Experience Is The Best Teacher

I read today that 54% of the Fortune 100 have Twitter accounts and marketers prefer it almost 2 to 1 vs Facebook. I scratch my head and wonder what the other 46% are waiting for??

Are you on top of your social media name?

Ever try to secure a name (brand, user, vanity) on a social media website only to find out the one you want is taken?

There is a website called KnowEm that allows you to plug in a name and learn if it's taken. It's a great tool, fast and free http://www.knowem.com/

BTW, am sharing this as I don't want what happened to me to happen to you. I waited too long and now struggle to find AndyMartin available on the more popular sites. Fortunately my business name is quirky enough and I can still list Al Dente on most sites.

Why Great Marketers Should "Eat the Stunned"

Thanks to all that attended our Eat the Stunned presentation at the Business Marketing Association's annual conference in June!

Call me biased, but my partner Ian Heller of Real Results Marketing sums it up best in this clip :)

Enjoy!

What Do They Have In Common?

None of them will ever make any money !! Their business model is intellectually bankrupt. That means "as is" they will fail financially.

Drink the social networking Kool-Aid as a consumer. Why not? It's fun. As a professional marketer remember that any path that seems too good to be true, is too good to be true.

Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce

Easy to understand and loaded with insight.

Rookie Sales Mistake

Marketing Insights & Perspective

Presented at Invention to Venture workshop at UCF on Nov 14, 2008

Google TV Ads

Every day we get closer and closer to controlling our own destiny!

Stretch Goals

Has this ever happened to you?

19.5

This is total trivia and has nothing to do with marketing topics.....

Do you know how many gallons of gasoline are typically produced from a barrel of crude oil?

Now you do. It is 19.5 gallons according to various sources.