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Does Retail Understand The Untethered Consumer?

Episode #362 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

While many companies were still lamenting a basic website back in the nineties, Gary Schwartz was already imagining how content, voice and …

The New Face Of Content Marketing

How much content is too much content when it comes to a brand?

It’s a slippery slope for most brands when it comes to their engines of content creation. We live in a day and age when the term, "content marketing" stumbles out of a brand’s mo…

The Truth About Social Media And Selling Stuff

Episode #361 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Brands are pushing hard on social media. All too often, they will complain that social media doesn’t work or Facebook advertising doesn’t w…

The Inferior Brand

Not everyone works for Apple. Not everyone has a brand like Google.

In fact, the vast majority of us probably don’t work for the superstar brand in our industry. Sure, there are challenger brands, startups and more that have the potential to find thei…

How To Support A Community

Episode #360 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Nilofer Merchant is probably one of the the more fascinating people you can connect with online (and in person). Over the years she has bec…

Believable Marketing

Episode #359 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

I have known Tom Asacker for close to a decade. How smart is he? Whenever someone attempts to define what a brand truly is or what branding…

Believable Marketing

Episode #359 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

I have known Tom Asacker for close to a decade. How smart is he? Whenever someone attempts to define what a brand truly is or what branding…

Welcome To The One Screen World

Channel surfing got weird.

There was this episode of All-Star Celebrity Apprentice this season that revolved around each team’s ability to create a television ad for the consumer electronics company, LG. It wasn’t really about a particular model of te…

CTRL ALT Delete. Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends On It. Today Is The Day

What are you going to reboot today?

Today is the day. My second business book, CTRL ALT Delete, is now available. This book is broken up into two sections. Section one is titled Reboot: Business and in it, I define the five movements that have changed…

Understanding Humans And Making Marketing Better

Episode #358 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

There are certain people that business leaders and marketers should be paying a lot more attention to. Adam Alter is one of those individua…

Reinventing You With Dorie Clark

Episode #357 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

How important is a personal brand? Is that phrase even able to stay alive in this day and age? There is no doubt that our individual reputa…

Blogs And Business Success With Mark W. Schaefer

Episode #356 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

If you could choose one media channel to create and own, in the year 2013, would it be a blog? Personally, I still think that blogging is a…

Overcome Your Fear And Gain Confidence. Advice From Someone Who Kicks A** (Literally)

Episode #355 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

When I was a kid, I got into martial arts. Along with taking a more traditional form of Kung Fu, I stumbled into training on a fairly regul…

The Sad State Of Brands This Week

This post is not going to earn me a lot of friends (and I really don’t care).

I am a proud marketer. It’s not easy to say that. It’s not easy to write that… but it’s true. I love marketing. I love helpings brands figure out their competitive advanta…

Marketers, Let Your Egos Go

What if your ideas didn’t matter?

For senior marketers, it is a very humbling thought. What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience as a trained marketing professional didn’t amount to a hill of beans in terms of the actual brand’s adver…

The Small Wins From Social Media

Big brands are trying to make big moves in social media.

There is an arm’s race – of sorts – for brands to reach a million fans (or more) on Facebook. Brands will look to see how many people are connected to their number one competitor (or the industr…

Are We Truly Prepared For The Present That We Have Created?

Episode #354 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

His latest book is called, Present Shock, and he has ten-plus other best-selling books on new media and pop culture (including: Program Or …

Is There A Science And Repeatability To Things That Go Viral?

Episode #353 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

His formal title is the James G. Campbell Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The tru…

It’s The Little Things

You sometimes pick up a gem of an idea… and the mind begins to wander (and wonder).

At the Monetate Agility Summit today in Philadelphia (where I was invited to give the keynote presentation), I wound up connecting with some of the most fascinating …

How Do You Scale Humanity?

Episode #352 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

This is also episode #25.20 of Across The Sound. Joseph Jaffe is widely regarded as one of the top Marketing Bloggers (Jaffe Juice) and Pod…