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.
“Ugh, not another COVID-19 post.” Over the past month or so, we've been saturated with blog posts, email updates, website banners on how businesses are handling this crisis. Some of it holds meaning. Some of it comes off as lip service lacking empathy.
Let me know if this sounds familiar. You spend months planning your business strategy — finding your target market, projecting earnings, conducting research, etc. — but the ROI just doesn’t seem to materialize. And now leadership is looking at you for answers while the prosp...
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: You browse online for a new product, visit a website, check out what's available, and then exit out of the webpage. Then for the next week, all you can see on your social media feeds are ads of the product you searched earlier. I get that...
Long-time readers of my blog may recall that each US Presidential election cycle, I love to analyze the marketing strategies and tactics used by the various candidates. I look at the Primaries and the General Election and I have done so since the 2004 cycle. I’m fortunate to...
James Patterson, one of the most successful authors ever, has always been clever with the way he markets his works. And that makes sense because early in his career he worked in advertising. For his new thriller The Chef Patterson cast actor Cory Tucker in the lead role of D...
Google Plus launched in mid-2011 to great excitement. Initially by invitation only, a clever ploy to get early adopters to sign on, Google Plus became the fastest growing social network in history when it opened to everybody in September 2011. Now, less than a decade after l...
Over the past decade, clickbait headlines have proliferated on all sorts of Web content. They have shown up on blogs with increasing frequency “The 5 social media marketing secrets to drive your business now” and they appear on sponsored content on media sites all the time “...
If an online product is free, then you are what’s for sale.
Marketing and Sales Strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 10 books including "The New Rules of Marketing & PR".
