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.

Media Buyers Say Internet Advertising Will Grow in Next 6 Months

Market Research firm Advertising Perceptions released a new survey of 1,811 media buyers showing that a whopping 72% of them believe Internet advertising spend will increase in the second half of 2008. This is a shocking finding, considering that no other medium (other than mobile) was expected to grow by more than 28% of the [...]

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What’s Your Word Worth? Measuring Word of Mouth Online

Fascinating article in BrandWeek today about putting a value on word of mouth marketing. BzzAgent, a word of mouth marketing agency (how’s that for a good gig if you can get it), says they figure an online conversation about a brand is worth 50 cents. It’s admirable that somebody is trying to put a value [...]

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Head of Giant Media Agency Totally Misses the Point of the Web

Media Daily News reporting from the Advertising Research Foundation conference in NYC says that Lee Doyle, CEO of Mediaedge:cia (who bill themselves as the world’s first global media planners) believes “low-interest” advertisers aren’t embracing the Web. Why? Lee says it’s because consumers don’t use the Web to research paper towels or household goods…. Wow. So [...]

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