THE NOW REVOLUTION

Read The NOW Revolution, the best-selling book on social business from Jay Baer and Amber Naslund.

Every customer is a reporter. Every employee is in marketing. And speed matter like never before. In The NOW Revolution, you'll learn:

- How to build a culture that empowers social
- How to activate your customers and employees
- How to listen and respond to real-time opportunities
- How to manage a social media crisis
- How to effectively measure social media, including ROI

Endorsed by Seth Godin, Chris Brogan, Ann Handley, John Jantsch and dozens of other social media and social business leaders.

Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple and in all hard cover and digital formats. Also, in audio via Audible.

Click here to get the first chapter free.

Content Marketing February 6, 2011 2  |  Add Yours

Why Should Old Spice Get to Have All the Fun?

Guest post by Clinton Bonner, President of NoSox Productions; a character based brand story-telling firm out of Westbrook, CT. It was 2010… The Toyota Sienna Family somehow made mini-vans cool and the Old Spice Guy literally rode-in on a white horse and into our social lives. The emergence of amazing character-based brand storytelling on the [...]

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Guest Posts December 22, 2010 15  |  Add Yours

6 Ways Web Check-ins Can Benefit Your Brand

Guest post by Clinton Bonner, community connectivity expert, futurist, and blogger at Everything to Everything. Whether it’s big players like Foursquare inking a new loyalty rewards program with Pepsi, or niche developers like Untappd, addressing the beer drinking vertical with a mobile application that let’s you spread the word about the particular brew you are [...]

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brand communities December 7, 2010 8  |  Add Yours

7 Skill Sets for Nurturing Open Community

Guest post as part of the virtual book tour by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer to explore concepts from their new book Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. We come from the association industry and for many of us “membership” people, community is old hat. It’s what [...]

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Guest Posts November 10, 2010 11  |  Add Yours

Is Twitter Advertising a Threat to PPC?

Guest post by Shannon Suetos, an expert writer on phone systems based in San Diego, California. She writes extensively at Resource Nation. Back in February of 1998, Jeffrey Brewer of Goto.com first presented the concept of pay-per-click advertising (PPC) at the TED conference. Google started implementing search engine ads in December of 1999, and by [...]

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B2B Social Media November 2, 2010 14  |  Add Yours

Rocket Content – Your B2B Secret Weapon

Guest post by Ian Greenleigh, the Social Media Manager at Bazaarvoice – the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications. He also blogs at Dare to Comment. There’s no doubt about it, those of us tasked with enterprise-level B2B marketing have some incredible hurdles to overcome. The business decision makers (BDMs) that have [...]

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Guest Posts October 12, 2010 20  |  Add Yours

How Size Matters in the Social Media ROI Debate

Guest post by Simon Gornick, a content consultant specializing in short form slogans, and owner of The Tagline Machine. ROI in social media is a luxury. And the only brands that can accept that are likely to be big ones with multi-platform marketing budgets. The larger the brand, the more likely they are to use [...]

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social media ROI September 30, 2010 81  |  Add Yours

Is Our Addiction to ROI Killing Social Media?

Guest post by Matt Ridings, founder of MSR Consulting, a Digital Relationship Marketing Agency in St. Louis. He’s @techguerilla on Twitter. I had an interesting phone call with a prospective client. I didn’t know him, and hadn’t worked with his (large) company. He was looking for a social media vendor, and was referred to me [...]

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Guest Posts September 20, 2010 9  |  Add Yours

Why Are Companies Not Valuing Judgment As A Critical Element

Guest post by Noemi Pollack, CEO & Founder of The Pollack PR Marketing Group, a 25-year old integrated PR and marketing agency in Century City, CA. Inevitably, when corporate America seeks a PR agency to support their communications effort, the Request for Proposals (RFP) asks for critical capabilities that can help a company sift through [...]

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Blogging and Content Creation July 27, 2010 79  |  Add Yours

Are You Growing Enough Voices

I’m back from my family vacation in Canada. While I was away, Convince & Convert featured 11 guest blog posts from friends, clients, and colleagues. Some of the guest writers blog on occasion at their own sites. None of them blog routinely. You might expect that this blog that has been written almost entirely by [...]

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Convince & Convert News July 5, 2010 55  |  Add Yours

I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends

Greetings from Canada. I’m on vacation in the great white north for a couple weeks, trying to spend a little time with the family and get The Now Revolution (my new book with Amber Naslund) finished up. I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain [...]

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