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As written for SocialMediaToday A subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Brooks Sports is a market-driven company with a specialty dealer channel strategy focused entirely on meeting runners’ specific needs. Founded in 1914, the company has a long history of innovation in the athletic space, but no real history of marketing technology leadership. That’s all begun to change. […]
It took Michael J. Fox eight years to publicly reveal he had Parkinson’s disease back in 1998. He was starring in his second hit TV show and it was no longer something he could conceal. For years he struggled to accept his condition, rarely gave interviews, and deliberately remained out of the public limelight. Thanks to determination, […]
As written for SocialMediaToday As an inbound marketer, I often write and share about what it means to capture, write, and publish stories. Done correctly, story telling transforms content from marketing to sharing, and merely informing to fascinating. Some of my most successful stories, like the Pinterest Pin That Launched a Company, recount a chain of events that […]
As written for Business2Community I had the pleasure of being at the Social Media Strategies Summit last week in San Francisco. The guys at GSMI do conferences well–they balance theory with case studies and practical training. One such training session entitled “Facebook Advertising Best Practices,” was led by the co-founder of local start up with a whole lot of […]
As written for Business2Community When it comes to goals and achievement, we humans work in a particular way. We set a goal for ourselves, and when we reach it, dopamine is released and we experience feelings of happiness. Given this, would it be possible to collect happiness data from millions of mobile users? Mobile rewards company Kiip thinks […]
Originally published on Technorati Anybody who’s anybody in and around the technology industry in Chicago knows aboutTechWeek. The mid-summer, week-long extravaganza has become a model of infusing visibility and notoriety to Chicago’s technology scene. Organizers of that event have created a new model: conferences that are more immersive, built around a sequence of “curriculum,” and […]
A recent Rasmussen Report surveying likely voters in both June and July of 2012 found that the economy is the number one issue of concern in the current election. But regardless of political affiliation, bargain shopping is proving popular with everyone. Sense Networks, the original Big Data mobile location company, today announced the results of […]
As written for Business2Community Last week’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference profiled a lot of new and exciting technologies. Most impressive to me, however, are new ideas that meld real-life challenges with technological solutions. Munzee is a company doing just that. Beyond the Virtual, into Reality Taking gaming beyond the realm of the virtual, and making use of real-world […]