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.
I am often asked to critique marketing plans and programs as well as tactics like websites, and social networking feeds. My typical responses—“What's the goal?” and “What problems do you solve for your buyers?”—often throw people off.
Charity auctions are a way for people to support a cause that speaks to them, gain status, and have some fun too. My friend Seth Godin and a team of ruckus-makers just introduced GOODBIDS - a new way to create charity auctions.
Yes, all the hype about a total eclipse of the sun is accurate. It’s been a bit more than 24 hours and I’m still processing my experience, but here are some thoughts.
Artificial Intelligence tools like ChatGPT makes content creation super easy. However, garbage web content has quickly become a huge and growing problem. Let’s call it what it is: AI Pollution.
Marketers are ineffective when they use the classic "customer testimonial" format and pop that onto their blog or make it into a video. "Here’s our product. It is great. Here are customers who say it is great. Now buy some of our product."
Here's a simple marketing strategy planning template to help you implement strategies and tactics for reaching buyers directly. I believe it's essential to shift out of the marketer's comfort zone of preaching about products and services and the template helps people to do j...
As a unit, the combined sales and marketing team is charged with leading buyers along the sequence of interactions that lead to business success. But marketers and salespeople have different roles. By making certain we understand the difference, we can close the gap between ...
Many companies automatically send a survey after every transaction. Don’t these companies realize that they’re annoying the customers they say they value?