I love football. I have a favorite team, but I will never own them. I’m not the caveman sports fan. This allows me to love the sport as a whole and enjoy a good game no matter who is playing.
This year’s Super bowl Sunday which was also dubbed via the web as #brandbowl had the worst ads over all that I can remember. I base this on my own personal laugh out loud moments or WOW moments. To which I had only three total. Read the rest of this entry »
Here it is 2010 and it’s the year social media makes money, right? Sure, why not. Everyone loves a band wagon and buzz words. I mean, I read all these posts and read profile after profile of people who call themselves gurus and ninjas. At some point it, all seems a little silly. Read the rest of this entry »
Happy New Year to everyone! There will be countless articles and videos regarding twenty ten. Everything from predictions to resolutions of what’s up for this year in business. I’m going to walk way out on a limb and start by saying I could care less about most business models for 2010. I do business like I’m living in the 50s — the 1950s, to be exact.
If you overlook the racism and, of course, the sexism, it was a golden era for business, at least here in America. It was a time when people actually knew who sold them products and provided them services. It was a time when people knew their banker by name and the banker knew them, their families and took a geniune, personal interest in who his customers were.
For me, this is not a huge thing. In fact, this is the way I’ve done business for the past 10 years – actually, it’s the way I’ve always done business. And I’ll continue doing it that way. You can talk all day about how “Social Media” has changed the game. The reality is that anyone who says that hasn’t been in the game of business for very long. If they have, it wasn’t a business they built themselves. In the end, it’s all about the people and customer service and a quality product. Read the rest of this entry »
When I was in LA for the #140conf a few months ago, I ran into Carol Quinn aka @3Lunches. Our interaction was brief, but the thought of three lunches stuck in my head because…well, I love food.
When I got home I connected with Carol via Twitter and went and checked out 3Lunches.com. The concept is to ask for coaching from someone who has knowledge you need. This is done in a format set around three actual lunches. Read the rest of this entry »
Community is something everyone in the social space is looking to build and, personally, I think that’s extremely hard. When clients approach me to work with them on building community and loyalty, I always tell them to be prepared – as it’s an exercise that requires patience, dedication and, most of all, engagement. There are some shining examples of folks who are doing a terrific job at community building – like my friends at The Roger Smith Hotel aka @RSHotel in New York City.
I got to know Adam J Wallace aka @adwal and Brian Simpson aka @Bsimi (private) on Twitter long before I knew anything about The Roger Smith Hotels. But, as our relationships developed, I began to pay more attention to what they were doing, how they were engaging and what kind of influence and loyalty they were building as a result of their genuine interest in and effort towards building community on behalf of the hotel. They work together to ensure that the social outreach for the hotel runs smoothly and are always coming up with new and innovative ideas, which makes them interesting, exciting and worthy of attention. Here’s an interview I did recently with @adwal that tells more about their philosophy: Read the rest of this entry »
@jeffpulver thank you for giving a voice to so many different people.
In the coming days, the videos from the talks will be released. Make sure you follow @140conf. You should definitely look for the videos of these other speakers from the event: @cc_Chapman, @porterVA, @adwal & @Bsimi, and @drew. You should follow them as well. They are all amazing. I will be tweeting links to the talks that I thought had value as well.
The post could be spent talking about how many awesome people I meet and reconnected with @140conf. In the end is all about the connections. I love people. My flickr will have some bonus pics I left out! So friend me there!! Read the rest of this entry »
In short, the job @DevriesPR did at the #140conf in LA was awesome. For right now it looks like they cut down interviews and released snippets of them. These videos were going up through out the days of the event. Read the rest of this entry »
There might be a few moments in this interview where you may think I’m a fanboy. I am 100% a fanboy of the way Digg.com and Revision3.com handles business and their community. It was refreshing to talking to @KevinRose hearing the voice of a regular down to earth guy who still gets it. Read the rest of this entry »
