Best Practices, CEO, Customer Experience, Engagement, Expectations, Helping, Innovation, Leadership, Market Differentiation, Passion, Results, Risk, Strategy

If you want true success with Social Media, start with “WHY”

I don’t know if you are in the same boat as I am, but ...

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Business Strategy, Increased Profitability, Marketing, Mind Shift, Results, ROI, Social Media, Traditional Marketing, Traditional Media

Make the “i” in “ROi” first, then analyze the “R”

In the 100+ speeches I give every year, this one question is definitely in ...

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Best Practices, Business Strategy, Cost of Sale, Customer Focused, Engagement, Increased Profitability, Leadership, Market Differentiation, Marketing, Mind Shift, Pull Marketing, Push Marketing, Relationships, Results, ROI, Sales, Traditional Marketing, Trusted Relationships, Voice of the Customer, WOM on Steroids, Word-of-Mouth

Is the Sales Team the true home for Social Media?

Marketing, marketing, marketing – that seems to be all your hear about in regard ...

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Best Practices, Brand, CEO, Leadership, Market Differentiation, Marketing, Mind Shift, Pull Marketing, Push Marketing, Results, Social Media

A “Long Tail” Strategy makes you memorable

We just finished a weekend where there is tremendous hype about all the “Superbowl ...

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Advocates, Best Practices, Brand, Business Strategy, Leadership, Market Differentiation, Marketing, Passion, Pull Marketing, Results, Strategy, Word-of-Mouth, Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Word-of-Mouth is part of your DNA – not a “campaign”

Sales are down, the product isn’t moving, we need more customers/clients, we have a ...

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Engagement, Leadership, Marketing, Mind Shift, Results, Social Media, Social Media for CEOs, Social Media for Executives, Traditional Marketing, Traditional Media

Think “Replacement Cost” instead of “Additional Cost”

When the internet first came out, everyone viewed it as a “net add” in ...

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Advocates, Business Strategy, Economy, Helping, Leadership, Passion, Promises, Results, Social Media, Social Networking, Strategy, Word-of-Mouth

Washington Business Alliance – thank you…

It’s always a treat when you get a chance to work with some very ...

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Blogging, CEO, CEO Insights, Helping, Mind Shift, Passion, Results, Social Media, Social Media for CEOs, Social Media for Executives, Storytelling

CEOs can’t blog…really?

Last week I had a very interesting conversation with the CEO of a medium ...

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