, or executive appear in an appropriate publication is great marketing. That's why billions of dollars are spent on PR each year (though much of it is wasted I'm afraid). When your organization appears in a story, not only do yo...
Heidi Cohen has written a terrific overview of what she's calling Branded Communications in her column on ClickZ. It is well worth a read. I've used a similar term Brand Journalism because my panelists Ben Edwards, Director, New Media Communications at IBM and Colleen DeCour...
Getting your organization visible on blogs is an increasingly important way to not only reach your buyers, but also to reach the mainstream media that cover your industry, because reporters and editors read blogs for story ideas.
As the Web has made communicating with reporters and editors extremely easy, breaking through using the online methods everyone else uses has become increasingly difficult.
Yes, like many others, I enjoy the Super Bowl TV adfest each year. Many others write about the ads such as Jim Nail from Cymfony so I prefer to take a look at the Web site tie ins – you know those little URLs at the bottom of the screen as the TV ad ends. I'm only interested...
Yesterday at the SIIA Information Industry Summit I moderated an absolutely killer panel discussion formally titled Advertising and PR for Everyone: Who is Winning the Race for Marketing Dollars?
Marketing and Sales Strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 10 books including "The New Rules of Marketing & PR".
