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.
There’s something fascinating about stepping behind the velvet rope and seeing what most people never do. Behind the scenes experiences and images don’t just show what you do—they reveal who you are.
Over the past several months, I’ve been working on a secret book project— The Fandom Playbook: Building Your Human Connection in a World of Digital Chaos. My team kept it a secret because the pioneering way I am creating it. Now I am excited to share the details of it with y...
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...
The LinkedIn algorithm prioritizes engagement. The more discussion on a post, the more the AI algorithm kicks in and shares content with more people inside and outside your own network.
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 ...
Much of the buzz about ChatGPT and other LLM AI chatbots has been their use to query large sets of data found on the public web. Far more interesting to me, and where billions are being invested by venture capitalists right now, is how AI works with proprietary content.
When Jesse Cole was a baseball-loving kid growing up near Boston, he dreamed of playing at Fenway Park. On Saturday, his Savannah Bananas, the team he’s owned since 2016, played their debut at Fenway, delighting the largest crowd at the storied ballpark this year. This is a ...
With the popularity of social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok as well as the rapid rise of chatbots accessing Generative AI Models, the once humble blog has rising in importance (once again) as a marketing strategy.