Everybody who launches a new product, from Proctor & Gamble to a couple of college grads who thought it up at a bar, is convinced they’ll be rich. If they didn’t think it would sell, they wouldn’t try. Look at some of the morons on Shark Tank. They all believed in themselves and their products…
Lots of marketing people with brands, businesses, organizations and startups wonder how to approach social media. Approach it like you’re asking out a girl or a guy with the short term objective of getting a date and the long term goal of getting married, having kids and living out the rest of your days in…
I know the inclination is to just dive right in there and make a video, or hire an online video production company to dive right in there and bang out a video that will go viral, be an ad and explain everything your brand, product or service does and stands for, all in one neat…
Our society has become way too concerned with being seen as “offensive” and being “offended.” It’s the passive aggressive buzzword of the decade, and propelled by social media, has had an impact on how far brands and startups are willing to go with funny, edgy content. Creating fun, shareable content involves walking through a maze…
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I started this rant on LinkedIn, but was cut off by 427 characters. New YouTube ad rant – McDonalds. I’m trying to watch YouTube and now every time I get hit with a very authentic Columbian / South American vibe with coffee bushes and a dude with an authentic coffee bean picking hat and marginally…
I was recently a panelist at the MediaPost Social Media Insider Summit on 10/23 at Lake Tahoe, speaking on the topic of “What’s More Important? Going Viral or Tapping Influencers?” Special thanks to the MediaPost team for another awesome event! Here’s the live streamed video from the event:
Rebecca Borison wrote a great article on app marketing for Business Insider about the game Blek, and how co-founder Denis Mikan figures he managed to get his app into the #1 spot on the Apple App Store for 20 consecutive days. Mikan says the app got early attention from the press, always a good thing,…
The best thing about online video is that it gets ATTENTION, builds AWARENESS, INTEREST, and drives ACTION. Action is the part we’re after. That’s where people buy your stuff. Strip away the glitz, glamor and varying definitions of “going viral,” and the whole point of it is simply to reach more and more potential buyers…
We will! Who wouldn’t want to attend this rockstar summit filled with YouTube celebs, Google, IBM, Disney, Sony, and Activision Executives? Supercool will be covering the event and we look forward to seeing you there! Silicon Beach Young Professionals presents the DISRUPT LA Tech Summit – a two day conference, comprised of presentations, panels, workshops and…