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.
This week, my new book The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real-Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business begins to ship from USA and Canada booksellers. The print edition will ship in the coming weeks from ...
I've seen a bunch of 2013 year in review pieces in the past few weeks. I’m sure you have too. My favorite is from The Week magazine, it’s an entire edition devoted to last year. And there are a bunch of 2014 predictions floating around too. For example, I contributed to Sonj...
I recently had an excellent conversation with my friend Greg Alexander, CEO of Sales Benchmark Index, about how marketing and sales can work together more effectively.
It’s just an excuse for inaction. “But I do not have enough time to start a blog.” (I’ve heard this one hundreds of times.)
Tania Venn, director of PR at 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, the largest full-service professional junk removal company in the world, oversees a team that creates content with a focus to reach customers who may not think that they need a junk removal service.
Here's proof cops have a sense of humor and that the Seattle Police understand the power of online content to educate and inform.
This is the third in a three part series on how professional services firm Sales Benchmark Index has made the transition from traditional outbound marketing like cold calls to a content-driven marketing approach using blogs, twitter, ebooks, and videos. I conduced several le...
This blog post highlights a very successful marketer - Larry Waight of The Lodge at Chaa Creek, an eco-resort in Western Belize - who has achieved high search engine rankings for many important keywords. This content marketing effort generates a remarkable 80% of new busines...