Following up on my draft post on 'Business Models for User-Generated Media', I wrote some notes on this morning's iBreakfast. Shawn Gold, SVP, MySpace: Marketing in a Networked Culture MySpace has 100m users projected by july 84m registered users, 2m new registered users per week (size of [...continue reading]
The Great Sales and Marketing Debate: The Cagey Sales Veterans Debate the Young Up-and-Comers
I recently was fortunate to participate in a panel discussion on "The Great Sales and Marketing Debate: The Cagey Sales Veterans Debate the Young Up-and-Comers", sponsored by the New York Software Industry Association, March 13, 2006, held at JP Morgan Chase. Allen Reynolds and Jesse [...continue reading]
No-Cost Teleseminar: Using Blogs and Online Communities to Increase Your Influence
an offer from my coauthor Scott Allen: Next Wednesday, February 8, from 1:00-2:30 Pacific (4:00-5:30 EST), I'll be doing a no-cost teleseminar with Steven Van Yoder, author of Get Slightly Famous (review), on how to use blogs, social network sites, and online communities to increase your exposure [...continue reading]
Raising Capital with Online Networks
We just posted the draft of an article we're working on about how to raise capital with online networks. We're particularly interested in more success stories about institutional investors who have used online networks to raise capital successfully. We welcome feedback! Here's the article: [...continue reading]
Review: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Growing Your Business With Google
Disclosure: Our new book is about networks, and the process of marketing a book has certainly emphasized for us how important networks are. Honestly, we have to admit that most of the reviewers of The Virtual Handshake book were people with whom either my coauthor Scott Allen or I had some sort of [...continue reading]
Using Online Communities Effectively
Steve Pavlina, who blogs on "personal development for smart people" (sounds like a tag line I could use) writes on Using Online Communities Effectively. This article reads like a micro-summary of "The Virtual Handshake". For anyone who is an active user of online communities, it's worth reviewing [...continue reading]
FastCompany book excerpt: 10 Steps to Leverage Online Networks
FastCompany has just published an excerpt of our book on the ten basic steps necessary to take full advantage of online networks. The excerpt is called Leveraging Your Links.Years ago, when I interned for Procter & Gamble, we were told to never write a memo longer than one page. This excerpt is [...continue reading]
South Asian, Chinese, Hispanic, French, and Russian Networks
In connection with research I did for my new book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, I worked with a variety of coauthors to write survey pieces on the ways that different special-interest communities build business relationships. I have posted these articles on [...continue reading]
Find broken links on your website
Via SpeakerNetNews.com and elevatingyourbusiness.com: "Want a way to easily check your links that is 97% accurate and won't cost you a dime? http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html . It will go through a site in no time and produce a report to get you fixing those broken links or redirected [...continue reading]
Internet Marketing for the cheap
Tessa Wegert has some good tips on how to market online without spending a fortune.The all-time best list of internet marketing resources that I've seen is Mitchell Levy's " ECnow.com List of 35 Internet Marketing Techniques". [...continue reading]
What Can We Learn from Network Marketing?
From my latest FastCompany.com column with Scott Allen,What Can We Learn from Network Marketing?:Network marketing, or multi-level marketing, is one of the fastest-growing business models of the past few decades. Between 1993 and 2003, total direct selling revenues grew by 7.1% annually, [...continue reading]
What's love worth? Try $100k
Money Magazine reports that a happy marriage is worth $100k /year.After 2 years of marriage, I can only say this is a ridiculously low estimate of the value of a spouse.Happy Valentine's Day! [...continue reading]
Inc.com | Trash Talkin' the Competition
Inc.com's Trash Talkin': No one likes to admit it, but bashing the competition is part of doing business.I particularly like the 'ventriloquist strategy'.http://www.inc.com/magazine/20040301/sales.html [...continue reading]
