They're easy to recognize when someone points them out to you: Harley, the Nobel Prize, the Super Bowl,Build a permission asset:Times readers are among the most informed cultural consumers in the world In fact, they are almost always temporary and rarely transferable,Trust is really valuable and equally fragile
A few easy toss up questions and then just ask whether they'd recommend you and why,As marketers, we're tempted to tweak the already tweaked, to turn the 100 to 101, to optimize for the peak performances Fred Wilson and Jerry Colonna, on the other hand, had a different worldview,I got a note from Rob McGinley at Chubb Insurance today
A going out of business sale? Oh, they're in pain, so I get to save money,Push it to be the story, to live the story, to create a myth A professor tried to poke some holes, and in my opinion, missed the entire point,Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure:
As you sell out and permit yourself to be gamed, you make it more and more likely that consumers won't be influenced by you,I'm hoping you can take a look at these two free opportunities: The key in understanding someone's actions is understanding their agenda,And one way to get that permission is to have a culture in which surfers agree to pay attention in exchange for great content
If you're not qualifying people relentlessly enough to have many opportunities like this, you're not really qualifying them,She used her voice and her piano to make art, right then, right there I have to confess I'm inspired every time I see it,I heard from students on most continents, with a huge variety of backgrounds and life experiences
I wrote Unleashing the Ideavirus 8 years ago,Get the absolute biggest and brightest you can afford It's tempting to go for the bestseller list, to create a mass market hit,After all, it takes years to get brain cancer, there are countless factors involved and it's impossible to test
And realize that one day soon, you'll be spending much of your time working with people who you will probably never meet in person,That's because the distribution and pricing isn't part of what I'm trying to say A ticking clock is a marketer's best friend,No direction is perfect, so we play with a strategy for a while, but you know what, flitting is more fun, so we go back to that